Oh I’m so excited!! I’ve actually finished my swaps and also two pillow gifts for my room-mate (my sister) and I get on a plane later today. I can’t wait to meet up with my sister Caro, her upline Eimear, (who I met almost three years ago at one of her team meetings that she kindly invited me to and has since then adopted me as part of the team), Claire, (who I’ve never met but we talk on FB a lot; she is a genius at emojis), Ali and a few more of Eimear’s downline. I’m really bummed that my best friend Julia had her days off revoked and is missing out, but we’ll make sure that we get all the stuff that she would’ve got – the catalog, the freebies and so forth. Not sure how to bring the camaraderie though. But onto today’s card using Dragonfly Dreams.
It’s uses another piece of the watercolor paper that I showed on Sunday, this time one that’s got more of the island indigo than bermuda bay. I trimmed it down a little so that I could mat it with Bermuda Bay and then an odd thing happened. I forgot (that’s not the odd part!) that I had used island indigo and grabbed a dapper denim cardbase and I really liked how it looked. Before I glued, I realised my error and pulled out island indigo – and it just didn’t look as good. Fascinating that the addition of water and the merging of colours changed it enough that dapper denim needed to be the card base!
I then used the Bunch of Blossoms for the sentiment which is stamped in island indigo onto watercolor paper. The clear embossing allows the colour of the watercolor paper to show through and so very vanilla just doesn’t quite match. I kept the sentiment small so as not to detract from the fun background. I popped it up with dimensionals so that it didn’t seem too insignificant though!
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See you tomorrow,
Liz