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Sleeping Dragon Baby Card

About this Project

I wanted to have this sweet dragon sleeping on his little cloud among pastel hued clouds, so pulled out my Distress Oxide inks and Whimsy's It's Cloudy 6x9 Stencil to create this lovely cotton candy cloudscape. I masked the image with Whimsy Stamps Plain Masking sheets. I stamped and fussy cut the image then laid the mask over the stamped image to allow me to stencil right up to the edges of the stamped design. I toyed around with different oxide colours to use for the clouds and settled on Milled Lavender, Spun Sugar and Salvaged Patina. Ironically, when I actually started doing the inking, I ended up using just the ink that was left on my oxide brushes for the pink and purple, because I wanted very soft clouds. So they were oxide inks, but I couldn't say for sure which ones! I did use Spun Sugar last with the pink oxide brush, so will be a mix of that and Kitsch Flamingo left on there. But the purple brush might have had some Villainous Potion on it too. So strictly speaking Milled Lavender wasn't used, but it would be the ink I'd use for this combination if I didn't have such an already inky brush. The first ink application I did on the clouds was much darker than I meant for it to be, but it doesn't matter, it looks like that part of the sky is recessed from the soft clouds in front, so it gave a bit of a forced perspective to the soft clouds. I wasn't thrilled about it initially, but it didn't ruin the card and was worth keeping going with the ink blending. I love how the clouds turned out in the end. I added two sweet little toning pearl hearts to complete the panel, which were perfect to obscure a little mucky mark up in that corner too. I show the colouring of this cutie sped up in the video. I love how he turned out. There's a beautiful gemstone called Flourite and it's a mix of these colours, so this wee dragon made me think of that. He's just lovely as a flourite dragon. The beautiful frame shape was actually the waste left over after diecutting a lovely frame with Whimsy's Portrait Frames Die Set. I thought the left over waste around the frame looked a bit like a pillow shape and would work perfectly as a frame for this make. It left a larger aperture too for more of the pretty clouds to show through. I stamped the sentiment with the same ink I had stamped the wee dragon with, which is Copic friendly Memento Teal Zeal. I love the effect of the tone on tone with the stamping and the colouring. It's a softer look than black outlines and I think looks so lovely on this sweet dragon. I've captured this whole creative adventure in a video which I will link, so if you'd like to see it coming together, click through to watch.