"We do not remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

dragonfly thanks...

Hello!!  Stopping in with a card today that uses more new crafty purchases.  This time from Stampin Up!.  I'm a total sucker for butterfly and dragon fly stamps and dies and when I saw the Dragonfly Dreams and matching Detailed Dragonfly dies in the spring 2017 SU! Occasions mini catalog I just had to get them.  Finally got a chance to make something with the set in the last few days.  The card was actually built around the copper butterfly.  I did a light color wash on some watercolor cardstock using a light blue ZIG marker.  I let it dry a bit and then stamped a solid image dragonfly on the panel using Peeled Paint and Forest Moss distress inks and blended it out a bit with some clean water.  A splatter image from another SU! set I got was stamped with Broken China and then blended out a little with water.  When everything was dry I added some Crystal stickles to the wings.   The sentiment was stamp in Forest Moss.  I trimmed down the panel and then adhered the dragon fly and some sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.  For a little drama I decided to adhere the panel to some dark grey glimmer cardstock and then to a white card base. 

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, SSS charcoal glimmer, watercolor, Copper shimmer; Stamps and dies:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Ranger Distress inks; ZIG clean color markers; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear

6 comments:

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Stunning dragonfly, Rosemary! Just love the shimmer of the metallics and it looks gorgeous on the blue wash!!

Greta said...

The copper dragonfly is stunning & I really love the soft background you created, Rosemary!

Karren said...

Fabulous card with a stunning centerpiece in that copper dragonfly!

Anita in France said...

So eyecatching, Rosemary ... what a gorgeous, delicate dragonfly ... fabulous against the soft colourwash background! Hugs, Anita :)

Martha said...

WOW, Rosemary, what a beauty! Gorgeous dragonfly against the pretty background.

Petra Swart said...

WOW, that copper dragonfly looks amazing, Rosemary!!!! Love the soft bg you have given it and the soft ink splatters and sequins!!!!! Beautiful!!!
Hugz