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Fairy Godmother Travelling Sales Wagon
Filed under Art Projects, Fairy Garden, Featured Artwork, Giveaways, Newsletters, Nichola Battilana
A quick reminder: The Gift Tag Collage Sheet announced in last Thursday’s Newsletter is still on offer! FREE for all orders, regardless of order size (ENDS TODAY)! If you place an all-digital order, I’ll send you the Gift Sheet as a pdf file.
See Laura’s artwork in Thursday’s Newsletter for some cute Valentine Cutie Tags using the gift tags as a base. This versatile sheet contains 12 blank tags (in two sizes) that can be used for any occasion.
AND the related Valentines & Romance Collage Sheets 50% off Sale also ENDS TODAY! That sample from the sale at right is the Brass Pendant Kit Collage Sheet.
Design Team Member Nichola Battilana presents a Fairy Godmother Travelling Sales Wagon that makes you want to put yourself into a shrinky-dink machine so you can hawk magical wares.
“There’s a special place in my heart for fairy godmothers. Those fluttery, frilly, silly ladies make me positively giddy. I’ve often wondered where they get their godmotherly supplies from. Is there a shop? A fancy boutique? A travelling salesman!
And so this month I’ve created a tiny travelling sales wagon with magical and glittery godmother paraphernalia. The base is a Square Shrine Shadowbox to which I have added Tiny Fancy Wheels. I’ve also added Floral and Lace Border Strips for some flourish and a (New!) Mini Chipboard Crest heralds potential customers to the godmotherly goods.
Inside the wagon, all manner of items required for godmotherly duties. Fairy dust (in an adorable 2 Inch Glass Bottle), candy, pumpkins to turn into carriages; as well as Absinthe and stout to whet the pallet!”
Other themes that would be awesome in the “wagon” are Steampunk, a travelling bakery, quack medicine, or how about a travelling bar?
Oh! And those new miniature glass bottles (see pics below) would be fab inside a travelling wagon!
Fairy Godmother Travelling Sales Wagon Supply List
And check out the Giveaway that Leslie pulled, below, for pretty much all the items to create your own version of Nichola’s artwork!
New Collage Supplies & Highlights – ALL on Sale! | |||
Hooray for the Fairy Godmother Wagon Giveaway!
I picked out a mix of items from Nichola’s Fairy Godmother Travelling Sales Wagon supply list to make this sweet Giveaway (psst! that link is to the supply list, with photos and links to all of these products):
– Square Shrine Shadowbox
– Mini Chipboard Crest Signs
– Chipboard Border Strips – Floral
– Tiny Fancy Wheels Set
– Fairy Dust Collage Sheet
– Fairy Wings Collage Sheet
– Miniature Wine Bottles
– 12 Tiny Glass Bottles
– Pumpkin Pods
To enter the Fairy Godmother Wagon Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post TODAY or TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, MONDAY NIGHT, January 11, 2016).
AND TO ENTER THE DRAWING, please tell me: What kind of wagon would you make with the Square Shrine Shadowbox? And note that Kristin Batsel used the same shadowbox in her Zebra Circus Wagon last week (but she turned the shadowbox upside-down)!
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
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After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So make sure to check back to see who won! And check your mailbox on Thursday morning for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
Hey, who won the Victorian Valentine Tag Giveaway? That would be DebR!
And she replied to my query ‘What creative project (that’s not a Valentine tag) would you make using all 9 of the items from today’s Giveaway?”
Beautiful tags by Laura and a great giveaway! I’d use the items to embellish a mini album for my hubby of pics of us together to give to him for Valentine’s Day.
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So wonderful! I would be very tempted to make a fairy godmother wagon too! I adore it.
I would make a gypsy mouse wagon!
so cute!
Memories for sale, the traveling wagon full of vintage photos, keys, and small objects to trigger forgotten memories.
I would make the zebra wagon. Love it!!
I love the little bottles! I live in Ohio and occasionally see an Amish wagon going down the road. The pumpkins, as produce, would be perfect for the supplies they carry and I’d fill the clear bottles with flour to look like baking supplies. The wheels would be a perfect fit for this type of wagon.How fun!
I think I would do a similar idea but do a travelling shop for all faeries.. Wings and things, I would call it. The best selection of wings around!
I would make a shrine to spring. What a fun project!
I would definitely make a fairy godmother sales wagon. That is beautiful!
As a fairy godmother myself, I highly recommend this project!
I’d go with the old, timey’ Medicine Wagon from the Old West days. Lots of tonics for the blood (read ‘alcohol’) and remedies for all sorts of ailments (read ‘more alcohol’). Lots of gypsy collage sheets to accent with and I daresay I’d make up my own collage sheet with travelling medicine man pics! Oh, hahahahahahaha. I actually said that with a straight face. No. No way. Not even getting into it with photoshop. I’ll leave that to the professionals.
