Dena's Designs: happy birthday

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Dragonfly Card

Hi Everyone!!!

Wow it's been such a long time since my last proper blog post. I've been really busy making flower headbands for the Chelsea flower show and making samples using the new Crafty Individuals stamps, due to be launched on 3rd June on Create and Craft. The new stamps are absolutely gorgeous, you may also notice some new sentiment stamps that I was lucky enough to design.

Anyway - had a quick crafting session today using my new Tim Holtz dies.

Use a brayer to apply speckled egg oxide ink to your gel plate.

Dab vintage photo onto a tile and pick the ink up with a watery fan brush. Spatter the ink on the gel plate.

Using a piece of card that'll fit on a 6x6 card blank, place on the inky section of the gel plate and rub over the back to pick all the ink up.

Distress the edges with vintage photo.

Die cut the crackle corner.

Randomly stamp the crafty individuals script in vintage photo.

Apply Forest Moss oxide ink to the Tim Holtz grassy stamp and spritz with water. Stamp the image once and then again in another area so the ink appears lighter. Repeat this process along the bottom section of the card.

Die cut the dragonfly from the Tim Holtz bug collection twice. This die cuts three separate sections of the dragonfly, which creates lovely layers when stuck down.

Colour the base layer with vintage photo.

Colour the body with vintage photo and the wings with antique linen.

Colour the wings with speckled egg.

Then apply some iridescent medium to the wings to add some shimmer.

Stamp and emboss the happy birthday sentiment from CI-464 in gold.

Add a shadow around the sentiment with a black pen.

Mount your topper onto a brown piece of card allowing a slight border around the edge.

Mount onto a 6x6 folded card blank.

Assemble and stick the dragonflies in place.

Finally stamp a couple of smaller dragonflies from CI-207 in vintage photo oxide ink.

Thank you so much for joining me, will hopefully do another blog post very soon.

X-Dena-X

Shopping list

White card

6x6 card blank

Oxide inks

Versafine brown ink

Gold embossing powder

Heat gun

Fan brush

Blending brushes

Tim Holtz grassy stamp - I'm sorry I cant find the packaging for this one

Tim Holtz crackle die - 661175

Tim Holtz bugs - 665364

Crafty individuals Script

Crafty individuals dragonfly

Crafty individuals sentiments

Iridescent medium

Glue

Black pen

Gel plate

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Happy Birthday Dragon card

Evening All!!

I've been meaning to post this card all week and haven't got round to it.

Made the for a member of the family's birthday who collects dragons.

Stamp and emboss the Dragon and Happy Birthday verse.

Apply the pebeo drawing gum over the dragon image. I prefer to use a rubber tipped brush to apply the solution as it seems to make all my brushes go hard, even if I try to clean them. You will need to work quickly though as the mixture is fast drying and the rubber tip will pull it back off if you don't work quick enough.

Sprinkle the pretty gets gritty powders onto your messy mat one colour at a time. Spritz with water and dab your card into the inky mixture. Dry with a heat gun.

Continue the same process with the other two colours.

Once your card is completely dry, remove the masking fluid with either your finger or a glue eraser. You will need to do this carefully.

I painted the dragon with a watery mixture of the pretty gets gritty Atlas and Venus powders to give a nice shimmery affect. Add some darker blue tones using chipped sapphire distress ink - dab the ink on a tile and apply with a watery paint brush.