With Sympathy

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  This week we have a fun Tic Tac Toe board for you:

  

Here is what I created for your inspiration:

My main column is: dragonflies, fun fold, background wash.  But, I also added: shimmer or sparkle, dimension, frame, vellum and dew drops (everything except lighthouse).  I started with the background.  I used water color paper and two shades of blue and two shades of green to create my background wash.  Then I mixed some silver Perfect Pearls with some water and brushed it over the background.  The shimmer and shine is really fabulous in real life.  Then I stamped and heat embossed the dragonfly on water color paper with black embossing powder.  I used some water color markers to color the dragonfly and added some of the Perfect Pearls shimmer to it as well.  You can see the sparkle in the photo below.

For my fun fold, I created a gatefold card with the top layer of the "frame" opening on the left and the white circle with the first sentiment opening to the right.  It took me quite a long time to figure this out as I really wanted to back the frame element with vellum to help hide the sentiment from the outside.  It turned out to not be that difficult (if I had done it right the first time), but it definitely took me a lot of trial and error.  I stamped the sentiment on the white circle and then placed the dragonfly on the front in the best position to hide most of the words.  With the vellum, you can't even see if from the outside.

To add a bit of interest to the inside, I stamped the small dragonfly and some cattails in a pale gray ink.  Then I also stamped the same images onto the outside of the card.  I finished everything off with some clear droplets from Kat Scrappiness.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Dragonfly (lg).", "Dragonfly Sil. (sm)", "Cattails", "Sympathy" and "Remembering"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Scalloped Circles, large" and "Standard Circles, large"; MFT "Blueprints 25" stitched rectangle

Challenges:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #139--anything goes

Paper Girls #205--summer dreams

Scor-Pal #73--anything goes with the optional twist: birthday

Cards Galore #178--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #49--anything goes

SheepSki Designs #41--anything goes

Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes

Crafty Creations #412--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #477--anything goes

Creative Fingers #191--anything goes

Crafty Friends #142--anything goes

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes