A wonderful customer/friend was unable to attend one of my workshops recently and requested I post the projects we made, so here's to you, Ruth!

This first card I believe I have shown you before, as it was one of my Leadership swaps! It's a quick and easy card, but a favorite by all!

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and the inside (both the inside and the outside words are from the Occasions Mini set, "Bring on the Cake"!

This next card using the can-be-free with a $50 order SAB set, "Punch Bunch" is a CASE of a swap I received at Leadership! It showcases the yummy "Concord Crush" and "Pear Pizzazz" color combo perfectly! "Happy Birthday" is from "Curly Cute" on page 149 of the Big Catalog.

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Inside we stamped words and images from "Party Hearty" from page 54 of the Big Catalog!

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We learned a "faux watercoloring" technique with this card. We inked the largest flora image from "Just Believe" from page 109 of the Big Catalog with Blushing Bride, So Saffron, and Soft Suede Stampin' Write markers, then misted them with a water spritzer! I CASED  and tweaked this card from Sandie Conner on Mary Fish's blog.

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The inside we stamped with the fun "live, laugh, love, happy birthday" from "On Your Birthday" on page 153 of the Big Catalog! We also used the Eyelet Border punch and the "Beautiful Wings" embosslit with the Big Shot for all the butterflies! They are attached to the project with Mini glue-dots!

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This last project was CASED and tweaked from Sandi MacIver. I purchased her tutorial for making these gorgeous "floating reinker" roses last year, and decided to revisit this technique for this workshop. Thanks, Sandi, for so many great ideas with this set and technique! We used the "Fifth Avenue Floral"stamp set, (found on page 122 of the Big Catalog) heat embossing the large rose with White embossing powder on Shimmery White cardstock. We spritzed the embossed flower heavily with water, then touched an aquapainter to an inkwell of Pink Pirouette ink refill and touched it to the wet cardstock. We "watercolor washed" the flower all over with the Pink Pirouette, then went back with Regal Rose ink refill on our aquapainter and added Regal Rose highlights. Every rose came out different, some were very soft, and some were very vivid! We stamped the greeting with "happy birthday!" from the Level 2 Hostess set, "Something to Celebrate!" in the Occasions Mini! We also used the "Blossom Petals" punch for the rose leaves. We creased them down the center of each leaf, then sponged the Pear Pizazz cardstock with Old Olive.

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On the inside we used two stamps from the "Messages for Mom" set (pg 50 of the Big Catalog).

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See you tomorrow, my friends! Until then, have a "Stampingrox!" day!