Flower Picking Fairy Easel Card!

Morning all! I got halfway through the previous post and we lost electricity from the bad storm we were having. :( Made me miss one of my favorite challenge blogs. :( Oh well! We were powerless from about 3pm-2am! Thankfully there are no little ones but the dog was super spooked! Poor baby. I don't think he's ever been in a power outage come to think of it.

Anywho, I created this next project with the Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge in mind because this time around we were challenged to use flowers!

You know, I LOVE my Dustin Pike images so...I thought this Teddy Fairy picking flowers was the perfect one. I colored him with pencils then stickled wings of another image I had printed and added glossy accents and stickles to the base image. When all that was dry, I cut out my second set of wings and adhered only the right side to the base image so I could curl them up! I then flocked the Teddy with Bearly Brown Stampin' Up Flocking Powder. I added Baby Pink FlowerSoft to the flowers on the ground and the one in his hand.

Again, once everything was dry, I added my Teddy friend to a dark pink circle with pop dots (of course! *smile*). I created the easel card and decided to go with blue papers to match the Teddy's outfit. I took on a challenge of my own when I decided to use the zigzag stitch on the sewing machine for the first time! After a few practice rounds I think the finished product came out pretty well! I stitched around the full inside panel and the half easel panel. Finally, on to the flowers! I decided rather than use pre-fab flowers I would once again make my own using my Cricut and the Create A Critter cartridge. (Have I mentioned lately I LOVE this cart.???!!!! lol) I cut fifteen flowers all together (at 2.5, 2 and 1.5inches) and matched them up in three's to create nice big (3-D) flowers! I doodled around the edges and pieced them together with brads. I adhered them all with pop dots. ;) I added white rhinestones to the tops of the brads to match the rhinestone brads I used on the base of the card to hold up my easel! I have discovered I very much like making easel cards and I didn't know how easy it was! LOVING them! --This project is entered in the following challenges--

Doodle Dragon Studios - Flowers
Polka Doodles - Sew and Sew



Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~