Guest Designer - Michelle Perkett Studios

Hello crafters, I hope you are enjoying the fine summer weather and are managing to keep your bits of paper from flying around your craft space in the breeze from the desk fan (like I am finding, he he).

I was very happy to be asked to be a Guest Designer at Michelle Perkett Studios this week. I've only made one MPS card so far, it was from an image that I tracked down when I saw it on a blog somewhere. Anyway, I liked the first image so much I had to say Yes. The theme this week is Anything But A Card, which is something of a challenge for someone who only really makes cards! But I put my new box-maker to work and made this gift box.

The image I used is a relatively new release, she's called Peace Angel, and very easy to colour. I aged and handstitched some paper to decorate the box, and simply added some flowers, liquid pearls and a computer-made sentiment. My tip for this image is to roll something cylindrical lengthways over figure to round the skirt and adhere to the box using silicon gel so that it has some dimension and also makes her look like she is floating in the air like a real angel. Also, use a ball tool along the spine of the wings to give them some shape and curl. I hope you like it.

 

Image: Peace Angel from Michelle Perkett

Paper: Brioche by Memory Box

Colouring: Copic markers

Flowers: Kaishercraft, Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts

I'm entering this in these challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Free and easy July

By The Cute and Girly - Things With Wings

C.R.A.F.T. - Boxes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Digis With Attitude! Challenges #32 - Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday - Open Challenge

Hooked On Crafts - Show Us Your Flowers

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Stitching

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Spoonful of Sugar - Sewing

Stamp Something - Use a Digi

Truly Scrumptious - Things With Wings

Enjoy the rest of the week; I'll be back at the weekend with another project. Till then, see you on your blogs.



Lilly the Fairy of Enchantment

Hi fellow bloggers and visitors, we have some lovely weather in Brum right now, hope you have a little sun wherever you are.

Today's card I've made for 2 specific challenges: at Make It Colourful, we're asked to colour using yellow and purple, and as you can see I used yellow for the sun and purple for the dress and wings; and at Michelle Perkitt Studio there is a Bingo challenge, and I've actually got 2 bingo lines on my card: Scallops, Ribbon, Flowers, and the second line is Pearls, Ribbon, Diecuts.

I coloured up Lilly The Fairy Of Enchantment by Michelle Perkitt using Copic markers and a little bit of pencil colouring. A glitter pen was used to lightly trace the swirls on her wings, but this was difficult to photograph. She was layerd up with silver mirri and blue cardstocks, mounted on  pale blue and white printed cardstock, matted again onto silver mirri and purple cardstocks, all mounted onto a scalloped card blank. The fairy looked vaguely Art Nouveau to me, so I used a couple of leafy diecuts that a friend sent to me, coloured them black to look like silhouettes, and arranged them in a curved shape to go along with the Art Nouvea feel and placed a couple of flowers over the join. I also used an Art Nouvea font to make the sentiment. Some pleated ribbon beneath the sentiment and some pearls in the corners were the finishing touches.



You can just see some of the glittery tracing on the top left wing



Image: Lilly the Fairy of Enchantment, by Michelle Perkitt

Colouring: Copic markers - Sun YR07-YR23-Y17-Y15-Y11. Dress BV08-BV04-BV02-BV00-BV0000. Wings BV02-BV00-BV31-BV0000 + prisma pencils. Sky B39-B37-B34-B32. 

Diecut leaves and flowers: gift from friend but I think they are Marianne designs

Computer-generated sentiment, font is Art Nouvea Caps from Dafont.com

Ribbon and pearls from stash.

This is for the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Things With Wings
Charisma Cardz - Something that flies
Crafty Purple Frog - Things of Beauty
Fab N Funky Challenge - What eva
Flutterby Wednesday - Open challenge

Make It Colourful - Colour with yellow and purple
Michelle Perkitt Studio - Bingo (Scallops-Ribbon-Flowers and Pearls-Ribbon-Diecuts)
Ooh La La Creations - Happy Birthday
Top Tip Tuesday - Wrap it up with ribbon