I LURRRRRVE BasicGrey papers. This stamp set (Friendship blooms, from the upcoming saleabration mini) seems like it was made to go with this designer paper.
I had loads o' fun altering the cardstock that I stamped the flowers on and punched the centers out of, to make it more BasicGrey-ish. I used the Speckled wheel (with white craft) for the pink and green flower-punched centers, and I used the Paisley background with Going Grey to treat the Naturals white paper before I embossed the Flowers in Basic grAy ink onto it.
YUP, you can emboss in colours without a craft pad of that shade: put versamark on the stamp first, then before stamping, apply the classic ink colour.
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