Garden Fresh Sweet Peas

Welcome to the last day of Flourishes New Releases gang!  Today's sneak peek is such a fantastic set, and I'm using it in a very sweet way.  I have a lot to show you today so keep reading!

Our Assistant at work is going to deliver twins in the next two months or so :)  We are so very delighted for them and can't wait till these little ones arrive.  And I am ahead of the game for once on the gift!

Guess what I did?  Watercolored!  I haven't done it for so long...I was worried I'd forget what to do.  :)  

I stayed with a circle theme throughout kind-of going with the round peas idea.  So I used my Grand Calibur machine from Spellbinders and cut out the card with the Grand Scalloped Circles and Grand Circles and then the smaller main image on Flourishes Watercolor paper is cut with the Lacey Circles die.   The papers are again an older pack of Webster's Pages, and the accents are Crochet Ribbon and Basic Grey Buttons and Webster's Sparklers, and then that gorgeous big bow is with the ribbon in the Venice Kit.  It's just stunning ribbon!

Now what you also may notice is that it says Sweet Peas...the actual stamp says Sweet Pea....and knowing that it's twins I took my Copic Multiliner and trying to match up to Marcy's pretty script as best as possible  - added the S in there.  You might notice that the little peas are a blue green....guess what they're having?  

Now I'll show you what I am pairing with the card....something Flourishes is making available with this set too - really great digital downloads of recipe cards and labels....see how I've used it...

Something we used when our kids were babies that was practical...and saved money was our own recipe for Baby Wipes.  Someone had given it to us and we keep passing it along.  So since you would be changing double the diapers with twins, I thought I'd pass on the recipe and ingredients for home made Baby Wipes to them.  

I bought a large 12 cup Rubbermaid sealable container and then put in Baby Wash and Baby Oil inside for the recipe.  Then I decorated the container with the new downloadable label template, stamping it with the peas from the Garden Fresh set, coloring them with Copic Markers.  The gorgeous ribbon is from the Venice Kit (there are still some available!).  The only thing I don't like about the container...it's red on the top seal.  YUCK.  It didn't go with my color scheme at all, but I couldn't find any other containers this size anywhere I looked.  

Here's the very sweet downloadable recipe card from Flourishes and I used one of the smaller labels matching the larger label to dress it up a little.  

Now if you're curious about the recipe, essentially you take a paper towel roll, and a large serrated knife. Cut the roll in half down the length.  Leaving you with two short paper towel halves.  Set one half aside and take the other half (core in) and put it in the container.  Then in a large measuring cup measure about 4 cups of water.  Add 1 TBsp of baby oil and 1 TBsp of baby wash and mix.  Take this mixture and pour over the paper towel in the container.  The mixture will saturate the towels and the core will be easy to pull out.  That's where you'll also pull out your baby wipes for those little baby bums from the center too.  Easy peasy.  And saves some money too!

And there's the ensemble together :)  Sorry, my picture area is not that wide so I had to cut off some of the recipe card.  

Now be sure to check out the Design Teams creative projects today with this set and these templates.  You'll have a lot of fun doing it!

• Barbara Anders
• Christine Okken (you are here)
• Cindy Lawrence
• Danielle Kennedy
• Dawn Burnworth
• Julie Koerber 
• Leslie Miller
• Stacy Morgan

Sharon Doolittle
Jan Marie Caruso

There is a Mystery Blogger among us again today on the Design Team, just comment on all the DT Blogs....and someone will be chosen from those comments to win this great set!

At noon Central today check back for a fun last challenge of the week where you could win this set! 

And remember you can still enter to win the entire release by playing in our  Star Spangled Challenge , or win playing in the Wednesday Sketch Challenge , or the Thursday Pretty in Pink Challenge!  So many chances to win this month!

Remember all these sets are available in the store at 9 am!  

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Garden Fresh Sweet Peas