COLORING DOWN THE LINES

Hello! Welcome back to 

Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop 

after a week's hiatus!! A little mini-vacation kind of left last week out for me! But I'm here now!

Welcome to the hoppers joining us from Helen's blog! Keep moving onto Sandy's blog next!! 

So here's my card this week:

Here is the inspiration photo:

Here are the Stampin' Up! colors:

So these colors just "shouted" flowers to me! So I sort of used my            Garden in Bloom stamp set to make a background. But even before that, I used some Stampin' Sponges to make a "wash".  

I didn't use a lot of tools with this. Went back to SIP-stamp, ink & paper! This beautiful 2-step stamp set allows for so much fun creativity! Just a little      fussy-cut for the butterfly with some bling on it!

And of course this bling girl had to add some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter for the centers of the flowers! Um, yeah!!! It's me!!

So sweet & simple! Hope you enjoyed!

Happy Stampin'!!!

COLORING DOWN THE LINES

This week's Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop offers some rich, beautiful colors!!! Love them!!!

So hello to my visitors from Carol's blog! Glad you are here! After you hang here for a bit, head on over to Liz's blog & see what she has in store for you! Then be sure to keep going all the way back here!!! I get to be the cheese in the middle this week! Lots of fun stuff to see!!!

Here's the card:

Here is the inspiration photo:

And finally, here are the colors in MDS:

So I know it's another card with Lotus Blossom, but it's my current favorite stamp set! It's such a beautiful image! Simple yet not if ya know what I mean! I want to get as much use of it as I can since it's from the 

Sale-a-Bration Catalog! Once the catty is done in March, the stamp set is gone, gone, gone!!!! I just love it so!!

The striping is the amazing Irresistibly You Specialty DSP!  So you gotta have this stuff!!! It's got the design (in this case the stripes) embossed in clear!  All you need to do us use a Stampin' Sponge or Sponge Dauber to rub the ink over it! So cool!!! You can make your own colored DSP!! Awesome!

Other materials used are Beautiful Bouquet (Occasions Catalog) for the leaves, Simply Wonderful (SAB) for the sentiment, Apothecary Accents for the sentiment cut-out, and the Pearl Basic Jewels colored with the 

Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities!!!

Hope you enjoyed! So now start hopping around & check out what all my talented hop partners have for you!!! See you soon!!

Happy Stampin'!!