Lily the Fairy

The Pink Cat studio blog had a contest this week using this Lily the Fairy image. Melissa says she's come up with a Lily the Fairy set that will come out next mont. I CAN"T wait!

Here are my entries:

For this card. I printed Lily onto Vellum and then colored her with copics on the reverse side. I cut out a window with one of my nestabilities sets (it's name excapes me at the moment!).

Once the card was put together, I colored the wings with a versamarker and embossed them with SU!s Irridescent ice EP and added a gem in the centre of the wand. I also added stickles to the flowers and held them together with a rhinestone brad.


For the next one, I cut out part of the flowers on the DP and slipped the Lily image in behind.

Lily was colored with copics again and I colored over her wings with a spica glitter pen. It's too bad it doesn't show up in pictures, it looks great IRL! The last step was adding the gems to the centre of the flowers.

For my last card, I colored lily with copics again (big surprise!). I used the Spica glitter pen on all the blue parts.

Here's a close up of Lily:

I think she's so adorable! Can't wait till the set comes out!

You can't win if you don't try...

So I tried out for a spot on Pink Cat Studios design team and found out this week that I didn't make the cut. It's funny, I'm more disappointed than I thought I'd be (could also be due to a crappy week and a half before this news:) ). At least I'm proud of myself for trying. So, on to the cards I made for applying...

The images were colored with copics and cut out with nestabilities. A self-adhesive gem was put in each scallop and a row of them on the ribbon. The sentiment label is also from a nestabilities die.
This one looks so cool IRL. I colored the image with copics and then went over it again with Spica glitter pens, so the Kimono is really shimmery, it looks just beautiful! (and I'm not being biased AT ALL!) The dew drops were colored with copics so that they matched the Kimono.

My original plan with this one was to do a tilt card, so that Billy and Lily would move and look like they were actually making snow angels, but their heads moved also and it looked funny, so I changed it. Billy and Lily are colored with copics (big surprise, I know!) Billy's mittens, scarf and the top of his hat were flocked with matching flock. The trim on Lily's outfit was stickled and flocked, and both pairs of boots were covered with diamnod glaze so they look like shiny rain boots. The tag was stamped on acetate with white stazon and then sprinkled with dazzling diamonds glitter for shimmer and sparkle. I cut the tag and the red tag behind it with a scallop circle nestabilities and trimmed it with more glitter! One can never have enough glitter:)

On the edge of the white piece, I put a line of tombo multi glue (I had just gotten it that day and had to try it out) and dumped (technical term) some SU! Dazzling diamonds glitter on top and let it just sit and soak in. I love the look it created.

Wow! I don't know if I have ever been that long winded!
Have a great weekend! I'm hoping ours is quiet and non-eventful!

Nestabilities

I love, love, LOVE nestabilities! Here's a class that I put together in the spring and just realized I hadn't posted it yet!

I first saw this basket on Lauren Meaders blog

Basket
Cut list:
1 – 8 x 3 ½ - print – to cut out 2 scallop squares
1 – 12 x 3 ½ - Old Faithful bazzill – to cut out 3 scallop squares
1 – 3 x 2 – cream – 2 cut and emboss rectangle and stamp hippo
1 – 3 x 2 ½ - Old Faithful bazzill – scallop rectangle
1 – 8 x 1 – print
1 – 8 ¼ x 1 ¼ - Old Faithful bazzill

Other supplies:
2nd largest scallop square nestabilities in the small set
Scor Pal
Med rectangle nestabilities
Med scallop rectangle nestabilities
Stone grey stazon
2 brass brads
crop-o-dile
tombow – 528 – blue grey
blender pen
scrap of acetate to use for coloring

General instructions:
Cut out the scallop square pieces. On the two printed scallop squares, score on one side only between the first and second scallop. On two of the blue scallop squares, score along three sides between the first and second scallop. Cut out the 2 bottom corners along the score line. You will be cutting out the corner scallop only. The remaining scallop square is the bottom of the basket. Glue the pieces together and attach handle with a brad, using the crop-o-dile to punch a hole first.

Gate fold card
Cut list:
1 – 8 ½ x 5 ½ - Harvest Bazzill
1 – 5 ¼ x 4 – print inside
1 – 3 x 2 ½ - cream – inside oval
1 – 3 2 ½ - Root Beer Bazzill – inside
1 – 4 x 3 – cream – front
1 – 4 x 3 – Old Faithful bazzill – front

Other supplies:
Score pal
Medium oval from the small set – inside cut and embossed
Medium scallop oval from small set- inside
Largest oval from small set – front
Largest scallop oval from small set – front
Tombow markers:
228 – moss green
879 – lt brown
723 – pink
977 – dk brown

General instructions:
Score at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8 mark

Scallop rectangle card
Cut list:
1 – 8 ½ x 3 ½ - Pomegranite bazzill
1 – 4 x 3 – print
1 – 4 x 3 – cream to stamp image on

Other supplies:
Largest scallop rectangle nestabilities
Largest and second largest rectangle nestabilities
Stone grey stazon
Tombow markers:
228 – moss green
837 – burgundy
blender pen
Card with scallop circle edge
Cut list:
1 – 8 ½ x 3 ¾ - Dark Rosey Bazzill
1 – 3 ½ x 3 ½ - print
1 – 3 ½ x 3 ½ - cream

Other supplies:
Largest scallop circle in large set
3rd largest scallop circle in large set
3rd largest circle in large set
tombow markers:
228 – moss green – branch, colored directly onto stamp
977 – brown – branch and eye feathers
837 – burg – beak and feet
723 – pink – tummy and ears
10” ribbon

Have a great day! I'm taking the girls to the park!