Fairy Wishes

Fairy hopes and wishes




I love the sentiment: may all your wishes and dreams come true

Update: This is my card for a card a day blogging.  See who else is joining in here: http://bloggingacad.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the first fairy card I have shared on my blog.  It probably won’t be the last as I like fairies so much that I decorate my Christmas tree with them (but that’s a story for another day).

Inspiration: I’ve been experimenting with something I’ve never done before trying to make my own random backgrounds with shimmery stuff.  I’ve seen a number of people demonstrating this sort of thing and I’ve wanted to have a go for ages as it looked so yummy.  I finally got around to it last night and I have to say I loved it but I still think I could do with a lot more experimenting to practice all the different techniques.  I've also been inspired by cards I've seen on Joanna Sheen's challenge blog.  I'm a bit late for the current challenge but may be next time.

• Main products: Joanna Sheen Silhouette Stamp Fairy Whispers JS324; memento ink; Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist (Spring Blossom, Key Lime, Ocean Wave, Pewter & Autumn Leaf); centura pearl card; black card; black fine line peel –offs; stickles; spellbinder scalloped oval and flower; papermania black permanent pen; sakura white gel pen.
• Techniques: The backgrounds were made by painting the card randomly with different colours of the Shimmer Mists.  Some I added splodges to, some were sprayed with shimmer mists and some I tried sprinkling with salt.  Last night they looked a bit hit or miss but when it came to making the card today it was just a matter to choosing to cut out the bits I liked the look of.  After stamping the fairies it looked a bit too ethereal so I went over the image with a permanent black pen and added some highlights with my trusty companion the sakura white gel pen then added stickles on the fairy wings.  I’ve used black card for a bit of layering to bring out the silhouettes and mounted on a 15cm square black card then added black peel-offs to make a border.
• Favourites: dots and dashes; used some extra bits of card to make the inside of the card interesting.
• Extra bits (because I love them so): the leaves behind the spellbinder flower are hand cut freestyle from some of the scrap card to match and shaped by hand and the centre of the flower is a blob of pinflair glue gel sprinkled with some fine pee wee glitter (I’ve seen a couple of people do this on TV).

Half way through this project I thought I was making a bit of a mess of it, but in the end I was happy with the final result.  I hope you like it too, it has a real shimmer which you can’t really see in the photo.