Get Messy The Season of Fairy Tales

In this blog post I'm rounding up some of my favorite pages from my art journal that I created during Get Messy's season of fairytales.

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Week 1:

This week starts a new season at Get Messy- The Season of Fairy Tales! I’m excited for this one, it’s going to be a lot of fun.

My friend Misty and I did a sort of mini collaboration for this season- I sketched out a mushroom for her and she turned it into an accordion journal and shared the tutorial on the Get Messy blog.

Inspired by that, I created a mushroom journal as well. I made this double sided album. It’s basically 2 pamphlet stitched journals that I adhered together going in opposite directions.

Now onto my pages for the week. For this season, my plan is to re-write some classic fairy tales into versions that I like better, we’ll see if I make it through the whole season doing this or not though. 🙂 I started with Little Red Riding Hood, because that one is my all time favorite.

I also created this page based off of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

I think I’ll be filling this journal up with a lot of character design illustrations, they’re really fun to do!

Week 2:

First up, I have my space princess page. So far in this journal I have been doing fairy tale retellings, where I put a twist on a classic fairy tale, however this is not one of those. For this spread I was thinking more along the lines of “if I were a princess, and that’s how I ended up with this:

I actually drew the girl our first and then found the quote by Elizabeth Gilbert and I think they go together perfectly!

This week Riet shared a fun tutorial on the Get Messy blog about adding windows and flaps to your pages, which is what inspired me to add in this cut out window. I really love it.

Week 3:

As a part of the Get Messy Creative Team, this was my week to share a tutorial on the private Get Messy blog. I shared a tutorial on how to design fairy tale elements (mushrooms, crystals, etc) AND a free printable.

Here is my page using the fairy tale elements I designed.

 

 

My other page for this week is inspired by Maleficent. 

 

 

The green vellum on the left side is actually a flap that flips up, and then you can see Maleficent’s wing, which I heat embossed with Black Lame embossing powder, so it sparkles. 🙂

 

Week 4:

I really love both of the pages I created this week, and it’s always good when that happens, right? 🙂

My other page for the week is actually inspired by the story book collaboration that Riet and I created earlier this year. Riet’s book was about a girl with swan wings, and I enjoyed exploring that idea a second time on my page below.

My favorite book series when I was a teenager was about a girl with wings.

Week 5:

This week was a super busy one for me! I'm visiting Taylor (My sister!) this weekend, so I spent the majority of the week finishing up some other projects and getting ready to travel.

So, only one page from me. I like it though!

It’s inspired by Wendy Darling. I loved the Peter Pan movie when I was growing up.

 

 

 

I’m super thrilled with the background on this page.

 

Week 6:

I was out of town for the beginning of the week (visiting my sister, Taylor! love!), which means that I didn’t get in my studio until Wednesday. So I only have 1 page to share for this week.

 

The right side of the page is actually a piece of palette paper I had used, and then adhered down here in my journal. I love the look.

It may be hard to tell, but this page is actually inspired by Mulan. 🙂

 

This was the last week in the Season of Fairy Tales in the Get Messy community, however I still have a few empty pages in my journal that I want to fill up, so I will still be creating magical art for the next couple of weeks. 🙂