A mini frame, with a dragonfly..

 I first went through my basket with some leftover pieces of colored cardstock for the background. I found two pieces, but they were both too small. 

No problem, just tear one part, and stamp a script on the bottom part. 

The dragonfly has been stamped on watercolor paper and on some acetate from packaging. I cut them out, and colored the first with distress paint and heated the second one with the heat tool, so the wings would be lifted, to get a 3D effect. 

The mini frame is really mini, only 8 x 8 centimeters. It was really ugly to start with, and ready to be thrown away, after years of getting yellowish in the sun, as some wood tend to do.  I painted it with white acrylic paint after a few layers of gesso. I painted a thick layer of quick crackle and let it dry overnight. I painted it with another layer white acrylic paint, and watched it crack. After it dried, I added some color with distress ink tea dye, and some Pan Pastel, and misted it with water to let the color run over the crackled background. I stamped the same script as mentioned in an earlier step onto the crackled frame.  

 Hope you like it!

I am entering this in the challenge on
1. craft-roomchallenge - recycle (the frame and the acetate has been recycled)
2. our creative corner - leftovers
3. The artistic stamper - in the garden

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