Sparkly ORCHID Dragonfly
Last week’s color challenge was a challenge indeed! The colors were Kraft, Sage Shadow and….wait for it… ORCHID!!!! Did you hear me scream. All morning I was mulling around saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO in my head. But …. challenge chaser that I am, I tried it. And it didn’t turn out as horrible as I thought it would. LOL
I thought these colors would maybe look allright on a dragonfly. So I pulled out the Level 2 Hostess set Infinite Goodness. I started by stamping the branch as well as the dragonfly in Black StazOn on watercolor paper. For the branch I wet it with my Aqua Painter completely before starting to add color. That made my colors run out of the lines a bit. I am trying to grow and getting more comfortable with my coloring and thought I would try this out. I like how it came out. The colors I used were Sage Shadow, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip for the branch and Soft sky. I colored the dragonfly first lightly with Sage Shadow and then kept on adding Orchid to make it very vibrant. Next I cut it out.
I cut the branch paper down to 1 5/8″ x 2 1/8″ , taped it to an 1/8″ bigger piece of Kraft cardstock and a Chocolate Chip scallop rectangle cut with the Nestabilities dies (I am telling you, you NEED those!). You know I had to paper pierce the border, right? I added my favorite Stickles called Stardust over my berries and set them aside.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Kraft cardstock folded in half. The next layer is a 4″ square of distressed Vanilla cardstock. It’s followed by a 1/4″ smaller piece of Sage Shadow. I stamped the leaf from Infinite Goodness in Sage Shadow all over, sponged the edges heavily and paper pierced a border around it.
The horizontal Orchid layer measures 1 1/4″ x 3 3/4″. I sponged the entire piece and wheeled the Rough Texture wheel over it. Next I distressed the edges and layered it on a 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Vanilla cardstock. The corner rounder was used to add the scallops on the bottom part of that layer. The top edge of the Orchid layer was paper pierced and Kraft Taffeta ribbon was tied around it.
To finish the card off with two large Jumbo Pewter Eyelets that were topped of with Clear Rhinestone brads.
