Sunday's Featured Stamper - kokirose

Hi everyone! Okay, here we go....combining challenges here.

Sunday's Featured Stamper was Patricia (kokirose)! Love her gallery! There were several cards that I already had in my favorites, but HERE is her card that I CASE'd. Love her stamp choice, the pearls, scallops, swiss dots folder, and dimension on the flower so I kept all that. I changed the colors to the ones in today's color challenge #CC181 on SCS, which was to use Rose Red, Basic Black and Kraft. I moved the pearls and sentiment around, left off the script background (only because I don't have it), and left off the ribbon. I used my Martha Stewart border punch too.

The flower was stamped three times, and all three blooms were layered on top of one another with dimensionals. The leaves were stamped twice and layered with dimensionals. The inside of the card has the bee from the Bloomin' Beautiful set stamped in the lower left corner.

RECIPE ~
Stamps: SU Bloomin' Beautiful, Gina K Kindred Sentiments for Her
Paper: Kraft, Basic Black, White, Rose Red Designer Prints
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rose Red, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Folder, White Half-Backed Pearls, Oval and Scallop Oval Nestabilities, Rectangle and Scallop Rectangle Nestabilities, Dimensionals, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Word Window Punch
Technique: Watercoloring (with inkpads and a regular watercolor brush), Dry Embossing, Paper Tole

The other day, Nicole (have you seen her awesome jewelry?!...Wow!) asked me if I stamp my envelopes. Every now and then I do...but for the most part, no I don't. I don't know why, I love it when I receive a stamped envelope so why the heck don't I do it?? I recently made my mom a stack of 20 assorted cards though, and I did include a matching stamped enveloped for each of the cards I made for her. Maybe Nicole has inspired me to start making matching envelopes more often? {smile}

Hope you're all having a really great day!