Materials used:
6 x 6 card
Nestie label 1
DP - Basic Grey
Various stamps and inks
Ribbon, wire, beads
I never realised I had a favourite crafting colour until I looked back on my recent cards and saw that Green in some shade or other was there! Today is no exception.....
I have always loved papers from Basic Grey, this is from the Scrapbook Designer papers - just a green with blobs of peachy orange and black lines.....perfect for stamping on! The flower stamp is from Hero Arts called Flourish Bloom and the Dragonfly is by Stampendous and together with a Label One die and a few more dabs of distress inks, make a surprise when opening the card.
Using the same DP for the front of my card, I stamped the dragonfly and a border of swirls with Adirondack Raison and again added a bit more colour to the edges.
Now I needed an embellishment...
I tried something new for me - a resist technique. I first stamped the flower with a white acrylic dabber (the border is the same stamp). When dry I completely covered the tag with various colours of DI's then rubbed the ink off to show the pattern. All I needed then was a touch of the raison colour by way of the dragonfly and a sentiment, a light misting of water and a few splodges of glitter glue (which you canot see - drat!) to finish my tag.
I made a tassel from satin ribbon
a curl of wire and beads and.....
my card was finished.
I enjoyed trying the resist technique and stamping on decorative paper. It's taken me a long time to pluck up the courage to change some of my crafting habits, but now I've started, doubt I'll stop!
