Fancy Pants Fall Fairy!!

I FINALLY got to play with my new MAGNOLIA stamps!! Wooooohoooooo!!! Phebe at the Town Scrapper is the only store that carries this line of Swedish stamps, that I know of and I was totally thrilled to be one of the first to play with them!! Heeeee! I love new rubbah!!!

These stamps are so unique and have such an adorable style!! They all have Swedish names though, so it's hard to tell you what they are called in English!! I call this one Fall Fairy....does that sound good???

I started out by.....(I'm sure you can fill this in yourself, by now!)....stamping him on Shimmery White paper in Archival Versafine Black Onyx ink. Then I chose my fall coloured papers which are from the True line of papers by Fancy Pants. I coloured him in using my Prismacolor pencils and odourless mineral spirits. I'm not fabulous at this technique yet, but I'm gettin' there. I doodled a swirling frame around the image to mimic the falling leaves swirls and I added some sparkle around the fairy and his wings and the heart on his head with my Sakura Stardust gel pen. He is matted on Cranberry Crisp and Pumpkin Pie.

I used yesterday's sketch challenge on SCS for the layout which worked perfectly. The card is a Pumpkin Pie square with the dp on top and I wrapped two rows of stitched grosgrain ribbon around the middle. The sentiment is stamped using Paper Tray on Creamy Caramel and punched out with the Round Tab Punch. I added some Magenta fall flowers with a glittery brad and pop dotted the whole thing!!! Hope ya like it!!

Now if you like these stamps too and can't find them anywhere, Phebe takes phone and email orders!! Yippee!! She doesn't have an online store yet, but she would be only too happy to help you get these stamps in your hot little hands......if they aren't all gone yet!! So email me if you would like more information!!!

Pink Cat Card Contest!!! All I have to say is WOW!!! I cannot believe the number of entries I received, most of them in the last couple of days, right up until midnight last night!!! I haven't counted them all up yet but there are a LOT!!! I will be choosing the winners tonight with the second opinion of my stampin' helper and will be posting the results tomorrow. Let me tell you....this is NOT going to be easy!!!