Butterflies Flutter By - Sweet Stamping Pixies First Challenge

Hello!

Woo-hoo, I am so excited. This is our first challenge at the Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge.  It is a monthly challenge--the 2nd Monday of each  month--dedicated to stamped and digi images of pixies, sprites and fairies.  Please hop over to the Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge site HERE to get the details.  Have a look also at the prize that Simon Says Stamps is offering as the sponsor of this challenge.     

The theme for our first challenge is: Spring.  This is the card that I came up with. 

I have other fairy stamps, but since Magnolia stamps are my faves, I've decided to use one of them for my very first Sweet Stamping Pixie card.  This adorable fairy is called Beautiful Tilda from the Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011.  My favorite colouring medium is the alcohol-ink markers, but every now and then I like to use my coloured pencils and I've used them to colour this image--except for the dotted background which I've done with markers.  I've added glitter to the wings.   

This is actually a front panel side step card.  I've only made them with square cards before, but I sure like the way this round-shaped one turned out.  A couple of views here from different angles.  

I would like to join the following challenges with this card:

Hooked on Craft - More than 1 fold

Crafts and Me Challenge #74 - Things with wings

Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #193 - Spring Time

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #58 - Fairies

Allsorts Week 145 - Say it with flowers

Stampalot Challenge - In the garden

That's it for me for now.  I hope you will join our challenge.  You've got lots of time--a month!!!  And for more inspirations, have a look at the fabulous cards that my ever-so-talented teamates have created, HERE. Or to go to their individual blogs, I've got their links on my sidebar.

Have a wonderful week! 

Materials and Tools Used:

DP's:  Echo Park Paper Victoria Gardens Garden Gate and Garden Trellis; Recollections Batiked My Interest Surf

Dies:  Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circles, Labels Twenty-Two, Classic Ovals and Classic Scalloped Ovals; Magnolia Doohickey Swirl; Crealies Creative Flowers CL CF 02 for the large flowers; Marianne Design Creatables Leaves; Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly Small

Punches:  McGill Flowers Petite Petals; for the flower centres I used Carl Craft flower, Fiskars Celestial corner punch and Michaels tiny sun; Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly Small

Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Vintage Photo; pearls and glitter from my stash