Dragonfly Thank You

Happy Friday and TGIF. I am so glad it finally arrived. Jessie and I are headed out of town early tomorrow morning. We normally head to the beach at least 5-6 times from March thru October but I think this year we have made it 3 times. Last attempt was foiled by Tropical Storm Bonnie as me made it to St.George Island just to turn around and head back home 2 hrs later when the heavy rains did not appear to be letting up.
I am a firm believer in staying away from the coast when there is a threat of evacuation. Residents do not need tourist when evacuations are going on.
Anyway we are going to attempt it again tomorrow in spite of Earl and Fiona that is behind Earl.
Anyway onto my card. I used some basic gray dp and some banana, vanilla and brown cs.
My image is a darling dragonfly from PRISCILLA STYLES digital images that I colored with copics then topped off with some stickles. I love how the stickles shimmered in light. It made the wings look irridescant. I sponged some antique linen around my image after trimming and embossing with Nesties Circle.
My color combo is from CRAFT DIGITAL ART CENTER COLOR CHALLENGE # 5. My layout is from MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE # 69. I used some browwn ribbon and topped it with a yellow button threaded with some gold cording. My brown cs layer was embossed with Herringbone. Hope you like it. I also hope everyone has a safe, dry, and happy Labor Day. I will be back Tuesday morning.
Next week is going to be in disarray as my carpet is being taken up and replaced with wood pattern linoleum. Whoo Hoo, can't wait but I really can not wait to get my craft room back together. I can not find anything bc it has all been packed up for over a week now.

Priscilla Styles 3D Butterfly

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER # 186 - Bobbie's Girl aka Carol. I chose to CASE her GREEN BUTTERFLY. I changed the colors, layout and used satin ribbon instead of crochetted, and I left off the dew drops.
I also found inspiration from this MARIAH BELT from Saturday's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE # 247 - ModCloth Site.
My layout is Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 295.
My colors also are used for the CRAFT DIGITAL ART CENTER COLOR CHALLENGE # 5 - Yellow and Brown and I distressed the edges of my focal panel then ink distressed with antique linen sponged around the edges for CRAFT DIGITAL ART CENTER OTHER THEME CHALLENGE # 5 - Distressing.
My butterflies are from PRISCILLA STYLES STORE. I printed 3 in a larger size, cut them out, colored them tehn created my 3D butterfly with them and placed it in the lower right corner.
The sentiment is one I grabbed from a Famous Quotes web site. I thought it was fitting for butterfly images. I love how this turned out and hope you do to.
Here are some close up views of the 3D butterfly:




RECIPE:
Stamps: Butterfly - Priscilla Styles
Paper: white, brown, So Saffron, Recollections dp
Ink: Antique Linen Distressing Ink
Accessories: digital images, stickles, ribbon, edge distressor, sponges
Techniques: edge distressing, ink distrssing, 3D Butterfly