Ai Bible Journaling Release

Time for another release by Art Impressions!  This week the Design Team are helping to launch 5 new Bible Journaling stamp sets.  I love using them for cards, so today I am using 5200 - Butterfly Set:

I was aiming for something a little mystical to show off this wonderful sentiment, so I created an ink blended background using five colours of Distress Oxide Inks. 

I kept the lightest shade in the middle where the sentiment would be, then worked with the two pink/blush shades and finally using the purple and blue around the outside. 

Using my Misti, I arranged the butterfly stamps around the sentiment, testing out my positioning on some scrap paper.  With just the butterflies in the Misti - I dampened all the images and stamped them onto my ink blended background.  The nature of Distress Oxide inks is that when you add water, the inks oxidize, so I was left with chalky white butterflies - a bit of an ethereal effect.  I then spattered the cardstock with water using a wet paintbrush, which gave it a wonderful speckled look.

Positioning the sentiment in the center of my piece, I stamped it in Onyx Black Versafine ink.  I used my Hemstitch Rectangle die to cut out the pattern around the rectangle, and mounted it onto black cardstock before adhering it to my card.