Hi all Jennifer here again, welcome to my blog I hope you enjoy your visit. The weather here today has been cloudy and dull but at least it has been dry lolls !! The sun did make an appearance at tea time so hopefully tomorrow may be a good day - so no crafting tomorrow then !! it will be tidying up the gardens before the bad weather arrives. Living in the hills as we do, the weather can be very changeable but I wouldn't swap it for a town life !! no way, I love my peace and tranquility in the hills.
Well enough of my waffling on tonight let's get down to the business of card making, my passion and has been for over 30 years now. Wow ! that makes me sound so......old lolls !! well I feel young, that's what counts.
The base card is made from silver mirror card and I have matted some light blue card onto the silver and then some lavender paper onto that.
I then took some dark blue card and put the stencil on top and spread the sparkle medium through the design on the stencil, then carefully removed the stencil and left the image to dry naturally.
In the meantime I took a piece of white card and coloured it using blue distress ink. I then stamped the dragonfly image onto the card using a Versamark pad and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. I then trimmed around the image. The flowers and dragonflies were coloured with the mica powders mixed with water.
Stamp the image again and cut out the dragonflies, paint them as before using the mica powders and fix them to the original image using silicone glue. Fix the stencilled dark blue card to the lavender paper. Glue the dragonfly image to the upper left-hand side of the base card using Magi-Glue.
Cut out and emboss the flower using the die and a die cutting machine. Colour them with mica powder and add some blue ribbon to the flower petals. Glue a small flower gem to the flower centre. Glue this to the bottom right-hand corner of the card. There you have it friends, why don't you give it a go and make one for your best friend or your Mum ! I'm sure they would appreciate the effort you made. It is a very satisfying hobby.
Until next time, take care of yourselves and happy crafting. Love and rainbows,
Jennifer xx
Evening Jennifer this is so pretty and love the dragonflies and flowers.. The background just pops too!
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Linda xxx
Thank you very much Linda, pleased you like it. Hugs Jennifer xx
Deleteabsolutely gorgeous Jennifer - love that background and dragonflies are my favourites xx
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel, thank you. This is another of my favoutite Imagination Craft's stamp sets ! I have so....many favourite stamps lol !! We have had quite a lot of dragonflies in our garden this year. I just love them too ! Hugs xx
DeleteSo pretty and elegant, love the beautiful stamps and the colours are gorgeous
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Hi Lindsay, thank you for your nice comment, unfortunately the sheen on the dragonflies doesn't show up so well in the photo. I love the Greek key stencil as it is just so different! makes a great background.
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Gorgeous Jennifer. Lovely sparkly background and love your treatment of the stamp.
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Hi there Mags, thanks for your nice comment. This is such a pretty stamp, I loved working with it. Hope you have a good week. Hugs Jennifer xx
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