Shamrock Fairy

February 26, 2009

Shamrock Fairy

Have you seen the new stamp company Paper Makeup Stamps? I first heard about them on Splitcoast and of course HAD to click the link. Go on, I know you want to click it. These fairy stamps are awesomely cute. I ordered a few to give them a try. They are red rubber stamps with nice deep etching and give a wonderful clear stamped image. I liked the first one so much, I've already pre-ordered the new fairy's coming out next week!

My little fairy is stamped with palette noir ink and colored with a combination of prismacolor and copic markers. Because I never know what color to do hair, her hair is colored with a pc pencil and blended with baby oil (I'll show some pics of this later in the week so stay tuned Barbara). I also used a Sakura gelly roll metallic pen for parts of her outfit and her wings. Her hair and the shamrock have just a tiny bit of spica pen on them for extra sparkle.

The sentiment is from River City Rubber Works. The layout here revolves solely around my nesties, which include the label dies with the sentiment.

A note about card size.....95% of the time I make A2 cards (5.5 x 4.25). On this one, I wanted the entire focus to be on my fairy so I cut this down just a wee bit. The final size is 5.5 x 3.5 inches.

And a little PSA: Along with other yearly checks, don't forget the skin doctor. A skin check is quick and easy but oh, so important. Can you tell that today was my yearly check? And thankfully, I'm clear for another year. I think about my teenage years and all that tanning and I shudder to think about it! That's the end of my lecture - have a great day!

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Comments

Hi - It's one of your ocean eleven SCS Sistahs! You're not going to believe this, but Katie Cotton, the designer of this stamp is on the design team at my sister's scrap store in South Carolina!!!! She even gave me a personal copic lesson while I was visiting - I love her fairy stamps, don't you? Great job on this one!

Posted by: Kim Murphhy | February 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM

Well this is just adorable! You have colored this little sweetie beautifully and now I will go check out this site too! Thanks for all the deets on the card!

Posted by: Grace | February 27, 2009 at 08:40 PM

Super cute card! I need to add those nestabilities to my stash! I like the way they look on your card. So far, I have resisted clicking on that link, but just might have to check 'em out!

Posted by: Dee | February 27, 2009 at 02:52 PM