Wednesday 3 October 2018

WWC190 - Gail's Feminine "Anything Goes" Challenge

I love our wonderful feminine challenges and had the best idea for a card.  Of course what I had in mind called for an awful lot of masking and planning, but you know what they say.  Where there's a will, there's a way.


You can see that I've used two of my favourite stamp sets.  I love the fairy from the Fairy Celebration set but didn't want to use the branch which was part of her image.  I also love the dandelion clock with the blowing seeds from the Dandelion Wishes set and wanted my little fairy to be hanging from that; flying along with that, actually.  What I had to do was to cover all the unwanted lines of the branch with Washi tape and then I inked up the stamp, removed the Washi tape and stamped the remains of the fairy where I wanted her.  Then, since the dandelion stamp, like the fairy stamp, was rubber, I couldn't stamp the full dandelion clock.  Again, I covered the unwanted stem with Washi tape, inked the stamp, removed the Washi tape and stamped the clock image approximately where I thought it should go with the fairy holding onto it.

After that it was easy-peasy.  I drew in the remainder of the stem for the dandelion clock, fitting it between the fairy's hands and extending past them.  I stamped several more additional seeds to fly behind and beyond the images.  Then I coloured my images using my Stampin' Markers and watercoloured a soft sky.

My base is the Heavy Whisper White and then I've used a matte of Crushed Curry for the image.  After stamping the sentiment from the Dandelion Wishes set, I cut it out using the Taylored Tag punch.  After trimming it down slightly, I cut a matte from the Mossy Meadow.  My little fairy is, after all, wearing fall colours and her girdle is Mossy Meadow.  I hope you like it as much as I do.


I hope you'll check out the awesome cards by our Watercooler Artists over at ourWatercooler Wednesday Challenge Blog. 

I've also entered my card in the following challenges:

Moving Along with the Times Challenge 81 - Autumn/Fall

Addicted to Stamps & More #312 - Make Your Mark

The House That Stamps Built DCC103 - It's Up In the Air

9 comments:

  1. Hi Heidi
    Lovely card.
    Thanks for joining in at MAWTT.
    Best wishes.
    Ang

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  2. Heidi, this is so cute - love that fairy holding the dandelion - and the wish sentiment - all perfect and awesome coloring too!

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  3. Gorgeous card and worth the work, thanks for joining us at MAWTT

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  4. This is adorable!! Your masking turned out fabulously! It looks like the fairy is flying along on a blowing dandelion. Which must me she is soooo tiny!! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.

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  5. Very femine card and clever mix of stamps. I'm not a fan of the fairy stamp but it looks very sweet with these dandelions.

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  6. What a sweet card and I can see why you love that adorable image.
    Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM.

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  7. A super sweet and fun card, Heidi! Love those gorgeous little images that work so well together to create a lovely story.

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  8. What a cute card! Love that sweet little fairy! Thanks for playing along with the "Up in the air" challenge over at The House That Stamps Built!

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  9. Thank you for joining our challenge at Moving Along with the Times. Your project is wonderful, and I just wanted to wish you the best of luck! – DT Jodie

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