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Hi friends! Today I'm popping in with a grungy little bit of fun I worked on recently. Sometimes getting my fingers all stained with ink is the best therapy!

This card started with Marilyn Red Atelier ink.  I smooshed it onto a palette to grab a little ink with my waterbrush to color the sweet flowers from the Flower Garden set.  Used to my well used ink pads, I presssed quite heavily and came up with a whole lot of ink on my palette. It was the perfect excuse to start smooshing up a background. {grin}

So I dabbed a piece of acetate into the pool of red ink, then spritzed with water and smooshed onto heavy white cardstock a few times. I added in some texture with stamps from the Texture Tiles 1 and Grunge Elements 2 stamped in hickory smoke distress oxide.  I used a bit of the Paint it Black Atelier ink to add in some darker accents and also to edge around the sentiment panel.

The sentiment shape is a tag from Park Lane that I also smooshed with the watered down Marilyn Red ink, and then stamped with the County Fair Alpha in black.  I added the colored and hand trimmed flower spray to this tag with a bit of twine and a rhinestone.  The rectangle frame behind was from a previous mixed-media project where I cut frames from chipboard with rectangle dies, then coated with versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.  Ifinished off with some distressed edges and ink splatters.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous day!

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