Fairy cards

The week before Christmas, I squeezed in a smidgeon of time to make a few cards to send out. Not many as I would have liked to create, but enough to bring  me a smile from getting my fingers gluey and glittery and to send to my sisses and my husband's moms.

For the great grandmas in my grand fairies' lives, I printed this happy picture from the punkin patch onto matt presentation paper.  The hands had been cropped out, but I figured I could make it work.  I cut out the girls, leaving space to add mittens for Dewdrop and one for Sugarwings, but she was missing a lower arm too.  So, I layered the pictures on the card to position her missing arm under her sis, making it look like a hug.

They do a lot of hugging, so that was a fitting fix.

To remove the Happy Halloween feel and add some Merry Christmas cheer, wings, scarves, and hats were added, then the fairies were glittered up and colored with markers and gel pens.  On this card, I added lace, and glued them onto a sky blue piece of card stock.  At the bottom I smeared on some of that crafty snow paint that comes in a jar.  Then drew snowflakes with a white gel pen.

This card for Bobbie was done in a similar way. We were wearing mermaid shirts in the photo and Sissy was holding a little mermaid figurine.  Which were cute as a beach photo, but not what I wanted for a Christmas card. So I used markers to draw poinsettias on the shirts, and drew, cut out, and glued a candy cane into Sissy's hand.

The same photo from our Sister Trip to Siesta Key was used for Sissy's card too, but done in her favorite color of sea blue.  I covered up the mermaids with a silk rosebud, glitter, a rhinestone and a mini tree.

ps-For some reason, my [printer is not feeling well.  All of the photos I used weren't as clear as I'd like them to be.  I've gone through the fixes on the toolbar of the printer, but I still get lines and less detail than there should be with high quality paper.  Hmm, I'm not sure what is going on, but I used the photos anyway.  The quality bothers me, but I hope that the joy I felt while creating still comes through to the people I sent these to.