Fiber Bubble: Gossamer Wings...Just One of Those Things

Monday, December 8, 2014

Gossamer Wings...Just One of Those Things

Just a card this time. No personal sharing about my crazy but loving sisters! No whining about DIY projects gone awry! No more grousing about over use of bling! No more griping about creating a Christmas card homage to Star Trek and Star Wars!

Today, this post is just about the card! Oh and inspirational friends! My sweet blog friend Julie at Rainbow Days reminded me that there is a challenge at Lavinia Stamps to create something using a Lavinia image and incorporating flowers. Well her work is ALWAYS over-the-top gorgeous! So getting inspiration from her is always easy peasy! While I doubt I will ever manage to create 'gossamer wings' I did manage to incorporate flowers while using a long neglected item from my stash: Flower Soft. Thank you Julie!

What with a shop dedicated to 'wands and wishes' this could only be a birthday card for someone who appreciates gossamer winged fairies and sprites!

Soft Flowers

~Base card PaperTrey Ink Autumn Rose

~Layer of DCWV mat stack Once Upon a Time

~Strips of coordinating Once Upon a Time as frame to striped ribbon

~Lavinia digital image colored with Copics; die cut and embossed with Spellbinder Labels Two - edges smudged with Hero Arts Soft Sand

~Flower Soft

~Vintage button from 'the button bowl'

Challenges | Inspirations

Lavinia Stamps - add a flower

Retro Sketch - sketch

Crazy 4 Challenges - color inspiration

Sisters of Craft - anything

Scrappy Hands - birthday

Thanks for clicking by.

Here's to unearthing long-unused had-to-have items in my Bubble stash, mentally playing Sinatra tunes, and banning whining (at least for a post or two)!

Nancy in Iowa

11 comments:

jimlynnDecember 8, 2014 at 10:42 AM
Wow Nancy! This is just beautiful! I love that image - the little houses are so cute. The flower soft looks great!
Lynn
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JulieDecember 8, 2014 at 11:09 AM
Ohhh Nancy, flowersoft is something I've never used, I'm thinking maybe I should try some though. I love how it's "made over" the window boxes on your Lavinia image! Thank you for the mention my lovely blogging buddy, and thank you also for joining in with the challenge this time. Have a good week, Julie x
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Mindful craftDecember 9, 2014 at 5:52 AM
What a super card Nancy! Love the bright Fairy shops and the sweet Flower Soft flowers.
Thank you for entering the Lavinia stamps challenge, good luck
Karen (DT) xx
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WendyDecember 9, 2014 at 3:51 PM
Ooh fab card! Gorgeous colouring on those fairy shops and the flower soft looks brilliant! Thanks for sharing with us at Lavinia Stamps, good luck! Xx
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SarnDecember 11, 2014 at 1:48 PM
Great idea. Lovely card xxx
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Stamping With BibianaDecember 12, 2014 at 10:16 AM
oh yes! flower, soft what a clever idea, your card looks so pretty, good luck on the challenge
warm wishes from california
Bibiana (DT lavinia)
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Holly AKA KopyKatDecember 14, 2014 at 2:37 AM
OMGosh this is so stunning, I love it.
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UnknownDecember 17, 2014 at 4:42 AM
Great card - love the colours. Many thanks for joining the Lavinia Stamps challenge and good luck!!! Melissa (DT)
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carolineDecember 25, 2014 at 10:59 AM
Great card, love the image,thank you for joining us at soc .good luck
Caroline dt
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BarbaraDecember 27, 2014 at 1:11 PM
What a pretty card....love that you've coloured the fairy shops so brightly. Thanks for joining in with the December challenge at Lavinia Stamps.
Barbara xx
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זהבית שקדDecember 28, 2014 at 4:48 AM
Beautiful Card!!
Thanks for joining us at Scrappy Hands
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