Dragonfly Garden

I had forgotten how beautiful this Harvest Meadow paper was and once I pulled it out to see what was in it I had to make a few cards with it. It is spring times, so times for the dragonflies to start coming out so that was my inspiration.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Harvest Meadow designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Dragonfly Garden
Dragonfly Garden punch or scissors
Waterfront
Two hexagon dies
Misty Moonlight ink (Stampin’ Up)
Pale Papaya Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
Blue Twine
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

From your Misty Moonlight card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With your white card stock cut a piece for the front of your card to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and for the inside a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Then from the Harvest Meadows designer series paper find the blue piece with the floral design, cut a piece of this to 4” x 5 ¼”. With a scrap piece of Misty Moonlight and your larger hexagon die approximately 2 3/8” x 3 7/8” cut one piece. Then from a spare piece of white card stock cut the smaller size hexagon to approximately 1 7/8” x 3 3/8”.

From the Dragonfly Garden stamp set take the solid bodied dragonfly stamp and your Misty Moonlight ink and stamp two dragonflies. Then color the wings with your Pale Papaya Stampin’ Blends. Take the Dragonfly Garden dragonfly punch or scissors and cut out your dragonflies.

Take your white hexagon piece and the small dragonflies stamp and with the Misty Moonlight ink stamp on the top portion of the hexagon. Then with the Waterfront stamp set use the “Every little kindness makes the world brighter” greeting and stamp toward the bottom but leaving enough room for one of your dragonflies. With the blue twine wrap it around the white hexagon and tie a bow. Then adhere to the blue hexagon. Grab your blue floral piece and the white piece for the front of your card and adhere the blue floral to the white, and then the white to the front of your card. Then adhere to hexagons to the center of your card. Adhere one of your dragonflies with a pop dot to the bottom right corner of your hexagons.

Now adhere the white piece of card stock to the inside of your card and then adhere the dragonfly to the lower left corner.

You are now ready to celebrate Spring and let someone enjoy this lovely card from you.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com. Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Rustic Crate True Friend Card

I went a bit old school for today’s card with the Rustic Crate set and using an old tool that roughs up the edges and then I sponged them to antique the paper. It was fun to go back to using some old ways of doing things.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Natural card stock
A brighter color card stock for gloves
Tan card stock to cut the rake
Timeless Plaid designer series paper
Rustic Crate stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Rain Boots dies (Stampin’ Up)
Dragonfly Garden stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
Early Expresso Black ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cinnamon Cider ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cinnamon Cider twine (Stampin’ Up)
Stampin Blends
- Old Olive light and dark
- Lemon Lime Twist light and dark
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” using the Natural card stock then fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With your Timeless Plaid card stock find the Old Olive green plaid piece, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and then you should have a piece left that is ¾” x 4” to use for your inside. Take the scrapping tool (if you have one) or scissors and your two pieces of plaid paper and rough the edges, then use your sponge and Cinnamon Cider ink to sponge along your roughed edges. I also sponged the front cover edges of the card. Adhere the 4’ x 5 ¼” piece to the front of your card and the small piece to the left side of the inside of your card.

With some scrap Natural card stock, the plant stamp from the Rustic Crate stamp set and your Early Expresso ink and stamp two of the plants. Use your four green Stampin’ Blend markers to color the plants in different shades, I did Lemon Lime Twist Light, Old Olive Dark, Lemon Lime Twist Dark and then the Old Olive Light from left to right. Use the die from Rustic Crate to cut out your plants. Also cut a small tag with a die from the Natural card stock. Take a scrap piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock and the crate die from Rustic Crate and cut your crate. Use a brighter color card stock to cut the gloves from the Rustic Crate dies. Take a scrap piece of tan and the rake die from the Flowering Rain Boots dies and cut out the rake.

Take your plants and the crate and align the first row of plants to where you want them. If any of the roots are showing then cut them off leaving enough room to adhere to the crate. For the second row of plants, I cut the first two together and then cut the other two individually. Align them along the back spaced to your liking and adhere. Adhere the crate with plants to the front of your card, slightly to the left so you have room for your tag. Adhere the gloves and rake.

Take your tag, Cinnamon Cider ink and the “For a True Friend” greeting from Dragonfly Garden and stamp on your tag. Adhere your tag like it is tied to the plants. Take some of your twine and tie a bow and adhere to the top of your tag. For the inside of your card take the “May good things grow all year long” greeting and the Cinnamon Cider in and stamp on the inside of the card.

That completes your Rustic Crate True Friend card. Give it to a special friend to let them know you care.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Harvest Meadow Dragonfly Card

Rustic Crate True Friend Card