LITTLE-APPLEFALLS: fairy

Friday, 1 March 2013

It's Only Make-Believe!

Hello, and welcome!

Do you believe in fairies?.....elves?......gnomes?.......sprites? Let's say that I would like to believe that such poetically imaginative beings co-exist with us in this lovely world of ours......but.....and let me make this very clear......I do believe in Father Christmas! Not a shadow of a doubt that he is real......nope......don't try to dissuade me......he is definitely, at this very moment, preparing to bring me something fabulous for next Christmas...hahaaa!

And he's got only 298 days to get it ready.....just sayin'....heehee!!!

We've got a fabulous challenge at Card Crafter's Circle this week....yaaaaaay!

This week we invite you to create cards on the theme of:

MAKE-BELIEVE!
(Elves, Fairies, Gnomes, Pixies, Sprites, etc)

This week, our sponsor is MICHELLE PERKETT STUDIOS! Michelle skilfully presents a huge collection of mermaids, fairies, people, and with various images in between! They will delight you, so we hope you avail yourself of her designs!

Our random prize winner will receive their choice of one of the gorgeous images showcased by our design team in the challenge post! ( A Hint: Dream Dragonfly is not available in the etsy shop!) We are thrilled to have MPS sponsoring our challenges... because the images are so beautiful... and because they will always bring a smile to your face!

As always, members of the Design Team were given some truly lovely images to use.......I chose this sweet Magical Birthday Sprite

I started with a white card base and placed a piece of pink card stock as the bottom layer.....the teal/blue flower paper, and the yellow paper are freebies from a magazine......I wish I could get more of them, because I love 'em! The yellow label is cut with a Spellbinder die......

Isn't she gorgeous? I really, really like this pretty sprite....how could you not believe she's real?...I coloured her with my 2 pink copics....yep....still own only the two....and Promarkers. The little pink embossed circles are the "waste" from the punched border that runs under the image (Nellie's Multi-border).....well, they were far too pretty to put in the bin...hahaaa!

I found a pack of Glitterations in the 50p bin at The Range....result!.....and used a Marvy le Plume pink marker to change the silver glitter on this swirl and the flower, below......

The flowers are from Prima, and I added the little pearls.....all Sprites should have some pearls about them at all times......fact........

A teeny butterfly edged with a bit of glitter.......butterflies are attracted to Sprites......another fact.......

See what I mean?

All done!

We all need a little magic in our daily lives, so why not help it along and join in the fun by creating something pretty?

For more inspiration, pop over to see the rest of the Design Team magic.

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/simon-says-anything-goes.html Anything goes

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-28-3-of-something.html 3 of Something (my flowers)

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-recipe-for-you.html 1 image/2 papers/3 embellies (flowers)

http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-25-yellow.html Yellow (challenge blog does say a bit of yellow is okay, lol)

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/week-9-spring-flowers.html Spring Flowers

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/stamping-dragon-challenge-anything-goes.html Anything goes

http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/monthly-challenge-for-march.html Lots of Flowers

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/monthly-challenge-february-flowers.html Flowers and Pearls

Friday, 25 January 2013

Fairy delightful.....

Hi, and welcome!

It sees to have been one of those loooong weeks when I have been busy-busy, but don't really seem to have achieved much.....sigh......BUT....I did get to see the brilliant Les Miserables......twice!

What a surprise to hear the gorgeous voice Russell Crowe has!!

When he sang the evocative "Stars", I almost melted with delight.....ahemmm!

I read the book when was 16 years old and it had a profound effect on me. I also remember seeing an old film, and went to see the stage production when it was launched, 27 years ago. It was wonderful to see Colm Wilkinson, who first brought us the character of Jean Valjean to the stage, playing the Bishop in the film.

I often shed tears during the film....but was brought to a drippin', sobbin' state when I heard one of the closing lines.....

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

Oh, my!

Anyway, it's Friday......hooray!.....and there's another challenge going on at

Card Crafter's Circle

The theme this week is

GREEN AND YELLOW

and we are so pleased to have one of our favourite sponsors back with us

Milk Coffee will provide a generous 5 images to our randomly drawn winner.....you'll have loads of fun trying to choose from so many!

I made a girlie card with the very pretty Tiffany Fairy......

I love green! I started with a white card base and layered on some green Raspberry Road paper. I cut the doily shape with a Nestie from a piece of Nitwits paper.............

A very pensive little fairy, lol.....I used a mixture of Spectrum Noir and Promarkers to colour her up and added some sparkle to her hair, wings and the flowers......I haven't fussy-cut for a while, so this made a nice change........

The sweet sentiment was cut from another freebie page of sentiments. I added some teeny pearls to the corners and put a piece of green mesh behind......