Hey guys I'm up on the Blogger as a Design Team member with KCS Designs by Kim. You can find all of her amazing designs over on Etsy. Her downloads are so easy to print and fussy cut and add as a focal point to any art journal, card, tag or whatever you are making. Here is a direct link to her shop and one to the fairies.
Today I'm using one of her Fairies from her Ethereal Fairy collection and isn't she beautiful! These colors just called out to me, they are so soft and gorgeous I just had to use something from this collection.
I started off with a page out of my art journal. This paper is super thick at 140lb and can take any medium I've thrown at it. I got it off of Amazon, here is a link (no affiliation) but it's awesome to work with!
I pulled some CTMH inks in Journey and Shortbread and softly inked up the background. I didn't want to do a heavy cover for this because the image is so soft.
After inking the background I printed the image and cut it twice with my Joy2 Cricut...oh that thing cuts so precise! I then cut the wings off the second image so I could give the image a bit of dimension with some foam tape on the second pair of wings.
I decided that I wanted to use some fine gold embossing powder on parts of her wing and while I was at it I wanted to cover the holes with a circle of gold embossing powder just to pull that gold over and balance the page. I set the image aside so I could finish up the background.
I went into my stencils and grabbed my Tim Holtz HOCUS POCUS stencil, that is my favorite star stencil I have and works beautifully! I used some CTMH ink in ALMOND to stencil the background. I then reached for my DECOART word stencil and used the words INSPIRE and DREAM and stenciled them with glitter paste in TOPAZ from DIAMOND PRESS.
I let that dry and then reached into my 49 and Market rub ons from the SUMMER PORCH ESSENTIALS, I loved that saying from and the colors were spot on. I used a couple of more rub ons from that collection and then pulled some bits and pieces from the MOONLIT GARDEN cluster kit. I love when 2 collections work so well together!
I placed her at the top right corner and adhered her down and added those second pair of wings for that added dimension. I added all the bits and pieces from the MOONLIT GARDEN kit making sure to balance the page and then added some word strips from a very old sticker book called SIMPLE VINTAGE COTTAGE FIELDS from Simple Stories.
I am not mad at it, I absolutely love the colors Kim chose to use for her and the other fairies...so soft and gorgeous!
I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and do some art journaling or card making or what ever your crafty outlet is. Don't forget to head over to her shop and take a peak at all the amazing images she has created!
Stay crafty!
Kimberly
