Summer is here and todays project for Visible Image is inspired by the dragonflies that flit around on our the lakes in our local woodland. I love to watch them glistening in the sunshine. Truly magical!
I began by creating a background on watercolour card with Lindys Magical Shakers. I love these little powder pots- they have a beautiful shimmer to them.
I then stamped the background stamps from the Dragonfly Reflection stamp set in various complimenting colours. I also used the Round In Circles set - SUCH a useful one to have on the craft desk for adding extra interest to your backgrounds.
I positioned the dragonfly and stamped and heat embossed.
I coloured the wings, and added more dimension to the background by applying Gellitex paste through the Off The Grid stencil and sprinkling ultra fine gold glitter over the top and leaving to air dry.
I wanted my dragonfly to have the beautifully detailed individual wings that are also included in the set. For this I used a stamping platform. I lay my paper down, and positioned the acetate holder sheet on top. I placed the wing stamps over the top, closed the lid to pick up the stamps before removing the acetate and stamping them.
I then masked the wings and stamped and embossed the body
I fussy cut it out and coloured the wings and added stickles.
When dry I added some fibres underneath before adhering in place.
I them stamped my sentiment and masked it before stamping the fibres over the top. I created this card with one arm in a plaster cast so the word resilience definitely seemed appropriate!
Products Used
There are great things happening right now over at Visible Image so why not check out their socials on the following links to stay up to date. We love to see your creations too so be sure to join the Facebook group.
Lynda love this and visible image stamps are fabulous. I also love the step here you gave us and love lindy's too,... just need to use them more often.. great blog x
ReplyDeleteStunning card, Cathy x
ReplyDelete