Once Upon a Fairytale

Hello everyone and welcome here, thank you for visiting and like always, a special welcome to all my new followers!
Well, after having been selected one of the top three at SSSS I had to join in again of course. This week the theme is "Ever After", they want us to use a fairy tale theme. So here's my make

I created a book cover which I hope has a fairy tale feel to it. I used the Tim Holtz book plate stamp and two stamps from the Graphics 45 Once Upon a Spring Time collection. I love how these stamps just seem to blend in perfectly with the book plate. I stamped the bookplate in Black Archival and then coloured over it with Chipped Sapphire, Vintage Photo, a tiny bit of Peacock Feather, Wild Honey and Mustard Seed. I then stamped the two G45 stamps, fussy cut them and coloured them with a mix of distress inks, Distress Markers (scribbled onto my craft sheet and then picking up the ink from there with a water brush- : this seems to work much better for me than using the direct to paper technique). I also used some water colour pencils to high light some areas and spritzt wild Heirloom Gold perfect pearls. Finally the inevitable Treasure Gold White Fire was rubbed around the edges and then I embellished with some flowers etc and mounted on some green card, again, distressed and gilded like the card itself. I created a spine for the card, so it looks like a book cover and I may well make some insert pages for it at some future point. Here are some more photos:

Here you can see the fairy a bit better, in real life there is much more sparkle

The title, I love how this bit just  seems to fit the title part of the book plate, - as if it was made for it.

Well, that's it. Hope you like it.... The colours are a bit dark, more like Autumn than Spring, I probably should have stamped the book plate in a different colour.... Ah well, you live and learn.... ☺

I am entering this for this week's Simon Says Stamp and Show