I made this Christmas Fairy pop-up card – All I want for Xmas is a Fairy, for a group swap. Mingles are great fun and I managed to enter this one for a Lavinia Stamps competition at the same time. By the way, I am not affiliated with any of the links I have provided except for the eBay ones and Google ads which help to keep this website going. I just love these products.
Pop-up tree using Lavinia Stamps Christmas Eve
For the mingle we were expected to make a 4″ x 6″ card and use the following steps.
- A stamped image
- Piece of a brown paper bag
- Silver
- Bling
- Stencil
- Texture
My first thought was a fairy house with a fairy inside. Lavinia Stamps was perfect for this. I used a digital stamp for the house and the tree. Much as I love traditional stamps, I find sometimes digital stamps are best as they can be resized to whatever you want. They are also excellent for colouring.
So, my first step was to colour in the house. I wanted to get that cold, wintery feel so I chose a palette of a couple of shades of cool blues, grey and a pale pink. I used Inktense pencils as I find you get the control of pencils but the illusion of ink. So far I haven’t had a problem with these.
I also add silver glitter pen highlights. These were just cheap ones I bought from WH Smiths and they are excellent. I was really surprised as I thought they would be awful. They are really glittery. After I coloured it and cut it out, I highlighted the edges with silver Glitter Kiss.
I then started to work on the background. I used Distress Ink and Distress Oxide and a sponge tool to blend them. The colours I used was Spun Sugar for the Distress Ink and Broken China and Faded Jeans for the Distress Oxides. I then sprinkled it with some BrushoSprinkleIt pearl then used a water spray and heat gun to dry it. The effect is a slight sparkle.
Once this was done I used a normal circular stencil and gesso for the moon, and clear texture paste with glitter and a star stencil. That gave me 3 (4 if you count the texture paste) out of 6 of the mingle requirements.
I then decided to use brown paper for the hill. I stamped this with a Lavinia Stamps polymer border stamp and then applied WOW silver embossing powder. It is amazing once heated and becomes really glittery. I then cut round the top of the stamped image and a bit extra below and placed it just over half way up. I used craft foam for the snow giving it the fifth step of texture. The final touches were to place the house over the top and make a snow flake with the words “All I want for Xmas is a Fairy”. This I did in Photoshop and then cut it out and Glitter Kissed the edges.
The last step was the bling. I used Bling on a Roll. Voila, all the steps completed. I then made the card the same way as I did for the Sugar Plum Fairy except I cut the card to 12″ x 4″ (6″ once folded). I also used the Digi Stamp by Lavinia Stamps, Christmas Eve. The background papers are by Santoro. For instructions on how to make a pop-up please see my other post, The Sugar Plum Fairy.
