My fairy designs

I've been working on some little designs and decided to share them. Here are some fairies I designed recently. The are all mixed media. Let me know your thoughts!

This one is just "hanging" out on a flower. She's had a long day!

This one is perhaps the most subtle so far. The pictures don't capture all the detail, but she's holding a flower and also has a lily in her hair.

This one is just fluttering about, having a good time!

Fairy Painting

This is a little something I've been working on. It's also mixed media. She's currently untitled.  Hopefully I'll have a little more details on this later this month. TFL!

Music ATC Swap

Hello there, These are some ATC's I made for a Music ATC swap over at Alilscrapofheaven. I've been wanting to make ATC's and it was a great excuse to participate, and also use some different techniques on a small scale. I enjoy working with different mediums, with my favorite being Acrylic paints. I realize this doesn't pertain to scrapbooking, but since I prefer painting, I decided to include these on this blog as well. It's impossible to reproduce the same exact pattern on each ATC due to the way I paint, but I tried to keep these as similar as possible for the challenge, and also used Prismacolor pencils and India ink. Let me know what you think!

The challenge only required 4 ATC's-easy peasy!

I tried to make it very colorful-since it was a request that they be "music & dimension". I decided to add dimension through color contrast.

OMG Moment

So have you ever had one? You know, an OMG moment? I end that phrase with "gosh" by the way. And yes, we all have OMG moments, and for that occasion, here's a card! Interpret as you wish. I'd like to enter it into Crafty Creations Challenge #111- In Stitches, and into Scrappy Moms  Smiley Cards challenge. TFL!

I used the Cracked-egg die cut from Smiley Cards, and the phrase OMG from the same cart.

I added altered felt stickers, stamped stitching, flocking on the tongue, and a clip from my stash.

A little doodling and texture-gets the point across... whatever  it may be!

Spring has sprung!

Here's a little card I made to practice my embossing skillz. You have to know about me, that I only enjoy the part where I get to pretend to torch the paper with the heat gun. Everything else is pretty much torture for me. It may sound insane, but as much as I love the end-product of stamping, I'd much rather draw the images myself, as I have a totally different experience with paint, and don't even get me going on the whole fussy cutting... but enough of how my brain works, here's the card:

The scalloped border was from a MS punch.

I made the twirly stem myself! The birdie was from M's dollar bin, behind him is a stamped & embossed image as well.

The ribbon is from my stash- I've only had it for over 10 years.  Crazy!

Captured Fairy Received!

Ok, so last month I joined some new friends in a challenge and swap to make a captured fairy over at Alilscrapofheaven. My partner was Laura, and yesterday I received my fairy in the mail!! I was so excited to receive it and to my surprise, Laura included a generous rak as well. I am humbled at the kindness shared by all the people I've met through this blogging and crafting community, and I send a huge THANK YOU to Laura for the sweet gesture. Here are the pics...and LAura, you are clever!! You found out I love Hello Kitty!!-Awesome :) Thanks for putting a smile on my face!!

I wish you could see the pretty embossing Laura did on this card! It also has pretty blue glitter.

Are you kidding?!! You speak my Love language, & I love you back!

Laura added pretty pinks, blues, purples, and my fav. thing: butterflies!!

She also put pretty flowers on the tag, and fun bling everywhere.

This is the glittery back with butterflies!

Another butterfly on a charm :)

I tried to get a close-up of the pretty fairy.

Award Thank You

I've had a busy week and have been so fortunate to find among my messages that I've received an award from the very kind Sonia from Archiving Angel! I want to say a huge thank you and to pass this along to any one of my followers who'd like to grab the award as well. I feel that picking out a certain few wouldn't to justice to what fellow crafters are doing out there, and I gain so much from every one of you that it's impossible to choose. ( I've done it before & felt terribly uncomfortable) To go on with the award requirements I am to mention 7 things about myself so here goes:
1. I've met some cool people through this blog business and I'm not ashamed to use their names as if I've actually met them in person!
2. I'm not actually ashamed of much anyways- this comes from not taking myself too seriously.
3. I love to paint, draw, and ...
4. I love the images of hands, they tell a lot about a person.
5. I love all kinds of food also!
6. I love languages, even if I don't understand them ( the written word is beautiful to me).
7. I believe God's purpose for us is genuinely beautiful, and this makes all things bearable, for He sustains me.
So if you've read this post, grab on to that lil' award and let us know a bit about yourself too, come on, there's no shame in it!