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Elemental Challenge: Water – Sailing Away
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Fairy Cardmaker
| Aug 5, 2010
 Now, I have to admit, I love all shades of blue and blue-greens! Being Piscean, how can I not? I even like the look of sea glass. Sea glass looks like the deep blue depths have undone the workings of man to revert cut glass back to a more natural state.
My medium is paper. For the Water challenge of the 5 part Elements Creator challenge, didn't want to make another creature even though I do plan on making a paper die cut turtle and I do already have a paper die cut fish design. Animals are my favourite paper die cuts to design, but I already had something in mind for this challenge. You see, I fell in love with this wave paper from Kaiser Craft (seen on the “Ship of Dreams” bookmark card in my shop). I wanted to use this paper again for the water challenge! I just got new goodies and had to give them whirl too!
On this sailboat card, I used a new embossing pattern and a new glitter. The embossed...
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Elemental Challenge: Earth
Posted by:
GalleriaLinda
| Jul 25, 2010
 Fairy Cardmaker , who makes wonderful, whimsical paper goods and cards, started a creative challenge for designs inspired by the "elements." The challenge is open to artists and crafters of any media.
Challenges are always incredible as they make you think outside the creative box and truly think about your designs in a deeper level. The challenge for the element Wind has been completed. We are now into the element Earth challenge .
As a jewelry maker, I pondered all the earthy colors, textures, rocks, gems that I have to work with. When I finish ed this necklace, I found that it immediately evoked a feeling of primitive earth, maybe even tribal.
The black focal beads are vintage, large, and are semi gloss with a stippled texture. They are heavily carved with a geometric design that made me think of jungle dwellers carving seed pods for jewelry!
I paired the vintage focal beads with a few matte-glazed Czech glass dimpled rounds in a very dark, midnight...
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