PCJ DT Card: Fairies & Angels Challenge - Isabella

Hello, bloggy friends! It's that time again for another challenge at PaperCrafting Journey and this fortnight we're looking for your best fairy or angel creations! 

Our sponsor this week is The Emerald Faerie Garden, home to Linda Catchlove's line of whimsical little faeries and the winner will receive two digi images of their choice! Check out the details over at the Challenge. =)

I chose to use Isabella. Isn't she charming, sitting on her little hill with her flutterby buddy? 

My card this week is another experiment of sorts. I originally intended a very light pastel Spring-y flowery kind of creation, but when I was flipping through paper pads, I saw these K&Company's Jubilee Specialty Papers. Yummy! The colors in the butterfly inspired my color choices for coloring Isabella's outfit. I am normally not into yellow/gold or coral, so I'm finding it hard to decide whether I'm happy with my coloring or not. LOL

The sky behind her was originally a solid flat blue, but I wanted to create some clouds. I decided to try lifting some color out with the colorless blender and then used C00 to create shadow edges. My plain green grassy knoll wasn't too spiffy either, so this is my first attempt at grass blades. Can you tell I started on the left and was finally getting the hang of the flicking motion by the time I got over to the right side? LOL Her wings were lightly colored with the lightest yellow and coral colors before a nice coating of Fruit Punch Stickles which is a great combo of pinkish-coral and gold glitter. I trimmed around her wingtips and feet and the flutterby wings to be able to cut around the image with a circle Nestie and layered it up, using some Distress Inks on the edges. I bent all the wingtips out  little to give them added dimension and popped the decorative circle up on foam dots.

I added a number of Martha Stewart branch punches and some Wild Orchid Craft flowers which I glittered with Diamond and Fruit Punch Stickles. I used some of the Copics from my image to color some flatbacked pearls and as a final touch, I punched and layered a Martha Stewart butterfly cut from the same K&Co paper and added some small black pearls for accent.

Check out my teamies' cards over at PaperCrafting Journey and I'm sure you'll feel inspired to create a little fairy magic or angel goodness for yourself. Can't wait to see what you create!

In the meantime, I'll be heading off to enter my own card in these two challenges this week:

      Crafty Catz - #117 Things with Wings

      Glitter Geeks - Week 4: Myths and Legends

Happy crafting!
Christy