Sunday Snippets - 'Dragonfly'

I signed up for Gummiapan's Easter Calendar and what fun it was opening a packet each day before and over Easter weekend. Day 7 revealed a gorgeous dragonfly along with two other dies - and so today's 'Dragonfly' card took flight: 

I used: 

- DL white card blank, side opening

- a Tonic Pearlescent 'Majestic Gold' snippet, trimmed to leave an eigth of an inch on all sides - and set aside for now

- one side of another white DL card blank, die cut using a NBUS die from Phil Martin's Slender Collection called 'Eyelets'

- then die cut the inner part of that panel using an unbranded die I've had for well over a year called 'Christmas Bubble' and glued it to the pearlescent gold layer

- next it was the turn of the patiently waiting dragonfly die so I found a snippet of white card to die cut the whole dragonfly in one go - a useful step as I used it later on

- next, I pulled out the much loved Honey Bee 'Team Tie Dye' paper pad - and in the back where I keep leftover snippets in a little pocket - I found a snippet of mottled green/blue paper, yay!

- used the aperture left from cutting out the plain white dragonfly to find the best spot on the snippet of green/blue paper - and then die cut the dragon fly and set it aside after, trimming off the feelers and the tail portion - right up to the body level, ouch!

- then I snipped the white dragonfly die cut down to just body and feelers, all intact and coloured them using really ancient Whispers markers - still going strong as well! I used brown for the body and black for the eyes and feelers 

- the wings needed something before being added to the dragonfly body/tail etc. - but I truly didn't feel like pulling out clear embossing powder etc. plus the faff of the heat gun just for one small item

- and so I crossed my fingers and experimented on a little snippet of the green/blue paper using clear nail polish ................ with success! So, I then used the same clear nail polish to coat the dragonfly wings for some lovely shine and shimmer and did a happy dance. THAT is my BIG tip for today, it certainly works fine on small areas - I imagine larger areas would deserve the effort of being fully clear heat embossed!!!

- once the wings had dried I then added the body feelers and tail part using a glue pen

- then added the completed dragonfly to the die cut 'bubbles' feature

- popped a 'Happy Birthday' sentiment, ready foiled and die cut by 'Pinkfresh' underneath the die cut bubbles before adding a few die cut 'Majestic Gold' spots and dots made using a snippet of card and the same 'bubbles' die

- finally, added the whole panel to the card blank using very narrow foam strips - and called it done!

Kudos to our lovely Glennis over in NZ for the idea to use a dragonfly with the bubble die - many thanks once again for the inspiration! I abandoned my original dragonfly die I had in mind in favour of the Gummiapan one.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #822 HERE - EDIT:  Brenda and Val both pointed out that 'Come Fly With Me' sung by Frank Sinatra was very apt for their theme of 'Inspired by a Song'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #73 HERE- all the dies I used were having a first outing

Dudley Pupdate: A mixed week here. Len and I had our Covid vaccinations over a week ago - both of us felt it was a little vicious for some reason. I'm now fine but Len has been unwell for just over a week now with neuralgia affecting one side of his jaw along with flu like symptoms. Today's research by yours truly shows that it can be a rare side effect of vaccination - great huh!. The worst part for him is that he can barely open his mouth to eat - and there are only so many ways to dress up a can of soup! We've progressed to adding some small cooked macaroni to tomato soup and now a little bit of well chopped cooked chicken and mashed up croquette, in chicken soup this evening - Saturday. Progress but very slow and painfull for Len.

I do think that slowly he is improving but of course it means that we have to make a decision about future Covid vaccinations, when the time comes. Little nurse Dudley has been doing a sterling job - barely letting Len out of his sight and cuddling up against him whenever possible to give comfort. I swear that little guy wears an invisible nurse's uniform! 

We have a new Challenge #505 being run by our lovely Sarn, over HERE. The weather forecast is supposedly set for a mini heatwave this coming week - be sure to bring a towel at the very least as the paddling pools will be out (and a cossie ............. skinny dipping isn't allowed). I'm sure that Sarn will be serving some refreshing cold drinks up in the treehouse. If you don't want to climb the ladder - just shout your order up and she will lower it down in a basket for you. 'Room service anyone?'

Love from myself and Dudley,