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Distinctively Diana

Creating hand-designed touches for everyday life & festive occasions

A Happy Little Fairy to Pick Up My Mood

I am a little tired today…I’m getting my youngest ready to head back to college on Wednesday and her first apartment.  Never an easy task. This time around it means I’m giving up the table in my craft studio for her kitchen area and today I made the ultimate sacrifice and gave up the couch in my office for her living room. Sniff, sniff….I love this couch. I sit on it almost every day to read, work, make notes, sit on a phone call…I will miss this couch. But we can’t afford to buy her a whole couch right now so this was the only choice…sniff, sniff….

So, between cleaning the craft paint off the top of the table from my craft room and moving everything around in there and cleaning the table that has been sitting in the garage to replace it (let’s see how this goes) and moving things into the living room in anticipation, it’s been a busy day. But, I still needed to get some creative time in to stay on track with the Colour It Up Challenge over at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps. Only one day left and I haven’t missed a day yet! I’m  not about to start now!

So, my choice today was to help pick me up a bit…

A happy little fairy spreading some happy thoughts which I need today

Funny how I create the cards that I need to be sent!!

The stamp I used is a retired one from Kraftin’ Kimmie called Fairy Loved. I coloured her in with my Spectrum Noirs and Copic Markers. Oh and because I think fairies sparkle, I brush her all over with Wink of Stella in Clear.

Skin: E00, EO4, E11

Hair: PP1, BP1

Outfit: HB1, HB2, HB3

Wings: IB1

I used Kraftin’ Kimmie Hybrid Inks in Mermaid Melody and Purple Pansy on the edges of the base card and then on each of the stamped image card and the sentiment card.

The purple and gold foil bow paper is from a 6×6 pad from Forever in Time called Foil Fancy in Gilded Chic.

The sentiment stamp is a Penny Black stamp called Happy Thoughts which I stamped in the KKS Purple Pansy.

I pop dotted the image card and the sentiment card but I used a flatter pop dot on the sentiment card so it would sit below the fairy. I knew I wanted to do the sequin trail from the fairy’s hand. I used sequins from Craft Medley in Viola and Buttons Galore & More’s 28 Lilac Lane collection in Mixed Berry. I add glue in each spot I want a sequin with a pointed wooden skewer stick and then I place the sequin…a few choice sailor words later, I have a sequin trail!

One happy little fairy reminding me to think happy thoughts!

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Some Busy Bees and a Little Fairy Dust…

Today I worked on my wedding album…yes, I’m a little slow getting it done, lol! But in my defense, I created two others for special people in my life right after the wedding as gifts for them and was so wedding-albumed out, I set mine aside to do “at a later date.” That date is still coming! Slowly!

I got some inspiration because I’m still working on the Colour It Up Challenge at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps. It’s Day 22 and I wanted to incorporate the Sweet As Can Bee stamp because it’s one of the newer ones as well as something magical so that I could include it in this week’s Magical Challenge. And by doing a layout, I could include it in the monthly Skrappy Challenge of something other than a card! Bam! 3 challenges in one! And I did it! Whoo hoo!

Included some busy bees and sweet little pixies into the layout that showed the tent for my wedding going up in my backyard

Gotta love it when you can make it work like this.

I had some awesome paper that included bee hives right in the design and the last time I worked with the Sweet As Can Bee stamp set I had forgotten to use it so I wanted to try and use it sometime. I pulled it out to see if I could make it work today. I paired it with a neutral shade that I knew would match the wedding colours I was working with. I also pulled out papers and embellishments that I was working with in the album.

I added the sequins falling from the little pixie’s watering can onto the page — the idea being she is adding her touch and helping to get the tent set up. I definitely believe we had some divine intervention that weekend: the tent was set up on the Thursday and the crew told us we were the only wedding that summer that they were not setting up in the rain and telling the bride, “I’m sure it will stop raining for the wedding.” We were the only weekend wedding that summer that didn’t get rained on! I’m sure my dad had something to do with it, my own guardian angel. We got married on what would have been his 75th birthday.

Wonderful memories captured forever…

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Trying Watercolour & Gelatos for the First Time!

Today, I decided to try a completely new medium in my craft studio…watercolour and gelatos with my stamping and card design.

I’ve had gelatos for quite some time and attempted to play briefly with them in other mixed media projects, but haven’t used them at all in my cardmaking efforts so far.

However, the other day a fellow krafty sister in Kraftin’ Kimmies’ Facebook community was showing what she had done with her stamps and gelatos and I absolutely loved the way it had turned out and it made me think “hmmmm”….so I decided to pull mine out. And I’m glad I did!

My attempts at playing with watercolour, gelatos, and stamps

I loved how the first one turned out so much that I just kept going and going…

I first started out using Carson 140 watercolour paper that was 4×6 in size and stamped the images using Kraftin’ Kimmie Hybrid Ink in Wicked Black. It worked fabulous with the watercolours.

My gelatos are Faber-Castell and I have a combination of metallic and regular colours. Unfortunately, you can’t see the complete effect of the metallics in the photos. They are absolutely gorgeous! The shimmer and sheen to them is beautiful and just so perfect for my little fairies. I chose the stamps Teacup Fairy and Rosie Fairy especially because of the effects I was hoping to create. I actually started with the little friends hugging on the bottom. That stamp is part of the Squishy Hugs stamp set from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps, as is the little girl hugging her cat upside down.

I went onto the fairies and then created cards with them today.

Rosie Fairy in watercolours and gelatos by DistinctivelyDiana.com

Rosie ended up just so beautiful that I wanted to keep the card relatively simple. I selected a translucent paper I had with almost the same kind of colours and flowers on it and used translucent adhesive to glue it to the card base. I then pop dotted the watercolour card to the base. I finished the card with gumdrops from Your Next Gumdrop.

Teacup Fairy in watercolour and gelatos by DistinctivelyDiana.com

I then did the same thing with Teacup Fairy. So simple and yet two beautiful cards!

Tomorrow, I’ll finish making cards with the Squishy Hugs set.

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The Cutest Little Fairy on the Block

Today I created the sweetest little card…if I do say so myself!

Sometimes you make something and you just catch yourself going oh now that’s cute!

A little fairy spreading joy and happiness around

 

I used my Silhoutte Cameo to cut out the card base and I used Recollections Wedding Neutrals paper in a pale pink to put behind the front cover of the card.

Next, I stamped my little fairy from the Fairy Loved stamp set from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps — she is a retired stamp — with Memento Black Tuxedo ink and coloured her in with my Spectrum Noirs. I decided to stick with soft pastel colours because that’s what I figured a happy little fairy would wear in the summertime! I then used my clear Wink of Stella pen to paint her wings and body. She just glistens. It’s disappointing because I just couldn’t capture how much the card glistens in the photo.

I pop dotted her onto the card in a way that I could have her spilling out the sequins from her hands onto the flowers…because that’s how flowers get their colours you know…wink wink!  I glued each sequin from Lane 28 Sequins in Mixed Berry into place, using tweezers to place them.

I then painted the flowers with Wink of Stella as well.

Finally, I stamped the sentiment and then cut it out with a circle punch, edged it with Distress Ink in Spun Sugar and pop dotted it as well, but with a different foam adhesive so it would be lower than the fairy.

One little summer cutie ready to tell someone they are loved…

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