Today is the final day of my ICAD Challenge week, and once again I’m revisiting the flower-and-butterfly theme.

Because this was a new stamp for me, and the direction of the butterfly and vines was vertical rather than horizontal, I did a practice run on scrap paper before stamping the project card with it. I didn’t want any of the lettering on the right, and I had to stamp the vines multiple times to cover the card, so I had to ink the desired section of the card carefully before stamping. I used my trusty Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black to get a waterproof image.

This is the final version of the inked card. The grunge marks on the stamp were a bit unpredictable, and I feel like I did too much stamping which gave a kind of “dirty” feeling to the image. It’s too bad there’s not an Undo button for stamping! However, I do like the way I was able to ink different parts of the stamp to fill in the entire card with vines.

I should note that I did use my Pigma Micron Pen to darken some areas of the stamped image, and to fill in some broken lines. You can see this especially on the butterfly wing, which didn’t stamp as clearly as it should have.

Then it was time to have fun with color! I used several different distress ink pads from Tim Holtz, and one lonely Memento Dew Drop Ink in Danube Blue. I used the round ink blending tool for the larger areas, and the finger sponge daubers for the smaller areas where I needed more control and precision.

I tried out the inking techniques on the practice image before I colored the real project. You can see there were some missteps with the blue ink on the copy paper! I used a much lighter touch on the final image.

I left room in the upper right corner of the card for the sentiment, which is from the Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker pad. I sometimes need to use tweezers to position the smaller stickers properly. My final step was the ink the edges of the indez card using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Black Soot and a blending tool.

So there you have it, my final ICAD Challenge piece for 2019! I really enjoyed the process of creating an index card every day, and using some new supplies and techniques. Now I need a method for storing and/or displaying them. If you create index card art, please leave a comment sharing what you do with your completed cards.

Blessings,
~Happy Heart Art Girl

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