Flowers For No Particular Reason

Who doesn't like getting flowers for no reason at all???  This is the card version, though I readily admit that blue flowers are not overly common.  As I have often professed, I have a real 'thing' for SU!'s retired shade of Cool Caribbean.  I still, after almost a year of its retirement, have four unopened packs of cc cardstock in my stash.  Love this color!  Have issues with hoarding!  Probably need help!  For this card I pulled out my Embrace Life stamp set.  It's one of those sets I just had to have and yet let sit on my shelf unused for weeks.  I stamped the flower image in basic brown onto whisper white.  I colored it using reinkers (cool caribbean and old olive) and my aquapainter.  I stamped the Papertrey sentiment in close to cocoa, cut out the image and embossed using my small rectangle Nestabilities.   The mat is close to cocoa, too.  I stamped the leaf image in Versamark and then colored in the leaves with my Versamark marker.  Then - as I've been prone to doing lately - I colored over the leaves with my clear Spica glitter marker.  I wrapped the card in SU! taffeta ribbon, attached the focal piece with glue dots (like I'd use anything else!!!) and called it quits.  Keep reading below to see what I did with my SAB rub ons...
Supplies: 
Ink:  close to cocoa, old olive, cool caribbean, Versamark
Stamps:  SU! Embrace Life, Papertrey Ink Mixed Messages
Cardstock:  SU! whisper white, close to cocoa, cool caribbean
Other:  Versamark marker, SU! taffeta ribbon, Spica glitter marker, small rectangle Nestabilities

In keeping with the anti-hoarding effort I decided to immediately use my Sale-a-Bration rub-ons.  Normally I'd determine that they were too pretty to use for just anything and that I'd have to put them in a drawer until I had something special to make.  You know how that goes...you look in that drawer three years later and think 'what was I thinking?'  And so I was ready to use them...and then realized I'd never used rub-ons before.  How hard could it be?  Answer:  harder than I thought!!  Ha!  I did ok but I learned a bit about technique.  The cardstock is Papertrey's Aqua Mist, and so is the ribbon.  I wanted to go with a very simple look so I layered Aqua Mist on top of Aqua Mist and distressed the edges to create definition. 

And now I'm off to watch American Idol.  Of course.  I'm a little obsessed.

Until next time...M