Watercolor Trio card in Poppy Parade...

Poppy Parade is such a fun, bright color. At a recent stamp-a-stack, everyone made this card, which also uses Poppy Parade dsp from the In Color pad.

Watercolor Trio is a stamp set in the Summer Mini, and only available till Aug. 30. We used markers to ink up the rubber, then stamped them on Very Vanilla. The layer was attached with dimensionals.

Stamps: Watercolor Trio (117050 wood, 120084 clear);
Ink: Poppy Parade and Pear Pizzazz markers (119801, $14.95 for all 5 In Colors);
Paper: Very Vanilla (101650), In Color Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack (117158), and Poppy Parade card stock (119793);
Accessories: Scallop Edge Border Punch (119882), Ticket Corner Punch (119867).

Happy Grad and Watercolor Trio card...

I'm a little behind the ball in posting this Happy Grad card. It was a swap by Cheryl at a recent American Ink meeting.


The card is Bermuda Bay, as is the polka-dot ribbon (retiring June 30!). This card has texture (Polka Dot embossing folder, small punched stars adhered with dimensionals), an Eyelet Border Punch, and Watercolor Trio flowers stamped in Bermuda Bay ink on the card front and the top layer.

Watercolor Trio with butterflies...

When I saw this card on Mary Fish's blog, I wanted to do it for my stamp camp Saturday.

This is a Whisper White card with a layer of Sage Shadow (retiring) and an embossed strip of Chocolate Chip that was run through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder in the Summer Mini (it's backordered right now).

This stamp is from the Watercolor Trio stamp set in the mini. We used Sage Shadow, Brocade Blue and Chocolate Chip markers to ink the rubber, then layered it on Brocade Blue and So Saffron card stocks.

Finally, we adhered a few butterflies from the Beautiful Wings embosslit were stuck on with Mini Glue Dots.

The sentiment is from Favorite Thoughts, also in the Summer Mini. It's adhered with dimensionals.

Watercolor Trio meets Poppin' Pastels technique...

Watercolor Trio is a stamp set that immediately caught my eye in the Summer Mini Catalog. In addition to the beautiful foliage and a small butterfly, there are three word stamps in the set.

This Almost Amethyst card features a layer of Close to Cocoa with a knot of white taffeta, and a Whisper White layer on top that's been sponged with Close to Cocoa ink.

All of the floral/foliage images were stamped in VersaMark ink. This is the first part of the Poppin' Pastels Technique. Then we took cotton balls to our pastels and dabbed and rubbed the colors where we wanted them for a soft and pretty look.

I used the large and scalloped oval punches for the sentiment, popping it up with dimensionals.