ching-chou kuik's The Dragonfly

Hi Everyone,

For my post today I decided to play with ching-chou kuik's The Dragonfly. I tend to go with blue and green color tones so today I decided to try some pinks & reds.

I stamped her onto Neenah Classic Crest Millstone card stock using Memento's Rich Cocoa, then colored her with Copics. I did pull out my India Ink pigment markers and used the gray to to darken some of the shadowy areas and the outline her for a little dimension.

Speaking of dimension, I found a jar of little seed beads and added these with Crystal Effects. Not sure if I like it. Maybe I should have used different beads:

I also dug up my Peal Ex powders and used those to fill in the background. I'm not a big fan of Dew Drops only because I 'fat-finger' them and it takes me what seems like hours to get them onto the card (and I generally end up either messing up the image or card with glue or dirt which just seems to be attracted to my hands) but I thought they'd add a little something to the scalloped edges. For my card base I also used a tan card stock which I embossed with CB embossing folder, Sentimentals. The brown cs strip and the green corners were from my scrapbasket. I finished the card off using some silk flowers (which you can find in the wedding aisle of your local craft store).

I love that this stamp is round and fits perfectly with the round Nestabilities dies. How fun would this stamp be making coasters ...... hm, the ideas are coming....

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