Ridiculously Awesome Thanks! Kylie's International Blog Hop!

Hello everyone!

I had a ton of fun on this long weekend down in my cool craft room (August has finally heated up around here!) 

I am super excited to be joining Kylie's International Blog Hop this month! It is my first time EVER - and I am so happy you decided to stop by! Welcome! 

I just love SO many things in the new Annual Catalog - it is full of crafty goodness and it was hard to choose something to create with this month - put I pulled it all together with a few things I hope you like!

This month, our theme is "Thank You!" Gratitude is huge! Here is my design!

I got to work using watercolor paper that was lightly misted and inked up my stamp set from the Blossoms in Bloom bundle with that gorgeous new Bumblebee In-Color ink!

 I also took my small Aqua painter and a wee bit of Soft Suede ink to fill in the centers

 of my watercolor flowers. 

 I knew I was going to fussy cut a bit, so I wasn't using precision when I did this ;)

 I just heat-set it a bit. Next up: I ran Whisper White cardstock and the  

outline die from the bundle through my Bigshot and attached it with my

 fine tip glue pen. I set this all aside.

I wanted to use the Ridiculously Awesome stamp set - but I had to get creative

 for this sentiment when it came to a thank you card! 

I taped off a portion of the wording and used my Craft Whisper White

 pigment ink on Basic Black cardstock and *just squeezed* it all

 into the frame using one of the dies from the Tasteful Labels set.

 (Whew! That was close! haha)

I also had a bit of help with this sentiment - I used Tasteful Touches

and Massive Thanks to get that gratitude in! 

My Forever Greenery DSP was calling to me for this card - and those

 watercolor-look stripes were perfect! I adhered them to the Crumb Cake base 

and planned the way the flowers were going to be cut to layer on the DSP. 

A little bit of trimming to cut the flowers apart and it fit perfectly. 

I cut a couple of the smaller flowers and popped them up on the black layer.

There are so many amazing projects this month - and I hope you get some inky inspiration from our International Blog Hop! 

If you like my card, you can vote for me ( this month - I am #39  in the Gallery!)

If there are any items you would like to make some thank you cards - and you are a fellow 

Canadian - you can shop here! 

I would love to help you add to your stash ;) 

Thanks for stopping by  - I can't wait to hop again next month!

Peace, Love n' Ink 

Amber