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

Thursday, March 9, 2023

dragonfly...

 Hello!  Hope your week is going well.  It is very cold here in the PNW and it doesn't seem like spring is coming.  In fact, this morning I was outside and thought to myself that it felt more like December than March!  Hoping it starts to warm up soon.   Today's card is all about pretty spring colors and a dragonfly.  Take a look. 

When I saw the color combo at Color Throwdown I knew I was not going to miss the opportunity to make a card with it.  It is just so bright and fresh.   I wasn't so sure, however, that I was going to make a card using the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.   Sketches with lots of things in the center terrify me, lol.  But I decided to give myself the challenge of coming up with something.   I think things turned out pretty well.   All products are from the Greetery, except for the ink which is from Pinkfresh Studio.   Toward the end of last year the Greetery had a sale.  There was one thing in particular that I wanted, but I didn't want to do an order by myself.  Then a friend contacted me about doing an order together and so I had her get me what I wanted:  Jumbo Curiosity: Dragonfly stencil and die set.  I thought that was the only Jumbo Curiosity stencil and die set that I owned.  As I was looking through my Greetery products I discovered that I also own Jumbo Curiosity:  Butterfly!  Had no idea!  Anywhoo...  I die cut the dragonfly from white cardstock, used some low tack tape on the back to keep them in place and stenciled them with the CTD colors.  Then I had to figure out the other shapes I was going to use.  At first I didn't want to use circles, but in the end they looked the best with the dragonfly.  The circles are from the Pinwheel Party suite of products.  I die cut the pinwheels from white cardstock and stenciled with the matching stenciled.  The smallest blue pinwheels were stamped with a image from the Pinwheel Party stamp set and then die cut.  I arranged everything on a white cardstock panel and then added some Nuvo drops in Morning Dew and Yellow Bird.  I wasn't going to add a sentiment, but then decided to add the small hello from the Bittersweet stamp set.  Simply stamped in black, trimmed out and popped up. 


Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!



10 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Oh, I LOVE this one to bits! You nailed the sketch and the colors. PRETTY card, Rosemary!

Hannelie said...

Such a successful and cohesive design! Just beautiful ♥

TK said...

Wow, so pretty and fluid, beautiful colors and soft details. One would never know the layout ha dyou terrified.

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

This is stunning, you have used the colours beautifully. I love your choice of dies and your card. x

Karren said...

You overcame your fear of the sketch beautifully with this stunning card! The elements all work so well together and I love how you used the CTD colours as well. Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.

Amy O said...

Well this is stunning! I love the colors, the texture, and your arrangement of all of the elements is spot on! Beautifully done! So glad you overcame your fear of the sketch and joined us at FMS!

Celeste Goff said...

Such a beautiful and feminine card!

Broni said...

You used the colors beautifully, Rosemary! I love your delicate dragonfly!! Thanks for joining us for the Color Throwdown this week!

Greta said...

Well deserved FMS win!

Unknown said...

So Pretty! I love the colors you chose.