I love this miniature tableaux. My office at work is a bit standard (boring). It has very plain, slightly industrial (but not in a cool way) shelves above my desk. I have a number of little Japanese kawaii figures and I’ve been wanting to fill in one shelf with tons of little scenes and shrines and dioramas to house all those little folks.
If I made a wagon, I’d actually make a funeral procession! I have an adorable and shy little grim reaper named Adios. He has a little cat who has a scythe on its tail. I would make them a kooky little wagon to drive them over to pick up Adios’s girlfriend Ciao Ciao for a picnic in a graveyard.
Here’s a link to Adios and his world.
https://www.tokidoki.it/blog/2007/06/adios-ciao-ciao-release-and-signing/
I’d love to make this with a Valentine theme! Love Potions!
I would travel selling magic elixirs for all fairy ailments & needs! I LOVE this giveaway!
I’m all about Halloween, so I’d make a POWERFUL POTIONS Wagon so all the good witches of the world could shop!
I would so make the fairy godmother wagon, it’s full of creativity, it would be wonderful to make something that has a theme to it, as I have never done that before, and who better to learn from than G45~
I would make it a “Welcome wagon” and fill it with symbols of love, goodwill, healthy foods, books, and notes of encouragement.
Very cute. I would like to make a traveling Punch and Judy show. 🙂
Love those chipboard borders. I would make some sort of wagon for my sister’s birthday in a few weeks!
How about a NARNIA- Witch and the Wardrobe wagon.
I’d like to do a caged zombie traveling show. 🙂
I would make a steampunk wagon with all these adorable items!!
I would make a victorian wagon with all these adorable items!!
I would do a mermaid wagon
This captures my imagination. I would love to make one of these to either be an art wagon or gardener’s wagon. So beautiful!
Adorable little wagon with lots of possibilities. I think something to do with gypsies and fortune telling would be fun or a wagon with little antiques and collectibles?
I would definitely be making a Fairy wagon also! My Fairy Village needs a set of wheels so the Fairy storekeepers can go out into the world and share their wares with the fairies who are unable to get into the shop! Thanks for the chance to add the wheels that Fairyland needs!
When I hear pumpkins and glass bottles, I think of Halloween (never too early to do that!). So I would make a Halloween shadowbox — maybe a witch’s wagon. 🙂
I would make a fairy godmother wagon and fill it with fairy dust, fruits, vegetables, books to read while munching on fruit and just have a creativity party making it!!! Thanks for the chance to win it!!!
Sweet project! I’d actually make a Christmas wagon, because we all know that Santa has a wagon he pulls…
I, like many above, would make it a fairy related wagon, travelling about the world, ensuring that noone runs out of magic!
I am loving the Fairy Godmother Wagon – it would be a fun thing to re-create!
Jeri
Instead of the fairy godmother wagon, I would just try to create a fairy wagon loaded with fairies and their friends and perhaps a unicorn driving it. What a great giveaway!
I’m still wanting to make Mrs Claire’s bakery and Santa’s workshop! Never too late, right?
I would make a memory wagon of my favorite memories of my Grandmother and Mother. It would be everything (well what I could make fit LOL) of all the things they remind me of or is them. What a great project! Happy Wagon’s to all.
Would love to make an apothecary wagon with those gorgeous blue mason jars.
Looks like a perfect start to a Hey Fiddle Diddle scene.
Well, I am always a sucker for Halloween so my wagon would be along that line with whatever you need to make up your potions.
I’m ready to hit the road with this wonderful sales wagon.
I love fairies so would have to make it into a fairy peddler’s wagon…..as for the
wine bottles, well even fairies need to relax!
what an inspiration! this little wagon has awoken my creative mind! so many possibilities to consider! I might have to make more than one or two!
What a great collection! My ideas are sparking like crazy and my fingers are itching to make some crazy neat-o things!
I’ve always wanted to make a wagon using vintage papers and embellishments. Lovely things!
I love the circus theme but I would love to make a fruit/veggie stand traveling wagon. Great projects today-love the wagon idea. >^..^<
I just love the zebra box. And this give away is too fun. Who doesn’t need fairy dust in their lives
The Fairy Godmother Travelling wagon is gorgeous. Fabulous idea.Love the idea and inspiration. Thank you
I would line shelves would bushel baskets of fruits and veggies, a traveling farmer’s market!
This is great wagon, but I would have to make it halloweenish! The traveling medicine man with his traveling ghouls !!! Thanks for the great ideas !!!
Oh, my goodness! I would give my teeth to win this. My goddaughter would be thrilled if I made her something like this!
