Don't Doubt the Strength of my Beautiful Wings by Dorthe Hansen

A new Monday and a new blog post from me, here at That's Blogging Crafty. I hope you all had a safe and good weekend. Writing this, it is raining and surely looks a lot like autumn already. 

So what better than a little fairy tale from the warmer countries J

The wonderful white/greyboard panel with rounded corners, is once more what I started with for my creation. It was painted with gesso and when dry, I sprayed with water, added Infusions to it - some just painted onto the panel and in some places, sprinkled on to create more colour splashes, then left to dry again.

In between I also coated the gorgeous Toadstools with gesso, the  butterflies and wings, for the fairy. The butterflies were run through my Big Shot inside an embossing folder, to give the butterflies more texture.

After I painted them with a little Gold paint, (I love that paint ) used the Iced Spruce on top, a little Walnut Ink here and there and finally draw around all of them with a fine liner, in a red brown colour - to make the form stand out, it was smeared out while still wet. The same was done with the fairy wings !!

The panel, now dry, was stenciled with the Dinky stencil Moc Croc on both sides, I thought it could look like the log of a tree, growing far away from Europe, in the warm countries and butterflies on the left side. I let it dry over night and after I sprayed the top panel and right side of the Moc Croc stenciled pattern with Walnut Ink, while wet let it run over the page and then sprinkled the Infusion Olive Tree, here and there and left to dry. The left side panel, Moc Croc was hand painted also with Walnut Ink, not letting it get out of control and drip all over, as I wanted to keep the stenciled butterflies clean. 

Time to finish the Toadstools. First I mixed a bit of Yellow and Orange Shimmer paint, added Charcoal to it till I achieved a soft yellow brownish tone and painted it on. On top while still wet, I added Gold paint but only on the upper side of the hats (I could not get a good photo of the beautiful shimmer) and I could have tried drawing details by hand but I found the beautiful Eclectica Stamp Set ESC05 and used the two Toadstool stamps, to stamp over the greyboard ones. They don`t fit but with a little redrawing with a fine liner, after the stamping had dried, it looks fine, I think. Lastly the stenciled butterflies were also hand painted with the Gold Paint and the fine liner, run around them and adding details.

Time to adhere it all to panel. First I used a found piece of bark, on the bottom, then some of my very loved dyed laces - here I used the Walnut ink and also a piece of found grey moss was adhered. On top of the panel, the Toadstools, the fairy girl with her wings, the Butterflies and yet another piece of lace. I drew details on the rest of the butterflies and adhered one of Lynne's Affirmations stamped onto plain copy paper I found in my  stash, also given a light brush of Walnut Ink.

Materials used

That's Crafty! Surfaces White/Greyboard Panel with rounded corners

That's Crafty! Surfaces Bits & Pieces Greyboard Sheets - Toadstools, Small Butterflies, Small Wings

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil Moc Croc TCO44

That's Crafty! Metallic Paint Gold

That's Crafty! Shimmer Paint - Yellow, Orange, Charcoal

That's Crafty! Stamp Set - Lynne Affirmations Set 1

That's Crafty! Gesso

Infusions Olive Tree

Distress Oxide Iced Spruce

Tim Holz Idea-logy Ancestors Paper Dolls

PaperArtsy Stamp Set Eclectica ESC05

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Modelling Paste

Walnut Ink

Mini Mister

And from my own stash - bark, dried moss, dyed lace 

Dorthe