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Linda Pare at Crafts from the Heart added my “Frost Angel” giclée print to her “Help me I’m hot…I’m dreaming of winter” treasury list on Etsy. Thanks, Linda!
I’m having winter fantasies myself. Making snow angels sounds very appealing in this heat.
Greta is a handmade original, one-of-a-kind chrysanthemum flower fairy art doll, handmade and hand painted by artist Elizabeth Ruffing.
This is Greta. She is a baby chrysanthemum fairy. Chrysanthemums are a symbol of hope.
Sometimes when Greta is sitting in the garden, bees come to visit her, mistaking her for a flower. She doesn’t mind. They kind of tickle.
She likes to lie on her back under the chrysanthemums and watch the bumble bees buzz around with the butterflies.
Sometimes she flies around with them. She fits right in with her pale green butterfly wings.
She has an adorable profile, with little pointed ears.
Greta has hidden button joints so she can move her arms and legs to express herself.
Greta has an oak-colored stand that lifts her in the air so she can practice flying, and running through the air. She enjoys that.
It fits in behind her hand-quilted wings.
Greta the chrysanthemum flower fairy original art doll is entirely handmade by me. Her body is made of 100% cotton, from my own pattern, and is painted with acrylic paint. Her bottom is weighted so she can sit nicely. She has an antique reproduction baby face made from papier mâché. Her ears and head are made from paperclay. Her chrysanthemum hat is made of fabric flower petals, joined together with paperclay.
Greta is approximately 7 inches tall when seated, and approximately 9 inches long when lying down. She is approximately 11 inches tall while hovering on her stand. Greta is a work of original art and is meant for display only.
Greta the chrysanthemum flower fairy original art doll also comes with a hang tag. It is signed as well. The picture on her hang tag is “Fairies and Butterflies,” printed from an original watercolor painting by me, Elizabeth Ruffing.
The image goes very nicely with Greta’s green onesie, her yellow buttons and collar, her pale green chrysanthemum petals, and the green of her wings.
Greta’s flower fairy friend is Rosa the rose flower fairy.
It’s nice to have a friend to fly around with.
They like to watch the bumble bees and butterflies together too.
Update: Greta and Rosa the flower fairy original art dolls have been adopted. Thank you!
I’ve been editing and re-editing the digital files for these cat paintings all afternoon, fiddling with the color, comparing them to my paintings, printing, then printing them again, and again. Above is “Laurence with Primroses and Daffodils“. There are some hyacinths in there too. I even sneaked some Johnny Jump-ups into the corner.
This one is “The Guardian“, a champagne-colored cat overlooking a garden of magenta hollyhocks and pink cosmos. I used to have bunches of these growing in my garden. My flower beds here are already overcrowded and I need to expand them in order to fit more varieties of flowers in at all.
Both these paintings are done in acrylic on canvas. “The Guardian” was my first acrylic painting. I’ve printed these in miniature so I can mount them on poplar wood. I’ll be rummaging through my paint tomorrow, trying out colors to coordinate with the images to paint onto the sides of the wood blocks.cat prints can be found on our website.
Rosa the original baby rose flower fairy art doll is finished!
I cast Rosa’s antique reproduction baby face using liquid papier mâché. I sculpted her head and ears with paperclay. I made the pattern for her body, and sewed it in 100% cotton cloth. I quilted her periwinkle butterfly wings by hand, and hand painted her with with acrylic paint. She will is sealed with matte varnish for protection.
I took my color inspiration for Rosa rose flower fairy art from my watercolor paintings, “The Fairy and the Dove” and “Fairies and Butterflies,” and chose a pretty soft orchid color for her onesie. I added peaceful blue and purple and yellow to her wings.
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