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Flourishes "Forest of Trees"

Sep 112008

Today’s card is stamped with another new release from Flourishes called “Forest of Trees”.

To make this card I tore a strip of Eclipse masking tape and covered the lower half of the whisper white card stock. Then I sponged the top half of the card with Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Almost Amethyst and Sage Shadow. Once sponged I removed the masking tape and stamped a sentiment from Flourishes “Peace” set and one of the new tree images from “Forest of Trees” several times with Versafine “Onyx Black” ink. This image was then adhered to the black card base. I then embossed the Crystal Clear Card Stock (acetate) using a Cuttlebug and the Swiss Dot embossing folder. I used Vellum Glue Dots to adhere the acetate to the front of the card. (The vellum glue “dots” are actually not dots at all but are an adhesive in a sheet form that you simply transfer from the sheet to the object you want to adhere.) Lastly a bow using May Arts ribbon was added.

Here are the three sets released this week at Flourishes.

Oh and just a reminder about Flourishes “New Release Bundle” deal. You can purchase all the new sets for 10% off! This offer is good through September 17th. The three new sets this month are “Birds and Vine”, “Forest of Trees” and “Mixed Greetings”. Also if you want to see more cards made with this week’s new releases, be sure to visit the other Flourishes design team member’s blogs.

Linda Duke
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Leslie Miller
Barb Schram

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Stamps: Flourishes “Forest of Trees” and “Peace”
Papers: SU! Whisper White and Basic Black; Crystal Clear Card Stock
Inks: SU! Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Almost Amethyst and Sage Shadow; Versafine “Onyx Black”
Accessories: May Arts Ribbon; Eclipse Masking Tape; Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots Embossing Folder; Vellum Glue Dots (Sheet)

Flourishes - "Birds and Vine"

Sep 102008

It’s release day for Flourishes, and here is a card I made with one of their new releases called “Birds and Vine”. I love this set. The images are so lovely and graceful.

Also used on this card are Basic Grey’s “Ambrosia” designer paper, Kaiser flat back pearls and May Arts satin ribbon. The edges have been distressed and inked. The bottom edge of the DP was torn prior to inking.

Flourishes has exciting news this month! During the first week of their new releases, they are offering a package deal called the “New Release Bundle” where you can purchase all the new sets for 10% off! This offer is good through September 17th. The three new sets this month are called “Birds and Vine”, “Forest of Trees” and “Mixed Greetings”.

To see more cards made with this week’s new releases check out the other Flourishes design team’s blogs:

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Stamps: Flourishes “Birds and Vine”

Papers: SU! Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White; Basic Grey “Ambrosia”

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa; SU! Basic Gray

Accessories: Kaiser Pearls; May Arts Ribbon; Paper Piercer

Beate's IC #22 and a Flourishes Sneak Peek!

Sep 092008

It’s always so much fun creating for Beate’s Inspiration Challenge. Here is the beautiful inspiration piece that she gave us this week. I so love the soft blues and greens of the glass with the white and greens of flowers and foliage.

Here is the card I made that was inspired by it. Do you see those pretty little white flowers “peeking” onto the oval? Well tomorrow Flourishes releases three new sets! Those sweet little flowers and the sentiment are both part of one of them.
Just a few details about the card. Using my Nestabilities I cut and embossed an oval in Whisper White card stock. I stamped the sentiment and flowers in Garden Green and then colored the image in with Certainly Celery and Barely Banana. I then drew over the image with a VersaMarker and applied clear embossing powder. After heat setting the ep, I sponged Bashful Blue on the oval. The edges of the butterflies were sponged with Not Quite Navy.

Check out the cards made by the other Inspiration Challenge Team members. Hope you can join in on the fun and play along!

Jennifer Buck
Charmaine Ikach
Silke Ledlow
Danielle Lounds
Dawn McVey

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Stamps: Flourishes – TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW!!
Papers: SU! Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue, Whisper White; Basic Grey “Euphoria”
Inks: SU! Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue, Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana
Accessories: May Arts Polka Dot Ribbon; Kaiser Rhinestones; Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities; Cuttlebug; VersaMarker; Clear Embossing Powder; White Gel Pen; Butterfly Punch

Hearts and Butterflies

Sep 042008

What fun I had playing today making these two cards. One uses Flourishes “Lace Heart” and the other uses Flourishes “Butterfly Moments”.

The designer paper is one of Basic Grey’s new collections called “Ambrosia”. I LOVE it!! Each and every design is so yummy!!

These papers compliment Flourishes “Butterfly Moments” perfectly! I cut along the scalloped pattern on one of the designs and added the strips to the cards for a lacy look.

I think the May Arts black velvet ribbon just adds to the rich and luscious feel of these cards. Beautiful papers, wonderful images, delicious ribbon… how can I not be in love!!

