Dylusions Card

Good morning and welcome. Here's another card that started out as something else, fizzled out, and I sprayed some Dylusions over it just to see what the colors would do. Covered up my boo-boos for one thing. Left it for a couple nights, then added a little Distress ink sponging around on the edges (most of which got trimmed off as I was framing for the card). I've got some unmounted stamps in plastic binders, so was looking for some Halloween themed ones that I know DH bought at a convention. Found this pretty butterfly - not sure what vendor made it. I recalled a beautiful Dylusions butterfly card seen here  done by Shirley - who enabled me with the Ryn water stamps and {sigh} now with the Chocolate Baroque stamps. (You'll see why I succumbed if you look here.) After placing the order, I realized I had forgotten to order the Gothic window.

Anyway, once I found the butterfly, stamped it on the sprayed piece using Ranger Archival Ink, I added the wonderful Ryn water droplets stamp. Just to see how it would look, as this was the first chance I've had to ink it. I think it is fabulous. There's a rain drops stamp that I'm drooling over, but I have to wait to get my Chocolate Baroque angel set first. (budget, don't you know!) Now if DH would just hit that big lottery...

Sorry this picture looks skewed. We were busy on errands all day, and by the time I could photograph, it was late evening, raining, so I had turned the card to get best light. Not sure why the right side of yellow mat looks white. My lousy photography probably!


- Dylusions sprays in several shades of blue with a light green. This was done on a regular piece of cardstock, not watercolor or heavy paper. I weighted it down to eliminate the curling - which my w/color paper does too. What I covered with the sprays was a music background stamp, which didn't stamp out well. I started this piece with the intention of having a little of stamping show through. Such is the path of creativity, I guess.

- used some Inkadinkadoo stamping gear leaf stamps in the corners, along with an Impression Obsession foliage stamp. Sentiment stamp is by Magenta with the bottom portion masked off. I need to get some just plain word stamps like Believe, Dreams, etc. Thought I had some...

- added some Derwent Inktense white around parts of the butterfly & should have stopped right there. Started scribbling some yellow pencils, some brown, then what I thought was a very thin gold pen. Turned out the nib was thicker than I thought, but I'd already touched the tip down when I realized this. I will be doing this again, with other spray colors. I'll just leave the butterfly as it stamps...maybe highlight with the white. I did find that the Inktense white gave a better result than did the Prisma white.

- plain black mat, pearlized yellow mat, with black card base.

Hope you like this one, and thanks to all those talented bloggers & cardmakers who provide me with such inspiration. Ya'll have a good day, and come back soon. Hugs