Makin me Smile...

OK, so this card is loud...not my norm.  For this card I decided to go outside of my normal color range.  I'm a HUGE fan of pastels...Spring Colors are my pick..usually, but I absolutely love how it turned out. 

The super adorably cute image is the Futterby Fairy from Meljen's Designs, love her.

I colored this little sweetie pie using my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Marker...I'm still trying to get the hang of them.

Challenge Entries:

Meljens Design - Color Challenge

Spectrum Noir - Bling

Love Ruberstamps Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges - 3's a Charm

Spectrum color combos used:

Butterfly:

Wings BT2, 3, 4/OR1, 3/CT1,2,3

Body/Face LG1,2,3

Antennae TN2

Cheeks PP1, 2

Fairy Sweets:

Hair TN3, 5, 7

Dress CR5, 11, DR5 oh and the heart

Belt CR7, 11

Skin FS2, 3, 9

Cheeks FS6

Shoes CR3, DR5

Swirls HB1

Shadow Trace BT1

 The three large flowers are from I Am Roses, bulk package in white that I've colors with alcohol ink (it was my experiment for the day) and the lavender was colored with a homemade mist.  The smaller red flower was also colored with homemade mist and is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

These three little resin roses are from a China haul on ebay. 

Spring Joy

I have my first Easter card...yes it's another shadow box card...what can i say, i love them.
This is also my first challenge entry.  For now I'm only doing The Paper Shelter "Animal Magic" challenge. 

The image used is from TPS.  I used my spectrum noir and some brads, old brads, from Oriental Trading.
This SBC (shadow box card) has a side hidden pocket verses my previous version of the top loading pocket.  Whit this one the tag is attached and swivels out...love it. 

How to make a paper shadow box

Watch "How to make a Shadow Box" on YouTube

In this video I go over how I made the shadow box invitation for my kids.  I had been looking for a tutorial specifically on how to make a shadow box and I was not having any luck.  I did find one that required the use of lots of paper folded accordion style, although it was a good idea it was not going to work for me because I needed to make 60, yes 60 shadow boxes.  As you can see in one of the pictures below my invitations are side by side shadow boxes that open up like a stand up picture frame. 

Now, I was having problems recording the video and had to record 6 times.  So, because it always happens this way (murphy's law) I think I didn't go over some things about the shadow box…like how I used a 3x5 inch hinge to connect my two shadowboxes and how I had to figure out where to score on the hinge so that I had a clean wrap around fold and a center fold to give the shadow boxes a way to open up smoothly…yeah, it was a long two days let me tell ya.

I also didn't go over (but added a blurb) about how if you're not going to make the pocket shadow box you can just glue down your sides, long sides first, and then go on from there.  That should be pretty self-explanatory though. 

OR how I didn't go over painting your rectangular tubes before gluing them on the pocket only if they are chipboard…remember you can't paint regular cardstock without it warping and you don't want that to happen.

Although I may have left out a few bits you can still follow what I'm trying to do…I hope.

If you have any questions let me know. 

HAPPY CRAFTING!!!