Spring Fairy for Mixed Media Monthly

Hello everyone, welcome and lovely to see you here! Can you believe it is March already? I think many of us feel that time just flies away with us.
Anyway, the theme this month for the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge is eggs.

I created a little Spring Fairy,, and here is hoping that she may she be a little herald of Spring, because I for one am longing for some spring sunshine!

I started by working on the pot, there were about 4 different steps to achieve the weathered look on it:

It started as a terra cotta flower pot that I gave a coat of gesso first, Next followed a coat of Paper Artsy French Roast. When dry that was covered with a coat of Decoart Weathered Wood crackle medium and when that was touch dry it received a top coat of Paper Artsy Stine Fresco Finish paint. The last step was to seal it all with a coat of Decoart Ultra Matte Varnish.

Next came the eggs. I tried to find some nice natural looking eggs but my local craft store only sold pink ones, so in the end I got some little polystyrene eggs and painted them to make them look as natural as possible.

The fairy came next. She is from one of the  Paper Whimsey down loadable collage sheets, - I gave her some butter fly wings in Photoshop Elements and then printed her twice, once flipped over so she is two sided. I glued her onto some black card so she would be able to stand.

Now for the finishing touches: I filled the pot with sand, added some moss, the eggs and some died cheese cloth. I also made the garland with some rusty wire and a few flowers and that was pretty much it.

Here you can see the other side still, with some additional flowers.

Like usual we have a sponsor for our challenge and this month that is Waffle Flower, who are offering a $25 gift voucher for our winning entry.

Well, I hope you will decide to play along, we would love to see what you create, and of course if you have not done so already, - do check out what my talented teamies have created, by clicking HERE

Thank you for visiting like always and Happy Month of March!