…dragons on the wind of morning

Sharing a quick card I made last night featuring the super cute image, Tori the Dragon Up, by Conie Fong.

To put my card together I’ve followed the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  The balloons in the image were perfectly placed to use as the three flower elements after flipping the sketch on its side. Wasn’t till I started putting the card together that I realised I should have flipped the image too so the balloons were on the right side!  I was going to partial die cut my image but couldn’t get all the bits to fit into the rectangle die so I fussy cut the image and die cut the rectangle from a piece of G45 paper featuring the words from ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star’.

To finish off I added in a chippie from Uniquely Creative for the sentiment, which has a lovely glittery sparkle thanks to a coat of embossing powder from Bellbird Paperarts.  Now I have to admit, at the late hour I was making this last night my limited ability to do anything with colours was even more constrained.  So I googled the image and found a wonderful colouring of another of Conie’s dragons from a talented crafted called Nancy, who very kindly gave her colour palette on her blog post.  Love the colour combo she used and the stipple technique in colouring the image so I gladly CASed it on mine.  I’ve given the colours below but do stop by Nancy’s blog and check out all her wonderful work.

There’s a fun challenge I’ve not played at before called Double Trouble and this round they’re asking you to use at least three colours, got more than that so check, and stamped or digital image, got one of them too so that’s a double tick.  They also add in options, like this time where they ask for a punny sentiment.  I couldn’t manage that, well, I suppose I could have but that would have taken more thought than I could muster late last night!  Then they also offer a double dare, this time it’s to also enter the challenge at Brown Sugar following their theme of a creature.  Well, that was too easy given I’ve used my dragon image so I’ve managed two out of three of the challenge themes, pretty happy about that for a first-time entry.

Ingredients:

Copics

Dragon B00, B02, B04, B06, BG0000, BG000, V04, V06, V09, Y02, Y15, Y19, YG03, YG11, YG17

Balloon B24, B28, B39, FYG1, R05, R24, R29, Y02, Y06, Y08, YG01, YG03, G24

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Clear Sparkle

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

My Favorite Things Die-namics ~ MFT-839 Wonky Stitch Rectangle Stax

Embellishments

Uniquely Creative Chipboard ~ Words

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Scattered Straw

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Graphic 45 Mother Goose ~ Patterns & Solids

Mondi Color Copy ~ 250gsm White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Lemon Lime Twist

Stamps

Conie Fong ~ Tori the Dragon Up

Challenges

Brown Sugar #282 ~ All Creatures Great and Small

Double Trouble #10 ~ Three Colors and Stamped or Digital Image

Thanks for stopping by!