“W” is for WINGS

Hello friends and happy Friday!  It has been very cold over our way and I’m staying indoors as much as I can which means some crafting time is happening!  I do like looking from my window and seeing the chickadee birds along with the squirrels in the feeders!  I enjoy seeing those bright red cardinals, but I don’t get to see those as often.

Today is a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge and we are on the letter “W”.  The hostess has went with the theme “W is for “WINGS“.  You will have 2 weeks to join us, so I hope to see your creations in the gallery!  Here’s my card using this theme:

Since it’s so cold out, I decided to skip on over through winter and go straight to warm spring/summer with a dragonfly!  We usually don’t see dragonflies over my way until it gets pretty warmed up.  (It has to be above 60 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, for them to come out.)  I also was happy to finally pull out a stamp set that I got from STAMPtember of last year created by Kitchen Sink Stamps.  Unfortunately, this company is no longer operating.  There are a couple of stamp sets available for purchase on the Simon Says Stamp website I see.  But this particular stamp set called “All Aflutter” was only available during the STAMPtember event.  I’m happy to get it even though I didn’t make it in time to grab the die set before it sold out, but it’s a beautiful set.  It’s actually the only Kitchen Sink Stamps I own.

I started out with the green flower stems at the bottom.  This is a layering stamp set, so they very cleverly put the numbers in order to stamp.  I then added three purple colors for the flowers to go on top of the green stems.  I stamped the sentiment from the set with the “Hi” done in purple ink.  I ink blended like colors around the card panel.

I stamped the dragonfly body onto the card panel BEFORE stamping the sentiment for the placement of the design.  I attached the card front to a purple A2 top folding card base.

Dragonflies have to have that shimmer on their wings!  It’s so hard to take a photo of the shimmer from the glitter pen and I wanted that to come through for my dragonfly wings!

The dragonfly was stamped in the corresponding layers for his body and wings on a separate piece of cardstock.  The lightest grey was the wings.  I used my scissors to fussy cut him out and blended some light blue ink around his wings.  I glued the middle section of him only so that I could pop up the wings a bit.  

Lastly, I added some shimmer to his wings with the glitter pen and attached some gems.

• I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and you’ve been inspired to join in the challenge with us!    Be sure to check out the rest of the inspiration from the team!
• Thanks for stopping in and I’ll be back tomorrow with my AJ collaboration with Carol!

Challenges:

1. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
2. Creatalicious – #286 Anything Goes + optional:  use green
3. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #248 Anything Goes
4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2507 Anything Goes
5. Moving Along With the Times – #175 Things With Wings
6. A Place to Start – #020325 Anything Goes + optional:  Things in the Sky