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All these gorgeous sets are now available at the Flourishes Store ! And I have another sample to show you at the end! Strawberries:

Seaside Life


and Beach Life!

Aren't they yummy? Here's a last card I made with Beach Life


I used my copics to color the palm trees and hammock and then ran a light layer of orange ink with my brayer over top, that way it looks like the trees are lit by the sunset. Then I gave the background layer some brayering treatment with some great yellows, golds, oranges and reds. I used some of the extra edges of the brayered piece as accent along the side too. And then popped the trees on top.



If you played in Flourishes By The Sea challenge, be sure to check the Flourishes Newletter Saturday at noon central time for an extra surprise! Trust me, you won't want to miss this!

I hope to stamp a little in the next week....right now as we speak my kitchen is completely torn up, we're renovating...and my office, my computer and my stamping table are all located in this area! It should be a crazy week!

Recipe: Stamps: Flourishes - Beach Life; Ink: Mememto Tuxedo Black, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Only Orange, Riding Hood Red; Paper: Crushed Curry, Basic Grey DSP, Flourishes Classic White Copic Paper; Accessories: Big Shot, Labels Sizzlits, Dimensionals, Copic Markers, Kaiser Pearls (black), Brayer, Bittersweet Ribbon (Flourishes).

New Release - Beach Life


There's just nothing like the beach right? How fun it is to feel the warm sun, the sand beneath your toes, to see the ocean waves time after time rolling in. It always makes me feel so small, yet peaceful.
Lauren Pope has designed a wonderful new set to be released tonight called Beach Life. I love the beautiful images!
Here's one to show you... and if you come to the Release Party tonight (Friday) at Splitcoast (8 PM MTN time) I'll show you another!

I love this image of the sailboat out in the water. I colored it with copics and popped up a second layer of the cloud.

I was going for a very nautical feel, so I used this pretty paper from Prism as my base (Island Mist Dark), added some cream and red accents, and did some fancy wavy piercing to give the feel of the waves. I also wanted to keep that long horizontal feel to the design too.

Sail over to the rest of the Senior Design Team to see what they have created today with this pretty set.

Cindy Lawrence, Faith Hofrichter, Julie Koerber, Latisha Yoast, Laura Fredrickson, Leslie Miller, Stacy Morgan

To win this set today see the Flourishes Newsletter.

And join us tonight at 8 pm MTN at the SCS forum for the Release Party! Fun, games, conversation, the new releases and lots of chances to win!

And here is Julie and I on Tuesday night when I met her in person for the first time! She keeps all of us Flourishes girls together as our fearless Design Team leader. What a sweetheart she is, and it was so fun to spend some time with she and her beautiful family. They were wonderful hosts. You can tell I'm looking a little road weary in the picture and Julie's hair is blowing a little in the wind, but we had a great time! I feel blessed to know her!


Recipe: Stamps: Flourishes - Beach Life, Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, White Craft; Paper: Prism Island Mist Dark & Vanilla Cream, Flourishes Classic White Copic paper, Riding Hood Red; Accessories: Big Shot, Large Labels, Kraft Corduroy Brads, Vanilla/RHR Striped ribbon, Twine, Dimensionals, piercer, Copic markers.

Sneak Peek - Seashells by the Seashore

Whew! Home again....you might not have known it but we've been away the past 9 days visiting family and friends...travelling 3679 km (or 2281 miles) across the US Midwest! I even had the blessing of spending some time with my friend Julie along the way, what a treasure! (more on that tomorrow) :)

It's Day Two of fabulous Sneak Peeks from Flourishes. It's another amazing set created by Marcella that is stunningly illustrated.

Whenever we've gone to the beach, one of our fun pass-times is to wander along the sand and waters edge looking for shells. Doesn't everyone do that? We have many good memories from trips...and some shells taken home to remember them by.

So I tried to recreate that feeling of us walking along the beach edge with the water lapping up against us finding sand dollars.


Some of these sand dollars are stamped on Confetti Cream and the edges sponged. I also stamped one on cardstock vellum with white Stazon and gave it a bit of a curled around look. Some sponging on the beach and some curled waves with a little ribbon, twine and a Finishing Touches Ribbon slide complete it.

