Dragonfly Acrylics
Colourful Art Creations
Written by -- Sarah Bolt
It's great to receive gifts in the post but isn’t it even better to get them hand delivered by a friendly face?
Yesterday evening, I drove down to Felixstowe to drop off a bookmark I’d made for Viola. It featured these quotes from “Natural Life” on Pinterest. These words say so much about Vi.
I love people who have no idea how wonderful they are, and just wander around making the world a better place.
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The strongest people are the ones who are still kind after the world tore them apart".
Having printed them off on my fabulous little HP printer using the ‘best’ quality print setting, I glued the quotations onto each side of a rectangular piece of scrap black card – I say scrap, it was one of the end pieces of the card I’d used to make some elegant envelopes to send my gift tags to customers in yesterday, so it’s ‘nice’ quality.
Taking my trusty sponge padded stamper, I burnished the black card with sparkling gold ink followed by embellishments of dinky coloured paper flowers and shimmer gems from Hobbycraft (my temple of craft).
To add some pizzazz, I made a tassel from a gorgeous aqua satin ribbon and poked it through the punched hole in the top of the bookmark. It looked good against the gold burnished black card.
Finally, and not to guild the lily, I sprayed the finished bookmark with clear acrylic gloss varnish. Mainly to seal the print and ink, but also to add a tinge of professional quality to it.
The bookmark was then lovingly wrapped in some aqua tissue paper to match the tassel. I added one of my little handmade blue and white floral “to/from” cards, so she wouldn’t need to ponder too long on who it was from!
I popped it into one of the black card envelopes I made yesterday and sealed it with an aqua wax and my gorgeous dandelion seal which looked stunning against the stark black background. I like to embellish my seals with some gold paint to make the dandelion imprint pop.
Finally, I wrote “Viola” with a flourish using a gold acrylic pen on the front of the card and hot-wheeled it in my Super-Scooper Mini down to Felixstowe to deliver it ‘by hand’.
Just as an aside – it was a full moon this evening (apparently called a “Hunter Moon”) and as I drove along the seafront, the shimmering light across the calm sea was the stuff of famous paintings - it made me smile.
I stealthily delivered the package through the letterbox, and I hope it makes her smile too…
