Dragonfly Dreams with a spritz

I adore the background stamp from the Dragonfly Dreams set. In my previous sneak peek I stamped off to create a lighter pattern, today thought I would try adding some water..... 

No need to adjust your focus! Isn't it interesting to see how the colours meld and create their own patterns depending on how much or little water is spritzed? Not a technique to use if you want your image to be precise, but fantastic for random backgrounds. I experimented using a combination of aqua painters, stamping & stamping off as well as adding water before and after stamping to obtain different depths of colour and clarity of stamping - it was fun trying different combinations and now I have a supply of pre-created backgrounds for future projects too! These are some of my favourites, and below is what I chose for background for my card:

My husband has been on photographic sites the past few evenings exploring different techniques and images - for me the combination of greens on this background gives the impression of a blurred garden background. There is just a hint of golden yellow coming through in the Pear Pizzazz; that inspired me to cut into my gold glimmer paper. I also cut a second image from basic black and offset it slightly behind the gold, and deliberately didn't pop all the cuts out - just love the shadow effect this gives. This is the largest of the Detailed Dragonfly thinlets, isn't it just beautiful? 

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