Happiest Day – Dragon Fly Birthday

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#702) challenge.  This week, Jan has a sweet color combination for us to play with. 

Inspiration for my design: Alphabet (Letter J) for Juvenile…make a kid suitable card; Facebook Stampin’ Through The Catalog – upcoming featured stamp set – Happiest Day; and bringing it all together, the current TGIF (#485) sketch.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Lemon Lolly cardstock.
• Accent Mat (1): (5¼” x 4”) Flirty Flamingo cardstock.
• Accent Mat (2): (5⅛” x 3⅞”) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
• Split Strip Panel: (7” x 5”) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
  • Using the Large-Tipped Water Painter Brush, the panel was painted Ombre style with Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly and Flirty Flamingo inks.
  • Once dry, with the process speeded up with the Heat Tool, the Stars image was added to the panel using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
  • The Panel was trimmed and cut into strips.  Sizes: (1¼” x 3¾”); (1⅝” x 3¾”); and (2” x 3¾”).
• Shape – Circle: (2¼” x 2¼”) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
  • The sentiment, Wishing you the happiest birthday, was stamped with Tuxedo Black ink and then die-cut with the (2⅛”) Stitched Circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
• Decoration – Dragonflies: Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper scraps.
  • The Dragonfly Outline image was stamped three times with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and the Wings In-Fill images were stamped with Lemon Lolly and Flirty Flamingo inks.
  • The Dragonflies were fussy-cut with Paper Snips.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  A little ribbon strip – (3⅞” x ¼”) Soft Sea Foam Speckled piece of patterned paper from the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper pack, and On-Line Exclusive product, was added to compliment the card and the Dragonflies were popped up with Dimensionals.

A sweet and whimsical birthday card with magical dragonflies suitable for a young lady. 

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today and I hope you will consider joining us with this week’s Paper Player’s challenge.  I would love to see how you choose to use this color combo.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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