Artful Academy dragonfly tag

Another project from the Artful Academy Visible Image Mini Collection. This tag was inspired by the lesson from Katy Leitch, the founder of Artful Academy. [Previous lessons include butterflies, Stampbord owls, and hummingbird.]

It was a pretty straightforward creation; the only problem I had was when the acrylic paint started to dry quicker than I was expecting and the stencil I was using to lift off some of the paint stuck to it and pulled the top layer of card off too. There was a time I would have got stressed about that happening, but doing mixed media has knocked the perfectionist edge off and made me a lot more open to seeing the opportunities when the unexpected happens. In this case, it just added an extra distressed textural element to the tag.