Garden Bugs- Daring Cardmakers challenge.

 Hello and welcome back to my blog!

We have a brand new challenge for you this week and its all about:

GARDEN BUGS

This weeks challenge is set by DT member Shabneez and she would like to see which garden bugs visit your garden during this time of year. 

I don't have a garden as such but I do have plant pots with lots of flowers and herbs and I get some bug visits occasionally but none that I am friends with as they always give me the heebie-jeebies. On the other hand I do love butterflies, dragonflies and ladybirds, so I decided to choose one of my favourites for this challenge.

For my card this week I have used stamps by Daisy B Stamps (Botanical Dragonflies). I used the smaller dragonfly to create a background using Versafine Claire ink pads in Warm Breeze and Verdant. I then stamped the larger dragonfly using the same ink pads. I used the lighter colour on the wings and the darker one for the body. I then used metallic watercolour paints to colour in some of the wings and the main body. 

To make the background look subtle I used some vellum around the front. Then I mounted it on to some glitter card and my base card. Once that was in place, I cut out the larger dragonfly and positioned that on top of the vellum. Finally, I added a sentiment and added some final touches of shimmer.

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

Everything's Coming Up Roses- DCM

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful sunny weather and spending time out doors or in your garden. This weeks challenge is set by DT member Joanne and its  all about Roses.  

                             Everything's Coming up Roses 

 

Joanne says, " As roses are one of the two birth flowers for June, this week we’d like to see roses somewhere on your project. If you’re not in the mood for flowers there’s another way to play; Yellow roses symbolise friendship so include yellow in your colour palette with any image or technique you like as a nod to crafty friendships. 

Extra brownie points if you manage both and show us yellow roses!"

Lately I have been experimenting with watercolours and fine liners. This has been very different from my usual stamping and paper crafting. I'm really enjoying the process of just doodling simple flowers and leaves. So for my card this week I decided to doodle some simple roses using the Nova fine liners onto watercolour card and then painting them with the Nova watercolours both available from DRK crafts. Once I had finished painting the roses, I added some splatters using the same colours. I mounted the watercolour card onto some yellow card before adhering it to the main card. I'm hoping to earn brownie points for using roses and the colour yellow 😊.

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx