The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Rachel Tessman

Sunday, 19 March 2017

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Rachel Tessman - Dragonfly Dreams

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Rachel Tessman - we are thrilled to have Rachel join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her .

Glitter window Detailed Dragonfly card featuring the Butterfly Basics stamp set (Tutorial Bundle Design Team February 2017 Blog Hop)…#stampyourartout - Stampin’ Up!® - Stamp Your Art Out! www.stampyourartout.com

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I spent a little bit of time looking through Rachel's blog posts and ended up with rather a long short list of projects - more of a long list than a short list! Eventually though, this card sort of chose itself - let me explain!

A little white ago I made some watercolour backgrounds with dragonflies embossed on them. I used the most successful one for this card and almost discarded the other because it came out looking so bland. However, after a week of shuffling it around my desk, I decided that it could be rescued with some stamping and sponging .... and once I'd done that, I realised that my CASE for this blog hop had just chosen itself!

#crazycraftersbloghop, Dragonfly Dreams, Awesomely Artistic, Watercolour Background, #thecraftythinker, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

Dragonfly Dreams & Awesomely Artistic in combination

To rescue my bland card, I took the following steps (spread over several days due to time restraints!):

Stamped with Watermelon Wonder ink using the "splodges" from the stamp set and then spritzed with some water to let them blend into the background a little.
Let the paper dry.
Stamped the flowers with Cherry Cobbler ink
Using Cherry Cobbler ink and an Aqua Painter, added ink between the flowers in the top right corner.
Using Cherry Cobbler ink and an Aqua Painter, added shading around the dragonfly image
Let the paper dry
Using an almost dry brush and Cherry Cobbler ink, added colour to the centres of the flowers
Sponged Cherry Cobbler ink around the edges, blending towards the centre.

I stamped the greeting and label elements onto Flirty Flamingo cardstock with Cherry Cobbler ink and cut it out with the matching die from the Project Life Cards & Labels framelits.

Then I adhered the ribbon to the back of the label and stuck it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

The rather bland watercolour background that was almost rejected

I think the main problem I had with the piece was that the gold dragonfly and the watercolour background were too similar in tone. The Cherry Cobbler shading made a huge difference.

The dragonfly theme continues inside the card with the image from Awesomely Artistic

I hope you've enjoyed this card and I welcome your comments.

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