Rubber Stamping Dragonflies

May All Your Dreams by Karen Bourke

Randomly stamp the dragonfly (unknown origin) three times with clear embossing ink onto glossy cardstock. Heat for 10-15 seconds with heat tool from about 5” away to ensure you don’t scorch the paper.

Take a sponge and pick up some caramel Adirondack ink and begin staining the paper. (See Picture 1)

© Karen Bourke Add current ink onto the same sponge and continue until the card is covered with both inks. Add a third colour using raisin and then apply espresso brown to parts of the card to blend and shade. (See Picture 2)

© Karen Bourke

Ink the dragonfly stamp with the raisin ink and stamp, offsetting slightly from the resist images. (See Picture 3

© Karen Bourke Stamp the phrase using the darkest colour (or black) ink.

Mount the resist piece onto trimmed white cardstock and then onto mauve folded card.

Cattail dragonfly by Nancy Thaut

Stamp image (Impression Obsession) with VanDyke brown Ink (Ranger.) Use a stencil, to outline an oval and cut. Using decorating glimmer chalks (Craf-T) color dragonfly and shade cattail, leaves, water, and shrubs. With Sakura’s gelly roll pens edge dragonflies wings and highlight the head and body. Also highlight left side of cattail. Finish by edging the oval with ink by rubbing along the edge of the ink pad.

With pinking shears, cut a rectangle piece of fabric, punch hole in the center and add ribbon. Mount fabric tag on brown card. Mount stamped oval project on top of that.

Thinking of You by Heather Getson, Reader Submission

1. Make an A2 card (1/2 sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, folded.)

2. Measure to find the center of the cardstock and then place a small pencil line at the top and bottom to mark the center points.

3. Insert a scoring blade into your paper trimmer and score between the two pencil marks. Fold on the line.

4. Ink around the perimeter of the card using metallic rub-ons.

6. Cut a strip of patterned paper to approximately 2.25 x 5.50 inches and adhere slightly off center from the card’s center.

7. Stamp a border of "Thinking of You" (company unknown) on the left side of the card.

8. Adhere the skeleton leaf over the patterned paper then a dragonfly embellishment on top of the leaf.

Dragonflies at Sunset by Robin Smalley

Stamp dragonflies (Hampton Art Stamps) with black pigment ink onto white glossy cardstock then emboss with black embossing powder. Brayer with ink from the Kaleidacolor “Desert Heat” set. Put this layer onto a piece of black cardstock with slits on two of the corners. Stamp the word Imagine (Serendipity Stamps) onto a piece of ivory cardstock and affix it to the orange layer with a dragon fly brad. Glue these layers to the top of a red card.

Rainbow Dragonflies by Cheryl Rotnem

Stamps Credits: Stampin' Up! and See D's

1. Cut yellow cardstock to A2 size and then take off white cardstock stamp dots all over. Now take Kaleidacolor inkpad in birthstone stamp dragonflies randomly.

2. Take mint green cardstock scrap 2-1/2" X 3-1/2" and layer on top of previous white. Then take another scrap of pink making sure it is about 1/8-14" smaller and next do the same with a piece of white cardstock. Glue the all on top of the random dragonflies cardstock. On the small white stamp some more dragonflies and in the middle stamp a splat in yellow.

3. Last, stamp out on textured yellow cardstock the work dragonflies and punch each out with a circle punch. Attach randomly at bottom of card.

4. Now it's your turn to try one!

Dragons Flying by Lis Whiting

Make an A2 card (5-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches) out of Stardream purple/gold cardstock [The Paper Cut]

Tear a pieces of lilac cardstock then a darker piece of purple cardstock and layer as shown. Punch six dragonflies from gold vellum. [Dragonfly die from Sizzix used here]. Take TWO dragonfly die cuts and glue them with mini glue dots in the center body of the dragonfly only. Take some purple artist wire and wind it around the dragonflies and the cardstock they are on a couple of times. Be sure to leave at least one wing free on each dragonfly.

Add the remaining four dragonflies. Take a wooden dowel and curl the tail a little so that it goes up. Fold the dragonfly wings up so that you get a 3-d effect.

Dragonfly Card by Mary Lind, Design Team Leader

Stamp a dragonfly on glossy cardstock using resist ink pad (Ranger). Use heat gun to set ink.

Use a cosmetic pad to swirl Adirondack alcohol inks (Meadow, Pesto, and Basil) onto cardstock. Using black Staz-On, stamp text over image.

Cut out image in trapezoid shape. Double stick onto purple cardstock (1/2 page rectangle).

Glue brass dragonflies onto purple cardstock.

Mount at an angle onto teal cardstock. Trim overhanging purple paper

On a Pond by Bernardine Farmer

Stamp dragonfly pond (Peddler’s Pack ) on white cardstock with VersaFine Vintage Sepia inkpad. Color one dragonfly with purple, green and magenta watercolor pencils. Color the pond and lily with blue and yellow watercolor pencils.

Trim with deckle scissors and mount on a royal blue A2 (4-1/4" x 5-1/2") card.

Cat Among Dragonflies by Bernardine Farmer

On a 5" square piece of white cardstock stamp cat (Magenta) in the lower left corner with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Randomly stamp dragonflies (Magenta ) with Versa Mark and emboss with Enchanted Creations Seaside Sparkles.

Color cat with watercolor pencils. Use USArt Quest mica watercolors in green, purple and blue to color dragonflies.

Randomly use blue chalk around dragonflies to create sky and clouds.

Mount white cardstock onto light yellow cardstock 5-1/2" square. Mount this onto folded teal cardstock 6" square.