See the other DT girls Summery Seaside Creations by visiting their blogs today:

Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan

Want to win this set today? See the Flourishes Newsletter

Night everyone! I'm off to my long lost bed!

Recipe: Stamps: Flourishes - Seashells; Ink: Close to Cocoa, White Stazon, Baja Breeze; Paper: Cardstock Vellum, Soft Sky, Kraft, Confetti Cream, Urban Prairie DSP; Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note Die, Sponge, Dimensionals, Gold Brads, Modern Label Punch, Soft Sky DS Ribbon, Gold Ribbon Slides (Finishing Touches), Twine

Sneak Peek - Berryliscious!

Oh what a pretty sneak peek set we have for you today! It's another fantastic release week at Flourishes, some gorgeous summer sets you'll LOVE to have as a part of your stamp collection.

Today's peek is a gorgeous strawberry set drawn by our beautifully talented Marcella Hawley. We love strawberries in our family and have a strawberry patch in our backyard. The kids can't get enough of them! So this is a perfect summer time stamp set.

I have two pretty cards to show you today I call this one Berry Sweet

This set has so many gorgeous elements in it. On this card I stamped and masked the berries, leaves and blossoms on Flourishes Watercolor paper. I watercolored with reinkers and SW Markers (first the reinkers, then the SW markers for finishing definition). Cut out with the Deckled Rectangle Nestabilities.

I actually chose my color inspiration from the stamp, but also from this gorgeous Rhubarb Tart paper. It's one of my favourites.



Don't you love the scoring along the bottom? I ran scorelines with my Scor It along the bottom half running from corner to corner, then added *buttons* with my 1/2 inch circle punch. Accents are Pewter Kaiser pearls, and the gorgeous silk ribbon (did you know there are new silk ribbons in the store??? Serious YUM)

Alright now the Strawberry Basket


I've had this cute cute paper from K & Co kicking around for a while just waiting for the perfect time to use it...this was it!

I colored these gorgeous berries in the basket with the new Copic Poppy Collection from Flourishes. As well as colors from Flesh Tones I and II for the basket. I created the highlights for the berries with my colorless blender, and the strawberry tops were from the Fields Collection.


And look at that pretty frame! I'm so excited, I used my new Frameabilities :) for the frame and accent piece. I love how the definition turned out. Don't they look yummy??

Check out the other fabulous Senior Design Team Girls sneak peeks today:

Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan

Recipes:

Berry Sweet: Stamps: Flourishes - Strawberries; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Paper: Riding Hood Red, Flourishes Watercolor Paper, Rhubarb Tart (Memory Box) DSP; Accessories: Scor It, 1/2 circle punch, Big Shot, Deckled Rectangle Nestabilties, Oval Punches, Silk Ribbon, Pewter Kaiser Pearls, Reinkers, Stampin' Write Markers, Aqua Painter

Strawberry Basket: Stamps: Flourishes - Strawberries; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, So Saffron; Paper: So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Flourishes Copic Paper, Big Shot, Frameabilities - Foliage Frame, Fancy Scallop Pierceabilities, Flourishes - Copic Collections (Poppy, Fields, Colorless Blender, Flesh Tones I & II), Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Button, Dimensionals

Waterlily

It's a Flourishes Friday! And this week it's our Pre-Release challenge for you with brand new sets coming next week! Our theme this month is "By The Sea". Doesn't that evoke some lovely summer thoughts? So what's your part in this challenge? All you have to do is make a "By the Sea" creation and you could be eligible to win all three new releases next week! Be sure to check the Flourishes Newsletter today for more deets.
So....I was playing with my Copic markers again....and created this waterlily scene...not exactly the SEA, but it is water, and the cool colors and clean and simple design are great for a relaxed summer feel.

Here's a bit of a closer look at the lily in the water. I used straight lines with my markers for the water and swirly circles for the sky area.


I used the Violet Collection, and the Sky Collection of Copics from Flourishes...with a little bit of Fields mixed in. This great K & C paper really matched well. I went really clean and simple and didn't add a lot of layers, and just gathered silk ribbon and some of our pretty Finishing Touches Beautiful Brads in copper (isn't it cook how they join together?).


Check out the other Fabulous Flourishes Senior Design Teams' By The Sea Creations!


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