Mail A Card Monday--Turquoise Dragonfly

Hello there! Doing my part to make Mondays a little more enjoyable. It's Mail-a-Card Monday again. Here's a look at the cards I mailed out today.

Two of these are from my stash and were made a while ago. Unfortunately, the food truck stamp set has been long retired, but, as you may remember from my last post, I love a good pun, so I've been holding onto this card for a while. Thought it was time to bless someone else with it. It's on its way to my super awesome sister. (Hi, Pam!!) The middle card uses the Flourishing Phrases stamp set that has been in the catalog for a while, but is retiring soon.

The dragonfly card we made at last month's TNT (Tips N Techniques) Class. All of our projects that day focused on embossing--heat embossing, dry embossing, and embossing paste.

On this card we used the embossing paste and colored it with several shades of blue and green. As we smeared the paste over the stencil, the colors blended together. It came out pretty awesome! Thankfully, the Detailed Dragonfly Framelits are not retiring, but the Tempting Turquoise cardstock is. I actually designed this card specifically for one of the ladies who comes to class as it is her favorite color.

Kind of hard to see in the pictures, but there is vellum behind the wings that we colored with blends in various shades of blue and green. Then, of course had to use a spattering of iridescent sequins to mimic real dragonflies.

Another dragonfly stamped in Lemon Lime Twist for the inside. Love how this came out. What do you think? I wasn't real fond of Lemon Lime Twist when is first came out, but it really is such a fun color to use and I love it with the Turquoise. 

It looks like spring is finally coming to Wisconsin. Our creek is flowing and I can see patches of grass here and there. Still have 2 feet of snow on the flower bed, but that'a half of what it was this time last week, so that's good. Hoping it will warm up enough to open some windows soon so we can hear the water. Love that sound. 

Till next time...

God's love and blessings!

Hostess Code Bonus: Please use this month's Hostess Code when you place an order. It will allow me to pick up some goodies to share with you when I send out your Thank You gift at the end of the month. (If you check the "Do No Contact" button when you order, I cannot legally contact you in any way, which means I cannot send you a Thank You gift or any extra goodies. :o(  )