Peony from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, goodness me Glenda has released some gorgeous new stamp over at Chocolate Baroque, as well as some stunning Steampunk Birds, there are 4 beautiful clear flower stamps. for my first sample this month I've used the beautiful Peony Clear stamp for this card, peonies are one of my favourite flowers and I couldn't resist sitting this lovely little fairy from the September Fairies set on one of the flowers

I created the background with Picked Raspberry and a little Shabby Shutters distress inks, I popped some on my ink blending mat, misted with water and swooshed the card through it, once dry I stamped the peony here and there with more Picked Raspberry ink.

To create the focal image I stamped the fairy with black ink, (I only inked up the fairy, not the toadstools) and then masked her to stamp the flowers. I coloured the flowers with Graph'It markers and then used some Fantasy Film from my stash to stamp the wing and attached it with a little silicone glue. I used a shaving brush to dust ink around the image and matted it on white and then black card. To finish off I added some black lace, ribbon  and a little button from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
2 sisters: anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes
Craftitude: button up
Docerela Creations: anything goes

Emergency Crafters: anything but Christmas
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge: anything goes
Wags'n'Whiskers: things with wings

Christmas is really sneaking up on us isn't it, I took the dogs out last night and loads of people seem to have got their Christmas decs up already. I think I'll try and get ours up at the weekend although Barney is still full of puppy mischief so I expect it will be fun and frolics lol. Have a great day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx