Boy, did I have fun last night!! I was part of the online Clean and Simple Card Making Class with Jennifer McGuire and friends and am trying to implement some of the things I learned. I purchased a Hero Arts Daisies stamp with my class discount from Simon Says Stamp!(very cool place with the largest selection of Hero Arts I've ever seen!!...no...not a paid advertisement...just really like the site!)...and well...I just couldn't stop making cards!! The first card is actually the last one that I made, for after I looked at Susan's Simplicity site this morning and the One Layer Wednesday 76 challenge for the week of using white and gray and a pop of color...well...I had to make just one more!! So I have a total of EIGHT...so if you're here because of the challenge, the first card is the challenge card:)!!....here goes: I stamped the stamp with versamark and white embossed. One of the things that we were shown is using Prismacolor pencils to color on papers other than white. I loved how rich and deep the colors were...not at all what I was expecting...used white and dark gray ...what fun!! Used a sentiment from Hero Arts, and a white signo pen to outline the card. I then took my favorite of all time Papertrey Ink texture plate(Linen/Canvas) and ran the card through my Big Shot for some texture on my gray card: Added yellow rhinestones as my pop of color. This second one was a result of using yellow paper on the inside of another of these cards...so I decided to try coloring on a so saffron card. Used white and light green pencils and a sentiment from Paper Smooches. Papertrey texture plate, too! The third one, below, I cut out the top 3 flowers after coloring...for these I used Stampin Up markers for coloring... and popped them up on card. Added Paper Smooches sentiment and colored with marker, as well. This next kraft colored card I used Chocolate chip ink and colored with pencils. Dotted with Enamel Accents, and hand drew my lines with chocolate chip marker. Sentiment Paper Smooches, texture plate, again! The next one I colored with Stampin Up markers, again, and cut out the top three. Rather than framing with lines, I just left is plain and added a little "fancier" sentiment. The next kraft colored one I stamped with versamark and white embossed. Colored with white and light green colored pencils. I didn't dot the middles with stick on dots or Enamel accents, but just colored with turqoise colored pencil. Paper Smooches sentiment and hand drawn border....and the texture plate:) This next one was actually the very first one I made. I colored and cut out all 4 flowers after coloring with Stampin Up markers(Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal) and added a Hero Arts sentiment. Added stick on dots in the middles. This is the final one...the only 2 layer one of the bunch! I simply stamped in black and colored with SU markers. Added another Paper Smooches sentiment and black enamel accents for the middles. I then took my Martha stewart scoreboard and scored along each side(the picture doesn't show well, but there IS a scored line along the bottom:)!) I know it's alot...and I didn't get into alot of details. I only will say, I took a picture of how I learned to line up your card to draw lines. I have had a gridded cutting board for a while, but never used it except for cutting out an occasional flower with my exacto knife....no more. I will be using this board to line up my work for more precise and accurate work!! It's nothing fancy...but it does the trick!! Used Eclipse tape and taped my card at exact markers and lined up my ruler from the line on one side of the card to the other and drew my line(these are 1/4" squares)...hope that makes sense...SOOOOOO EASY!! Never again will I measure or guess...drawing lines this way is a BREEZE!! Just a tip!!... Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa InLinkz.com