Flower fairy

Time to show another one of my recent projects. As it was mom's birthday, I decided to go for something special and cute, and this is what I came up with:

For the "cute" part I've chosen the Nasturtium fairy, one of the wonderful Flower fairies painted by Cicely Mary Baker. For the "special" part, I took one of my favourite pickpoint patterns and stitched it with yarns that would match the image. For a little bling, I added a couple of pearls and rhinestones, too.

I planned to make a card at first, but then I decided to take a little more of the green background paper and make a box. I used a little bit of a green ribbon that was left over from a previous project, and a little bit of white cardboard for the inside. 

To cover the plain white bottom, I used golden rice paper with golden glitter flowers.

And where there's an inside, there needs to be something inside, too :) 

I started this orange and gold necklace a long time ago, but unfortunately run out of beads before it was done. It took me quite a while to get new ones and finish it, and now another while to figure out which clasps to use. In the end I picked this antique-looking golden one end, while I finished the other end by creating a loop.

And that's how the birthday package looked like in the end:

challenges: 

- 613 avenue create: ATG

- allsorts challengeblog: fabulous florals

- gem of a challenge: summer fun

- alphabetchallengeblog: M for mythical
- cardmaniachallenges: let's party

- come and get it: summertime

- crafting from the heart: ATG

- crafty calendar: summer fun

- crafty sentiments: ATG

- creative fingers: ATG

- deep ocean: things with wings

- everybodyart: summer/holidays

- fabnfunky: ATG

- inspiration destination: ATG

- morgansartworld: ATG but a card

- oohlala: 3 embellishments (stitching, pearls, ribbon)

- pennyspapercraft: ATG

- scrapping4fun: ATG

- through the craftroom door: ATG

- wordartwednesday: ATG