Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Queen of Hearts and her Fairy Princess daughter

Crowns are the theme for Gingersnap Creations  challenge GC#91 , so here is  a large crown  card template that I designed. My first use for the template is a card called  "Queen of Hearts" . Got out my stamps and tried something different and stamped some wooden hearts ;  I do like the effect.  Then I added some German scrap, rhinestones and a metal lock and key to complete the crown. The metal  lock and key are colored to fulfill the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge CCC#33 over at L3 Studio. The technique is called  Altered Metal  Alchol Inks and  check out  page 56 of Tim Holtz's book to see how.
Using the crown template again, the second card is a woodland fairy princess with  a vintage image, a painted skeleton leaf , some tiny rhinestones and German scrap. I had fun using lots of different stamps, for the butterflies, the daisies and the ferns . The inspiration was some tiny daffodils just starting to pop up, outside our home. Oh this must  be the beginning of spring fever.
"Queen of Hearts"

"Fairy Princess"

13 comments:

  1. Awesome! I just found Studio L3 challenge and it is almost over, as well! Love your work!!

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  2. You're spot on with the crowns challenge. I'm still mulling mine over. Won't be this spectacular:-)

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  3. oh very nice lovely crowns

    love Dawn xx

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  4. Geri, these are wonderful pieces! I'm hoping there will be more challenges similar to these after the CCC is done.

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  5. Gerrie, these crowns are amazing! What a great idea, and your designs are spectacular! The altered metal pieces are perfect, and the hearts and flowers just sing "Springtime!" I love them both.

    You always have such great ideas for these challenges!

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  6. Ack! I added an extra "e" to your name. I'm sorry, Gerri! Sometimes my fingers get ahead of my brain.

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  7. Beautiful crowns wih a fantastic design.

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  8. cool crowns, I have one I need to enter too.

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  9. Such gorgeous shaped cards. Now I'm inspired to try making crowns too !

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  10. Good gracious, girl, these are gorgeous!!! Wow.

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