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I’m traveling this week for a Stampin’ Up event in Savannah, Georgia. My first stop is my bestie’s in Pensacola, Florida. We were stamping crazies the first 24 hours after I arrived! Both of us are Display Stampers for the event and had a pile of projects to create for the display boards in Savannah. Typical pro-craft-ination waiting till the last few days to finish all our projects! I’m glad we had required stamping to do…we had so much fun in our whirlwind of creativity, it is the very best getting to stamp together in IRL instead of crafting together virtually across the country! I can’t wait to share what I made for the boards, you can come back here to see my projects as soon as it’s okay to post them 🙂

You might think I would have needed a rest from stamping for the displays but I couldn’t wait to play with some of the sets in this stamp room that are not in my own lol! I finally got to play with the Oh So Succulent stamp set and I am in love with the results! The possibilities for watercoloring with this set makes my heart go pitter-pat 🙂 There are so many fun images and details in the set and you can color the line images like I did or you can use it for two-step stamping and fill in the line images with the second stamp. This makes this set exceptionally versatile for whatever kind of stamping you feel like doing.

Creative Tips:

I played with my colors on a scrap of watercolor paper before committing to each plant image. When I had a combination I liked, I watercolored one of the plants. Inks I played with for this card include: Sweet Sugarplum, Island Indigo, Mint Macaron, Old Olive, Bermuda Bay and Rich Razzleberry.
Isn’t the little planter the cutest? Can you guess where it came from? It’s the ice cream bowl from the Frozen Treats die set!
I am obsessed with watercolor washes in the background of my card fronts. I think that sweet wash of color makes the main images pop. On this card I used Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay in my wash.