Sunflowers & Dragonflies

SD Challenge 17: Oh, Canada

Oh, Canada, our home and native land…..

Welcome to this week’s SD17 challenge called Oh, Canada. How is my card related to this theme you ask. Well, I’ll let you ink on a little secret. Sunflowers and Dragonflies Creative Designs custom makes stamps, and in doing so I created a very large Canadian flag stamp for someone, and kept one for myself. I then cut out the maple leaf, which is what you see above. The nice thing about my stamps is that you can e-mail me and ask me to make any of my designs smaller or larger. Isn’t that a cool feature?!  My DP is BasicGrey’s Indian Summer and the sketch is this week’s Splitcoast Stampers sketch.

I don’t have any of your stamps, so I can’t do this week’s challenge. Not so! Nope, all you have to do is think about what Canadians have in their country. For example, do you have an animal stamp, a tree stamp, a house stamp? You get the picture. Let’s see what you can come up with.  You have until Friday at midnight.

Please link your project to this post, and mention Sunflowers and Dragonflies in your post.

In October 2007 I did a tutorial on cracked glass. This is a mini tutorial of that same tutorial.

Stamp out your image.

Colour with watercolour marker.

Blend with water and paint brush.

Use a variety of colours and continue colouring and blending until happy.  The next step was missed when I shot this tutorial.  Heat emboss with three layers of ultra thick UTEE.

Find a cozy spot in the freezer–next to the ice cream, and let your image freeze for 30 minutes.

Scrunch your cold image and see it crack.

Let’s see what the Design Team has in store for you this week…

Kim uses Canada Goose Swimming

Jennifer uses Canada Beaver

Beth used Canada Beaver

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