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Inky Accents 

(The Queen of Simply Elegant)
Magic Stampin’ Bus
Newbies Stamping Team Designer 

Supplies:

•  Believe (The Angel Company)
•  Memories (The Angel Company)
•  Black Beauty Inkpad (The Angel Company)
•  Cool Gray Inkpad (The Angel Company)
•  Brilliance Platinum Planet Inkpad (Tsukineko)
•  Cactus Blossom Chalk Inkpad (The Angel Company)
•  White Cardstock
          Cut to size: (1) 3½” x 3 ¼” and (1) 2 3/8” x 2”
•  Black Cardstock
          Cut to size: (1) 3 3/4” x 3 1/2” and (1) 2 5/8” x 2 ¼”
•  Pink Cardstock
          Cut to size 6” x 6”
•  Patterned Paper (All My Memories)
          Cut to size: 1 3/8” x 6”
•  Photo cropped to 3 1/8” x 3 3/16”
•  Paper Trimmer (Fiskars)
•  Easy Stick Double Stick Adhesive Runner (Henkel/Duck) 

Instructions

1.    Tear patterned paper strips; tear one strip on both sides, tear the other on just one side. Ink the strips all the way around with Cool Gray Inkpad. Adhere to pink cardstock making sure that the straight line is even with the edge of the page.   Leave a space a little less than ¼” and adhere the other strip with both sides torn.  

2.    Ink fairy from Believe with Black Beauty Ink pad and stamp on 2 3/8” x 2” card stock.   Ink all around it with Cool Gray Ink Pad and stamp Believe saying over fairy using Cactus Blossom Inkpad. Adhere image to 2 5/8” x 2 ¼” black cardstock; lay to the side. 

3.    Ink 3 ½” x 3 ¼” white cardstock all around with Cool Gray Inkpad. Adhere to 3 3/4” x 3 1/2” black cardstock. Adhere photo to the top of the white inked piece and set aside. 

4.    Ink up fairy dust from Believe using Platinum Planet Ink Pad and stamp catty cornered on the bottom right hand side.   Ink up “dance among the stars” saying from Believe using Black Beauty Ink Pad and stamp over the fairy dust.  

5.    Turn page so that the patterned paper strips are facing you. Ink up Memories saying from Memories set using Black Beauty ink pad and stamp above the fairy dust. 

6.    Turn page back around and adhere photo piece to the top leaving a 1/8” lip from the top.   

7.    Adhere fairy, slightly tilted below the photo slightly overlapping. 

A Simply Elegant page is completed!

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