Simply Soft Watercoloring

Hi everyone.  Today I'm posting three cards all made with this week's colors from SCS Color Challenge (CC408 - Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Raspberry Ripple).  LOVE this color combo!!  And, the cards all used the same stamp set (Simply Soft from Stampin' Up!) ... and the same technique, Marker Layering.  I thought that since I had pulled out my watercolor paper, I might as well stamp up a few images and ended up making them all into cards.  Hope you like.

Stamps:  Simply Soft, A Word for You (SU!)
Paper:  Watercolor paper; Soft Suede (SU!)
Ink:  Black, Soft Suede, Raspberry Ripple, Sahara Sand (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Square Lattice embossing folder (Sizzix for SU!), blender pen, modern label punch, 3/8" Soft Suede Taffeta ribbon, white gel pen, Stamp-a-ma-jig, brown half-pearls, sticky strips and dimensionals

Here's a close-up of the flowers:

I had so much fun using the same technique with yesterday's card, that I decided to do some more.  As mentioned above, the next two cards are done with the same colors, techniques and most of the same accessories with the exception of switching out the embossing folder to the Floral Screen EF by Cuttlebug.  Hope you like.

Sorry for the blurry picture, my camera is on it's last legs :(  I distressed the edges of both the framing of the image and the embossed background paper to give the card interest.

Here's a close-up:

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And one more ...

I used a different stamp this time, but it's from the same stamp set (Simply Soft).  This time I sponged the embossed panel to give it more definition.

Here's a close-up:

Thanks for taking a look!