Faith & Trust & Pixie Dust

Hi Stampers!

Today starts a new Loves Rubberstamps challenge! This one is everyone's FAVORITE... Anything Goes! Before I share my project that I created for inspiration... I wanted to share a picture of my Grandma :) For those not aware, she is battling breast cancer for the second time and just had a masectomy at the beginning of March. Last week, I received a surprise in the mail from one of our Design Team members, Athina Emory, of a lovely card for myself, and also one addressed to Gramma and for only her to open it :) Grandma was super touched by the lovely card and she wished for me to tell Athina - thank you so much from the bottom of her heart. She loved the card and thought it was such a wonderful surprise. This is for you Athina :)

For my project today I am trying to use some of my stamps that I have not had the chance to ink up yet. I totally adore C.C. Designs stamps and I saw that their challenge this week is to use an image with wings so I decided to play with Pixie Lucy. This is one of my super favorite stamps and it is horrible that I have had her for so long and never had the chance to color her up yet!

I decided to try and go with some bright, bold, spring-like colors because I am getting tired of cold and snow - LOL! The mushroom image is one from my very first purchase of Magnolia stamps when I bought the Alva and Alf elves collection. This is one of the accessory stamps for the characters to sit on. I colored my Pixie Lucy using copic markers. Her hair and skin colors are all from the 6 piece copic sketch marker set. I don't own very many copics yet so the grays in my mushroom are spectrum noir markers and the cap is actually all the colors from the Color Fusion 2 Trio. The flowers are a mix of handmade rolled flowers and prima flowers. Using so many flowers on a card is a new thing for me too - LOL! I always admire the cards with loads of gorgeous flowers arranged so perfectly. I think I need one more prima flower next to my two rolled ones on the bottom :)

Here is a little closer look at my Pixie Lucy and mushroom together:

And here is a closer look at Pixie Lucy so you can actually see the Dazzling Diamonds on her wings...

I also am super lame when it comes to trying to come up with a lay out for my cards so I looked around and saw this card sketch from Card Mania for their challenge this week and decided to use it for my lay out :)

I hope you enjoyed my project today and please come play along in our challenge this week! Our design Team and myself would love to visit your blog and see your creations :)

Happy Stampin!
Laura

Here is the list of products I used on my card:

C.C. Designs - Swiss Pixies Collection - Pixie Lucy

C.C. Designs - Woodland Logos

Magnolia - Mushroom

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Copic Sketch Markers - 6 Pc. Skin Tones Set (skin & hair)

Copic Sketch Markers - Color Fusion Trio #2 (mushroom cap)

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink markers

Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth White Cardstock

Spellbinders - Floral Ovals

My Favorite Things Die-Namics - Fancy Flourish Die

My Favorite Things Die-Namics - Faux Crochet Border Die

Bo Bunny - Prairie Chic 6x6 paper Pack

Prima Flowers - Sherwood Rose Larkspur (will be listed soon- in stock)

Prima Flowers - Avon Rose - Pixie Glen (will be listed soon - in stock)

I will also be entering this in the following challenges:

All That Scraps - Winged Things

Card Mania - CMC #17 Sketch Challenge

Bunny Zoe's Challenges - March Challenge Girly

613 Avenue Create - #13 Anything Goes with Flowers

Challenges 4 Everybody - #17 Anything Goes

Glitter 'N Sparkle Challenge - #26 Cute

Robyn's Fetish - #153 Fairies

Pile It On - #13 Handmade Flowers

Stamping Sensations - March Challlenge The Great Outdoors

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - #137 Sparkle N Shine

Color Me Creative - All About Hair

A Gem of a Challenge - #73 Make it Cute

Sweet Stampin' - Oh So Girly

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Bring On Spring

Brown Sugar - #35 Flowers

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - #117 Cute As You Like

My Heart Pieces - Fairies or Angels

Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - #58 Girls

Marker POP - #20 Anything Goes

Mema's Crafts - April Challenge Anything Goes

My Craft Creations - For the Girls

Stamp With Fun - #205 Spring

Whoopsi Daisy Challenges - Bling

Corrosive Challenges - #171 Spring Fling