Sunday 3 April 2011

Pretty things with wings

As I said in a previous post, I have 3 Mums who I make cards for each year, and this is the second one!  I made this one for OH's Mum and as her favourite colour is lilac, I chose that as it is also a lovely springtime colour.  The challenge over at Dream Valley this fortnight is Things With Wings and this beautiful butterfly fairy fits the bill perfectly.


The image I have chosen is a wonderful one from Michelle Perkett which I was lucky enough to win in a challenge last week :-)  She is called Lilly The Fairy of Enchantment and isn't she just stunning?  I love the simple posy of flowers she is holding and those beautiful wings.  I have coloured her with promarkers on some fantastic paper I have found.  It's really good for promarkers as it doesn't bleed at all so you can really work at blending without worrying about fuzzy lines or putting a hole in the paper!  You can also print digi stanps on it with great clarity and printable design papers come out fab too.  I printed the design papers on it and you really cannot fault it.  These papers were just free to download ones and came out of the printer looking really professional so I was really pleased.  I edged round the whole stamp with a grey promarker and then trimmed the image.  I used a scalloped circle nestie to create the 'frame' round the sun, trimmed the design papers to size and then edged with some silver butterfly peel-off borders.  There I said it.  Peel-offs.  I used peel-offs.  I now expect to be drummed out of the DT lol  Well, they were needed to add a bit of bling so :-p

The sentiment is another peel-off (mwahahaha) on a deckled rectangle of the same lilac card I used round the main image and 'secured' in place (well I actually stuck it down with DST) with a single butterfly.

I would like to enter this for the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash - Sketch
Michelle Perkett Challenges - Flowers
Wee Memories - Favourite Colours

17 comments:

  1. Beautiful card . i love the lilacs.
    Happy mothers day to you
    Lisa x

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  2. Hi Sarah, your card is so lovely, what a fab image! I must look for that one cos it's a beauty. Had to smile at your comment about peel-offs, I used some recently and felt really weird about it, like all the serious crafters will not like it, lol. Actually, I was admiring your shiny butterflies before I realised they were peel offs. You maverick you! lol.

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  3. Love your card and that image is so pretty...I'll have to check it out and get it for myself!

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  4. Beautiful card Sarah, love the image.

    Donna x

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  5. Beautiful card, and stunning image (well done on your win). Peel-offs! Tee hee, we all use them but don't admit it, lol. xx

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  6. Ohhh what a pretty fairy ... its nice to see these 'grown up' fairies coming out now! And I LOVE your gorgeous butterfly border .... I'm a total peeloff junkie and have a HUGE stash, so if they drum you out of the DT I'm afraid I'll have to go too! ;o)

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  7. That is so beautiful!! The color works perfect with the image. Thanks for joining us at MPS. Good luck. Shelley :)

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  8. Oh, Sarah, this is lovely! I love Lily all in lavendar, just gorgeous! Thank you for joining our challenge at MPS this week!

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  9. really pretty card and such a gorgeous colour too:)

    thanks for joining us at sketch n stash

    sue
    xx

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  10. Beautiful card with wonderful coloring! Thank you for joining us this week at Michelle Perkett Studio. Have a great day!

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  11. Oh this is wonderful and beautiful fairy.
    luv
    Debby

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  12. You chose one of my favorite Michelle Perkett images. She looks so ethereal, and your coloring and layout are lovely. Thank you for joining MPS challenge this week.

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  13. Ohhhh
    This is just lovely! I adore the image and those colours are lovely!
    Hugs M xxx

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  14. What beautiful colours for this image! I love the softness of your design! Thanks for playing along at the Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge!

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  15. Oh this is so pretty! The colours are gorgeous! Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx

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  16. Beautiful image, and gorge card.Thank you for sharing with us at Sketch n Stash this time. hugz Jackie

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  17. Very Pretty thanks so much for playing along with us at Wee memories!!!!

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