Jungle Fever or Flightless Fairy?

What d'you think of her?? She's called Brite Eyes and she's one of Stitchy's new release images on sale in the Stitchy Bear Stamps Shop. But seeing I'm on the DT I get to play with her.

Actually I've been playing all day... while John made pizza, I've been playing a little bit out of my comfort zone... I wanted to put her into the Jungle, which meant leaves, big leaves...Or animal print (damn, I've only just thought of that!! Oh well, watch out for the next card I make using her!!)

But then I realised she was sitting on rather a big leaf (?!?) or, is it a big leaf or is she a very small flightless fairy?? Anyway, I didn't quite know what I wanted to do, so the best thing for me is to just do something.
I have one Distress Ink (vintage photo, aw, shame) by Tim Holtz, everyone says how fabulous it is, I even have video's on my side bar (but I don't always check them out! scroll down they're near the bottom) anyway, I wanted to do a bit of distressing or blending with this ink, as I'd never done it before, had no idea what to do or where to start, so began rubbing the ink over one of the printed out images, just to give her a bit of shading. Then did the same to some punched out leaves. This of course also meant the paper below was also getting covered with ink and made a nice leafy pattern.
So the next idea was... I made my own backing paper. This was followed by me sticking the leaves into some clear embossing power and zapping them with my heat gun...
The leaves were only punched out from ordinary Tesco's Finest Premium Quality Printer paper 120gsm, not your special crafty paper that costs a lot more but I think they turned out ok.

When I finished the paper with it's smudged on leaves, I scanned it, took that image into 'My Craft Studio' and 'played' with it, made it smaller and then 'tiled' it. Not perfect, but fun...(They say little things please little minds...and mine is very little!!)

Another thing I could've done, seeing I decoupaged the image, while I had the paper in My Craft Studio, I could have placed the image over the printed paper... (hang on, I'll just take a picture) I could've then printed it out and then fixed the cut out image over the top and still had any fine pieces of hair that would've been cut off. (ah, but I didn't do that)
In the picture you can see how the leaves looked before I made them smaller and tiled them.

(click on the photo's to make them bigger)

I have a few more followers so a big (((wave))) to Paddingtondoo Fabulous blog and likes Paddington of course!! Tink over on Tink Time with some lovely Stitchy Images!! Thread bear!!! (I'll find the link later) Yvonne, (Scrappy) from It's A Scrappy World has some lovely cards and must be the best place to go to find so many challenges!! Then there's Mandy who is definitely a crafty Angel, fantastic blog and a very interesting work desk!! Big wave to Angie! lovely makes every time I pop in and another amazing work desk! And there's more fab goings on over on Margie's Creative Projects

Challenges

Simon Says -Distressing
PaperTake- Open
Sir Stampalot-Fantasy
Crafty Creations -Anything goes