This week's color combination has quite a few colors! I blended two shades of green and I also blended several shades of purple and pink on the flower.
The flower stamp from the Level 1 Hostess stamp set in our
current catalog,
Because I Care, is a terrific stamp on which to use the "thumping technique". This technique works a bit like banging a drum with a drum stick. Working one color at a time, take the brush end of a Stampin' Write marker & tap it repeatedly all over the rubber, similar to playing a drum. The color from the marker will be transferred to the rubber. After you have done the same thing with each color from your color palette of purples & pinks for the flower, as well as the greens for the leaves and stem, breathe onto the rubber to remoisten it and then stamp the image. The resulting image will be a variegated, feathery image! What fun!
Choose several coordinating Stampin' Write marker colors in shades of pink and purple for inking the flower and both Certainly Celery and Old Olive markers for the leaves. You can either ink up the stamp on the lightest color inkpad and then "thump" the remaining colors onto the rubber, or you could opt to only thump the color all over the rubber without first inking the entire image. You will be thumping the markers a bit more if you opt to omit the inkpad inking first.
Other elements on today's card:
Retired Raspberry Tart dsp pulls out the Rose Red color that I thumped onto the flower.
A Whisper White cs layer on this card is dry embossed with an embossing folder.
Certainly Celery ribbon adds charm.
The Old Olive cs layer is punched with the
Scallop Edge Border Punch.
Have a great day!
Linda
This quick card is primarily created with punches. The Boho Blossoms Punch will punch out the tiny flowers. I actually used the Three Flower Punch, which has been retired, however, the Boho Blossoms Punch will punch a similar flower and actually give you more variety of flower sizes.
The message piece is a piece of Whisper White cs that has been stamped in Pumpkin Pie classic ink with a flower outline stamp from the Awash With Flowers Stamp Set and then stamped with the birthday image from the Perfect Punches stamp set in Chocolate Chip classic ink. 
The Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper is lovely! It dresses up this Fast Friday card in a hurry! The curly label punch (once in Whisper White and once in Pear Pizzazz), and the modern label punch dress up the message. You could use any message here, but one specifically designed for the curly label punch is fun! You might try the stamp set called Perfect Punches in the current IB&C! There's a stamp for every occasion that fits inside a specific punch! 
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