I is for Inking.

It is  a new Theme

over at my Butterfly Challenge

#46 Butterflies + I is for Inks.

 I would like to see coloured inking somewhere on your project.
ie. Stamped image inked using coloured inks, or an inked background or distress inks/markers to colour your image.

Here are my inspiration cards for you.

The 1st one  uses a stamp set by 

Imagination Crafts.

It has stamps which are both outline and solid infill

This enables you to build up a stamped image  using different 

coloured ink pads for each stage of the stamping.

I first stamped the flower out using 

distress ink in 'Peeled Paint'.The outline stamp of the 

flower heads and buds was used next . I coloured 

with  Versa Magic  'Perfect Plumeria' and lastly

the infill stamp using Versa Magic 'Pink Petunia.

The sentiment came in the same set.

Then I had a mishap. 

I used the small butterfly infill

stamp to stamp off 2 small butterflies at the top of the flowers.

They looked awful  and ruined the card 

so I had a hunt through my other

butterfly stamps and found a Clearly Besotted 

'Elegant Butterflies stamp which just about 

covered the mess up.  I stamped onto a scrap 

of the same white card and layered up using 1st green

then plumeria and lastly petunia just overstamping 

lightly with each colour.  Fussy cut out and then drew

round the stamp again. Fussy cut to give a slightly

larger image and inked up with the green.

I layered the white card up with  pink and dark pink

card stock from my stash that matched the inking 

perfectly. 

Layered inside with the pink card stock

and another flower head that I fussy cut out

after inking up.

Entering into the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion #294 Anything goes.
In The Pink #85 Anything goes,
Crafty Catz #306 Flowers.
2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.
Sweet Stampin #  Flowers.
The Crafty Addicts #6 Anything goes/celebration.
Crafts Galore # Anything goes.
Addicted To Stamps #176 Anything goes.

For my second card I have used Cardio stamps

 from ' Oriental Blossom Flower ' and 'Summer Wreath'.

I used a white card blank and cut a circle from 

the front of it using my X cut dies.

Having removed the inner circle I then closed the card

and drew very lightly round the aperture using a pencil.

This gave me the shape to start building up my wreath design.

I used  Distress ink 'Forest Moss' for the base and then 

Versa  Magic dew drops in Plumeria , Petunia and night sky

for the flowers. I stamped the butterflies one in each 

colour into the centre of the circle.

I die cut another circle front and repeated the same pattern

around the outside edge sandwiching  a piece of

acetate in between. Stamped off another 3 butterflies and fussy cut out.

these were applied to the front and raised up slightly with 3d pads.

Silver sticker sentiment from my stash.

Inside of the card and below the card closed to show

the sentiment but I caught the glare from  the camera

on the acetate. 

Do hope I have given you some ideas and hope to see you

play along.

Entering into the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations # anything goes with a die/s

The Crafter's Cafe #140 Square cards.

Creative Knockouts #123 Anything goes.

Where the HeART Is #5 Anything goes.

One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes,

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop # Use your snippets( snippet of acetate).

Alphabet Challenge #W = window.

City Crafter #294 Butterfly, my butterfly.