Designer Boutique Dragonfly Delight Steps

Evening Everyone,

I hope that you have had a good day. I have had a very successful one finishing off a load of bits and pieces. For now I'm sharing a card that I made for Creative Expressions, using one of the fabulous new stamps from Designer Boutique which have just launched.

I helped them out with some steps for this card, so I thought that I would share them with you here.

You will need:

Creative Expressions Designer Boutique Dragonfly Delight UMSDB045

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Noble Double Pierced Ovals CED5516

Cosmic Shimmer Airless Mister Amber Lights CSAMLIGHT

Cosmic Shimmer Airless Mister Flirty Pink CSAMPINK

Cosmic Shimmer Airless Mister Poppy Parade CSAMPOPPY

Cosmic Shimmer Airless Mister Blackberry Bliss CSAMBLISS

Creative Expressions Foundations Card Coconut White 40980

Cosmic Shimmer Detail Embossing Powder Black CSDEPBLK

Ranger Perfect Medium PERPADCL

Creative Expressions Mounting Foam CEMOUNT

Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue CSGLUE

Hole punch

Anti static bag

Ruler

Black pen such as a Sakura Pigma Micron pen

Cling film

Thin undiluted bleach

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1: Cut in half 1 sheet of coconut white card A4 and score one piece in half to create the card blank

Step 2: Take the other piece of coconut white card and spray it with airless misters. Once finished, add cling film to the surface and leave it to dry for several hours/overnight. Remove the cling film once dry.

Step 3: Wipe your card front with an anti-static bag and stamp the dragonfly stamp using perfect medium ink pad.

Step 4: Cover the stamped image with black embossing powder and heat emboss

Step 5: Repeat steps 3&4 on the pre-coloured sheet you created using airless misters.

Step 6: Using Double Pierced Oval die of a chosen size, die cut section of the dragonfly from your pre-coloured sheet and glue it over the same pre-stamped design on your card blank, so that both images match.

Step 7: Use a small amount of bleach and a fine blush to lift some colour out of the flowers and wings of the dragonfly.

Step 8: Draw a decorative border using a ruler around the design, avoiding going over the stamped image

Step 9: Hole punch selected areas of the design left on the pre-coloured sheet. Shape them on a foam pad/mouse mat using a shaping tool. Use foam tape or mounting cushion cut to the size to adhere the domed circles to the card on opposite sides of the dragonfly.

I do love to make inky backgrounds and the airless misters are fabulous for this.

I used scrunched up cling film over the wet inks which leaves a lovely frosty pattern in it.

They also react beautifully with bleach which is what I used to paint the daffodils and dragonfly.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you find the instructions useful.

Hugs Kimx