Beautiful! This would get me back into doing mixed media, and things. Simply Beautiful!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
I’d really love to make a flower wagon!!!
I would make a beautiful trading French Tea Room with lots of fufu.
I ment traveling. TEE-Hee
A Gypsy fortune telller’s wagon…
Circus all the way
When I first spied Nichola’s Fairy Godmother wagon, I really wanted to make one. But know I think I would create a Tooth Fairy Wagon…with little saucers to put the tooth on and a place to exchange your tooth for money. My Grand Daughters would be thrilled:)
I would make a tea wagon so that my fairies would have a traveling tea party
I would like to make a wagon, for spring lots of bunny’s and chick’s painting Easter eggs great idea!!!!!!
I’d make either a gypsy wagon selling all kinds of wonderful things or a fairy godmother’s wagon. I might even try something else but not sure what that would be.
Oh my gosh, this wagon is just precious! I would want to make one very similar for my granddaughter as she loves ‘princess’ things!
peddlers flower cart with shelves and garden accessories for my girlfriend that does landscaping deigns.
I would make a wagon and fill with hearts and give it to my husband for Valentines day.
I would make one of two wagons, a traveling snake oil salesman or a gypsy’s tinker caravan wagon.
I would either make an old time peddler’s wagon or a Gypsy’s “Spells for Sale” wagon. I LOVE the fairy Godmother wagon.
I would make a circus wagon, with elephants and monkeys ridding on their backs. I love the circus.
I’d have to make a special wagon for my own fairy godmother. She would be so thrilled to have it just for her very own special, precious self. What a gorgeous idea!
I love the fairy godmother theme and would like to do a traveling sales wagon with everything on it like the ones that used to go from town to town. That or a potions and elixirs! Decisions, decisions…
perfectly awsome, I can see this as a traveling medicine man show, or wait a minute maybejust maybe it could be Cinderella’s changing van or maybe I need to get more then one
So cute! I would make and Alice Wagon!!
I’d love to make this wagon!
I think I would make a travelling flower cart with a fairy theme. Love it!
I love the Fairy Godmother wagon. I would put this in a shadow box. Maybe I would make a series of different wagons. The possibilities are endless!
I would love to make a wagon! I would have to make it into a gypsy fortune teller wagon!
Lovely! I can see so many awesome creations with this!
I would create a traveling trade post/peddlers wagon.
I love this little wagon! It would be difficult hot not to do my own although I would love to do something gypsy oriented. and then there is my always addiction with Alice…. I might make a Traveling Tea wagon for the denizens of Wonderland.
This is lovely! I would make a fashion accessories wagon. Corsets, gloves, shoes you get the idea. Maybe a series of sales wagons-tea, sewing supplies, bees/honey. Oh my mind is spinning.
I would make it a Cinderella themed wagon and I would put wings on her! It would have lots of silver and pinks and lots of pearls!! Thanks for the chance to win!! I love this contest! Thank you Alpha Stamps! !
Would be fun to do an apothecary wagon.
I’d love to make a gypsy fortune teller travelling wagon complete with magic potions and crystal ball!
A wagon full of goodies for the fairies who have hurt their wings or spilled their dust.
I loved the idea of the Fairy Godmother wagon; it would be great to make a peddler cart for fairies.
I would make a “Free Love” wagon with lots of hearts that would fill bottles and tea cups and plates. With heart balloons and buttons!! So many ideas!
A bar. What fairy doesn’t need a traveling bar? (Or, heck, even a stationary one.) If there is ever prohibition in wonderland, a traveling bar could be very useful.
I vote for the funerary wagon; that’s the most original thing I’ve read in the mix.
this is adorable!!!! I’d have to make a traveling store wagon!!! or a traveling puppet show, with little curtains across the opening of the wagon…so many ideas!!!!
Perhaps I would do some sort of gypsy wagon. So many possibilities!
I love fairies and I love gardens, so I would create a fairy garden shoppe wagon.
I just love this wagon. As a decorative painter and altered artist I would create an art related wagon.
I believe it would have to be some sort of fairy wagon!
I love steampunk, so I would make a traveling steampunk wagon.
I would love to make a gypsy wagon!!!
Oh ! I love this, I would have to goo with the Vintage and lotions and potions !
Oh my gosh, thanks so much Leslie, so thrilled to be the lucky winner of the Victorian Valentine Tag giveaway! Love Nichola’s Fairy God Mother wagon, it is magical. Good luck to all who enter this week’s giveaway and thanks again! Deb xo
This is awesome! So feminine and fairy like! I think it would be fun to make a traveling antique store with lots of little things that were in Grandmother’s attic!
There are a ton of items i would love to make with this. For the first project, i am thinking a puppet show with a bit of wicked evil lurking around the story line.