and Blog Hop!
About a month ago Lorelei had a wonderful giveaway. She gave away 23 shadowboxes (I borrowed the picture of the boxes from Lorelei's blog because I forgot to photograph it before I used it!). There was only one rule "think outside the box ":) I received the purple one. My initial thought was that I was going to make it into a little bitty photo album that would pull out with all my nieces and nephews pictures. Then I thought maybe doing a little picture with microbeads could be fun. That went from forming a flower and changed to forming a heart shape.Then I was going with the whole idea of adding wings to the back and calling it give your heart wings. Once I added the wings I ran into these little arms and legs, and suddenly...I was forming a body!
Then I found these little enamel drops that just happen to match the box perfect. So out went the traditional wings, and I formed wings out of these little drops. So I had a body, now I needed a head. Found a button with two holes. Of course, my head was empty, so I dug around for a crown. It was gold, so I painted it silver to match the arms and legs, and the bottom flourish of the crown reminded me of hair, so I painted that yellow.By now she was way to big to be a necklace anymore. So what to do with her? I decided she could be a fairy in my garden. So out went the heart, and I stitched her body with three little flowers, and made the sky pink and blue (after all it's a fairy world) to match her wings.
And that is how this crazy lil out of the box garden fairy came to be.
Here is the list that Lorelei's so sweetly put together, so you can see what everyone else came up with :)
2. Ann Rishell
3. Malin de Koning
4. Gray Girl Studios
8. Shay Stone- Shays creative journey
4. Gray Girl Studios
5. Maria Grimes
6. Beads of Busy Gals- Elizabeth8. Shay Stone- Shays creative journey
9. LissC
11. Grubbi
16. KreativeKsapylet
23. Andrew Thornton
27 comments:
What a cute idea - love what you did. That challenge was so much fun:-)
Don't you love how things often change as you are making them? She turned out great!
Wow, you were really thinking outside the box!!!! So clever and cute!
How unique! Isn't that so fun how she morphed into herself the more you worked on it. Thank you so much for playing along! Please add your pics to the flickr group I created for the participants: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1740275@N20/
She is lovely! What a great idea.
Love the fairy idea! So different & fun! Great job
How unusual! I like the seed bead designs on her dress.
What a great idea! Like the way she turned out!
I would so love seeing her in my yard every day! What a great thought process, and she is so different from what I expected. Awesome job!
I love how you thought out of the (shadow) box!
Cute, cute, cute. She's great!!
How fun! I love that you shared your process - it makes it so interesting to see how she has evolved. She is wonderful!
You really did think outside the box! Love that you used the box for the body. Very creative.
This is just sooo cute!! :)
very nice! I love seeing what everyone came up with.
I can tell you like working in miniature with your attention to detail and love of seed beads. Garden art, very clever idea!
you made a ridiculously cute little fairy! with flowers and wings and everything. totally unique. an ornament while everyone else made necklaces. love it.
OMG that is too cute!
Now, isn't that just the cutest thing??? I love what you created for this BlogHop!
Love her she is simply sweet!
Great job! Very cute!
Very charming! Such a cute and unique usage of the shadow box. Very cool indeed!
Pretty pretty and cute fairy! And what an interesting journey she and you have been on together. I like you made a garden jewelry piece instead. Very inspiring! Thank you!
very sweet!! Looks like you had great fun creating this little cutey :)
I love your idea - so cute!! I could see you making all sorts of "shadowbox characters" in the future. Great job!!
Cute fairy! Love that it is not jewelry too, way to think outside the box!
You really did think outside of the box! She is so sweet and you are so creative in making her!
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