Looking Outside Her World

Yesterday I found a challenge on Theme Thursday that I wanted to try. This challenge was to use a border in your art. In addition, I found a fairy digital image on Digital Two for Tuesday that I just fell in love with.

I decided to use a manila tag as the base of my work as a tag is relatively small and easy to finish in a weekend. The base for this tag is a card that my mom gave me. I loved the look of the leaves and stems on the card and thought it would be fun to use as a base. I glued it to the tag and then smeared on alcohol inks and Lumiere. Once it was dry I sanded the edges and other various parts of the tag base and then smeared on more ink until I achieved the effect I wanted.

I printed out the fairy on white glossy card stock and then painted her with watercolor pencils. I added a bit of Stickles to her dress, wings and flower to make her glow. I wanted to make her look like she was in a bubble looking into a different world than her own, so I outlined her image with brown watercolor pencil and then smudged it to make the barrier between the fairy's reality and the outside world murky. I finished off the tag with two rows of ribbon to meet the borders requirement and a trio of flowers to further emphasize the difference between her world and the outside world.

I had fun working on this tag, and I hope you enjoyed my process. Thanks for looking.