The dragonfly tale

I mentioned earlier in the week that I had a set of dragonfly cards to share.  I have five in total but I only set out to make one.  The one above.  The fact is that the one above ended up being the fourth one I made as things didn’t always work as I wanted them to.

So keeping in mind that I was aiming for that one above you can probably see how I made the one below.  I had my dragonflies stamped in silver on my brayered cardstock.  I had also added the eggplant dragonflies on the natural  cardstock but  something wasn’t working so I took my punch and extracted a few squares and created the layout below.  It was then that I decided to be a little more methodical in my approach as it can be tricky to line up an image on a top layer and a layer underneath.

I brayered Elegant Eggplant, Taken with Teal and Sage Shadow on a piece of white cardstock so that I had plenty of background colour to work on.  For the top card I cut a strip and stamped the dragonflies in silver encore ink and embossed them in silver ep.  It worked much better when I made sure the brayered colour was entirely dry and was not going to pick up any of the embossing powder.   I then lay my coloured strip with dragonflies on the Natural card base and used a stamp-a-ma-jig to  stamp the eggplant dragonflies.

To make the one above and the one below I punched the squares out of the brayered cardstock and used classic CAS layouts.

Finally,I wanted one more card but my brayered cardstock was punched full of holes so I created a one layer card and instead of brayering the colour I sponged it using a mask punched out of post it note.

Thanks so much for scrolling through the whole dragonfly tale, once again I’m glad I didn’t give up when the first idea didn’t work as planned.

Supplies:

Stamps: Infinite Goodness, Graceful Words, Upsy Daisy, Best Yet, Simple Sayings 2, Everyday Flexible Phrases
Inks: Taken with Teal, Elegant Eggplant, Sage Shadow,  Encore silver
Cardstock: Naturals White, Whisper White
Also: Silver e.p