Sketchbook flowers

I'm back with more cards from my craft retreat, and this time it's a group of cards made with the Sketchbook Bouquet and Sketchbook Florals stamp sets from Taylored Expressions. I stamped the images on white and Toffee card stock and colored them with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I also used the coordinating dies to cut out some of the images.

There are several pictures, so I won't add too many details. If you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll do my best to answer them.

I think these two are my favorite cards out of the bunch; I love the bright colors with the touch of black.

I used white craft ink to add splatters to the card on the right. Unfortunately it took a long time to dry, and I accidentally smeared it. I didn't want to toss the panel so I just left it. Maybe I'll add some kind of embellishment over it later.

The layout for the card on the left was inspired by a card I found online. During the retreat, everyone had a BINGO card with various crafty tasks to complete. One of them was to "scraplift" a scrapbook layout, but since I was making cards, I found a card design to copy instead.

I used more white splatter on the card on the left (as well as one of the cards below), but this time I was more careful to avoid smearing it.

Since I made so many cards with these sets, I tried to use different layouts and focus on different occasions (although I still made sure to create a few birthday cards). Do you have a favorite of the group?

Thanks for stopping by!