Fairy Stories By Isabella

My daughter Isabella started telling me stories about fairies when she was three years old and since then has continued to come up with more and more fairy stories. Her daddy has drawn some sketches to go with her stories and I created a blog where she could share her stories.

You can find her fairy stories on her blog The Tangle Fairies. She also has a Tangle Fairies Facebook page. Later this month, if my husband finishes the last three drawings, I am hoping to create a book for her with the stories and drawings. It will be made available for sale and all of the profits will go into a fund for her education.

Enjoy her stories n her blog and like her Facebook page to keep updated on new stories and on when the book is coming out.

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Moonlight Fairy Art - How You Can Make A Silhouette Fairy

I have been inspired by some beautiful silhouette fairy art that I have seen lately. My husband Robert created some silhouette fairy art a year ago or so, and I've recently seen other artists' versions of silhouette fairy art. I am not very good at drawing, but I wanted to create some fairy art of my own.

So here is what I did, I took a photo of a beautful girl who one of my teenage daughters is friends with in which Robert had already cropped the girl out of the photo and added fairy wings to her when he created this image:



He had saved a lot of the different elements as one piece, so I had a lot of work to do to bring it back to just the girl and the wings. Then I used the "fill" tool in Corel PhotoPaint to turn her into a silhouette.

Of course, then I still needed a background. That's when I realized I had a moon and stars in the night sky graphic that I had created many years ago. It was perfect as the backdrop for my silhouette fairy!

And the resulting silhouette fairy art (which I will be adding to my shop right away) is this:



If you have a photo editing program and know how to crop something out of a photo, then you can do this too. You just need a pretty background. Maybe a sunset or something full of light and color would work. And then you need a photo of a girl; you will have to crop her out of the photo. Next, if you, like me, are not very skilled at drawing butterfly wings, find a photo of a butterfly and crop it's wings out. Paste the wings onto the fairy at a realistic angle. Then use the "fill" tool in your photo editing program, using the color black, to turn them into a silhouette. Then paste both onto the background photo and you're done!

Fairy Magic Photos Opportunity! (possible freebie!)

Fairy Magic Photos is giving a few people an opportunity that can't be beat! If you'd like a Fairy Magic Photo of your own, now is your chance as they are looking for 10 models for advertising. Please go to the discussion board at Fairy Magic Photos' Facebook page and let them know if you would like to be considered. Remember moms these pictures could be of your children. Or you could have a fairy photo created of you!

My husband is the artist that creates these photos, and when he decided to offer this chance, I had to share it with my readers, because these pictures are a $75 to $150 value! There are some conditions, but it's still a really great chance for a Fairy Magic photo of your own!

Fairies, Fairies, Everywhere!

I haven't posted in here in quite a while, but I've been looking for Christmas presents for my little girls recently and the amount of fairy gifts that come up in searches when I'm loooing for gifts for girls is icredible! And some of the art for the fairy gifts is stunning! I wish I could draw and paint beautiful artisitic fairies like that, but I can't.

I do, however, have shops that affiliate other people's art (meaning I make a small commission off of sales I make for them). In this way, I get to rpetend that the beautiful fairy art is "my own."

One of those shops is at Moonduster's. If you click on the Fairy Magic link, you'll see all of the beautoiful fairy designs. I am frequently updating it as I come across more and more beautiful fairy designs.

The other shop is for all things girl-related. It's called Princess Parade. It has links for mermaids, pixies, fairies, and flower babies among other things.

The difference between the two stores is that the Princess Parade one has designed pulled in from the search terms and I do not have control over which designs are shown, but the Moonduster's one has only designs that I have personally chosen.

I hope that you are able to find some beatiful fairy merchandise at one of these two places, but if not, don't worry. I will post about other fairy gift places I find as I find them.