Dandelion Faerie

For some time now, I've been admiring projects featuring Emerald Faeires digi stamps; so I decided to get one of my own! I started my collection with Isla:

One of the fun parts of ordering this stamp was that I got to email with Tracey in Australia; since Spring is starting here and Autumn there, we were both having gray, rainy days. Well Tracey, when I went out the next morning to photograph this card there were actual a few snowflakes falling! Hope you didn't, ha ha!

But soon enough I'll have all the Spring I can handle. There are some gigantic dandelions that take up residence in our yard, big enough to hold a faerie I bet!  

I colored Isla with Copics. I heat-embossed the tiny dandelion seed-parachutes in Clear Yellow and the dragonflies in baby blue on white linen DCWV cardstock; these stamps are from the Wildflowers Clear Art Stamps set by Crafty Secrets.

The green base is my favorite color of shiny green Core'dinations cardstock; I used a Sizzix texture folder and my Big Shot to emboss the whimsical circles.

I colorized the sentiment ticket from When the Scrap Hits the Fun green in PhotoShop, and added details with Copics after cutting it out. I finished off the card with some Venice Daisy lace ribbon by Wrights.

Addicted to Stamps #25

Inspiration/Embossing:

Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge #19: Embossing - Wet/Dry (with an EF digi)

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #25: Sketch
Deep Ocean Challenge #20: Spring

Pile It On #10 - Spots/Stripes with Dilly Beans

I know you'll have fun with this week's Pile It On challenge: include spots and/or stripes on your project. 

We have another fabulous digi stamp company sponsoring this week: Dilly Beans! I used two of her lovely lady images to make matching cards for my nieces:

I colored the images with colored pencils. It shows up even better in person! I'm entering this set into the following challenges:

1. Pile It On #10: Spots and/or Stripes
2. Shelly's Images Challenge: Seeing Spots
3. Polka Doodles Week 9: Polkadots, Stripes or both
• Love the Echo Park Dots & Stripes series! 
4. Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge: Digital
•  Digi stamps by Dilly Beans 
5. Emerald Faeries Challenge #19: Embossing - Wet/Dry
•  I heat-embossed the images in black 
6. Craftilious Challenge #31: Lace 
7. Crafts and Me Challenge #73: Pretty In Lace
8. Crafting for All Seasons Challenge #21: Shaped Cards
9. Clearly Inspired Challenge #47: Anything Goes
10. Ribbon Carousel Challenge #42: Anything Goes with a spooled item
• Although all the lace & ribbon was on a spool at some point, the tulle & cream lace are currently on spools!

This one doubles as a birthday card!

Hope you'll join us at Pile It On this week!