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Butterfly Card

Stamps: Flourishes “Butterfly Moments”

Papers: SU! More Mustard, Ruby Red, Whisper White; Basic Grey “Ambrosia”

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Ruby Red Classic and Marker

Accessories: May Arts Black Velvet Ribbon; Kaiser Black Rhinestone; Stardust Clear Glitter Pen; SU! Corner Punch; Paper Piercer

Heart Card

Stamps: Flourishes “Lace Heart”

Papers: SU! Ruby Red, Whisper White; Basic Grey “Ambrosia”

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Ruby Red

Accessories: May Arts Black Velvet Ribbon; Kaiser Black Rhinestone; Stardust Clear Glitter Pen; SU! Corner Punch; Circle Punch

Beate's Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #21

Sep 022008

Beate’s inspiration piece this week is a console table from Pottery Barn. Well I couldn’t help but be inspired by that big beautiful bouquet of orange tulips. The tulip stamp that I used is from Flourishes “Thank You” set. One of the fun things about clear stamps like this tulip image, is that they can be bent and shaped. So even though this tulip naturally curves off to the right (the tallest of the three tulips on the card), I was able to bend the stem to appear almost straight for one of the tulips and then even more for the third tulip in the bouquet getting it to lean to the left. Also with some masking I was able to use just the leaf part of the image to stamp a leaf on the left side of the stems. It looks like I have several different images. How fun is that! The designer paper is from Basic Grey’s “Scarlet’s Letter” collection.

Check out the cards made by the other Inspiration Challenge Team members. Hope you can play along!

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Stamps: Flourishes “Thank You”; A Muse “Happy Birthday”

Papers: SU! Basic Black, Old Olive, Very Vanilla; Basic Grey “Scarlet’s Letter”

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Old Olive Classic and Barely Banana, Only Orange, Certainly Celery, Old Olive Markers

Accessories: SU! Corner Punch, Brads, Raffia, Black Gel Pen

Beate’s Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #20

Aug 262008

Beate is back and so are her weekly Inspiration Challenges! Here’s my card for this week’s challenge.

Here is the inspiration piece. It is by Jo Moulton from Coldwater Creek.

I used Flourishes “Poppy Patch” for the main image. I stamped the floral images on Basic Grey’s “Ambrosia” designer paper and then colored them in with LuminArte’s Pure Mica Powder in “Real Gold”. Nancy Kirk has made a wonderful tutorial for using these beautiful powders. The background is brayered using SU!’s Rose Red, More Mustard, So Saffron, River Rock and Always Artichoke.

Check out the cards made by the other Inspiration Challenge Team members:

Stamps: Flourishes “Poppy Patch”; (Sentiment Unknown)

Papers: Basic Grey “Ambrosia”; SU! Very Vanilla, Basic Black

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Rose Red, More Mustard, So Saffron, River Rock, Always Artichoke

Accessories: LuminArte Pure Mica Powder “Real Gold”; GG Ribbon; Raffia; Brads; Gel Pen; Fiscar Oval Cutting System

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I had such a wonderful time with my son and his family on their visit. But yesterday was very strange. All day I kept hearing the girls’ sweet little voices. And then I would remember that they had returned home. But I do have some pictures. Here’s one of our visit to the Seattle Aquarium. I had no idea that starfish were so squishy!

I have four sons and no daughters. Consequently my whole experience in buying clothes for my kids has always been all boy stuff… certainly no pink roses! Well you can imagine my delight to have twin granddaughters (and another one on the way!)! I took the girls shopping, and we found these fun clothes. They humored grandma and dressed up for me.

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Hope everyone finds some time today to laugh and love and count your blessings. Happy Tuesday!!

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August's Dirty Dozen Challenge

Aug 202008

Each month just for fun on Splitcoaststampers the Dirty Dozen and Dirty Dozen Alumni have a challenge. The challenge this month was to make a birthday card without using the word “birthday” and to incorporate actual numbers into the design. I played along. Here is my card for it.

This card is made with one of Flourishes newly released sets called “Summer Blossoms”. I thought that some of the floral images in this set had a toile feel. So using a couple of them I stamped a “toile-look” background.

The three main image panels also use images from this set. The sentiment is from “Summer on the Patio” which is another new set just released by Flourishes. I added Sakura’s “Stardust” to the buds for the sparkle and some Kaiser rhinestones for some bling. The scalloped edged ribbon is by May Arts.

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Stamps: Flourishes “Summer Blossoms” and “Summer on the Patio”; Hero Arts “Friendship Letters & Numbers”

Papers: SU! Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Green Gable

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon; Kaiser Rhinestones; Sakura “Stardust” Gel Pen; Silver Cording, Paper Piercer, Circle Punches, Word Window Punch

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I haven’t been posting much lately, and this is why.

