Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Magic Mushrooms

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! This week, it's Time to Sparkle. Use glitter, bling, or any other way you can think of to add a little sparkle to your crafty item. Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear Stamps, who offer a variety of stamps and papers by great designers. I'm using an image called Mushroom Town by Alipeeps Art for my card today:


In my ideal world, all magical mushrooms would have red caps with sparkling polka-dots. The caps are paper-pieced, and the stems shaded with watercolour pencils. For the dots, I first coloured them in with a white gel pen, then painted them with iridescent paint for the shine. The windows have black gel pen with silver mullions (why yes, I did look that up) as well as sparkle. And I'll admit, I did come up with the sentiment all on my own. ;) A half pearl in the sentiment and tiny ones for the doorknobs add a different bit of bling. 
Whether you add a bit of sparkle, as I did, or decide to go all out, come and join us! 


Supplies: white & red cardstock, Alipeeps Art Mushroom Town image, watercolour pencils, black, silver & white gel pens, Winsor & Newton iridescent medium, Recollections black half pearls

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10 comments:

Jessi Fogan said...

OK, I love that sentiment. That is awesome :) And kudos to you for teaching me a new word! Now to remember it, lol.

Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Editor said...

Haha! This is so ca-ute! :)

Anonymous said...

That is exactly how mushrooms should look! I love all the cute little details you have included while still keeping it clean and white.
Heather

Chris Dring said...

This is too stinkin' cute! Love it!

downrightcrafty said...

on reading the title of the post I was not quite expecting this beautiful image such a pretty and well co ordinated card
Hugs Kate xx

Jen W. said...

What a wonderful world that would be! Love all the different elements of sparkle you added and the subtle shading around the mushrooms. :D

Lisa Arana said...

so super cute and I agree with your perfect mushrooms.

Barb King said...

Cute mushrooms, I love the red caps! Fun card.

Unknown said...

awesome! love your coloring...sweet scene :)

Emily Leiphart said...

LOL, hilarious sentiment and great colouring! Wonderful card, especially with all the red! ;)