Sparkling Mojo

So what do you do when you have lost your Mojo? You head on over to the Mojo Monday blog and get some! At least that's what I do. :) Today's card features a very sparkley (the theme for the Fairy Knoll Challenge is Sparkle) Ellie from Fairy Knoll on a fabulous Mojo Monday Sketch. The hello tag is so glittery you can hardly read the greeting... which makes it pretty darn awesome in my book! The papers are pretty random as are the embellishments ~ mostly just pulled from my stash of no name treasures. I did add liquid pearls for an extra bit of shine. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

~Smiles~

For the Record - I Love Echo Park!

Hello.... such a simple word, but very versatile. I finally ordered (from All That Scraps) and received the Ticket Sentiments by Whimsy Stamps. They are wonderful! I'm pretty excited about my goal to only make cards that will be used. Nothing's more depressing than a box of cards with nowhere to go. The older one's I made had lots of glitter so they couldn't be sent to OWH ~ darnit!

Okay let's get this train back on the track... toot, toot! The image is one of the new ones from Fairy Knoll named Kellie, the paper is For the Record (again from All That Scraps) by Echo Park... seriously swoon worthy paper.... I love, love, love it! The clouds were cut of Echo Park's Summer Day's paper and one was popped up to add some depth. The flowers are from the overflowing (and ever growing) stash. :) The swirls were made on the Cuttlebug with a Quickutz die. Below is a shot of the inside... just a few left over scraps and some lovely white cardstock.



One thing I wanted to mention is the image is a little tweaked from the one for sale at Fairy Knoll ~ you can see her below. I added some bricks for her to sit on and made her shirt super groovy... every girl needs a happy tiedye shirt ~ right?

Wishing you a Hippiedy Happy Saturday!

~Smiles~

Mother's Day Challenge Card

Happy Friday! Be prepared ~ I feel a rambling post coming on. :) Today I wanted to share a card I made using one of the new releases from Fairy Knoll ~ her name is Iris. Quick sidenote ~ Iris was actually drawn so that I would have an image to use on a card to give to my mom for Mother's Day. :) Now back to the previously scheduled post ~ Please join us at Fun at Fairy Knoll for the Mother's Day challenge this week. :)

This card as a couple of neat features... there are some close-up's down a little farther about making your cardstock look suedelike. The ribbons are layered ~ a lilac polka dot over a satin purple. Looks pretty cool in real life. :)

A shot of the inside... this paper is so very fabulous to work with. It has such happy colors! The name of it is Lime Twist from My Mind's Eye.

Here is the mini-tutorial I was telling you about. Being the brainiac that I am, I forgot that Stampin Up cardstock doesn't have a white core.... something that come to light after I had been sanding away for a while. :) The picture below shows the paper prior to sanding..... but wait for it..


this is the paper after sanding! You may have to click to enlarge the photo to see exactly what I am talking about, but doesn't it look like suede? A happy error on my part!

Hope you have a fun and fabulous Friday!
~Smiles~

CDAC Challenge and Freebie Info

Today Fairy Knoll is sponsoring the color challenge over at Crafter's Digital Art Center and I got to choose the colors! So you know they had to be bright! The colors are Hot Pink, Lime Green, and Bright Blue. Fun springy colors! :)

My card features I Love My Teddy ~ the freebie being offered for the challenge.
Papers are all from my scrap stash, flowers from my flower jar and star bling is beads.

Have a happy, happy day!

~Smiles~

Colorful Kisses

It's a gorgeous day here in my part of the world.. still very cold, but oh so beautiful. The sun is shining and my cat is lying about soaking it up without a care in the world. It must be nice to be a cat. :)

My card today features Blowing Kisses (again I know) from Fairy Knoll. She is so much fun to color and I wanted to color her as a blonde as well as a brunette. The color scheme is Pink, Red and White from Color Create, for Stamp Something and Stamp Insanity we have Sparkly and Glitter. It's funny how those two things just seem to perfectly go together! :) The glitter on the hearts is this wonderful glass glitter from Stampin Up. It is chunky and so fun to work with. There is Art Institute glitter on the smaller hearts, but it isn't showing up so well.

Have a beautiful day!

~Smiles~

Happy New Year!

It's here... a brand new and fresh year. There is something so wonderful about the first day of the year. It has an almost magical quality to it, bringing with it so many opportunities and chances to work toward our dreams. May your New Year be filled with happiness and blessings!





Today was such a fabulous day for me. All relaxation and no worries (after we ironed out our new plan for the year) makes me a happy girl!

I have been working on my coloring and in particular I want to learn how to make clothing look like it actually has folds. I used Copics and Prisma pencils on the skirt to try to add some dimension. Somewhere I had read you could use plain old rubbing alcohol to blend when using Copics and Prisma's together. It worked fine for me! I was careful to use my Copics prior to using the Prisma's to protect the blending tip on my markers. My image is a new one from Fairy Knoll called Music, so it seemed perfect to make a gift card holder for music. :) Papers are Basic Grey Lime Rickey and the sketch is from Cardablities.

