My inspiration piece for guest designer for July

Hello everyone! Hope you are enjoying your summer so far. This past month I had the opportunity to be a guest designer for Faery Ink. It was a wonderful experience as you can see from the posts prior to this. I do hope in the future I could become a permanent member of this super talented group of designers and the chance to work with the artist behind Faery Ink, Amanda Bryon.

The new release for July that I designed an inspiration for is named "Lahla Lady Drake". I was going for a Game of Thrones look in the way of colors and feel to the card. I hope you get that sense when you see the card. I am going to show you the card before I go into detail of it.

 

  

The size of the card is a 6x6 with ivory card stock as the base. Maroon and black card stock are layered on the card from with the maroon sheets distressed and left ragged. I then dry embossed two pieces of an eggshell white card stock with a brick embossing plate from Darice. I added color to the brick with Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Pumice Stone and Weathered Wood. And believe it or not the rest of the stone coloring was then achieved using a cheap eye shadow pallet set, I just used a paint brush and rubbed it into the paper. I like the end result for the coloring of the bricks. What do you think? I then made 2x2 squares with the brick sheets, rounded two corners of each. They were then mounted on slightly larger gray squares which also had two rounded corners. The squares are then mounted with foam pieces to the card front with a pointed corner of each one facing in.


Lahla Lady Drake is colored with colored pencils and blended using baby oil. The picture does not do the coloring in her cape or skirt justice. I will take close ups of them and add it below. She is sissy cut out and attached to the card using foam squares.  Before adding her to the card I added a black sheer ribbon to the card front around the middle of it. I also attached a double looped bow with rhinestones to complete the card front.

Faery Ink Guest DT Application

Ok here it is, my application to join Faery Ink's design Team for a month as a guest designer.

Before I show off the card that I am entering I am going to answer a few questions that Amanda would like to ask. Trust me you might the answer to some of these also. I know I get to share some of my favorite things about Faery Ink. 

1. How did you find Faery Ink? I believe I found them when someone posted a card they did on Kit and Clowder's Facebook page using a Faery Ink image.
2. What are your top 3 favorite Faery Ink images? Why? please include the URL to the images in the Faery Ink shop My top three images, this question is a hard one. There are so many that I love and a few I have not purchased yet. Here is my top three. Amber Exotic Fowl, I love the color possibilities that can happen with this image. I will show you what I made with this beauty.
   
   One of the new images that I plan on working on is Coco Marshmallow Fae, Fae, the image just says wintertime fun. And for my third image I am selecting Destiny Pumpkin Fae, the reason for her is because when I colored her up I was so excited. I can see progress in my coloring and I see growth.Here is the card I did with her.
   
   
   
    
3. How many projects have you made from Faery Ink images? I have colored six images so far, I do have more in my collection that I have to still work with.
4. What kind of projects do you like to make from Faery Ink images? (cards, art journals, boxes, candles, art for your personal use etc…) I have been working on cards but do want to work on doing art journals and boxes to try something new.
5. How many design teams are you currently on? I am not on any design teams right now.
6. How many projects do you need to complete each month in order to satisfy your obligations to your other design teams?  I have no obligations because I am not currently on a design team.
7. Would you be open to a long term spot on the team? Oh my yes I would. With my first card I did using a Faery Ink image I told my husband that I would love to be part of a design team with Faery Ink. With each card I got more and more excited and would really like the opportunity to continue creating some great pieces with and awesome artist.
8. Is there any month between December 2015 and November 2016 that you will be unavailable to be a guest designer? No
9. Are you familiar with the WordPress blogging platform? No but I am willing to learn how to use it. I have been using Blogger curently.
10. How often do you post on Facebook? Quite often, I am either on Instagram or Facebook when I am not at work. 
11. Do you participate in groups on Facebook? Yes I have joined quite a few card, digi stamp companies and adult coloring groups on Facebook.
12. What other social media platforms are you active on? (Please provide links to your profile at each) I am on a few social media platforms Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, Facebook and my card page on Facebook 
13. Is there anything you would like to add? I would be so honored to be a part of this team and to be able to work with Amanda and the other members of the design team would be so much fun. The images of Faery Ink are so much fun to use to create pieces that would make a smile on the recipients face.
    
    
    So now that I have finished the question part of the application it is time to show you my new project that I have created. The image I chose to use for this project is Bella the Candy Fairy and I created a card which I plan to send to my mom for Christmas. I am even going to share a behind the scene pictures for this picture. I colored her twice, the first time I was not wowed with how my colors turned out so I did it again. The new one was a wow!
    

    

    
    Here is the first color job colors are not where I wanted them to be.
    
    
    
    

    

    Now this one, yep this image the colors are popping!
    
    
    I use colored pencils as I only got my first set of Copic markers back in September and have not enough to do a whole image with them. I want to take the Kit and Clowder classes in this coming year.
    
    
    Now that I showed you the close-up of the image now it's time to give you the finished project. I hope you like and and I welcome any input that you would like to give.
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    

    
    Here is the card front, the card is a 6x6 in size. I have used Micheal's designer paper that candy canes and peppermints on it because I thought they tied nicely together. The ribbon is also from Micheal's and you should have seen me when I saw it in my stash of goodies. The ribbon matches her hair so perfectly. The little noel button is also from Micheal's. So now for a few more pictures.

    

    
    I am trying to show that the Fae is raised from the card and how the ribbon matches the hair.
    
    

    

    
    Just another shot of the coloring and the design paper that I used.
    
    
    
     Here are a few shots of the inside of the card.
    
    
    
    Oh and I have to show you an old project that I did so I will show you the first card I did using a Faery Ink image. She was a monthly freebie at the time, her name is Gabbie Flutterfae.
    

    

    I enjoyed coloring this image and am very pleased with the over all card. I did somethings new to me and played with accessories to make the image be the focal part of the card. 
    
    Now I am ready to submit this post and cross my fingers to see if I get to be a guest designer for a month. But until then I will continue to do more projects and get more Christmas cards done to send out this year.