Fairy Dreams

     I was so scared to take on this image and I TOTALLY cheated cause I had Alyce's beautifully colored version blown up on my screen to see where I needed to add shading.  Thanks Alyce!  Once I started coloring it, it just kind of took me over.  So much so that I totally forgot that I was supposed to be making it for a DT project, and I didn't use a single product I was supposed to on the card.  LOL  I was photographing it when it hit me that I had totally blew the assignment.  So here is a very rare "extra" card from me.  I have lots of room for improvement on this type of coloring, but I'm pretty happy with it all the same.
     As stated in my earlier post I have sadly resigned from the A Day For Daisies team.  I have so enjoyed working with Tammy's images, but I just cannot keep up the pace of so many DT's.  I will be posting my last project for another team this month also.  Sad times, but I feel the need to get out from under some of the pressure to design weekly so I don't totally lose my desire to craft.  Maybe I will be able to find a few spare minutes here and there to make some more "extra" cards.
     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Paper Play--butterflies and bees or other things with wings
Crafts and Me--fantasy creatures
Whimsy Inspirations--all things sparkly
Through the Classroom Door--anything goes
Craft Your Passion--fairies and fantasy
Eureka Stamps--things with wings
Make It Monday--anything goes
Sunday Sketch and Stamp--sketch

     Hope you've got something wonderful planned for this weekend!

Supplies

Paper:  Prima "Botanical", Recollections, Copic XPress-it Blending card
Stamp:  Crafts and Me "Hidden"
Ink:  Copics, Vintage Photo Disress ink, Sakura Gold gel pen
Tools:  Martha Stewart Daisy Edge and Flourish punches, Spellbinders Donna Salazar Creative Page Tabs
Miscellaneous:  Recollections pearls, Celebrate It ribbon, DMS embroidery thread, Crystal Stickles

A Magic Card video tutorial

      Several of you expressed the desire to have watched my tutorial on how to make this card, but I just couldn't publish it.  WAY to much of me flapping my gums.  LOL  I really think several of you just wanted a chance to get to chuckle at my twang, which by the way, I do NOT hear. LMBO  Well, you've gotten your wish and good or bad I've retaped the tutorial making the above card.  You can check it out here.  I've used another gorgeous Crafts and Me Sara Burrier image for this one.  She colored with Copics and a wee bit of Prismas.  The papers are Prima.
     Isn't that sentiment gorgeous!  It's one of Paulette's beautiful creations from Create with TLC.  She so graciously gives the most beautiful and witty freebies on her blog plus she has a store full of lots more.  To match the sentiment I printed out a beautiful verse of scripture from the Book of Psalms.  Those are the best shoulders I know to take on my burdens.  I hope you have that same reassurance.

      I tried to get a close up shot so you could see the dimension of the image.  She's popped up on foam, but I glued down her hand and foot so she looked more realistically perched on the ledge.  It didn't show up very well in the photo.  :-(

     Hope maybe you can get some help from the video if you'd like to try this card.  It's really super simple but gorgeous and unusual..  Thank goodness Marianne has such a creative mind!  :-)  Don't forget you can check out her picture tutorial right here.
     I'd like to enter this card at Make It Monday and the Oozak Challenge.  :-)
     Happy weekend!


Supplies

• Paper:  Prima "Botanical", Recollections, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamp:  Crafts and Me "Noon", sentiment from Create with TLC
• Ink:  Copics, Prismacolor pencils and OMS, Vintage Photo Distress ink
• Tools:  Martha Stewart Doily Lace and Cornice edge punches, Nestabilities Classic Ovals and Scalloped  Ovals, sewing machine, Memory Box Tender Leaves die
• Miscellaneous:  Prima flower, Recollections and The Paper Studio pearls, glitter

Healing hope

     I'm usually a pretty square girl, at least when it comes to cards.  LOL  I guess if you want to get technical this is still a square, but it's also a bit of a fancy fold.  Marianne Skjelstad is my card design hero.  She continually comes up with the most awesome new card fold ideas.  This is her Magic Card and you can find the tutorial for how to make it right here.  Though I've been admiring this fold for a long time, this is the first time I've ever made a card with it.
     I actually video taped myself putting this together.  It's been FOREVER since I've made a video for YouTube and when I watched what I'd taped I knew there was no way I was going to post all that blabbering.  LOL  I was quite the polly parrot so I decided not to subject anyone to my chitter chatter.  I still may do a tutorial vid for this card, but it will be minus all the excess talking.  :-)
     The image is a beautiful Sara Burrier digi from Crafts and Me that I won a few weeks back.  It's called "Child of Healing".  I rarely ever finish the insides of my cards, but you really have to for this particular fold so here's what the inside looks like.

     It was kind of hard to get it all in the photo without it being to small.  I just printed out the scripture and mounted it die cut and inked on a scalloped oval.  The bird is a Michael's $1 bin chippie that I covered with Snow Cap Paint Dabber and a little glitter and ink.
     This was just a for fun card cause I've been trying so hard to find time to film a video.  Since it was a dud, I'll have to find a few more extra minutes here or there to film again.  :-)
     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine--anything goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink--something with wings
Oldie But a Goodie--things with wings (beaded stems and glitter are both ancient)
Top Tip Tuesday--dig out the old (beaded stems and glitter, I made the little twirled green stem by hand probably two years ago)
CMC Copic Challenge--anything goes
Sweet Stampin--faeries and angels
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge--wonderful wings
Delicious Doodles--try something new (new card fold)
Fairy Tale--things with wings

     Have a fantastic week!


Supplies

• Paper:  My Mind's Eye, Recollections, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamp:  Crafts and Me "Child of Healing"
• Ink:  Copics, Frayed Burlap Distress ink
• Tools:  Nestabilities Classic and Scalloped Ovals, Martha Stewart Cherish edge punch, Rose Leaf, and Photo Corner punch
• Miscellaneous:  Recollections pearls, Wild Orchid and Prima flowers, Michael's $1 bin chippies, glitter from my stash, Snow Cap paint Dabber, Dollar Tree decorative stems, handmade curly cue