It's a Make-Over!

Originally this card had a different image and flowers I'd made from spirals of paper, but they stuck out too far to put the card in even a gusset envelope, and I didn't like the image.  I did like the papers and the pretty lace so with a little judicious knife work the original image and the flowers were removed.  I needed to find an image that was small enough to fit on the square mat that was left, and this little dandelion fairy by LOTV was perfect.  She's coloured with my Copics and to keep with the colour of the patterned paper I used RV91, 93 & 95 along with E70, 71, 74 & 77, and a touch of cream E50 & E51.  I added pale warm grey tones for shadow then inked the edges with Spring Pansy Versamagic chalk ink, and used the same ink to stamp the little Magnolia spray around the edge of the image.

And here she is in close up.  You can see that I've added lots of Stardust Stickles for sparkle, well she is a fairy after all!  To replace the flowers I've used Nellies's Choice retro flower punch and the mini butterfly punch along with little gems and my Waco cream pearl maker pen (but the blobs have gone flat - I'm not happy with my new pen).

Both the Crafty Catz Weekly challenge and Creative Inspirations challenge is an anything goes theme so I can enter my new fairy card with them.  And the Truly Scrumptious challenge is for distressing and die cuts/punches, so, as I've inked all my edges and used Nesties to cut my squares and various punches for my embellishments I'll enter with them too.