Dandelions and Fairytale

 Dandelions and Fairytale

Looking through my stash of dies, I came across a brand new, never opened cut and emboss folder with beautiful dandelions.  My mind is immediately set on choosing the 'Fairytale' fairy as my focal image for this DT project for LW challenge #36.

Lavinia stamp featured:

Fairytale

Fairydust verse....

Cut and emboss folder featured:

Crafter's Companion 'Fairy Garden' set

I started out with a piece of pale yellow cardstock cut to 5 x 7.  After putting it in the cut and emboss folder and ran it through a die cutting machine, the resulting frame looked like this:

Because I didn't like the top lefthand corner of the frame, I cut it out and left the frame open.  Then I used different distress oxide inks (mainly orange/red and green shades) to color the frame. 

I chose a background from a batch previously made with gel press, brayer, distress oxides, and color crystals and stamped Fairytale with Versafine Claire Nocturne ink.  Spectrum Noire's crystal clear sparkle ink was applied to Fairytale's wings.

I used foam squares and glued the dandelion frame onto the Fairytale background.  White gel pen was used to close the dandelion frame.  At  one point I was quite disappointed that the the colors of the frame and the main background didn't really complement each other nicely.  But after looking at them more closely, I found it quite entertaining trying to find the similarities between the two! 😄

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An Aquarium View of Tropical Fish

The latest release of mermaid/underwater Lavinia stamps has taken my imagination seaward for a while now.  I'm happy to bring to life an aquarium view of these sea creatures.  These wonderful stamps are giving my colored pencils a new lease on life.  Coloring has become fun again!

Lavinia stamps used:

Fish set

Sea Urchins

Seaweed 2

I used 'pond pebble' cut and emboss folder from Paper Discovery for the frame.  The central image and the pebble frame were from the same sheet of background paper I created from distress oxide and color crystals.  I used more distress oxide (mohageny red, walnut stain, and black soot) on the border, then sprayed it with pearl mica powder solution, then darkened the outer border with Rainforest Versafine claire ink.  I quite like the overall effect of the pebble frame.

This is the DT project for the bi-weekly Lavinia World challenge #35 starting on September 10.  Won't you join us at our blog!

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