Category Archives: dragonflies

Dragon fly card

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dragonflyBirthdaySml

I was finding it difficult to come up with new ideas for some cards and even after flicking through some old magazines and books I still couldn’t come up with any thing.  But I then started to look back at some previous cards I have made I got an idea from 2 previous designs that I joined together.  This is made using the watercolour technique and stamps where you ink up your stamp and spritz the stamp with water before stamping onto water colour paper.

Inks:  Adirondack Wild plum, Red pepper, Terra cotta, Stream, Lettuce, and Oregano

Card:  water colour paper, old olive card, ivory card

Stamps:  Clarity stamps Dandelion heads, Satampin up Pocket silhouettes, unknown dragonfly stamp, Papertrey ink Out on a limb sentiments

Other:  Stampin up hardware, Tiny mosaic Cranberry, East of India ribbon

Dragonflies card

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dragonflies2Sml

I made up some background paper first then made two similar but not identical cards with it.
This one was for Jessica and the other for Erin.
Firstly I dribbled some masking fluid down some watercolour paper and left it to dry.  Then I sprayed colour over it and sprinkled with some salt crystals and again waited until it dried.  I brushed away the salt then stamped the dragonflies, painted them with H2Os and once they were dry I coated them with diamond glaze.  I then stamped the dandelions and added little dots of stickles to highlight parts.  The quote is stamped and embossed on a slice of mica.  I like splattering gold over the top to get little highlights, I did try sprinkling gold embossing powder on the surface and heating from underneath but it tends to just melt right into the thick paper so I splattered with gold Krylon pen.

Inks:  Versamark with gold embossing powder, Big and Juicy Spice, Chroma jewel sprays Amber, Wine, Elderberry and Slate, Cosmic shimmer sunset mist, H2Os
Card:  Water colour card, large aperture card
Stamps:  Non Sequitur Oriental collage elements, Lavinia stamps Dandelions
Other:  Mica, gold nail heads, Diamond glaze, stickles, Krylon pen, masking fluid, salt flakes

July CBC ATC swap

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albaJane swap

Here are my ATCs for the CBC swap for July. We had to use a stamp in this swap rather than a particular theme so I used a couple of the free stamps from the craft stamper magazine (and a background stamp for the piece of vellum).

ATC 1
Inks: black document ink, copic pens to colour the owl
Card: white card, Bo Bunny paper back to backs; a gift of love and my darling motion
Stamp: free owl stamp designed by sugar nellie
Other: orange organza ribbon, small green ric-rac ribbon, googly eyes, Boo rub-on from Hambly screen prints Halloween, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2

ATC2
Inks: Adirondack alcohol inks; clover, hazelnut, citrus, mountain rose, watermelon and sunshine yellow, white stazon, silver pilot pen, white signo pen
Card: glossy white, white vellum
Stamps: background on vellum from Aspects of design Daisy daydreams, free dragonfly stamp designed by Kay Carley
Other: tiny gems, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2, wire for legs, distress stickles peeled paint, yellow stickles

Ghost swirls

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ghostSwirls

Finally I had a few hours to do a bit of crafting today. After flicking through my mum’s new book, Magenta Style Paper Magic, I was inspired to try some ghost stamping.

Cardstock: white and black
Inks: white Stazon, Colorbox chalk lime pastel and rouge, Versafine onyx black, Stampin’ up mellow moss
Stamps: swirls from Dovecraft fantasy emblems and dragon flies (unknown)