Little Sugarwings

More Sugarwings- Little Leandra has such a sweet little fairy face, no wonder I can’t stop making spritely pictures of her.  I am keeping an artist journal/photo album of my fairy grandbaby and today I made these 2 collages of her.

I used a blue paper background with a border of vines cut out of the newspaper this weekend. With colored markers, I tinted the border and then added floral stickers, rhinestones and glitter.

Lee Lee’s cut out photo was tucked into  the edge of the vine border and I added butterfly wings from a vintage booklet that has been a wonderful fairy wing source for me.  The wings got a bit of tinting from the markers I used on the background, then were sparkled up.  I added a few more flowers from a page of vintage die cuts and then drew antennas and added some flower stickers to make a wreath on her head.  Of course, those flowers got a hint of glitter too.

And when is one of anything enough?  A photo of her in a more mellow mood got a pastel rose background, wings cut out of handmade paper and thoroughly glittered.  A store bought sticker border was enhanced with more and more glitter, then a swag of pink netting across the top and a sequin row across the bottom.  Her shining crown is cut out of the sticker paper I used for the border, then treated to gold, glitter, sequins, and rhinestones.  "Sugar Wings" (her nickname) is written in gold paint pen and outlined in black sharpie. 

Both of these pages in my album are a mix of vintage, sparkles, and hobby store bits and pieces.  As nice as it would be to make everything from pure vintage goods, there is so much great stuff out there and available to use, I just have to indulge and fill my cart when Michaels or Hobby Lobby has 1/2 price scrap booking sales!

In a completely different vein, here is what I did yesterday.  My sister-in-law invited me over to her home to play decorator.  She had repainted her living room/dining room and had every knick knack and picture piled up in the middle of the room. Our game for the afternoon was to rearrange them all and come up with fun ideas for display.  Here is one, it is an old, glassless, window frame.  We hung it behind the sofa, tacked up a doily in it,  and hung two prints she had found on clearance for $2 each.