{Forest Friends meets Candy Lane}

I must admit it took me a while to warm up to this little set, but it's turned out to be quite a little cutie to work with.

And this is one of my tried and true stand-by layouts – if you look twice you may recognize it from several other projects!  Add a few more or take away a few layers, change the colours and images, and you'll have a very different looking card without too much brain sweating.

Now, for those of you who are really awake this Sunday morning, you may already be wondering how I coloured in that tree with Riding Hood Red, when there is no Riding Hood Red marker. 

Did you know you can make your own? And in less than a minute! 

1.  Put four or five drops of the Riding Hood Red Ink (from the ink refill bottle) into a little container or a lid (I used a lid from our brads containers).

2. Place the tip of a blender pen into the ink and let it soak up.  Done!

You may need to "reink" the marker peridically.  However, you don't want to go overzealous with the ink because the blender pens have two ends, and too much ink will soak all the way through to the other tip, which you may want to use for Baja Breeze.

I bought a pack of the Blender Pens (6 tips) and make myself up a complete set of In Colour markers. 

*Be sure and store these on their sides to avoid the blending of the colours in the barrel.

Order yours here!

*And one last plug – the Forest Friends stamp set AND the Scallop Oval Punch used here are both retiring in 14 days!!  Get them now before they are gone.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Forest Friends  set of four  $28.95, Really Retro set of seven  $28.95

Colours: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla

Other: Blender Pen transformed into a marker, Scallop Oval, Large Oval punch, ribbon, Candy Lane DSP