Tuesday, January 17, 2017

SOS: Fantastic Beasts!

This week at Shopping Our Stash, Alicia is hosting, and she has selected the theme of...

...Fantastic Beasts!
Use dragons, unicorns, monsters... you get the idea.

This is a great stash-buster because whether you are a fan of mythical creatures or just a craft-hoarder*, you will likely find something in your stash that has escaped capture-- er, uh, use.

Here is my Fantastic Beast creation:


Supplies:
  • *I assumed I'd be able to find fantastic beasts in my stash.  Uhhh... nope! Geez! I have a skeleton mermaid, but the power was out when I went to emboss her, so... nope.  Digging through my stash (frantically now), I found a pack of Colobok diecuts my mom sent me a few years ago... behold: a unicorn!  Thanks, Mom!  Castle also...
  • I made the background (earth and sky) with a combination of Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals and Ken Oliver's Color Bursts. 
  • The castle's windows and drawbridge door were negative spaces, so I filled them with a scrap of Tim Holtz kraft-core metallic paper in gold.
  • The scene was matted onto some of Tim's kraft-core metallic paper also, and cut with a seldom-used blade on my paper cutter. 
  • I drew the banner on watercolor paper with a Micron (new to my stash-- a family friend sent me a pack of Microns for Christmas), then sprayed it with a pink and a blue Tattered Angeled Glimmer Mist
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9 comments:

  1. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'd be interested to see this skeleton mermaid!!
    Your fantastic beasts creation is perfect! What could be better than a unicorn and a castle??

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  2. Loving the purple, blue and green together! Fabulous card!

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  3. LOL!! Mimi, I'm picturing you frantically digging through your stash for some fantastic beast and smiling when you found your Unicorn, ahh!! mom to the rescue.
    Love the castle too, perfect little scene for this fabulous birthday card.
    Awesome colors too.
    Hugs,
    Maria.

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  4. LOL!! Mimi, I'm picturing you frantically digging through your stash for some fantastic beast and smiling when you found your Unicorn, ahh!! mom to the rescue.
    Love the castle too, perfect little scene for this fabulous birthday card.
    Awesome colors too.
    Hugs,
    Maria.

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  5. What a great card, I too can see you franticly searching because I've been there lol.

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  6. It's great that you were able to find the unicorn in your neglected stash- I love the banner you drew and it's a lovely card.

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  7. Don't you just love it when you find things you've forgotten all about! The timing was perfect for this challenge too! I love the little unicorn and castle - a perfect card for a little princess. I'm trying to visualize a skeleton mermaid .......nope, not happening? LOL

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  8. If I'd do a good rummage through my stash of stickers, cut outs and what nots I suppose I'd find a suiting item. I often do. But not always. You found something in the end and this turned out to be such a darling, fairytale like design fit for a child.

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  9. Again great background my friend
    and the banner oh so sweet
    and the purple unicorn love!
    you know in my stash I will never found Unicorn (sad) and that house in purple also cute
    sweet card my friend
    hugs
    Monika

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