Dragonfly Garden

 How many more days until Spring??!!  I am anxiously awaiting the arrival.  My camelia bush is full of blooms and I know it's Lent because my Lenten Roses are blooming too!

I just wish they would raise their heads up so we can see the beautiful flower!

So pretty!

I am so thankful that my back is doing so much better.  I was really worried for a while that my card making was going to be a thing of the past.  I am trying to be really diligent about not pushing myself though. 

I have a few Dragonfly Garden stamp set cards to share with you today.  This stamp set is available in the Mini Catalog and comes bundled with a Dragonfly Punch.

I couldn't get a picture without getting the glare on the transparency sheet.  I inked the leaves and flowers up with Mint Macaron and then used markers to color the flower heads.  I made a stitched frame using the Stitched Rectangles and cut a piece of transparency to adhere to the back of the frame.  The dragonfly was stamped in black and colored with Stampin' Blends Rich Razzleberry.  Then I sponged ink onto the front of the dragonfly and adhered it to the back side of the transparency.  Then the frame & transparency were adhered to the black mat.  I forgot to stamp the sentiment & had to lift up the part I had glued down to stamp the sentiment ..... CROOKED!!

I am loving making these slimline cards.  This one measures 7 1/4" x 7" and fold in half.  I stamped the small dragonflies all over the Gray Granite card with white ink and embossed them with white embossing powder.  (You could do the same thing using Versamark instead of white ink.)  The rectangles are 2" x 2 1/4" (Misty Moonlight) and the DSP (Sale-a-Bration Field & Flower) is about 1/8" smaller.  I stamped the dragonflies and used Stampin' Brushes to color the wings and then put Wink of Stella on them.  The sentiment is die cut with Stitched Sweetly dies.

This is a bright card!  I stamped the flowers with Memento black ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock and used Stampin' Blends to color them.  I die cut one side with the Ornate dies and adhered it to a piece of Artistry Blooms DSP.  Next I mounted it onto Bumblebee cardstock and then onto the Melon Mambo card.  I stamped 2 dragonflies in Bumblebee Ink - one in vellum and the other onto Vanilla cardstock and layered them with the vellum one on top.