Colorful Beauties

I recently picked up a pack of 2 Ranger Distress Oxide Spray inks the other day and I am nearly in love LOL 

If I could afford it I would go buy the entire line immediately!!

Also, something else I am amazed and inspired by is Tracy Evans work. 

Following these CHALLENGES:

Sweet Stampin Make Your Own Background

UPDATE: this card made Top Three!  Thank you!!

STAMPS: poppies - Stampin' Up! "Pleasant Poppies" background stamp, dots - Stampin' Up! "Extreme Elements" set, phrase - PSX (#D-2611)

INKS: Stampin' Up! Melon Mambo, Memento Tuxedo Black, StazOn Stone Gray, VersaMagic Cloud White, Distress Oxide Sprays in Spiced Marmalade & Picked Raspberry

MARKERS: Copic

OTHER: Sakura Gelly Roll white pen, white paint pen, Micron #03 black pen, Ranger foam blender, Stampin' Up! circle punches

1. Spray white cardstock with sprays and allow to dry.  Spritz lightly with water.

2. Ink tiny circles stamp with pink ink and stamp randomly.

3. Stamp partial poppies with black ink and color in with markers.

4. Punch circles from scrap cardstock, saving negative mask as well.

5. Using circles punched out and foam blender, brush pink ink onto circles and away from the edges. Remove all but large circle.

6. Leaving large circle over poppies, overstamp section of poppy stamp in gray ink as shown. Remove large circle mask.

7. Using reverse mask (the cardstock you punched circles from) ink tiny dots stamp with white ink and stamp within small circles.

8.Use black pen to draw dots around circles.

9. Stamp phrase in black ink.

10. Use paint pen or gel pen to draw in white dots across image on a diagonal.

Thanks for stopping by!

May you be blessed, and may you be a blessing... :o)