The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Magical Fairy Garden

Hi everyone!  It's the second Wednesday in May and that means it's time for a new challenge from The Sisterhood of Crafters.  This week Diane is our host and she has challenged us to design a Magical Fairy Garden.  You can use a fairy, or anything magical like a unicorn, rainbow or gnome.  I pulled out my Garden Fairies stamp set by Flourishes, dusted it off and got to work with watercolors.  It was a fun project to create and, yes, I still do believe in the fairy tale. 

Stamp Set:  Garden Fairies (Flourishes)

Distress Inks:  Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Mustard Seed, Victorian Velvet (Tim Holtz)

Distress Oxide Ink:  Peeled Paint (Tim Holtz)

Cardstock:  Sugar Cube (Taylored Expressions), Watercolor Paper (Strathmore)

Patterned Paper:  Floral Shoppe Collection (Graphic 45

Dies:  Cross-stitched Rectangle Dies (Unknown)

Other:  Scalloped Oval Punch (Stampin' Up!), Clear Wink of Stella Brush

For all the challenge details and to share your project at The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge, just click the image below.  We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Sunday, May 20th at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time to link up your project.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Mythical Creatures

It's January and the first Saturday of the New Year.  That means it's time for our January challenge at Crafty Calendar.   The theme this month is all about Mythical Creatures; fairies and dragons and unicorns, oh my!  Our sponsors this month are A Day for Daisies and Wild Orchid Crafts.

The Fairy Swing digital image I used is from A Day for Daisies.  Isn't it just adorable!  It was printed on a piece of Shimmer White cardstock using my inkjet printer.  Before coloring the image, I let it dry overnight so the ink wouldn't bleed.  Once dry, I watercolored the image using Stampin' Up! Watercolor Pencils and added flowers from the Jar of Love stamp set by Stampin' Up!  Those were stamped in Marina Mist and cut out using the Everyday Jars Framelits Dies from Stampin' Up!  The sentiment is from the Garden Fairies stamps set by Flourishes.  It's retired but still one of my favorites.  What isn't showing up well are the shimmery wings of the fairy.  They were done using the Clear Wink of Stella Brush.  It is very hard to get that to photograph well.

For all the challenge details and to share your project at the Crafty Calendar Challenge, just click on our name.

Stamp Sets:  Fairy Swing Digital Image (A Day for Daisies), Garden Fairies - sentiment (Flourishes), Jar of Love - flowers; Inks:  Marina Mist, Tuxedo Black Memento; Watercolor Pencils:  Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Old Olive; Stampin' Write Marker:  Blush Blossom; Cardstock:  Shimmer White, Sugar Cube; Other:  Clear Wink of Stella Brush, Everyday Jars Framelits Dies (Stampin' Up!), Stitched Rectangle Stacklets Dies (Taylored Expressions)

Our sponsors for the month of January are A Day for Daisies and Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha