creating a fairy garden

Hello everyone!! i am back today to announce the Team Artist Trading Block Blog Hop with 100 Proof Press Design team. 

cleaning fairy dancing
cleaning fairy feather duster
cleaning fairy mending
mushroom clump
cleaning fairy scrubbing
fairies pointing on flowers

and now i will show you just what i created!!

i started off stamping my imagine  on my matboard which i had placed onto the Stampers Secret Weapon by Sizzix. it allows one to get a cleaner stamped imagine which is what i needed when using my embossing ink and powder by Ranger

once all four sides of my block were stamped and embossed it was time to decide what i wanted to do with them next. the images spoke to me about night skies and fireflies so using my distress ink pads and blending tools i proceeded to try to create that background

now it was time for the ‘fireflies’ portion so i flicked some water and dabbed it with a paper towel. perfect!!

and then i become lost.. what ever was i going to do next. i loved how this block was turning out but it just wasn’t what i had in mind as completed…. so on i went, sadly with out too many pictures.

i stared out by stamping the mushroom clump onto some leftover pieces of mat board. i then coloured them in using the blending tool and proceeded to cut them apart. i wanted to add dimension and this was the perfect solution for that…

now it was time to get serious….and what did i do.. well the logical thing.. i cut out another set of blocks using black mat board which i flicked some silver paint on to to create the starry sky.

i then took my fairies and mounted them on the outside of my black ATB. i also cut out a set of blocks from clear acetates

i then took some industrious stickers and created a border around the top of them to create a shallow box

are you wondering why a box!!! well i of course needed a container to hold some moss and my mushroom

okay so now i was getting somewhere.. it was all coming together..

i just needed to complete the scene. so off i went to my drawers in search of the perfect collection of items to put in my fairy garden….

but alas nothing i had was perfect…. so what did i do, well i whipped out some spray and made the items the colours i wanted

here are a couple of close ups…

and here you have it… my newest ATB featuring 100 Proof Press stamps

Come on over to the 100 Proof Press blog and check out other projects from their design team and team ATB