Saturday, March 14, 2020

Stenciled Dragonfly


While looking through my stencil collection, I pulled out this Dina Wakley "jungle stencil" and used a snippet of white card to make the pattern along with some green ink. I matted the panel with black and placed it on an embossed panel of white card stock from SSS {I LOVE this embossed cardstock!}. The dragonfly was made with a die from GinaMarieDesigns, and I colored it with some very old paint cups - I think they might be called Twinkling H20's. After it dried, I covered it Versamark ink and then heat-embossed it with clear ep to add a bit more sturdiness and shine. I still wasn't satisfied, so I went over it with a clear Wink of Stella pen and then finally decided it had enough shimmer and sparkle!


I heat-embossed the SSS sentiment with white ep on some MFT die-cut labels and finished this with a few black Nuvo drops.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:


As You See It challenge #221 - preferences (favorite cards to make - for me it's birthday)

Seize the Birthday #185 - topping - a touch of green

CAS Stencil March 2020 challenge - use heat embossing

     

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great weekend!

Carol

16 comments:

HilaryJane said...

Love that jungle stencil and the shine on your heat embossed butterfly. Thanks for sharing with us at CAS stencil xx

Wendy said...

Beautiful card, Carol! Love how you made the dragonfly and all the sparkle on it! Your stencil looks great with the embossed cardstock as well! TFS and enjoy your day! Hugs~

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

How Beautiful Carol, love the colours in the butterfly and it's shimmer, the stencil is beautiful too. AND so is the card.
Faith x

Jan Clothier said...

This is a lovely card. I like the clean design, the pretty stencilling and above all else that gorgeously sparkly dragonfly. It's a lot of work to get just the right shine! Thanks for joining in with us at As You See It Challenge.

Verna Angerhofer said...

Beautiful design and that dragonfly in those colors is awesome. I love how it shimmers too.

aussie aNNie said...

Fabulous background stencil and love how you do just a part of it, the dragonfly is just beautiful and so sparkly.x

nancy littrell said...

Your stenciled background is wonderful for your pretty shiny heat embossed die cut dragonfly, Carol. TFS and joining us at CAS Stencil Challenge. Hugs..Nancy

Stampsnob. said...

Color is great for the dragonfly ......Good job.............Lis

Loll said...

Your beautiful dragonfly looks right at home on that fantastic stenciled panel, Carol! Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Stencil!

crafty-stamper said...

Love the stencilled background and beautiful Dragonfly
Carol x

Claire said...

Oh... this is gorgeous, loving all the hues of green particularly on the panel and then replicated on the dragonfly, very nice. Good choice on the embossed background too and its sparkly... top notch x

nwilliams6 said...

The stenciling was the perfect idea on this Carol and it came out so pretty. Love it! Hugz

Barbara said...

Oh, I do see the shimmer and sparkle and it looks great. Love the background stencil that you used too. I sure appreciate that you shared it with us at Seize the Birthday.
Barbara DT

*Vicki* said...

Absolutely stunning card here Carol! I love the pretty sheen over the dragonfly and the green colors along with the wonderful texture too!! HUGS

Heather Cooper said...

Good for you, Carol, being able to capture the lovely sparkle on your dragonfly in the photograph - notoriously hard to do! I love the way you worked at getting just the right shine to it! And your jungle stencil was a perfect background. Thanks for joining us at As You See It Challenges this week.

Nancy said...

Such a pretty card Carol! Love the multi colored dragonfly and that great background! Grounds him perfectly! Thanks for playing along with us at Seize the Birthday!