Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Rachel Tessman - Dragonfly Dreams

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Rachel Tessman - we are thrilled to have Rachel join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her . 

Click to link to Rachel's blog

 

Whether you are starting the blog hop here at my blog, Stephanie Fischer - The Crafty Thinker, or have come from the person before me, be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

I spent a little bit of time looking through Rachel's blog posts and ended up with rather a long short list of projects - more of a long list than a short list!  Eventually though, this card sort of chose itself - let me explain!


A little white ago I made some watercolour backgrounds with dragonflies embossed on them.  I used the most successful one for this card and almost discarded the other because it came out looking so bland.  However, after a week of shuffling it around my desk, I decided that it could be rescued with some stamping and sponging .... and once I'd done that, I realised that my CASE for this blog hop had just chosen itself!

Dragonfly Dreams & Awesomely Artistic in combination

To rescue my bland card, I took the following steps (spread over several days due to time restraints!):

1. Stamped with Watermelon Wonder ink using the "splodges" from the stamp set and then spritzed with some water to let them blend into the background a little.
2. Let the paper dry.
3. Stamped the flowers with Cherry Cobbler ink
4. Using Cherry Cobbler ink and an Aqua Painter, added ink between the flowers in the top right corner.
5. Using Cherry Cobbler ink and an Aqua Painter, added shading around the dragonfly image
6. Let the paper dry
7. Using an almost dry brush and Cherry Cobbler ink, added colour to the centres of the flowers
8. Sponged Cherry Cobbler ink around the edges, blending towards the centre.

I stamped the greeting and label elements onto Flirty Flamingo cardstock with Cherry Cobbler ink and cut it out with the matching die from the Project Life Cards & Labels framelits.

Then I adhered the ribbon to the back of the label and stuck it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

The rather bland watercolour background that was almost rejected

I think the main problem I had with the piece was that the gold dragonfly and the watercolour background were too similar in tone.  The Cherry Cobbler shading made a huge difference.

The dragonfly theme continues inside the card with the image from Awesomely Artistic

I hope you've enjoyed this card and I welcome your comments. 

Thanks for following our blog hop. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - so click on the next name in the list to ensure that you don't miss out of seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration they contain.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie



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Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits

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Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

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Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock

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Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

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Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock

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3/8" Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack

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Heat Tool

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Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Versamark Pad

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Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

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Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin' Pad

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Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad

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Aqua Painters

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Stamping Sponges

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Stampin' Dimensionals

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Serene Dragonfly

I've been so incredibly short of time recently that I've hardly been able to venture inside my craft room - just a sneeky five minutes here and there!  I was beginning to think that I'd have nothing for my post today and then I realised it was the ideal opportunity to showcase the versatility of the Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper!  

Serene Scenery DSP is so beautiful and also helpful for those short on time!

It was so quick and easy to stamp the two images onto the designer paper and then adhere the layers together.  

My tip for today - when you need a card but are short on time - Designer Series Paper is your best friend!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!

Stephanie


Product List - To visit my online store, click on a product image below (Australian Residents only)

Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack

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Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock

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Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

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Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

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Special Reason Dragonfly

It's Friday which means .... Crazy Crafters' Projects Highlights day!  To see all the amazing entries and vote for your favourites, click here.

I made a few inky backgrounds the other day (I like to do messy things like that in batches!) and used one of them for this card.

Copper makes everything "special" as well as warm and inviting!

Having cut my piece of Shimmery White cardstock to the size I wanted, the first thing I did was to Copper heat emboss the dragonfly image.

Then, to make the background I used Peekaboo Peach and Watermelon Wonder ink pads, a water spritzer, plastic bag and waterproof craft mat.

I basically used the plastic bag smooshing method of applying ink to wet cardstock (wet the cardstock, pat the ink pad down on the plastic bag to transfer ink, smoosh inky bag onto wet cardstock) but, not quite happy with my result, I also patted some ink down onto the craft mat, spritzed it with some water and tapped the cardstock into it.

The touches of copper provide interest to the otherwise simple card

Once it was all dry, I layered up the cardstock and added the remaining elements.  I cut flowers with the Stylish Stems small flower framelits - one in Watermelon Wonder and two in Cherry Cobbler.  Having adhered them into place, I cut just the petals in Peekaboo Peach cardstock and glued them into position in the Watermelon Wonder flower.

I then partially cut three more flowers with Copper Sheet.  The centres were adhered into the three flowers and I sprinkled some of the petals around the dragonfly.  I'm so proud of myself for achieving "random"!!

I copper heat embossed the banner and sentiment before cutting out the banner with the matching die from the Bunch of Banners framelits.

To finish the inside of the card, I stamped flowers from the Special Reason set in one corner using Peekaboo Peach, Watermelon Wonder and Wild Wasabi inks.

Thank you for visiting - don't forget to visit the highlights!
'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - To visit my online store, click on a product image below (Australian Residents only)

Special Reason Clear-Mount Bundle

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Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Birthday Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Banners For You Photopolymer Bundle

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Versamark Pad

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Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Embossing Buddy

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Heat Tool

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Copper Foil Sheets

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Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

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Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

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2015-2017 In Color 12" X 12" Cardstock

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Peekaboo Peach A4 Cardstock

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Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

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Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad

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Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin' Pad

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Hot Glue with Copper - Hot Glue Embossing

I saw Connie MacFarlane's tutorial for this technique at Splitcoaststampers and completely fell in love with it.  This is my first attempt and more-or-less a CASE of Connie's card except that I turned it upside down and added my colours in blocks.

I'm going to have to get some more copper embossing powder!

While I had the glue gun hot, I attempted some more mini artworks.  None of them were anything like as good as Connie's but still manage to have their own unique appeal.  I'll show them to you by and by.

This card is entered into the Crazy Crafters Project Highlights this week.  To see the other great projects and to vote for your favourites, click here.

Thanks for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie


Product List - To visit my online store, click on one of the product images below (Australian Residents only)

Versamark Pad

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Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Copper Foil Sheets

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Watercolor Paper

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Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

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Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

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Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

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Elegant Eggplant A4 Card Stock

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Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

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Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Stamp Set

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