Phat Fairy Birthday Wishes

Hi everyone, I have a really fun card to share with you today. She is one of the Phat Fairies from a series from Mo's Digital Pencil. Her images are so fun, and so fabulous to color. This is another one of those images I colored up waaaaay back in December and am just now getting it made into a card. I've had fun playing with the black and white paper, and I realize that I really need to stock up my stash of these as I have so little. I really felt like the black and white would show case this lovely gal perfectly.

I wanted to make a Criss Cross card, but I wanted it to open to revel the birthday message inside. So rather than gluing the front panels down and using a removable insert I simply added a belly band which slides off the left side of the card.




Here is the card with the belly band off - and you can see that it doesn't stay closed by itself...





Here is the card opened. I put a SU sentiment in the center and added pearls to the scalloped areas, then on the right side of the card I used a pearl swirl to take the eye up to the back of the image panel...



On this panel I made a small bow with my marvelous Bow Easy and added a little magic wand charm. A few pearls in the center of the circles on the dp to finish off this side of the card...



Here's a closer look at the pearl swirls...



I will be a little out of pocket next week and I'm having a minor surgical procedure done on Monday. I'm sure to be down for just a day or two and then right back into the fray! I do have a card posting on Monday for the August Magnolia-licious Highlites challenge so please drop back to see what I've done.

Blessing and hugs...
Barb