Canopy Crafts: dragonfly dreams

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Happy Mother's Day PP344

What a special day today! A day to honor not only mothers but sisters, daughters, aunts, nieces, friends.....all the wonderful women in our lives. For me, there are plenty but none more influential, strong or loving than my mother. My constant, my rock, my support....I love you to the moon and back times infinity Mom! Thank you for everything you do for our family.

This week at The Paper Players another wonderful woman, Claire, has a bright and beautiful color challenge for us:

I'll admit, I was a little vexed when I first saw these colors but then I realized that I could blend the red and orange together....maybe cheating a little but it's a good way to approach similar colors in a palette. So here's what I pulled together:

I really love the Special Reason stamp set and am sad to see it retire. So far, I've mostly used it with the coordinating dies for the beautiful cut outs it creates. Here I wanted to feature the full stamp and the pretty flowers.

The two sizes of similar flowers makes for easy bouquets—I like the graduated look of the sizes. Here I inked the flowers first in Tangerine Tango and with a sponge dauber tapped in the center and the edges with Real Red ink. After cutting out with the coordinating die, I painted the flowers with Wink of Stella…happy sigh.

The watercolor look to the background was made easy with the swoosh stamp from Work of Art—a set I am happy to report is not retiring! Since the swooshes were stamped off I wanted another layer that was full strength Tempting Turquoise so I added some watery dots from the Dragonfly Dreams set

So, there are a mixture of sentiments from three different stamp sets. The front features an oldie but goodie from Delightful Dozen while the inside combines Petite Pairs and Teeny Tiny Wishes. I stamped another blended flower and using a mask added some more swooshes and Pear Pizzazz leaves.

Thanks so much for stopping by today….be sure to check all the lovelies from my teammies at The Paper Players. Maybe you will join us before our challenge closes on Friday, May 19^th at Noon (PST). Have a great day!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Valentyna Komisarenko

Deanne

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Affectionately Dragonfly Dreams PP334

Hi friends! Happy to share my card for The Paper Players with you. This week, the sensational Sandy is our hostess with a fun Theme Challenge:

I was so excited for this one because I really like to fussy cut. I find it very relaxing--funny, right? I know some people find it stressful but I can really get in the zone when I'm snipping! Despite that, I ended up using some dies on today's card and no fussy-cutting at all! Just shows, that you have to go where inspiration takes you.

Oh how I love the Dragonfly Dreams set and coordinating dies--it was the first thing I purchase from the Ocassions catalog. Paired with the Affectionately Yours designer paper is gorgeous. I love the bright, spring colors and the pop of copper throughout. There's not much explaining needed for this card--it's really pretty simple. The dots from this set were stamped in Mint Macaron onto the cardstock of the same color and the sentiment was stamped directly with Night of Navy ink.

You do need to see a close-up of this gorgeous dragonfly resplendent in Copper Foil. The detail of this die is amazing and cuts beautifully from the foil paper. I cut an extra dragonfly from Vellum cardstock and added it to the background for a subtle extra layer. I like the gossamer look of the vellum.

The stamps in this set are just as gorgeous as the detailed dies. The detail SU is able to achieve even with the photopolymer stamps is amazing. I never thought they would be able to match the detail of red rubber in the clear stamps but this set proves that they have!

I hope you enjoyed my Affectionately Dragonfly Dreams card....it will be headed out to a special friend who enjoys nature and all manner of winged creatures! Do check out the lovely creations from the rest of the Design Team over at The Paper Players...maybe you'll even join us before the challenge closes on Friday, March 10th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!