Catherine Pooler inks make me smile!!

Hey friends!  I'm back today to share with you a couple more cards I made using the Zen Garden Collection from Catherine Pooler Designs. 

For my first card I focused on creating multiple shades of each ink color   I started out by stenciling a background with the Split Chevron Stencil.  I only used one color ink for this background:  Stone Blue, blending with a light hand for a soft blue.  Then I repositioned the stencil and blended the Stone Blue with a heavier hand to create a darker shade of blue.  Is it just me or does this color remind you of denim?  So pretty!

For this card I used the following supplies from the Catherine Pooler Designs store:

• Stamps:  Love Grows
• Dies:  Zen Feather Dies
• Inks:  Polished, Shea Butter, Spruce, Stone Blue, Midnight
• Paper: Premium White Cardstock
• Accessories:  Split Chevron Stencil

The Love Grows stamp set has these cute little layered flowers that I stamped using the new Zen color: Polished.  Catherine Pooler inks are great for generation stamping.  Here I created two tones from the same ink by just stamping off once to achieve a light shade of Polished then I stamped a fully inked stamp over it for the outline.  I stamped the green Spruce stems the same way.

For my next card I created a background by stamping the Chevron Cheer stamp set multiple times in different colors.  To add some depth and interest I sliced this stamped panel creating vertical strips, then popped up two of the strips using dimensional tape.

For this card I used the following supplies from the Catherine Pooler Designs store:

• Stamps:  Chevron Cheer,  Love Grows
• Dies:  Smile die
• Paper:  Premium White Cardstock, Premium Midnight Cardstock
• Inks:  Polished, Sugared Lavender, Rose Petal, Seafoam, Skylight, Versamark
• Accessories:  Opaque Bright White Superfine embossing powder (WOW!)

The Smile die flows perfectly along the bottom of the Chevron Cheer stamp.