So one of my favorite blogs is a year old now. Hard to believe Gail has been challenging us every month for a full year already. I don’t remember doing 12 of these, but it must be so! Congrats, Gail, on a fabulous blog, and thank you for challenging us to push our artistic limits.
I say this every month (practically), but this image is the best yet. I love fairies, love the color scheme and love the word prompt, which is “contentment.”
When pondering what to make, I had the idea that the fairy would look cute on a “real” flower, since she is sitting on a dandelion in the picture. So I made a little bouquet, decorated the leaves with the background from the image and added sparkly fibers and little gems and a crown to the fairy. You can’t see it in the photo, but the fairy’s wings and the leaves are enhanced with an awesome gel pen called “clear star,” which adds a colorless, glittery sparkle. (I love this pen more than ice cream!)
I was originally going to “plant” the bouquet in a small glass jar that had held paper flowers, but I couldn’t think of a way to get it to stand upright. Then it occurred to me that the wrapped stems would fit perfectly in the hole of a thread spool. I chose a vintage spool of pale yellow (how do I know it’s vintage? It has an 18-cent price tag on it!) and then glued a few white maribou feathers around the stem as an homage to the original dandelion “pouf.”
Does she look content to you?
