Flower Fairies

This month's Circle Blog Challenge is called Home Sweet Home.  This is a home decor challenge requiring at least one Cricut Cartridge cut, the Cuttlebug, felt, and the color green.  The requirements immediately pointed me toward a project for my daughter's room!

This project started with one of my favorite craft instruction books, Felt Wee Folk by Salley Mavor.  I have made so many of the little fairies and characters in the book.  I think they are so much fun to give and to incorporate into mixed media projects.

I love making these little characters!   I made their little clothes by hand-sewing and loved doing the embroidery on the jackets!  These details make them so much fun to look at to me!

I found the text 'Far, Far Away' on a page in a paper stack I had in my stash and manually cut around it.  I popped it up with Ranger Pop It! pop dots, stacked to raise it 1/2" off the page.

I cut flowers  from Walk In My Garden, page 84 (cut at 1/2") and page 82 (cut at 1"), and  layered them with silk flowers.  I also cut assorted branches for the fairies to hold from Straight From the Nest, page 43 (cut at 3/4", 1", 2-1/2").  I added hand-cut, inked, and detailed little leaves to add a bit more detail.

I cut the grass layers from Straight From the Nest, page 41 (cut at 1-3/4").  I ran the top layers through the Cuttlebug to gain a little texture since these layers would be in the foreground.  I added hand-cut leaves to the grasses as well.

I decided to glue one of the characters inside the frame to take advantage of the shadow box.  I played a bit to find placement.

I finalized the picture, adding a lantern to one of the branches, cut from Pagoda, page 26 (2") and flowers from the same cart, pages 56 and 57 (1" and 1-1/4").

I put the backing and frame together to combine all the fairies!

My daughter checked in on me throughout this project and had already decided on a place to hang it in her room.