Have a beautiful day!

~Smiles~

Waiting for Santa

Merry Christmas!

I'll be quick ~ today's card features Waiting for Santa (a new FREE digi) from Fairy Knoll. You can find her on our Facebook page or at our PCP group. All of the papers are from Cosmos Cricket Mitten Weather, the sentiment is from Whimsy Doodles, flowers are from Making Memories and are coated in Stickles.

I hope you can join us in our challenge this week at Fairy Knoll... Anything Goes!

Have a wonderful, wonderful day!

~Smiles~

Jingle Bells...

Hello there... weird to see a post from me on a Tuesday isn't it? I wanted to share a sneak peek of a new more vintage feeling digi from Fairy Knoll that will be released tomorrow during our first blog hop. I hope you can join us ~ there will be hidden prizes along the way and a grand prize of EVERY WINTER/CHRISTMAS digi we have! :)

This card is made with K&Co Christmas papers, lots of sewn details and Shimmer Spritz.

Hope you have a fabulous day!

~Smiles~

Changing Leaves

Happy Friday! Today I have a card for the challenge at Fairy Knoll ~ Changing Leaves. The image is a new release called Autumn Fairy. :) She was fun to color ~ I can't remember when I last did so much shading... the leaves were my favorite part. They have just a hint of glitter. The swirls were sprayed with gold shimmer spritz ~ very sparkley in real life. :)

Hope you have a fabulous day!

Friday Fun in a Winter Wonderland

Thank you for visiting! :) This is a very quick post ~ everyone is waiting on me so we can head out the door! Today's card features the new Winter Wonderland digi from Fairy Knoll and is for the Fun at Fairy Knoll Challenge.

It was a lot of fun coloring in the image and adding dimension with Flower soft, glitter, stickles, shimmerz, buttons and diecuts. Winter images always make me want to get out all the glitzy stuff! :)

Hope you have a "Fairy" Fantastic Day! :)

Friday Fun with Fairy Knoll

So here is the thing I love about sketches.... they are the springboard for your imagination, not the anchor to pull you down. Obviously I didn't take the sketch to the left completely seriously... it is flipped on it's side and the elements are a lot different. But... if you look close you can see the interpretation at work. :)

The sketch is for the Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll challenge (hope you can join us!) and features Shelly, also from Fairy Knoll. The papers are all from the scrap bin. :) The image is colored with Copics and her hair has shimmer in it, I just didn't get that great of a photo. :( The shell and her tail are covered in Liquid Glass to give a wet look. The inside says "Hello Sunshine". :)

Hope you have a happy Friday! Smiles ~ Brandi

Christmas Gift / Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll Sketch

Happy Friday! :) Today's card is for the Friday Fun Challenge at Fairy Knoll. This is our tenth sketch and we are looking for people to play along! You could win a free digi from Fairy Knoll just for participating! :)

My card features the Christmas Gift Fairy with K&Co Christmas Cheer papers and Suprise sticker. All the panels are stiched, the gold dots are Liquid Pearls from Ranger, the ribbon and flowers are from my stash. :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Smiles ~ Brandi

Sparkly Winter Dance Tunnel Card

Hello!!! Today's card features Winter Dance from Fairy Knoll.... I love, love, love making winter/Christmas cards. It must be all the fun stuff (glitter, flowersoft, paint, liquid glass, dewdrops) that is used to decorate a winter card.

Making this card was so involved, but it was a wonderful feeling of involvement... you know the feeling you get when you create something that you haven't made before.

And oh the sparkly stuff that I used! That warmed my heart and made me so happy to be playing! :)

Here is the inside! Isn't this a fabulous way to showcase a favorite sentiment? You can find the tutorial to make this type of card here at SCS. :) Mine is altered just a bit so I ended up with a 5.5 x 5.5 inch card.

Here are the card details for those of you who are interested.

Card Front: The first thing I did was color my image and add the background snow dots with my copics. The background cardstock was random stamped with a Daisy Bucket snowflake stamp and spritzed with Shimmerz Spritz. Then I added Polar White Flowersoft to the snowman and then the liquid glass and glitter dots. The chipboard snowflakes were painted with a Pearl Ranger Paint Dauber as was the border (outside and inside) of the card. As a finishing touch I added light blue dewdrops and liquid glass and glitter covered Quickcutz diecut swirls.

Inside of Card: The sentiment is from All the Scraps and the snowflakes were from Jolee's (I think). The cardstock was random stamped again and spritzed. The hanging bauble was strung on Karen Foster Paper floss and consists of two (back to back) rhinestone centered beads and three clear/sparkly beads. It is adhered between the two layers with super sticky tape.

