Welcome back watercolor fans to another Art Impressions watercolor weekend! This week I decided to create this cute little Mushroom Fairy but combining my Butterfly stamp set with the Elves stamp set. I love when I can stretch my stamps. What can you make by combining your stamps?
Project Details
I started off by inking up the sleeping elf from the Elves stamp set in 969. I stamped it off and then stamped it on the right side of the watercolor paper. Next, I inked up the closed butterfly from the Butterfly stamp set and stamped it onto my stamp positioner. I rubbed off the body of the butterfly. I lined it up on top of the sleeping elf and stamped it to make the elf into a fairy. I pulled the color out of the lines.
From my watercolor palette, I added color to the elf and to the wings using Pink, Blue and Yellow. I made sure a hit of the top of the elf showed through the wings. Next, I inked up the mushroom from the Elves set with 969. I, again, used my stamp positioner to place the mushroom next to the fairy.
I added the window and door from the Hobbit Door set using my positioner. I pulled the color out of the lines and added some additional 606 to the mushroom. I added some additional 969 to darken areas on the mushroom. I added some grasses (from the original foliage set and foliage set 3) inked up with 177. I pulled the color up and out of the lines. Lastly, I added some 565 to my palette and painted a sky behind the mushroom.
I signed and dated my project.
Card Details
I cut my Mushroom Fairy out with a rectangle stitched die. I glued it to a Gina K Designs Edible Eggplant card stock mat. I glued that to a Neenah Solar White card panel.
Thank you so much for spending some time with me today. I hope you will look at your new light. Try something different, you will be glad you did! Check out my fellow team members inspiration over on the AI Blog.
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SUPPLIES:
So cute!
I enjoy seeing how you combine images to make new scenes, helps me look at my stamps with a fresh eye.
I can’t decide whether the fairy got up too early & is taking a nap after getting the kids off to school or whether he stayed out too late with the imps & elves & didn’t quite make it home!
( maybe that says too much about my life right now!)
I love your purple mushroom and so clever to use the butterfly to make wings! Love this card!
You’re amazing! I love the elf/fairy idea – and didn’t realize you’d used a butterfly until I ready your description – brilliant!!