Pin It Do It Challenge - Ombre Dragonfly Art Cards

Sometimes you see a pin and you just can't help but do it (and blog it) straight away!  I had a quick look at my Pinterest feed on Sunday morning and saw an alert from Sarah about a pin she thought I'd like.  She was right!

It took me a long time to find the original source to credit the idea - the pin I saw first went to a random jpeg so I did a reverse google image search which lead me to a facebook page, to another facebook page, to a blog, to someone's instagram to their blog which seems to have the original idea!

Source: everyday-cookies.blogspot.co.uk via Bex on Pinterest

I absolutely LOVED the idea so went to Homebase to get a few Dulux paint swatches.  (They'll also come in useful when I can convince the husband we should redecorate our bedroom since I got all my favourite colours of course!)  I already had a dragonfly punch we used for the wedding favours/place names (of course!) and had some cards left over from when I used to sell my photos at craft fairs and made photo cards.  I also had a flash of inspiration when I made the olive green one and remembered I had some of the glitter paper left so added that in for a bit of a twist.

It's so easy, just punch out your shape from each of the colours (I used a combination of two strips to get more of a range) taking care not to punch where the words are and glue them onto card in the pattern you want.  I had pre-folded cards from ebay which came with envelopes as well.  I think I bought the punch on ebay too but you can also get them from lots of on-line craft shops.  I've punched out some smaller dragonflies to place one in the corner of each envelope as well.

I love them!  I've already punched out loads more dragonflies but haven't glued them on yet.  I have a few square cards to try it with as well but I really like the long thin ones.  I also trimmed a strip I'd punched out and glued that on to a card...

I also have a heart punch somewhere which I used to make one of Nik's wedding presents but I can't find it at the moment!  When I do, I will be doing some similar designs with hearts, perfect for Valentine's day next year!  I've also tried doing some all in a straight line down the middle but need to spend a bit longer on these so they're perfectly straight when I glue them (i.e. not when I'm sitting on the sofa watching a film!) and I plan to make a big one to frame with a whole rainbow of ombre colours, possibly in stripes or concentric circles, I'll have to have a play.  :)

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P.S. We now have a facebook page!  I'll be keeping it up to date with photos from Craft Club and Pin It Do It projects.  If you try out any of the projects you see here, send them in and we'll share them on the facebook page.