Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop

Greetings Everyone!!

I'm so happy to be here with you for the last team hop of this term.  I've been BLESSED to work with amazing women for the past 6 months.  Tori and Terra are so generous, supportive and inspiring as artists, women and business owners.

The theme for today's hop as to use 3 different Smeared Ink stamps on our project.  I managed to use two from the Nymphs set and one from my Carnies set.

I started with a 5.5" x 5.5" card in hot orange.  My next layer is faux graph paper from a DCWV mat stack.  (I love this stuff!!!)

I stamped my Tree Nymph in Momento Tuxedo black in onto PTI White Cardstock.  I colored her with my Copic and Prismacolor markers as well as my clear sparkly Sakura Gel pen. I figured out her placement and then decided to do a strip of blue cardstock behind her with my sentiment from the Carnies set "Come One, Come All."  Behind my Nymph and on top of the blue cardstock I tied an olive 1/4" grograin ribbon in a small, neat bow.

I had a whole bunch of ideas for the left hand side.  I tried them over and over and over in different combinations and none of them struck me.  You know how that happens...so...I was poking through this pack that I purchased from Gauche Alchemy (my first order ever!!!)

  I pulled out some delicate green paper, the sparkly turquoise butterfly as well as the shiny leaves and made a little garden.  I used the paper to make flowers, of which I added a few others to to add some more depth using a few other scraps on my work table.  I used the butterfly and the leaf as the icing on the cake for the front of my card.

The last addition to the front of the card is a rub on flourish along the bottom.

My interior holds another SI stamp from the Nymphs set, the GORGEOUS Baroque style frame.  I stamped onto cream, sparkly cardstock in my Tim Holtz ink in Orange Marmalade.  The center is a rub on sentiment.

My final touch is from yet ANOTHER gorgeous GA pack that I purchased.  (just for good measure I ALSO got this one!!!)  hehehehe...once you start!!!  watch out!!

Anyway - from the wallpaper set I trimmed out these GORGEOUS flowers and added them to the bottom left as a bit of delicious scrumptiousness!!!

I hope you've enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed creating it!!!

Please continue to hop your way along to the rest of my darling teammates and leave them lots of love!!!!

Alison
Kelli
Lady Brayton
Meredith
Danielle
Kathi
Black Dragon
Jean 


Crafty Hugs!
Meredith