Kool Kitty Musings: Fairy tales can come true...

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Friday, 14 March 2014

Fairy tales can come true...

Miri has set a wonderful challenge this week on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

Today happens to be Ludwig Emil Grimm's birthday, among his many artistic accomplishments he illustrated many of his brothers' fairy tales and stories.

So in celebration of his birthday our theme this week is fairy tales - whether you make a card inspired by an actual tale by the brothers Grimm or feature images associated with fairy tales on your card.

Now my inspiration came in various forms.... I did a bit of mooching through the list of the very many tales the brothers Grimm compiled but I also found this lovely article (it's in German - but the illustrations do the talking), check out all 15 of the illustrations that incidentally are included in the English publication being presented. It looks like a fantastic book.

Now, I wonder if you can guess the inspiration for my card...

Paper: Pink Paislee, Crate Paper
Stamps: PTI, WPlus9, Waltzing Mouse
Dies: PTI, WPlus9, Sizzix
Other: pearls, pattern wheel, vellum 3D foam

Well let's just say there are two fairy tales rolled into one here.

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"

Why it's Snow White of course... and there she is reflected in that vellum mirror!

Plus there is another Snow White in fairy tale land, and she has a sister called Rose Red.

I happened to have that tale to hand in the box of Ladybird books that I still need to finish sorting through:

I used to always get confused as to why there were two Snow Whites! lol

Got to love those Ladybird illustrations. :)

Don't forget to check out the fantastic tales depicted by the Design Team this week.

Happy, crafty weekend!

Posted by Handmade by Natty at 10:00 AM in Books, Cards, DCM, Made in 2014 | Permalink

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I'm sure I used to have that book!

I love the combination of the rose red and snow white on your card - it's beautiful!

jo x

Posted by: Jo | Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 12:09 PM

Beautiful interpretation. I used to have that book and it was one of my very favourites!

Posted by: Ang M | Monday, 17 March 2014 at 07:59 PM

Your Snowwhite (Schneewittchen =)) card is beautiful and that's a lovely blog post.

Posted by: Miri | Thursday, 20 March 2014 at 06:05 PM

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