Tuesday, September 20, 2016

SOS270: fairies and angels

the new challenge at shopping our stash is pretty self-explanatory this week; we want to see projects that feature fairies and angels. easy peasy, right? yeah... UNLESS you want to make a card with a fairy... it turns out you have not one single thing with fairies on it. not in your whole entire stash. not even in your vintage book and/or digital files collection. i'm pretty sure this is not a situation that will apply to anyone else, but if it does, take heart. you can always make a christmas card, instead. :0

vintage postcard from my collection, scanned, made a bit smaller, and printed on kodak premium glossy photo paper; patterned papers: graphic 45, craft and you design; vintage ribbon from my stash; glittery snowflake: my mind's eye; ink: ranger distress in several brown and tan shades for toning down all the white and all the edges; adhesives: elmers' brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

having had a bit of a moan over my thwarted intentions, i must say that once i shifted gears from fairies to angels, i had quite a few from which to choose. i decided upon this beautiful vintage postcard, which i scanned and re-sized to make it a little more card-friendly. also, it was the one i thought would work best with the current sketch saturday sketch (#430) so that sort of clinched the deal.


loads more angels and fairies to be found at SOS... hop on over and savor the magic! 

13 comments:

  1. Gorgeous vintage angel, Beautiful card, great take on the sketch too.

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  2. Gorgeous indeed Lauren, so glad you had this sweet, vintage image on your digital stash!! I love all of the details on this card and how you incorporated the sketch for your design, someone will be so very lucky to receive it for Christmas.
    Big Hugs,
    Maria.

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  3. Gorgeous indeed Lauren, so glad you had this sweet, vintage image on your digital stash!! I love all of the details on this card and how you incorporated the sketch for your design, someone will be so very lucky to receive it for Christmas.
    Big Hugs,
    Maria.

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  4. I was in a similar predicament. I actually had a Graphic 45 paper with cool fairies, but I did not know what the heck to do with it! But duh-- I could have done like you and made a xmas card with some Lunagirl images... this is an incredible card. Your stitching is always impressively straight, and I am loving that ribbon band! Awesome!

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  5. Your card is magnificent!! It is so beautiful and stunning and gorgeous!! I love every single thing about it! You hit this one out of the ballpark!!

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  6. Your card is magnificent!! It is so beautiful and stunning and gorgeous!! I love every single thing about it! You hit this one out of the ballpark!!

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  7. Um yeah, what everyone above said! This is a GORGEOUS card!

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  8. Beautiful as always. Love the rich colours.
    Sue

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  9. Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Sketch Saturday, good luck!!! Amy DT

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  10. Such a lovely Victoriana Christmas card, love the colours. I'm like you and have nothing at all in my stash to do with fairies or angels except a pair of wings which I think on their own are a bit sad. Xx

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  11. Such a lovely Victoriana Christmas card, love the colours. I'm like you and have nothing at all in my stash to do with fairies or angels except a pair of wings which I think on their own are a bit sad. Xx

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  12. Beautiful card, angels always remind me of my Mom, she was enchanted by them.

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  13. Wowzers!! This is so incredibly beautiful in every way!! I love the touches of gold and that big snowflake and of course that image!! So pretty!!

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