fairies

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! I have another no-line coloring project featuring the darling new Pixie Dust stamp set from the Simon Says Stamp To Be Loved release. I was immediately drawn to the large scale flowers, especially the graceful movement of the floral stems. I have been trying to work with styles that are a bit outside of my creative wheelhouse, attempting to stretch my creative muscles such as they are. The sweet characters in the Pixie Dust set were perfect for this creative exercise, while still adapting the images to my own style with very detailed no-line Copic coloring. Let’s get started with the details!

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To start, I stamped the little fairies, bees, and fungi from Pixie Dust onto some white cardstock using Altenew’s Permanent Gray Mist ink, as well as the large floral arrangement onto some plain white cardstock, cut to 3.5″ x 8.5″ to create a slimline card base. I then used a variety of Copic markers in cool shades of mauve, periwinkle, and deep emerald green to do some no-line coloring, then adding some details to the flower centers, skirts, and mushrooms with sparkling gel pens. The sparkling accents work perfectly with the magical little fairies and overall scene!

After the coloring was completed, I used the coordinating dies to cut all of the images out and began arranging my scene. Before adhering everything with foam adhesive, however, I decided to add to the magical feel by blending some “grass” with Lucky Pawsitively Saturated Ink and Emerald Rainbow Splash Ink on the bottom right corner of my card base, as well as creating a luminous sky background with Pawsitively Saturated Ink in shades of Iris and Orchid. I was careful not to do too much blending over my colored areas, creating a glow around the edges of the card to hint at the background very subtly.

I adhered all of the die cuts on the colored and blended slimline card base using thin foam adhesive squares, as well as a sentiment that I had stamped with Iris ink and embossed using Iridescent Purple embossing powder from Hero Arts to add some more magical shimmer to the card. Finally, I added a smattering of Prism Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for even more sparkle!

Well, that’s all for my project today. I love adapting different styles of designs to my own personal style and preferences. The detailed coloring on these sweet characters was such a fun way to push myself outside of my comfort zone. Also, if you haven’t hopped along on the To Be Loved Blog Hop, you’re missing out; the inspiration is a vision to behold!! Click HERE to see my post for Day 1 and get linked up to the rest of the hop. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Good morning! Today, the Ellen Hutson Design Team has a special treat for you today… we are partnering with the Avery Elle Design Team to bring you a blog hop featuring the new Avery Elle Liquid Watercolors!

For today’s hop, I have created a fairly whimsical card… a far different aesthetic than the card that I created for my video. I love how Avery Elle has such an eclectic collection of styles! I have really enjoyed playing with these liquid watercolors recently. I had a video up on the Ellen Hutson blog earlier this week (which you can see here or watch here on YouTube) in which I discuss my thoughts on these new watercolors. They are great fun, especially if you’re new to watercoloring. They have a great price point for just getting your feet wet, too.

For my project, I use the absolutely darling Pixie Dust stamp and die set from Avery Elle and combined it with a pretty ombre wash background to create a whimsical fairy card! To create the ombre wash, I taped my Arches A2 sized panel to a cutting board, then used a wide wash brush to add Sapphire Liquid Watercolors to the top of the panel and Cherry to the bottom, mixing the two in the center to create a sunset effect. (You can watch the technique in action in the video mentioned above!)

For the fairies, I die cut and silver heat embossed the fairies and some clouds onto some more Arches Cold Press watercolor paper, then watercolored them with a variety of the Liquid Watercolors, mixing and matching to create the hair and skin tones. For brown, I mix colors on the opposite sides of the color wheel, mainly oranges and greens. For the silvery black haired fairy on the bottom, I mixed Sapphire with Mimosa and Sea Glass. I don’t know that I could replicate these exact shades again… there was a lot of mixing and matching going on until I got what I wanted haha!

I also die cut some vellum clouds (the Avery Elle clouds that I used are discontinued, but I’ve linked some comparable dies at the bottom!) and arranged my little scene on my card front. I adhered everything using dimensional adhesive, hiding the adhesive behind the fairies and solid clouds so that it wouldn’t show through the vellum. I also silver heat embossed the greeting from Pixie Dust onto the ombre card front. The final touch was some jewels from Pretty Pink Posh.

Well, that’s all for my project today! You definitely don’t want to miss any of the stops on this hop; the inspiration and tips on these new watercolors are absolutely fantastic! What’s a blog hop without prizes, right? Head on over to The Classroom to learn all of the details on how you can win some blog candy!!

Emily Midgett<— you are here!