Saturday, 2 May 2020

Fluttering Happy Birthday

The heavens opened up all day yesterday so I opened up my tin of pencils and coloured some pretty dragonflies from MFT...




After colouring the dragonflies I carefully fussy cut them out.  The circle die with the leaves is by Alexandra Renke and is cut twice to add a little height.




I've used a Stamplorations stencil to add some texture paste in the middle of the die for interest.  The sentiment is from the same set as the dragonflies, heat embossed in white onto black card stock.

A small amount of sparkle has been added to the wings after gently curling around a pencil.

Challenge Links...

Just Add Ink - Choose Two (stencil and pencils)
Watercooler Wednesday - Fifth Week Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps - Make Your Mark







14 comments:

  1. Such pretty dragonflies Claire, love the detailed frame and the stencilling in the centre adds so much texture, gorgeous CAS card, Cathy x

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  2. Absolutely beautiful, Claire. What a fabulous design! xx

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  3. This is gorgeous Claire! Your layers of white are super elegant and I love how you've used pencils to give the dragonfly colourings an ombre look. Thanks for sharing with us at Just Add Ink this week!

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  4. I just love your wonderful CAS designs and how beautifully you arrange all your elements together! Those dragonflies are colored beautifully with your pencils (I need to pull mine out and use them soon) and the texture paste makes a great background for that pretty circle die! Simply stunning card!

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  5. I love how you used the different elements to add lots of interest to this pretty, CAS card. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!

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  6. Stunning CAS card Claire! Thanks for joining us at Watercooler Wednesday.

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  7. Fabulous Claire...what pretty dragonflies and a super clean and crisp card...your forte! Hugs xx

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  8. Your card is very elegant and ....perfect. My english is not good enough to express everything I feel during admiring the card. You have fussy cut the dragonflies very precise. And both are fabulous colored.
    Stay safe!
    Sonja

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  9. What a gorgeous design with so much texture and dimension! So happy you were able to play along with us at CTD!

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  10. Lovely CAS card! I really need to try my pencils! So happy you joined us at CTD!

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  11. Love the dragonflies! Thanks for joining us at Watercooler Wednesday Challenges! Kath-DT

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  12. Stunning! Such beauty in those dragonflies and the die cut... this is so pretty, Claire

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  13. The stencilling inside your die cut circle is delightful - it adds great texture to your CAS style card. Chantell Just Add Ink

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  14. Gosh, that is really lovely Claire. I would be tempted to put that in a frame xx

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