As The Dragon Flies...

Hello there, it's Fri-Yay! I hope you are planning something fun this weekend as we honor the Dads in our lives...which reminds me, I need to get going on Honey's card! For now though, I have a 4x6 artist post card to share with you that I then added onto the front of a 5x7" birthday card! Grab a cuppa if you have the time and get comfy. Lots of photos today!

So... my color scheme is Lemon Yellow, Lime Green and Black because that is Lost Coast Design's current challenge. I went into this not liking this combo and it took me making this to be a fan. I used the brightest yellows I could find and I think that helped. I made an Artist Post Card because I wanted to play at Sunday Post Card Art's Dragonflies challenge. I have had this Technique Tuesday Boho Buzz dragonfly stamp for years and never inked it up that I remember. This was also a good opportunity for me to use my Spellbinders Botanical Swirls cover plate die as well. I cut white index stock and used a Copic to color it lime green.

 I wanted a sun and sunshine peeking through my botanicals die, as bright as possible so I turned to my Neon ink and my Spectrum Noir Flourescent yellow marker. Combining these with Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilized Amber Distress inks gave me really cool looking sunburst after stenciling with a Crafters Workshop Mini-Sunburst stencil.  I shifted the stencil around slightly to color the entire circle and got that really cool inner circle.

 I just kept blending the colors until I liked it.

Then I adhered my botanical die using spray adhesive. LOVE THAT STUFF for intricate dies!

I stamped 4 of the dragonflies with VersaMark, heat-embossed them with Ranger Black Sparkle EP, colored them all with Copics and then fussy cut them out. I blinged them using Sakura glitter gel pens and yellow and gold Winks of Stella.

I attach 2 of the dragonflies using ScorTape on their bodies and thin dimensionals under the wings. I added 3 gold flower sequins and edged my post card with black chalk ink.

CHALLENGES FOR 4X6"ARTIST POST CARD:
1.  Sunday Post Card Art: Dragonflies

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Okay, so next is the birthday card I made using the 4x6" artist post card.

I cut a piece of flourescent yellow DCWV card stock to a 5x7 card, added some lime green SU card stock matting and DCWV black plaid paper under the artist post card to frame it.

 

I used this current Fusion sketch as my inspiration, as well as the bright neon colors on the VW bus.

 The inside of my card uses stamps by I Brake for Stamps, Woodware, Verve Visuals and Avery Elle. Ink used was VersaFine Clair Nocturne.

 A close-up attempting to show the glittery wings, very apparent and lovely in person.

 I stamped the Studio Calico Time Flies stamp and the Clear Dollar Another Birthday? stamp with VersaMark and then heat-embossed using Ranger Lemon Yellow and Fern Green EP's. I played with using them both here. I now have a little leftover mixture of yellow and green, which is a bit weird but another challenge to figure out how to use it, lol. My die cut is Spellbinders Labels 14.

Another close-up attempting to show the glittery wings...

I hope you liked my artist post card on a greeting card! If nothing else, I bet the photos woke you up, heehee! Yellow is so good for my soul, I should put more of it in my life!

CHALLENGES FOR GREETING CARD:
1. Fusion Card Challenge: Sketch + VW Hippie -  (Sketch is shown above)
2.  Moo Mania #193: Here Comes the Sun - I stenciled the sun on my background under the botanical swirls die.
3.  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #77: Lemon, Lime and Black

4.  Take A Word Challenge: Time
5.  Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge June - Must use a stencil and I used TCW's 6x6 Mini-Sunburst

6.  Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies June Challenge - I used 2 Spellbinders dies on my card front: 4x6 Botanical Swirls cover plate and Labels 14 dies.

7.   Time Out Challenge #137: Nature + Opt. One-Layer Card - I did not play the option.

8.  Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge June 10-23: Wings - I have dragonfly wings. 
9.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #27: AG with a Critter - I have dragonfly critters. 
10.  Country View Challenge June: It's a Bug's Life
11.  Cut It Up Challenge #176: Welcome Summer! - Must use a die cut - I've used two.
12.  Love to Scrap Challenge #122: No Rulz 3 (AG)
13.  Crafty Creations #392: Always AG
14.  Crafting From the Heart #245: Always AG
15.  Through the Craft Room Door Week of Jun 11: Always AG
16.  Scrapping4Fun Challenge #142: Summer
17.  Paper Girls Challenge #177: My Top 5 - This card contains 5 of my top art process faves: 1) coloring 2) heat embossing 3) stamping 4) die cutting 5) using bold colors.
18.  Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge June: Always AG with Patterned Papers

Thanks so much for hanging in there for this long post! And thanks as always for stopping by to visit. I hope you have a great weekend! XOX