Crocus Flowers

I'm still really loving the Woodgrain Silhouettes Stamp set I won from WPlus9 Design Studio!  I LOVED the woodgrain background stamp the moment I saw it on Dawn's blog when she previewed the set, but what I have really have fallen in love with is the crocus flower stamp.  I've made several cards with it and my favourite technique is to create varigated petal colours.  I got the idea from my blog buddy Karen Baker when she posted this card using the same stamp.

Here are just a few of the cards I made with the Crocus flower (all similar layouts; just swapped out the colours).

Varigated PINK: I'm loving the Ripe Avacado with the hot pink ribbon.  The patterned paper is from a K&Company Chrismas paper pad!

 

Varigated VIOLET (oo--there's some alliteration for ya!):  I don't own PTI's Polka Dot Basics (yet--teehee), but I do own PTI's Beautiful Blooms--which has an individual dot stamp.  I painstakingly stamped each dot with Versamark to create my background here.

EDIT:  I've submitted the above cards for this week's CARDS blog challenge about Mother's Day cards.

Varigated BLUE: I added the script stamp (Hampton Art) last minute because I ended up getting some small ink smudges on the white panel while I was distressing the edges.  No need to throw away a mistake when you can cover it up, right?!  Some more patterned paper from my K&Company Christmas pad too. 

Very simple layouts on each of these cards, but they've turned out to be some of my favs!

Thanks 4 your time!