New Cards!!!

 I'm working on some new cards for spring. I'm hoping I will be able to participate in an art fair or festival of some sort, and to do so I need a good supply of cards to sell. So far this is what I have. These are all hand drawn with black ink (and a little blue) and colored with colored pencils.

 The envelopes match the cards.

glitter glitter everywhere!

I love glitter and I love Martha Stewart. So you can imagine my joy when I read about the "Be Inspired" Martha Stewart glitter contest. The trouble was what to do? I looked around at things I've already done with glitter. One of my favorite things is to paint glass and sprinkle glitter into the paint when it's wet, then when it dries it makes a pretty window decor. Then there are my paintings. I went through a phase where I put glitter in every painting I did. The thing is I had just come out of a five month coma at the time and those paintings were my attempts at getting my old self back. That took some time and a lot of trail and error. No, I needed a new idea. So, my husband so lovingly took me to the craft store and we walked around looking for ideas and inspiration. There are so many things to paint...then I saw it. You know those books that aren't really books, but secret hiding places. I love these books. There is a mystery about them. Well, they make them blank so that crafters can decorate them. What a wonderful thing! So I decorated mine to be like a faerie tale book. here are the pictures...

selling on etsy?

I'm thinking about trying to sell stuff on etsy. starting with some cards that I've made. My scanner isn't working so I'm trying to take pictures of the cards and I'm not sure I like how they turned out. Here some are...

I think I would be happy with them if I could just get one good scan. The green fairy above is the best I could get with my camera...A scan would be so much better. I'll have to spend some time working with my scanner. doh.

faeries

It was almost exactly one year ago when I had my bridal fairy tea party. It's weird because I just started drawing fairy cards again. Then I remembered that it was this time last year when I had sent all my friends handmade invitations to my bridal shower a.k.a. the bridal fairy tea party. Here are some examples...

and here are some photos from the party...

I had a gift table for my guest with presents, bubbles, pixie stixs and rasberry tea. See that basket of flowers, each flower is fixed on top of a small tube of bubbles. Some just have pink ribbons on them. I painted the boxes then decopauged pictures of roses and flowers on top. I filled the inside with pink feathers and a handmade necklace. The necklaces had little bottles of glitter matching what fairy quality each guessed had. We also had a table of fairy food.

My sister made the cupcakes.

here are some random party pics...

my sister's wings

tree decor

and me and my favorite troll.