Believe in Dragons

Good Morning everyone, i hope you're having a good week

Today im sharing my first outing with this Lavinia dragon stamp

8x8" cardbase.  I cut a piece of white card to fit my card front, i made a circle mask using my large circle dies from a piece of spare cardstock, using re-positional glue i attached it to my white card panel.   I then painted inside the circle with clean water and sprinkled on brushos in shades of green and gold & red pixie powders.  Let dry completely.

I mixed up some of the pixie powder with a little water to make a thick paint and stencilled it through a star stencil.

I then stamped some foliage with oxide ink, stamped the verse in grey archival ink in the middle.  I then took a sunrays stencil and oxide inks and inked it all the way around the circle, concentrating more ink on the outside edge and fading inwards. Once completely dry i removed my mask.  

I stamped the dragon 3 times with black archival inks, using my stamp platform i overstamped to get a nice solid black.  I stamped the believe and splashed on some inks to the background to finish.  Mounted onto black card and then my base card after rounding all the corners - to give a softer edge picking up on my circle. 

A close up, you can see that the mica in the pixie powders and the oxide inks adds a slight resist and comes through the dragons so for the middle dragon i stamped him again onto white cardstock and cut out the middle part, i gently curved and added with glue gel which adds some nice dimension. 

For my first outing of this stamp im pleased with it -  it has the feeling of a dragon eye to me.

Items used:

Lavinia dragon & fairy verse stamps

Inkylicious 'believe' stamp

Foliage stamps - magazine freebie

Stencils - stars, sunburst

Brushos - lime, leaf green & yellow

Cosmic Shimmer pixie powders - scarlet mist, mango blaze

Distress Oxide inks - clover, evergreen & fossilized amber

CraftUK ltd white hammered cardstock

Payper box black cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good weekend whatever you get upto.  Stay safe. Emmax

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