An Embrace Life Card

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Here is a card I made using a stamped image from Embrace Life. I don't have this set, but I managed to stamp up some images while I was visiting my mom yesterday.

The flower is stamped on Whisper White card stock and colored using craft markers and watercolor pencils. First I colored in the entire flower with yellow marker and then went over the outer portions with pink marker. I used water color pencils to blend the colors then covered the image with VersaMark. Next I heat embossed with two coats of clear embossing powder.

I cut the image out and then attached it to a piece of So Saffron card stock that I had sponged with So Saffron and Certainly Celery ink. I also used the edges of some Colorbox petals to make grass. I got the idea of doing the grass like that from Michelle's latest tutorial,

The stem is just a narrow piece of Old Olive card stock and the leaves are made using my 1 1/2 circle punch. Just punch out a circle then slide the punched circle part way into the circle punch and punch again.