Yellow Irises

I had a green-blue background lying on my table... and a small blue dragonfly made with shrink plastic ages ago. They seemed to fit together, and since I just saw lots of yellow irises blooming by the lake where my family has a summer place, they seemed the perfect choice. I am posting my card for the Rubberdance colour challenge (yellow-green-blue), the UnrulyPaperArts reader art quest ( The Great Outdoors), the Stampinback card challenge (Things that fly) and the SimonSaysStamp challenges Monday (Summer) and Wednesday (Anything goes).

Actually (for a change) this went about the way I planned it and didn't take long (since the background and dragonfly were already done). The Iris stamp is from VivaLasVegaStamps and the dragonfly is the larger one from Rubberdance.

layers: 4x6 card, torn paperstrips (+glue), white gesso
yellow acrylic paint, clear gesso, blue ink sprays

stamping with Stazon

Bleach: effects the sprays, not the acrylic paint, so the
turn yellow. On the left there are spots without the paint 

colourpencils to add a deeper yellow

some stamping with a Harlequin background (RD)

Mounted on card and added dragonfly

I love the way this turned out, the texture in the background and the vintage feel of the flowers :)

A closeup of the texture