Winter (wonderland)Chaos and spring fever

Good morning all

We're up and running again over at 

Winter Wonderland

We found out that our lovely DT leader Eileen (Stars cards) is very poorly in hospital at the moment and we've been cast a drift a bit , firstly because we didn't know where she was , then we didn't know what to do without her!  In the meantime Helen has taken over temporarily and we are running the challenge without our sponsors at the moment as we're not really sure about things!!

I'm sure you all agree that we need  to thank Helen for taking on the task and  also send our love and prayers to Eileen, we are being updated by her friend as to how she is and hope we will hear some good news about her soon

Anyway......

the theme of the challenge is

Spring Fever

(flowers, romance, sunshine  etc)

(we don't run Christmas challenges for the first few weeks of the year - to give you all a break!!)

I decided just to go with a pretty floral scene - of what I would like it to be like - instead of miserable cold and damp!!

This is what i did 

Cardbase - Diesire side stepper fancy card blank  (Kraft) from Crafter's Companion 

Dies   -Die'sire Grand Entrance Die from CC

       -  Happy birthday from CC Saras signature Just for Men

       - Flowers Sheena Douglass plain honesty  smallest die 

       - Birdcage - Kimono from CC

      - Leafy dies from Heartfelt Creations

Papers - Sugar hollow from HC

Owl stamp and die Sugar hollow

Bicycle stamp HC Journey

Coloured with CC Spectrum noir blendable pencils

Flowers - TH DI spun  and CC sparkle pen- lilac and sage green

shabby shutters distress stickles 

glossy accents

pebeo gilding wax (gates, cage, sentiment)

Hope you'll join in with us at WW this week and support our challenge as we struggle along

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Little miss muffet - Anything goes

hugs

Judith xx

Another gorgeous fairy from Flights of Fantasy - meet Darcy

Good morning all

I'm back with my next fairy from Morgan Fitzsimons Flights of Fantasy collection

Yet another birthday card - this time for a special friend 

(it feels like all my friends and relations were born in March!!)

This lovely fairy is called Darcy

I wanted to create a mono type image with just a burst of colour in the flowers, which I think are morning glory, they are usually blue or shades in that spectrum, I decided to colour her with my Spectrum Noir alcohol pens.  Whenever I see images coloured in this way with a pop of colour it's nearly always with red, so I thought the blue would make a good contrast and that I'd be able to blend it in with the greys that I coloured the image with.  I did this by transferring the blue directly onto the grey pen tip to keep it subtly blended on the image. I then added some sparkle - because a fairy simply has to have some! - with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens

The background was created by embossing  navy textured cored'nations card then sanding back and embellishing with gilding wax.  The black frames were also embellished with the silver gilding wax

 - I just love this stuff!!

This is what I did....

Image - Darcy from Flights of Fantasy by Morgan Fitzsimons from Crafter's Companion

Coloured with Spectrum Noir alcohol pens -colours IG1, IG2,IG4, TB4, TB9

Sparkle pens - colours silver, starry sky and clear

Flower and leaf die - Sheena Douglass Perfect Partners Country Cottage Plain Honesty

Embossing folder - Embossalicious flutterby butterfly folder

Silver pebeo gilding wax

Sue wilson pierced noble dies and frames

Sentiment - LOTV

Ribbons from my stash

Matt black card - Crafter's Companion

Navy Core'dnations card - Crafters Companion

Silver detail embossing powder(on sentiment) creative expressions

Hope you like her as much as I do - I'm not sure that the full effect comes across in the photograph, but i really loved it when I finished - one of those cards for someone els - that you really want to keep for your self!!

Challenges i am entering with this challenge

Chocolate baroque - colour challenge 20/04

glitter and sparkle challenge - use a die/punch  10/04

Stamping sensations - one for the girls 27/04

the ribbon girl - anything goes - with ribbon

have a great day

hugs 

Judith x