Monday 7 April 2014

Spring Fae Try To Ruin The Day

Greetings and welcome to the Guild Hall. Today the temperatures soared to record heights and it seems as though Spring may have finally come to stay. As I was cleaning the grounds, which were finally clear of snow, I was visited by a Spring fairy. She appeared suddenly, sitting upon the fence post swinging her legs and twirling her butterfly umbrella. I do not trust the fae, as they usually have something sinister planned, so I kept my eye on her while going about my business. 

This card was made for the Creative Card Crew “Spring” challenge that is happening now. Make a project that says spring and come play along with us for your chance to win a prize from our sponsors!
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I started this card by colouring the Lacy Sunshine “Emily's Monarch Butterfly Umbrella” image using my Prismacolor pencils and carefully cutting her out. The sentiment I stamped using the My Creative Time “Wow! So Many Candles” set. I don’t usually use flowers on my projects, but I received those two as a “bonus gift” in one of my Unity stamp orders and thought with that orangey coloured brad they matched this project, so decided to slap those on there, earning myself +111 floral XP points.

On the inside I used some leftovers of the paper I cut for the front and stamped the sentiment using the Crafty Secrets “Glamour Girls” set.

The envelope was stamped with a butterfly from my vast Unity collection. I quickly added some colour to it using Distress Markers and my waterbrush.

This card will spring into the following challenges:
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After about fifteen minutes she called out to me, “You seem thirsty. Perhaps you would like a refreshing beverage after all that hard work.”
“No thank you, fairy,” I replied, knowing better than to accept food or drink from a member of the fae.
She stared at me hard, her green eyes boring into mine. With a scowl, she disappeared, perhaps upset she didn’t find a victim for her trickery today.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

11 comments:

Jan said...

Fabulous card love the background and sketch xx Jan

Sharla said...

Wow!! I just love this, how fun to have such a beautiful card inside and out and then a pretty envelope too!! Thank you for joining our challenge at Pile It On!!
sharla~ :)

meine-bastelarena said...

What a pretty card! Great take on the sketch, too. Love the matching envelope. Thanks for playing along with us at OSAAT Challenges. Have a wonderful day and good luck! Hugs, Sujin

Lynn (aka Lynnpenguin) said...

What a wonderful creation and such a great use of those floral papers. That flower really pops on the front too, and I do so love that cute image.

Thanks for joining us at One Stitch at a Time for our FLOWER challenge this week. Good luck.

Lynn, OSAAT DT

Hazel said...

A lovely card and beautiful colours - I love reading your stories too. lol Thanks for joining us at OSAAT. Hazel x

Cheryl First said...

Pretty layers, and love the matching envelope.
Thanks so much for joining us this week for the Catch the Bug Challenge! Hope to see you again!

Cheryl First
aka Cafexpressions
DT Member for Bugaboo Stamps

Rachael said...

Gorgeous card - I love how its finished inside and out, with the matching envelope, and such rich colours too. Thanks for sharing this with us at Friday Sketch Challenge x

Hazel said...

Thanks for sharing your lovely card for Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 83: add some flowers , Hazel, DT x

Jennie - The Crafty Wife said...

Thank you for joining us at OSAAT with your sweet card. Those are lovely papers and your image colours match perfectly too. Jennie x

Barbara Godden said...

cute card, great used of the sketch. love your papers thanks for playing along with us at The cheerful stamp pad. for the add flowers challenge

Sandy said...

Beautiful card love all the layers.
Thanks for joining us over at Challenges 4 Everybody
Sandy C4E DT

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