Letter D for Dragonfly Birthday

This will make a great Masculine birthday card I think and I have a few of those coming up over the summer.  I have enjoyed playing along with the Alphabet Challenge as it is giving me a chance to pull out stamps and supplies I have not used in a while!  

The boat, dragonfly and cattails image was all one stamped image on white cardstock.  I stamped in black and re-stamped again with Versamark so I could heat emboss.  I wanted it to stand out a little more than if I had just stamped it down flat.  I colored the image with my Copic Markers and fussy cut it out.  I printed the sun out with my computer and used Copic markers for the water.  I also added a touch of white pen to resemblance a few small waves.  Next I glued down the image.  I randomly stamped cattails along the bottom, Happy Birthday at the top and another small dragonfly with black ink.  I was so glad I recently picked up a new set of Happy Birthday Stamps as the hollow one from the set worked perfect. I wanted to be able to see the sun in part of it.  

Of course, it's a birthday card and birthday cards needs some sort of glitter/sparkle so the wings have a small amount of glitter on them.

It took two tries to get the sun printed the right size but overall I am very happy with how it came out.

Now done with letter D and I can't wait for letter E.  

 

Submitted to Challenge

https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/d-is-for-dragonflies.html

 

Supplies:

 

White Cardstock

Stickles Eucalyptus Glitter

Papertrey Ink Birthday Your Way Stamp Set

Impression Obsession Change the World Stamp Set For Dragonflies

Impression Obsession Lighthouse Stamp set for Cattails

Versafine Onyx Black

Sun by PngWing

VersaMark Watermark stamp pad

Arteza White Gel Pen 1.0mm

Copic Markers YG11,BG75,B000, B21, E13, E15

Heat Gun

Clear Embossing Powder

Misti

Tim Hotz Small Scissors

 

TASFT Challenge-Spring Flowers

There is another challenge that I have been following forever but never did the challenges.  I just started joining in on this post Nature Walk Weekend.

We had a choice of Spring or Sketch.  I chose Spring and naturally Spring means flowers!

It was created so I could send to someone who could use a pick me up and this card has colors with flowers.  Perfect for a Pick me Up card.

I stamped the image twice with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder that had a nice sparkle to it.   Both images were colored with white pencil first.   After the white, I did green for leaves and pink for the flowers.  If you have not tried this technique of coloring first with a white pencil on dark cardstock, you should!

The images were die cut out and the first layer was popped up with pop dots.  The second layer was popped up and placed on top of the first one.  I did cut some of the leaves off the 2nd layer and tucked them down in under the first layer.

 

 

I carried the theme to the inside of the card.

 

This card will go off in the mail tomorrow and I hope she enjoys it.

Submitted to Challenge

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Supplies

DCWV Nana's Kids Paper Pack

White, Yellow, Pink Cardstock 

Honey Bee Gem Stickers

Hero Arts Embossing Sparkle Powder

Versa Mark Stamp Pad

Heat Gun

Becky Moore Say It With Stamps "Hey/Hello/Hi"  

Altenew Sparkle Bright Stamp

Versafine Onyx Black

Nuvo Crystal Drops Rhubarb Crumble

Pop Ups

Prisma Pencils:

Leaves-Apple Green, Dark Green

Flowers-Carmine Red, Pink, Deco Pink

White

52 CCC April Technique Challenge-Embossed Vellum

I got another Christmas Card done towards my goal for 2023.  

 I didn't count how many cards I threw away working on my idea!  Nothing lined up right.

My idea was to make an image on the inside of a vellum card and to heat emboss a stamp image on the outside of the vellum.  The inside was colored and the outside was just the image embossed in white.

When closed, you can see the colored poinsettias through the vellum.  

 

I finally accomplished my idea.  I love experimenting, especially when it finally comes out like I planned.

 

At 52CCT challenge was to emboss but it did not say dry emboss or heat emboss.  Hoping heating embossing is ok!

Submitted to Challenge

 

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-technique-challenge.html

 

****Update****

Supplies

Stampin Up Vellum Cardstock

White Cardstock 

Nuvo Embossing Paper Glacier White Powder

Heat Gun

VersaMark Ink Pad

Altenew Crispe Dye Ink-Sea Breeze and Tide Blue

Colorado & Craft Company-Slimline Poinsettias

Blue Sequins

Dr. Ph. Martin's Pen-White Ink

Blending Brushes

52 CCT March Color Challenge

                                       

Challenge this week for 52 CCT is to use gold and white on our cards. This past Christmas, I actually decorated my dining room in gold and white and I thought it was so elegant.  

My background stamp from Stampendous "Poinsettia Background" was stamped with VersaMark ink.  I covered it with Stampendous Ultra Detail Embossing Powder "Gold Opaque" but the gold is a little bit different.  Long ago some glitter got mixed in with it and I loved the look so much I kept it.  If you look close at the photo below you can see a hint of glitter mixed in the gold.  

I used some of the dies from the Sizzix set "Holiday Shadow Box".  I cut the words Joyful and Wishes out three times each...2 white cardstock and 1 gold sparkle cardstock.  I glued them together...layering white, gold, white.... however the gold was offset slightly.  Word Christmas was cut once in white.

The background was matted with the same gold cardstock and everything was glued down.

Another finished Christmas card.  

Who is going to join us in this challenge?

52 CCT February Color Challenge

The color challenge this time is Green and Silver.  I struggled with this one a bit.  I knew green could be used for trees but what would the silver be?

Finally came up with this creation.

The tree is a stamp set I have had for a number of years from Close to my Heart "Greeting Tree".   I stamped the tree on white cardstock with Memento Bamboo Leave color and fussy cut it out...including the the areas that was left white.  I wanted the black to show through instead of the white. 

 I glued it down and stamped the swirl with versarmark over it so I could heat emboss it with silver.  The Joy came from Inkadinkado "Calligraphy Experessions" stamp set, which I also did with versamark and heat embossed in silver.

These two stamp sets are so old, I have no idea if you can even buy them anymore.  

I finished off the card with tiny silver marker dots all over the card.

I punched out an edge of silver trees to go across the inside of the card.  The punch was an EK punch called "Alpine Trail Edger".

I hope you join us all over at 52CCT with the latest challenge.

  Plenty of creations to look at and get you going.

Thank you for stopping by!