Good afternoon everyone, I have been working well today and managed to finish The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge "D" page. My chosen word for "D" is dragonfly, dragonflies are so beautiful they are one of my favourite insects alongside butterflies. I recently bought the Tim Holtz dragonfly stamp and have been looking forward to using it and the letter "D" gives me the chance.
As well as the Tim Holtz stamp I used two others which were free with magazines many years ago, a grasses stamp from Lavinia Stamps and a Stampendous swirls stamp. I stamped the images in black Stazon and coloured them with distressed inks and some perfect pearls in blues, greens and golds. The wings of each dragonfly were stamped onto acetate with Stazon, cut out and attached to the relevant dragonfly, a bit of a mistake because they hid the beautiful colours of the wings. The background was coloured with distress inks in, squeezed lemonade, mowed lawn, broken china, milled lavender and a little peacock feather. The swirls were stamped in various colours and the grasses in brushed corduroy.
Off back to the pile of projects waiting on my desk, hope to get some more things finished before the end of the day.
Wow what a fab project x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous gorgeous gorgeous, Love dragonflies, love Tim's stamp and the colours you have chosen too. BJ
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!!!!!!! These pages are fabulous and love all the gorgeous detail you have incorporated on them. Love that dragonfly stamp too.
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Linda xxxx
What a fantastic project love the way the dragonfly's look so real xxx
ReplyDeleteFabulous pages Sylv xx
ReplyDeleteabsolutely awesome pages
ReplyDeleteThis is a great project - love the colors!!! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat pages Sweetie, i love to watch dragonflies hovering over our pond x
ReplyDeleteFab pages, love the dragonfly Px
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pages. Love that dragonfly stamp. Love the cool colours you've chosen for your background. MMx
ReplyDeleteA really beautiful word choice for D - and that tim holtz stamp is just gorgeous! I love the colours you've used on both the dragonflies and the background, Claire x
ReplyDeleteFabulous pages, hun, love this project, was going to do something like this, with my Dad's old Dictionary, after you last pages, but just could not do it, LOL....xxx
ReplyDeleteLovely page, fab dragon fly stamp
ReplyDeleteI love your dragonfly page Sylv, the acetate makes them so realistic they look as if they are going to fly off the page :)
ReplyDeleteVal x
Beautiful pages and I love all the colours you have used. The swirls and grasses in the background look gorgeous too. I am telling myself I don't need that dragonfly stamp but your pages are making it hard to resist the spending temptation!Lol.
ReplyDeleteAwesome pages! Love the colors and the word choice. The grass and the swirls look gorgeous on this. Suzanne
ReplyDeleteAwe I love your page sylv, beautiful colours and stamping on your background and stunning focal images, superb. I adore dragonflies too, soooooo magical don't you think.
ReplyDeleteHugs x
Gorgeous pages great D word choice and stamp love the background and colours.
ReplyDeleteMaggieH
Wonderful pages, I love dragonflies.
ReplyDeleteSubtle and beautiful
ReplyDeleteThank you for playing with us at the Craft Barn
Izzy
Hi Sulv, thanks for popping in on my blog, I so appreciate your visit!! Love your page, those dragonfly stamps are amazing! Love the wings too! Hugs Frea
ReplyDeleteLovely pages Sylv. The dragonflies are gorgeous
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