Fairy Celebration With Stampin' Up!

When our new Annual Catalogue was released in June I immediately fell for this very cute stamp set - Fairy Celebration. I love fairies and enjoy colouring too, so this set was a "must have" for me.

I stamped onto water colour paper then coloured with Stampin' Up!® Classic Inks and an Aqua Painter.

The card base was a little plain so I added some white and silver embossing using stamps from Gorgeous Grunge. This is my go to stamp set for backgrounds and I love the variety of combinations you can use from the stamps in the set. 

The detail shows the little bits of "fairy dust: on select areas of the image - this is created with the Wink of Stella Clear brush - so delicate and pretty. 

Hope you like my little bit of fantasy land! 

Until Next Time

Happy Crafting

Mediterranean Achievers Blog Hop - Bloomin' Love Wedding Wishes

Welcome to the Mediterranean Achievers Blog Hop for March - Wedding Dreams. I'm so glad you could join us and I'm pleased to be back in the hop after a couple of months MIA being very busy with family matters. You may be starting the hop here. If so just follow the links in the list below and you'll see some awesome wedding themed projects from Stampin' Up!® demonstrators around the world.

Everyone loves a wedding and having thoroughly enjoyed the weddings of my 3 girls (and making cards for them) I had a few ideas that I thought I would work on.

I particularly like the Bloomin' Love stamp set and matching Thinlits (yes! it comes in a bundle so you can save 15%) So I decided to try something a little different with them. I used to be a sewer and have made many wedding gowns over the years - for friends, neighbours and of course myself, my sister and my girls. A couple of those gowns required a considerable amount of intricate applique, matching lace patterns, and that is my inspiration.

Here is the card.
 I wanted to have an interplay of textures, so opted for a diagonal striped background to contrast against the intricate pattern of the heart thinlit.

It is a gate-fold card and I've cut the Bloomin' Hearts Thinlit 5 times and pieced it together again to cover the areas I wanted. I also cut 4 of the larger single flowers to make the closure and piled them in a stack of 2 to create an anchor either side for the closure.

I created extra texture by fussy cutting some of the flowers and adding them over the top of the solid flower shapes, then highlighted the flower centres with Stampin' Up's Pearl Basic Jewels and a little Wink Of Stella Clear.

Silver Metallic Thread is used to tie the two sides together,  but this could easily be changed to a ribbon that matched the preferred colours for the wedding. I've made a couple of hearts using the heart punch from the Itty bitty Accents Punch Set and the closure flowers are popped with a Dimensional.

Inside the card I kept it simple with a greeting and a tiny bit of "applique" cut from one of the die-cut hearts.

Now it is time to hop along to the next inspirational post. I hope you have enjoyed my contribution - I certainly enjoyed making it,

Until Next Time,
Happy Crafting

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