<\/a>Oh I have so fallen in love with these adorable images from the Not2ShabbyShop<\/a><\/span><\/span> — C.C. Designs Cupid, Pixie, and Garden Party Olivia. \u00a0I wanted to use them in a Easter\/spring wreath that I could use to decorate our front door for our upcoming Easter Sunday brunch.<\/p>\n

I colored them all up with Copic markers, paper pieced each of them from a scrap of strawberry print patterned paper, added glitter glue to all their wings (I made Olivia’s using the medium Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch), and Wink of Stella for shimmer to their hair.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The following are the Copic colors I used:
\nSkin: E50, 51, 53 with blush R30
\nPixie’s black hair: C7, C9 and B00
\nCupid’s green hair: YG01, 11, 25 and 17
\nOlivia’s purple hair and wings : BV00, 02, 04 and 08
\nShading everywhere: W1<\/p>\n

<\/a>The paper piecing was probably the most time consuming. I wanted to use the same sweet strawberry print paper for all their dresses and shoes. \u00a0However, the pattern was not tight enough to get a strawberry on each section so I stamped out smaller sections like Olivia’s shoes and shoe straps, Cupid’s wing, and Pixie’s dress sections multiple times. \u00a0That way I could pick and chose the stamped sections I wanted to fussy cut them out to piece together.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Also when I paper piece images, I make sure I use Copic W1 (or another soft grey color) to add shading to the patterned papers. Then I use a black marker along the edges of each piece (no matter how tiny) so that the white of the paper edge does not show. This order of shading before edging is important so that the shading does not pick up and smear the black edging ink. Finally after I glue each piece into place, I again go over the entire image (which I have also fussy cut), along the edges with a black marker.<\/p>\n

The following is a process video sharing the entire wreath assembly, including\u00a0all the laces, trims, bling, and the single and triple loop bows:<\/p>\n