La Fée Verte - but mine is blue!!!!

A day for total self indulgence :)  I love Aurora Wings digs, bought a bunch a couple of years ago when I first started using digi images to make cards, as just could not resist :)  Think we have all been there - got to have hahahaha

As this is such a detailed image I really want a card which is all about the image so clean shapes, a little lace and a few flowers.  Not that this was a quick card to make, at least 5 hours just colouring :)

OK, so I started by colouring the digi in just blues for the Aurora Wings Monochromatic challenge.  Promarkers were used for the fairy, her wings and her dress section including how the folds become a spray of flowers.  For the rest of the image I used anything I could find in my stash that was a similar colour; Derwant and Lakeland pencils, metallic pen and my old and not many left working gel pens, with the win of trying to achieve contrast but not introduce to many hues.

 These the the mixed media items I used.

To finish off I used Ice Stickles on the wings and many of the bubble/droplets in the digi.  

Once coloured and embellished, a simple navy mount to match the card base and white peel off line stickers for a border.

I do love flowers on cards so following the  rose theme of the image I air brushed 3 roses, added in a couple of  carnation looking flowers and lilies with pearls.  Finally a couple of skeleton leaves.  I did away with the roses as when I put them on the card they were just to yellow/cream and instead added more lillies.

 For a bit more dimension I used navy wire and made these tendrils.

 To complete the inside of the card I used a Sizzix border emboss and cut die.  I then used Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Grand Labels 1 for the basic shape.  To finish off a bit of lace, Liquid Pearls and Ice Stickles to match the front of the card.

View showing inside of card.

 Front view.

Ingredients

• Digi - La Fée Verte by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff
• Promarkes, Derwent and Lakeland pencils
• Dies - Sizzix border die and Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Grand Labels 1
• Ice Stickles and Liquid Pearls
• Flowers, gems, skeleton leaves and lace from my stash

I am entering this creation into the following challenges:-

• AuroraWings Challenge - M, 3rd Monday of the month, E3 - (April / deadline May 17) Monochromatic
• 613 Avenue Create - W - #70 Anything + Option : Bling
• Dragonfly Dreams - M – May – How Does Your Garden Grow (MINE GROWS WITH FAIRIES AND LOTS OF FLOWERS :) )
• Quirky Crafts - 2W - #9 Something Beginning With S (week 2) STICKLES
• 4 Crafty Chicks - W  #193 Flowers
• Delightful Challenges - W, 1E, SIO - Petal Power
• Love to Create - W, 3E - Flowers
• Through the Purple Haze - W, E3, C10 - Anything but a Square
• Craft Room Challenge 2W, 3E - Roses & Romance (Week 2)
• Hambo Hoedown -  M, 1st Wednesday, SIO - Flowers