G'Day Mate Protea & Dragonfly Card CCDT - 0919

My finished ' G'Day Mate, Protea & Dragonfly card

Card Size - 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm  (1/4 of an A4 Sheet)



Hello Everyone and welcome to my next project.  You can make a vast variety of cards with the Sunburnt Country Collection from Couture Creations.  This one I tried a few different techniques as well just because I wanted to see how it would look, like working with vellum, clear embossing and jaggered edge mats.

1.  I started by embossing the G'Day Mate, Dragonfly and Proteas.  On the vellum I used the platinum embossing powder to make 1 sentiment, 4 proteas and one dragonfly.  The other 3 proteas were stamped with Cappuccino ink onto Delicate Medlar cardstock.  I turned the dragonfly image over and placed it on a foam pad then gently moved a stylus all over to create a 3D effect.	The dragonfly was embossed with clear embossing powder when I was embossing the other elements, this photo shows it a bit better.
2.  Using the water brush, I coloured all the flowers with the green and pink inks.  The Pearlescent inks were used on the tips of the petals and along the centre of the leaves as highlights.	3.  Fussy cut all the flowers and dragonfly.  I didn't colour the dragonfly,
A close up of the vellum dragonfly.	4.  All the elements are all prepared ready for assembly.   Stamped, coloured, die-cut, inked and embossed.
5.  The wood-grain paper was an off-cut from another project, so I cut around the outside to try to re-create a used timber plank effect.  The edges were inked heavily with the Pale Brown ink to give it a burnt aged look.  The green cardstock was trimmed to size,  embossed with the Gumnuts embossing folder, edges distressed and inked with Pale Brown ink.  Adhere all these papers to cardboard then tie a string bow around the whole lot.  This then was attached to the white card front with double-sided tape.	This view shows the build up of many layers.  I used double-sided foam tape under each layer.

Finished card

Couture Creations used:

CO727220 Mini Die - Gumnuts

CO727221 Mini Die - Eucalyptus Branch

CO727198 Stamp - Dragonfly
CO727204 Stamp -  Protea
CO727209 Stamp - G'Day Mate

CO727269 - Emboss Folder- Gumnuts

CO727278  Sunburnt Country 6.5" x 6.5" Paper Pad - Sheet  8A & 10B

ULT200002 - Cardstock - Delicate Medlar

ULT200024 - Cardstock - Verde
ULT200031 - Cardstock - Cypress Pine

CDEIPL008 - Pigment Ink - Pearlescent Pearl White

CDEIPL018 - Pigment Ink Pearlescent - Olive Green

CDEIPU008 - Dye Ink - Bright Pink

CDEIPU009 - Dye Ink - Candy Pink

CDEIPU024 - Dye Ink - Olive Green

CDEIPU032 - Dye Ink - Cappuccino

CDEIPU033 - Dye Ink - Pale Brown

CO724824 Gocut and Emboss Machine

CO723978    Multi Purpose Heat Tool
CO725662   Static Pad

CO724959 - Embossing Powder - Clear
CO724973 - Embossing Powder - Platinum

Other products used:

White card, Cardboard, Vellum, String, Adhesive Pearls,  Water brush, Foam tape, Double-sided tape & glue.

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My Blog Link is: Card Craft Kaylee

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