Hopefully that answered all of your questions ~ don't hesitate to ask if I didn't cover something! :)

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly: White and Bright ~ Project Tuesday: Tunnel Card ~ Tuesday Throwdown: Monochromatic

Hope you all have a fabulous day! Smiles ~ Brandi

Hello everyone out there in blogland! I have been cleaning up my craftroom (more like shifting everything about ~ but we won't go there!) and I have found all this cool stuff that I own.... a cricut, cartridges for the cricut, shimmerz spritz, a distressing tool, cuttlebug folders, brads, sentiment stamps... talk about awesome finds! :) So I decided to use them all on this card and then when I was done with everything I put somewhere I could find it again... this is a major accomplishment for me. My craft room pretty much always looks like a major bomb went off in it!

The card features paper from DCVW, the image is Jess from Fairy Knoll, the diecuts are from the Home Accents cricut cartridge, and the brads are from Making Memories.

I am entering it in the following challenges:

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp: Sketch ~ Party Time Tuesdays: Summer Birthday Card ~ Flutterby Wednesday: Open with Fairy ~ Magical Monday: Sparkle ~ Paper Play : Anything Goes ~ Dutch Dare: Anything Goes

Have a great Tuesday! Smiles ~ Brandi

Friday Fun Sketch Challenge

It's Friday again... I can't believe it snuck up on me! My card today features one of the new releases from Fairy Knoll... She is the Fortune Teller Fairy. There is a new sketch over at Fun at Fairy Knoll... come join us for the chance to win a free digi of your choice! :)

She was lots of fun to color... I loved adding all the bright vivid colors to her wings! The inside of the card says "Your Birthday Will Be Fabulous". Wouldn't she be great for a Halloween card too? All dark purples and black with glitter of course! :)

Paper is from K&Co, swirls from Prima, frames from Spellbinders. Have a fabulous day everyone!

Smiles ~ Brandi

Challenge Cards

Fairy Knoll is sponsoring two great challenges this week ~ Cooking It Up With Katie and For Fun Challenges. I hope you get a chance to play along! :) We are also releasing two new images: Swim Goggles and Beach Ball.

Cooking Up With Katie is a recipe challenge ~ Buttons, Bows and Blues. For Fun Challenges is the sketch shown to the left.

My card features the image Swim Goggles ~ for the life of me I could not come up with a sentiment for her. Poor thing ~ she is so befuddled by those swim goggles! :) Hope she at least gives you a bit of a giggle! Have a wonderful day! Smiles ~ Brandi

Magic...

Happy Day to you! Today I have a little bit of Magic to share with you...

a Sneak Peek at Magic that is! Magic is a new stamp from Fairy Knoll that will be released on Wednesday June 30th. The sentiment is part of a set that will also be released then. I wanted to add some more sparkle, but I am forbidden to get glitter in my husbands travel trailer.... it was hard, but somehow I resisted! :) Instead I dotted the background behind her with lots of soft Copic colors to give the impression of colored light coming from her wand... in essence... Magic!

She is colored with Copics and popped up to add some dimension. The papers are Basic Grey and My Minds Eye, bling is from Prima as are the flowers.

The sketch used is from Mojo Monday and the bling and sparkle qualify this card for the Oh Alice twinkle, twinkle challenge.

Have a wonderful Sunday! Smiles ~ Brandi

Suprise Saturday! :)

Hello All ~ I am so happy it is Saturday and that I will be headed home for a day or two this evening that I wanted to give you a special Saturday Suprise! Check out the Paper Craft Planet Group today only to pick up your free copy of Marisa the Mermaid! After today you can pick her up at the Fairy Knoll store. :)

Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll Challenge

Hello! Today is the 4th Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll Challenge... please join us for the chance to win a free digi of your choice! :) If you are in need of a Fairy Knoll image to play along with join our Paper Craft Planet Group and snag some of the freebies! :)

My card features Sneaky Petra from Fairy Knoll... you have to watch out for her or she will sneak away with your coffee... or maybe you have already had to deal with her ??? I am going to blame her from now on when my coffee cup goes missing! :)

She is much more glittery in real life... her dress sparkles alot more as does the dotted background. I would upload a closeup, but I have been having uploading troubles all morning and don't want to fight with it anymore.

The background was fun to make... just dot a few colors of complimentary Copics around and add some glitter dots and you are good to go! The papers are from my stash, the chipboard and ribbon from Fancy Pants and the butterfly is from Making Memories.

Hope you have a fantabulous weekend! Smiles ~ Brandi

Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll Challenge

I have to tell you that Josephine makes me want to look for fairies around every corner, hiding within the flowers or dancing with the trees. She has that look about her that makes me want to Believe!

Today's card features the newest sketch from the Friday Fun at Fairy Knoll Challenge Blog. The sketch is rotated to work with my card and to make me happy! :) Love these fabulous papers from Bo Bunny too... gorgeous with the polka dots from Webster's Pages. I hope you get a chance to play along with us this week. It is a lot of fun and if you need a free Fairy Knoll image to work with please join our Paper Craft Planet group and pick up one or two! :)

Be sure to visit the other Design Team members to see their fabulous creations! :)

Alex ~ Audrey ~ Lora ~ Lorraine ~ Sally

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend! Smiles ~ Brandi