A Plethora of Colored Images

A couple of these cards were done this week with my new stamps, the others have been in my "to finish" tray. Do you have one of those? Let me guess, it collects things doesn't it? Things you don't even remember putting in there. I fished out 4 images from my "to finish" tray and made the cards very quickly. I need to search through that tray more often! As anyone who knows me, or follows my blog will tell you, I simply adore coloring. I often sit and color with my alcohol ink markers while watching TV with my husband at night.

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Stamps	Love is Kindness, French Foliage (retired)
Card Stock & Papers	Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, Typeset Designer Series Paper
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers
Tools	Sponge Daubers, sponges

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Stamps	Frogs from Cornish Heritiage Farms
Card Stock & Papers	Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Old Olive
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers
Tools

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Stamps	"Mermaid" from Saturated Canary
Card Stock & Papers	Old Olive, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers
Tools

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Stamps	Love Is Kindness, French Foliage (retired)
Card Stock & Papers	Real Red, Typeset Designer Series Paper
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers, Linen Thread
Tools

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Stamps	Bouquet Toss
Card Stock & Papers	Baked Brown Sugar, Cherry Cobbler
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers
Tools	Labels Framelits

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Stamps	'What The Librarian Reads' from Saturated Canary
Card Stock & Papers	Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio, Calypso Coral
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers, SU Fabric Brad (retired) It's covering an ink blob!
Tools	Decorative Dots and Fancy Fan Embossing Folders, Corner Rounder

Punch and Die Combo

I love it when a punch or die can be used in a different way to create a whole new look! In this case, I took a piece of cardstock a little larger than the size oval I wanted, then put it in my Tag Topper Punch. The result looks like the first picture below the card description. Then I slid an oval framelit under the scallop bit produced by the punch and over the rest of the cardstock. The result of this step is shown in the second picture below the description. I evened up the oval and ran it through my Big Shot. Voila! I got a new die cut shape!!

 

Project Details
Stamps	Bouquet Toss, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock & Papers	Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Ink	Melon Mambo, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers, Melon Mambo Taffeta Ribbon
Tools	Lovely Lace Embossing Folder, Tag Topper Punch, Ovals Framelits, Word Window and Modern Label Punches

 

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Stamps	Bloom With Hope, Blooming With Kindness
Card Stock & Papers	Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink	MementoTuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers, Pumpkin Pie Chevron Ribbon, Linen Thread
Tools	Tag Topper Punch, Honeycomb Embossing Folder

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Stamps	Love Is Kindness, Butterfly Basics
Card Stock & Papers	Blushing Bride, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White
Ink	Blushing Bride, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pear Pizzazz, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Crisp Cantaloupe Twine (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals, Alcohol Ink Markers
Tools

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Stamps	Butterfly Basics, Gorgeous Grunge, Happy Watercolor (greetings)
Card Stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Crisp Cantaloupe
Ink	Hello Honey, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Crisp Cantaloupe
Accessories	button, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Washi Tape (retired patterns), scrap of burlap
Tools	Butterflies Thinlits Die, Spiral Border Punch

 

Jolie Fleurs

I took four years of French in school. With no way to practice or immerse myself in the language, my knowledge never flourished to say the least. Although I faked my way through reading French menus and giving some type of vague directions to a cab driver in St. Martin, my vocabulary is not very extensive. I can ask about the weather, tell  you my name, ask where the train station and bathrooms are. I do remember a surprising number of nouns. Nothing remarkable, just random things. My husband and I went shopping at a large mall this morning and one of the ladies who waited on us had the most marvelous French accent! I desperately wanted to talk with her just so I could hear her lovely voice. So what word came to my mind??? Jolie fleurs, or pretty flowers. Big sigh.. I'm afraid I made no great impression on this Frenchwoman. Oh well C'est la vie. hmmmm where did that phrase come from? Somewhere deep in the cob webs of my mind no doubt.

Project Details
Stamps	Bloom With Hope
Card Stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol Ink Markers, Pearl Basic Jewels
Tools

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Stamps	Peaceful Petals
Card Stock & Papers	So Saffron, Pool Party, Whisper White
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Alcohol ink Markers, Pool Party twine
Tools	Apothecary Accent Framelits, Honeycomb and Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folders

Bouquet Toss is NOT just for Weddings

When I first saw this stamp set, I was simply wowed by the flowers! Wedding? Didn't even cross my mind. I bought this stamp set knowing that I would love the flowers for birthday, thank you, sympathy etc. and yeah a wedding or two as well lol! The stamp set is shown below.

Project Details
Stamps	Bouquet Toss
Card Stock & Papers	Garden Green, Pistachio Pudding, Whisper White, Rose Red
Ink	Momento Tuxedo Black, Rose Red
Accessories	alcohol ink markers
Tools	Deco Labels Framelits, Ovals Framelits, Lovely Lace embossing folder

 I love this botanical! I adore flowers and love to color with alcohol ink markers:) This stamp set is called Sweetbriar Rose.

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Stamps	Sweetbriar Rose
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pistachio Pudding, Rose Red
Ink	Rose Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	alcohol ink markers
Tools	Deco Labels Framelits