Garden Angels

When I saw the challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenge was ice cream I knew I wanted to pair it up with Cathy's Moxie Fab World Challenge The Minty Fresh Challenge to create a mint chocolate chip inspired card.  Even better yet is Mint Ice Cream with Oreo Cookies!  I ended up creating a card which I am calling a Garden Angel.

The background started as mint with a combination of green dye inks smeared on the craft mat and spritzed to create an inky puddle which I smeared onto the white cardstock.  I repeated it on the cardbase.  I then took my Dylusion sprays (Brown) and spritzed along the edges to add my chocolate.

The next step was to blend a few different stamps together.  I stamped a new B Line Designs stamp over the background using brown dye ink.

After I added the background I stamped the Winged Collage Angel from La Blanche using black ink and heat embossed her with clear embossing powder to help the black pop a bit more.  I added a touch of color to her face, eyes and hair.  I also highlighted with a white gel pen.

I created a mask for her using copy paper and stamping her on it and cutting it out.  I wanted to layer some flowers in the background.  After I placed the mask over her face, I stamped the Hero Arts Hydrangea, Elegant Weeds in the background using black ink. I heat embossed them as well to help the color pop.

I added some color to the flowers using watercolor pencils.  I then stamped the lovely Verses Rubber Stamps - Kiss of the Sun on tissue paper and trimmed to fit in the corner and added a touch of the brown dye ink.

After all that I decided to add my swarm of butterflies.  They are from the Stampendous Charm Collection.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Suzz