Magical Woodland

Hello lovely peeps

It's challenge reminder time at Crafty Calendar and this time I've done a card with a lovely image from All Dressed Up called Magical Woodland.

First I printed the image off onto stamping card and then 'coloured' it in with Pebeo drawing gum
 

I then painted over the top with a wet paintbrush and 'twisted citron' distress ink. Rub the gum off to reveal the white image ready to colour in.

Top tip: make sure you do this step first before you spend an hour colouring your image in. The first time round I coloured the image before doing the background and then had to chuck it because she ended up with a green splodge on her face where I hadn't covered it with gum properly. Oops.

I coloured the image in with a selection of alcohol markers (Promarkers, Graph'Its and Marvy).

Hair: 1210, 1230, 1270
Skin: dusky pink, sunkissed
Dress: V750, rose pink, 5255
Toadstools: 5255, 5270, almond, putty,tawny owl
Ground: apple cider

The next step was to make the background. I ran some white card through my ebosser with an A4 script folder and then on the debossed side I sponged/dragged over some paint. It just so happens that the leftover 'Malt Chocolate' tester paint from when I decorated my craft room was a pretty good match to the underside of the toadstool :D

For the layer underneath the main image (i.e. the frame) I'd coloured around the edges of some white card with rose pink promarker. This looked a bit bright so I turned the card over with the intention of putting another colour on - but the bleedthrough pink from the other side looked so pretty I decided just to use that.

To add a bit of texture I arranged some die-cuts around the edges - the white one is Catalina Wreath from Memory Box and the green ones were cut with one of the 'Florist Friends' dies by Sheena Douglass.
I sanded down the foliage for a shabby chic look

As a finishing touch I added some crystal glamour dust to the fairy's wings.

The wording is a stamp from a Dylusions set 'Clearly the Right Words', stamped with black memento ink and cut up. They already have the boxes around them.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Fab 'n' Funky #300 Girly and Pretty
Our Crafty Corner #8 Anything Goes
All Dressed Up #53 Anything Goes
Passion For Promarkers Challenge #341 Bingo - embossing, image, die-cuts
 The Ribbon Girls Card challenge
  Cardz 4 Galz #20 Use An Embossing Folder
Kitty Bee Designs #69 - Living Things with Wings
Creative Craft Cottages Challenges #61 Add some sparkle 
Brown Sugar #194 Anything Goes
 Julia Spiri Challenge #16 Anything Goes w/option of make a bag with digi
 Simply Papercraft  #27 Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination  #81 Always Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x