Fiona's Notes:  The flower is made up of a layer of Crushed Curry punched with the Pansy Punch, then on top of that I stamped the image onto Vellum, waited for it to dry and then punched that out and popped it on top with a candy dot to finish it off.

Stamps: Sunburst Sayings, Flower Shop  Inks: Crushed Curry, White Craft  Papers: Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Eastern Elegance DSP, Vellum  Accessories: Pansy Punch, Regals Candy Dots

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Fiona's Notes:  It's a little hard to see in the photo but the cutlery are just die cut out and the grey behind them is the base cardstock. There's a shadow cast by the angle of the photo which makes it look like I've done some shading!  The banner is fussy cut and stuck over the top with dimensionals.

Stamps: Endless Thanks  Inks: Crushed Curry, Basic Black  Papers: Crushed Curry, Whisper White thick, Smoky Slate  Accessories: Cups and Kettles Framelits, Stampin Dimensionals

CASED from: Valerie Moody - thank you so much!

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Fiona's notes: One of my favourite techniques is using Stampin Write Markers to colour directly onto a stamp so that you can get different colours in one hit.  Look how well it turned out on this card!  It allows this stamp to be the star without any other embellishments.

Stamps: One Big Meaning  Paper: Whisper White Thick  Accessories: Stampin Write Markers, Stampin Dimensionals

Inspired By: Charlet - thank you so much!

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Fiona's Notes:

• I inked up my stamp with my marker pens to get the dual colour effect.  I love doing that, it's so effective.
• The gold balloon strings are the gold part of the Metalic Gold Bakers Twine which I unravelled from the natural twine.  The bow is made from the discarded natural twine and stuck on with a glue dot.

Stamps: Balloon Celebration, Suite Sayings  Inks: Mint Macaron, Crumb Cake  Papers: Whisper White thick, Mint Macaron, It's My Party DSP  Accessories: Stampin Write Markers, Metallic Gold Bakers Twine, Glue Dots, Stampin Dimensionals

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Fiona's notes: The floral stamp from Timeless Love is only a semi-circle.  Thanks to my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig (yes, that's its official name!) I was able to stamp it into a perfect circle.

Stamps: Timeless Love, Blessed by God  Inks: Memento Black, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzaz  Papers: Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White  Accessories: Blender Pens, Rhinestones

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Blog Hop Line Up:

1. Stamp Set - Tami's flowers are from the Beautiful Bouquet and made a "thinking of you" card. I used the Birthday Blossoms set and made a birthday card.
2. Ink - Tami stamped in Black Stazon and coloured in Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow inks using an aqua painter.  I also used aqua painters.  First I added a green background before stamping my flowers on.  I stamped my flowers in Blackberry Bliss.  Then with my aqua painters, instead of inking them up I just started to gentle colour my flowers.  They picked up the ink from the flower outlines and that was all the ink I needed.
3. Paper - Tami used a black border on a Blackberry Bliss base.  I kept the borders but used a Blackberry Bliss on Whisper White combo.
4. Accessories - Tami accented her flowers with a white gel pen.   I used rhinestones to bring a bit of life to my flowers