Dragon Fly Dreams

Hi Crafters and Welcome to my blog,  I figured it was about time I started a blog and got into the online age.  I hope to share with you some of my makes and my love of paper craft.  Today I will share a very simple card made with the Dragon Fly Dreams stamp set from Stampin' Up!

 

This was super simple to make and I was please with the results, I love butterflies, dragonflies etc, I think they make such a pretty feature on a card.

Here's how I made it,  I cut a piece of A4 Whisper White card stock length ways down the middle at 10.5xm and then scored that in the middle at 14.85cm to make my card blank.  I cut two pieces of Night of Navy card stock at 9.5 cm x 14.3cm for my first layer.  For the top layer I cut two pieces of Whisper White card stock to 8.5cm x 13.8cm.

For my Stamping I used the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set from Stampin' Up! a gorgeous new set in the Spring Summer Catalogue.  I used Pear Pizazz, Night of Navy and Black Memento Ink pads.

I use the random spotty stamp to stamp a pattern around the edges of both of my Whisper White card layers, with Night of Navy and Pear Pizazz stamping off and on to get various shades of the two inks.  Next I stamped both my sentiments in Black memento to the front layer and the inner layer.

The last bit of stamping was the dragonfly,  I stamped this out twice, once onto my front layer and then secondly onto Whisper White card stock (this piece doesn't have to be measured (I used the off cut from my layers).  The detailed stamp I stamped in Night of Navy and then the wing stamp I stamped over (two step stamping) with the Pear Pizazz ink.  I finished off with my blender pen to the edges where my green didn't quite fill in the gaps as I am always wonky.   I took the second stamped image and fussy cut out the wings cutting the body off (you can cut out with the matching framelits too if you like too).  

I then layered my navy onto my card blank and then added my white stamped layer, I mounted my wings onto my dragonfly with some Stampin' Dimensional and finally I added a few Rhinestones as a bit of bling just finished it off.

I hope you like today's creation,  please do leave me a comment and I would love you to follow me and pop back again

Happy Crafting 

Helen x