Flower Shop cards & Batik Flower paper printables

So I'm addicted to colouring these little Hometown buildings from Purple Onion Designs. The flower shop is my fave, because it's so easy to add dimension by stamping an cutting a second little awning (and popping it up on a bit of foam tape).  Ever try paint over colouring? I added some white acrylic paint to the flower shop above (with a little paint brush over the black heat-embossed image) to tone down the bricks. Something methinks I shall...

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more new free paper sets & a print sampler

So, I've been adding some monochromatic papers (and some with black outline accents) to the growing flickr collection (just to mix things up a bit from the white & coloured style). There are 3 new more summer colours too...(an homage to the last 3 Seasonal Distress Ink shades that completed my collection)There are about 150 free paper sets now:(That's about 5100 papers, if you count all the colours. A small obsession?)Here's a sampling...To save...

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Masculine "get well" card

It's the dreaded fellow card (well it's a card genre that's a little dread-filledfor me, at least). But I thought this Doctor's Office stamp from Purple OnionDesigns hit the right note between masculine and cute:The building stamp has a bit of architecture, but it also has that happy doodle style. I built a frame up around it (popped up on foam tape). But then the chevron paper was so intense it was actually making Charles dizzy when I asked for...

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