SWG Design by Linda Levoir

Hello!

It's hard to believe that we're already almost halfway through September and racing towards the end of the year. Have you started making your Christmas cards yet? I really need to get started on mine and to help there are tons of wonderful Christmas stamps and stamp sets available from Whimsy Stamps, including some gorgeous Christmas fairies just released this month.

Today I have a non Christmas fairy to share with you, this is an older stamp but I've been itching to use her for a while, she looks so sassy and modern!

I've coloured her with my Zig Markers, those of you who know me will know that these are now easily my 'go to' markers of choice though I have previously used Copics and Distress Ink Markers (which I still sometimes use).

I made a reasonably simple card, not at all difficult to construct, but quite striking with the use of some eye-catching papers to match your colouring.

After colouring her I fussy cut her out and popped her up on some foam tape, showcased by 2 frames cut using the Shaker Maker Rectangle die set. The background behind the frames is created using the Formal Lattice Stencil and some inks to match the colours on the fairy.
The sentiment is from the Fly By clear stamp set.

I've listed all the products used below with links to the items in the store, just click on the pictures!

    

I hope you enjoyed my card today!

Hello!

I did mean to blog this yesterday and thought I had but obviously did not hit that publish button!

Anyhooo......I get to share it with you today instead. As you can see I made another card with the Fairy Happy stamp set from MFT Stamps.

I stamped out my little fairy and coloured her in Distress Inks this time. I used Vintage Photo, Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber. I cut her out with the coordinating dienamic and then started work on my background.

I used some Tim Holtz watercolour paper and blended some inks using the Radiating Rays stencil and a blending tool and then went over each area of colour with a bit more ink using a Clarity Stencil brush for a softer, lighter effect. I cut this out with the smaller rounded rectangle die from 

Blueprints 31.

I cut out some patterned paper from the Graphic Grid paper pack, with the scalloped edge die from Blueprints 20 and stuck this to an A2 card base made from Razzle Berry cardstock.

I stuck my background piece to my card base using some craft foam in between for dimension and stamped the Make a Wish sentiment onto a scrap of Razzle Berry cardstock and cut that out with a banner die from Blueprints 20. I glued that to my background panel.

Finally I added my fairy with some foam tape to make her pop and finished with a few sparlking clear sequins.

I hope you like my make for today, I'll be back tomorrow with some Altenew inspiration.

Thanks for visiting!

Hello everyone I hope you are having a lovely week so far. It's time for a new theme over at 

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog 

and this time it's Anything Goes. Super easy right?  So no excuse not to enter, because whatever you are working on....it will fit! ;)

I have to admit I always seem to colour the newest digis up a bit later than everyone else, so that by the time I do they're no longer new, and the image I used for this is no different.

A while back I joined in a small way with a lovely project that was on Kickstarter, called
'A Very Fairy Door'

As a reward for my small contribution I received 2 digis, but with Christmas looming and everything else I had planned, it's only recently that I got the chance to colour either of them.

This one is called Night Fairy, so I thought I would go with a deep blues and silver for the stars and make her seem like she was in the night sky with the glow of moonlight surrounding her.

I really rather like the way this turned out.

I decided to echo the stars by cutting some stars out of the dp and some pearlescent card. I used a the Die-namics Pierced Star STAX to cut them. The card shape is made using a Go Kreate XXL set.

I used some old papers from my stash to make the card.

I used some diamante gems to accent my card, lots of glamour dust on the wings and on the star. On the dress and the halo I used my Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Clear Star. This give a lovely sheen and a subtle sparkle, but sadly it's a bit too subtle to show up on camera.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers using:

Vintage Photo, Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch, Hickory Smoke and some Antique Linen for the 'glow'.

I decorated the inside to echo the front.

I used the following embellishments from The Ribbon Girl:

Ivory White Magnolia

Lily Flowers Small White

20 mm Ivory Open Rose

Pretty Blossom Blue

25 mm Navy Blue Satin Ribbon

15 mm White Diamond Guipure Lace

Star Charm

2 mm s/a Clear Gems

5 mm s/a Clear Gems

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Live and Love Crafts - Sparkle
BunnyZoeCrafts - Sparkle

That's all from me today but I do hope you can join in with our challenge, and don't foget to swing by and check out the rest of the DTs beautiful makes.

That's all from me, have fun! :) xx