My sweet little granddaughters are here for just a few more days and I plan to spend as much time with them as possible. So until next week…

Flourishes - "Summer Blossoms"

Aug 152008

Here is a card using another one of the three sets released this week by Flourishes. It is called “Summer Blossoms”.

I stamped the flowers with SU! Classic Rose Red Ink on Watercolor paper. Then, with my aqua painter, I used my Yoyo Yellow reinker and touched it down on the flower. The effect was a blend of colors that I thought was so pretty. I cut out the flowers and adhered them to the card front.

Here is the complete “Summer Blossoms” set. I love the graceful nature of the stems.

And yes… I stamped in the chandelier from “Summer on the Patio”. I just couldn’t help myself! The candles are colored in with a red glaze pen. The bobbles and flames are glittered with a Sakura “Clear Star” pen.

If you want to see some more cards made with this week’s releases from Flourishes, be sure to visit Barb, Faith, Julie, Leslie and Linda’s blogs.

My son, daughter-in-law and (almost 4 year old) twin granddaughters are flying in tomorrow and staying for the week. I’m so excited to see them and have some grandma time. The girls have been taking swimming lessons and are all ready to play at our lakehouse, swim in the lake and go for some boat rides. We may even get them to sit on the innertube with their dad and get pulled around! lol Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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Stamps: Flourishes “Summer Blossoms” and “Summer on the Patio”

Papers: SU! Whisper White, Rose Red, Garden Green; Basic Grey “Sultry”

Inks: SU! Rose Red, Garden Green, Yoyo Yellow; Sakura Red Glaze Pen, Sakura “Clear Star” Pen

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon; Kaiser Rhinestones; Cuttlebug and Dies; Aqua Painter

Flourishes - "Summer Botanicals"

Aug 142008

Today’s card is made using the “Summer Botanicals” set which is one of this week’s newly released sets by Flourishes.

I colored directly onto the coneflower stamp using my SU! markers. I love this technique, and “Summer Botanicals” is a gorgeous solid image floral set that makes it so easy to do.

Aren’t these fabulous!! Check out Barb, Faith, Julie, Leslie and Linda’s blogs to see some more examples using this week’s new releases from Flourishes.

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Stamps: Flourishes “Summer Botanicals”

Papers: SU! Whisper White, Chocolate Chip; Basic Grey “Sultry”

Inks: SU! Classic Old Olive, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip and Markers Old Olive, Rose Red, Pixie Pink, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Only Orange

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon, Kaiser Pearls, Prima, Paper Piercer

Flourishes-"Summer on the Patio" and Welcome

Aug 132008

Welcome to Barb Schram who has joined Flourishes as a guest designer! Barb is so talented and it will be such fun having her on the team! You can read her bio on the Flourishes Newsletter. AND even more happening at Flourishes… Today is the release of 3 new stamp sets! On this card I’ve used one of them. It is called “Summer on the Patio” . And it was SO MUCH FUN!!!

I first stamped the pitcher and the floral bouquet. Masking these I then stamped the table. Both glasses and the large pink flower were stamped on a separate piece of card stock, cutout and popped up on dimensionals. The designer paper is Memory Box’s “Sprout”. I cut out around part of the leaf design on the paper and then tucked the main image panel behind it.

These images are so fast and easy to color. I used SU! markers. A touch of sparkle was added to the flowers with a Spica pen. It gives such a pretty shimmer with indirect lighting.

The hardest part about this set was trying to decide which stamp to use first! Just look at all these wonderful images… 35 to be exact!!!

Now I have to tell you when I first saw the image of the pitcher I was so excited. I decided that that little sprig shown in the water is mint. That would make this a pitcher of Velvet Mint Water. (Some may say it is a pitcher of lemonade. I say it just shows the versatility of the image! lol)

I had never heard of Velvet Mint Water until just a few weeks ago when my friend Nan taught me all about it on her blog. Nan even grows her own mint and is a quilter and chef extraordinaire. Really she is. She has even published books.. on both subjects. (I think I’ve mentioned this before, but she was on the Emeril cooking show. I’m so impressed with myself that I know her and that she calls me her friend. lol)

You can see Nan’s recipe for Velvet Mint Water on her blog Pots And Pins. Nan enjoys her summers on the patio! And now you can, too, with Flourishes fabulous new “Summer on the Patio” stamp set! hehe Be sure to stop by the other Flourishes’ designers’ blogs Barb, Faith, Julie, Leslie and Linda and see what they have done with today’s new releases.

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Stamps: Flourishes “Summer on the Patio”

Papers: SU! Whisper White, Barely Banana, Basic Black; Memory Box “Sprout” DP

Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Classic Garden Green, Barely Banana and Markers Bordering Blue, Barely Banana, YoYo Yellow, Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Pixie Pink, Only Orange; Spica Pen “Twinkling Like Stars!” 04 Orange

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon; Circle Punches