Fairies and Elves

Finally finished sending all my cards out with The Doc hand delivering the last six to the neighbours yesterday so I now have a little me time to catch up on my blog. These two cards are my inspiration for you for the Butterfly Challenge which is a month long challenge  for December.  The butterflies are safely cocooned till the new yr and the Fairies, gnomes,elves,pixies and hobgoblins  have taken control.

First card is a digi by Poppyseed Graphics called 'Fairy of Air'.  I normally colour her in blues and mauves so this time I have gone with the pinks.  I have used my Promarkers and  silver gel pen to highlight with.Red stickles to finish on her dress. The gorgeous pink flowers are from my win on Mia's Birthday candy  that I showed you last week.  I tried several different sentiments but couldn't settle on one I liked so have left blank for the time being. The glitter card is that special one that is completely smooth so no having to worry about glitter falling everywhere . I cut the aperture using my Crafts-Too Rectangle dies stitch hole. Base card is make from some really old pink 300gsm card stock I have had for yrs in my stash.

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:
Scrapping For Fun #105 Anything goes.
Crafting With Friends #57 Anything goes.
Hiding In My Craft Room #331 Use a digi.
AAA Cards #105 Sparkle.
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends #72 Anything goes.
Tuesdays Throwdown #372 Anything goes.
Through The Craft Room Door #Anything goes.
Shopping Our Stash #334 Gah Pink.


Second Card uses a pixie diecut from Tonic called Santa's Helper. More of the glitter card and using the same die cuts for the sperture. The sentiment is a die by Xcut and the the little bells are part of it.
Base card used a dark green card stock. I probably did this completely the wrong way but still not feeling 100% from my bout of ongoing Flu. I Die cut in white card stock and then used up pieces of snippets to die cut again  just the pieces I wanted in a different colour. Then spent forever slotting and gluing into the right holes. I glued the white die onto a piece of tartan paper to start me off.  A little bit of stckles glue for his hands and tassle bobble which stay just embossed on the die and don't cut out seperately.  Lastly used a black fine nib pen to colour in his eyes and nose.

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy #202 Christmas

A Gem Of A Challenge #209 Antything goes Christmas

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #311 and 312 Use your snippers. (Sure did).

International Art and Soul #23 Make it sparkle.

Come And Get It Challenges # Christmas challenge.

Crafty Cardmakers #202 Christmas 

Dream Valley #169 Christmas.

Deep Ocean Challenge #170 Jingle Bells .