Hello and Happy Tuesday! I'm finally feeling better. Yay!! It took two trips to the Doctor with a total of four shots and seven prescriptions but I finally am feeling alive! And almost as wonderful, it is actually warming up and I actually feel like I could enjoy being outside some! Thank goodness!
So this week over at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a Color It Challenge!
I finally pulled out my Gina K Designs Stippled Flowers Bundle. I needed to make a card for Jeff's Mom's birthday and it has such lovely flowers as well as a beautiful Happy Birthday in this set!
I did some stamping and coloring.. can you tell? Some flowers were stamped with Versamark and embossed in white and others were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and clear embossed. I used Bristol Smooth Cardstock for all of my stamping. It really takes water well. You can't soak it as much as watercolor paper but it is definitely the next best thing and it is such a beautiful white color. (I also use it for my Distress Ink Blended backgrounds!) The Embossing on the Bristol Smooth helps me with watercoloring because it gives me a raised edge to contain my color. I used Kuretake Zig Clean Color Markers for all of my coloring. The cool thing about stamping and embossing ahead of time is that I could sit in the living room with Jeff and color while we watched television. Obviously I was a little more involved with the coloring than the television watching but at least I was in the same room with him. After coloring I decided that the light purple was my favorite so I used those to make Jeff's Mom's card. I think my second favorite was the white embossed flowers so I'll probably make something from those next!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings, Tina
