Live Simply Flower

To get the stamen heads to show up better, I first applied white gel pen, and when that dried I colored over them with yellow marker.

Stamps: Stampendous "Garden Background" 2012 (#R137), Stampin' Up! "Trust God" set

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Staz On Stone Gray

Markers: Copic

Other: Sakura white gel pen, Stickles Worn Lipstick

1. Use Post-Its to mask background stamp and apply grey ink; remove Post-Its.

2.  Stamp image in corner of card.

3. Stamp sentiment in open area (I say this from experience - if you color everything in and THEN stamp the phrase wrong it's all over LOL)

4. Use markers to color in the image (using white gel pen or acrylic on the stamen heads will help the yellow to show up better). 

5. Use the yellow marker to add dots around the flower head, white gel pen to add highlights, and Stickles highlight center of flower.

Challenges: The Flower Challenge #38 "Add Spots or Stripes" , Addicted to Stamps and More #336 Anything Goes , Retro Rubber 123 Anything Goes , Dream Valley #213 All That Glitters

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CAS Winter Flora Challenge

Used a stamp positioner to align the individual letters.  Foliage was covered with gloss medium.

This card was all about imperfection and what to do with it.  I didn't realize when I stamped the berries how dry the ink pad had gotten so the letters ended up "distressed" and THEN I didn't catch a bit of ink on the edge of the upper left bordering rubber of the H  and had to draw in 3 holly berries there to cover; to balance the extra berries it was necessary to draw in another on the stem above and to the left where there were 2. But in the end I'm happy with it LOL

Stamps: Stampin' Up!"Watercolor Winter", letters unmarked/unknown

Inks: Stampin' Up! Gumball Green, Real Red

Other: Ranger Glossy Accents

Challenge: Less is More Challenge #407 CAS Winter Flora

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Anything Goes and CAS Challenges

Kept things clean and simple. A little masking and a little outlining the image with marker. Card IRL is pure white.

Stamps: Coronado Island Stamping "Aaron" (#0951-E), Rosie's Roadshow phrase, Art Impressions oval (#M*2312), Stampin' Up! plaid background

Inks: Stampin' Up! Going Gray & Orchid Opulence

Markers: Copic Pale Cherry Pink #R11, Pink #RV11, Lavender #V06, Mallow #V15, Pale Purple #RV000, Warm Gray No.3 #W3

Challenges: Watercooler Wednesday WWC245  , The Sisterhood of Stampers CAS Challenge

UPDATE: This card was a Top 3 pick! Many thanks, I had such fun stamping it 

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CAS Challenge with Geometrics

Easiest, quickest card ever.  Just inked images and stamped them - took longer to pull out the supplies  LOL

Stamps: Stampin' Up! "Circle Circus", Deadbeat Designs phrase

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Tangerine Tango, Poppy Parade, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight

Challenge: AAA Stamp Challenge #152

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One Layer Challenge Card

Stamped flourish corner in brown ink, stippled over with yellow, then orange, then Cajun inks. Used paint pen to add white dots. Stamped tag in brown ink, coloring in/over words and reinforcement circle with black marker. Used fussy-cut masks to sponge sky around main bird, etc and top edge of card. Colored images with Copics and added white accents. Shadowed side of tag for faux-dimension with grey marker.

Bird colors inspired by the Flicker:

STAMPS: Invoke Arts "Flight Tag" (#5306-E3), Impression Obsession "Flourish 2" (#H5575)

INKS:  Stampin' Up!: Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Early Expresso, Bordering Blue, Basic Black marker.  

COPIC MARKERS: W3 Warm Gray No.3, BG72 Ice Cream, B95 Light Grayish Cobalt, YG95 Pale Olive, YG67 Moss, E71 Champagne, E44 Clay, E25 Cariba Cocoa, E07 Light Mahogany, YR21 Cream, YR24 Pale Sepia

OTHER: Judi-Kins Color Dusters, Sakura Pen-Touch 1.0mm Opaque/Permanent paint pen

CHALLENGE: Tuesday Throwdown #443 One Layer Wonder

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'Less Is More' Challenge Card

STAMPS:  flowers - PSX, words - Paper Artsy (Petals Plate), tag - Inkadinkadoo

TECHNIQUES:  Clean and Simple, One Layer Only, Spotlight, colored pencils

INKS:  StazOn Jet Black, Stampin' Up! Going Gray
CHALLENGE:  Less Is More One Layer Only featuring Frames 

Not sure if this is 'less' enough - I tried to follow the guidelines at the Less Is More blog as I understood them ie. lots of white, one layer only, clean and simple, including a frame of some sort, little to no embellishments

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