Flourishes Friday Release - Two Beauties!

Haven't the New Releases from Flourishes been great this week?  And they're not even over yet!  We have two beauties to show you today, with lots of samples here....

This wonderful set links the love of world travel with friendship...I really love the concept of looking in or out of the windows of someones world :)

To me this is sort of a Tuscan or Spanish Scene....see the beautiful window opening to the inside warmth and the pretty panes and the sweet pot of yellow roses and vining leaves?  YUM.

Colored with Prismacolor pencils but the this shot really shows the coloring better.  I really love the teals in this card against the greens and yellows and browns.   (you can click on the pictures to make them larger to see more details).

The papers are an old line of K & Co Christmas dps.

I've woven the silk ribbon through the Lattice borderabilities and accented with pearls and a pretty bow made with my Bow Easy.

Now how about we travel to Amsterdam?

Isn't this little tulip window sweet?  I thought it would be perfect as a Dutch window with simple primary blues and reds against the whites.  Coloring is done with Copics (Delphinium,  Poppy and Fields  Collections) and I've added lots of cool gray in the depths of the window shutters to contrast the white, and give it the feeling of shadow.

Love the Martha Stewart Ring Punch scallops along the bottom and the rolled paper flower too!

Now here is another set that some of you who are FLIP members at Flourishes might recognize.  It was part of an earlier offering this summer to Flip Members as a thank you for being part of this great incentive program....and now we get to play with it and you can order it too!  Lauren did a great job illustrating this set in such a creative way. 

Traditionally you'll see Fuchsias in pinks, whites and reds.  I wanted to focus on the white Fuchsias but contrast it with soft blues and greens in making this Stationary Box below....

I've just used an old tin that held some stamping product at some point and decorated it inside and out. 

Here is a detail on the outside. 

 

I've used the Sky Collection of Copics for the blues and the Evergreen Collection for the greens.  Then to accent the box I've added some gorgeous Cotton Linen Ribbon in blue ruffled on Scor Tape and also these great new Faux Nailheads in grey, seriously aren't they the perfect accent?     The designer paper is Memory Box Dewfrost I believe.  

And here's the inside...  The quote by Mother Theresa reads "In this life we cannot do great things, we can only do small things with great love."  I've over-stamped it with the Fuchsias for the box lid.  

I've lined the box with designer paper and then added little 3 x 3 notecards with home-made envelopes from the designer paper.

I love the simplicity of the cards too.  I stamped and colored the border stamp along the edges and colored with copics, and then stamped the main image and punched out part of it with my circle punch adding soft color, rounding one corner on the card to match the tin.

And one last project to show you a much more traditional representation of a Fuchsia....

I've watercolored this pretty flower stem with reinkers and water-based markers and cut out a window in the beautiful Vellum from Webster's .  I think my favourite part about the whole card are these gorgeous new Sparklers I've added as accents!  They are just gorgeous and the lightest shade of pink that is perfection for this soft card.

I've added both Pink silk ribbon and this pretty Raspberry Crochet Trim.

And here is that beautiful quote again done on a nestie.  

Whew!  A Whirlwind tour!  And there is a lot more fabulous to see at the Design Team's Blogs (some of whom also have Birthday Blog Candy).

Cindy Lawrence

• Danielle Kennedy
• Dawn Burnworth
• Julie Koerber 
• Laura Fredrickson
• Leslie Miller
• Stacy Morgan

These sets are NOW available for order!    And to enter to win these sets today see the Flourishes Blog,  Winners will be announced tomorrow on the blog for all the fantabulous Birthday Party Prizes from Flourishes!



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Tuscan Window:  Stamps:  Windows to the World;  Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black;  Paper:  Taken with Teal, Flourishes Classic White, K & Co Christmas Cheer (?), Soft Suede;  Accessories:  Big Shot,  Lattice Borderabilities, Fair Isle Petites Borderabilities,  Labels 10 Nestabilities, Silk Ribbon, Teal Pearls, Dimensionals, Prismacolor pencils, Odorless Mineral Spirits, Blending Stump, Bow Easy.   




Dutch Window:  Stamps:  Windows to the World:  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, White Craft;  Paper:  Brilliant Blue, Whisper White Flourishes Classic White;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Labels 12 Nestabilities, Copic Markers, Dimensionals, Cuttlebug Folder (Finial Press), Sheer Dotted Ribbon, Circle Punch, SU Table Setting die (for rolled flower), Crystal Effects.  




Stationary Box:  Stamps:  Fuchsia;  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky, Memento Bamboo Leaves; Paper:  Memory Box - Dew Frost DSP, Soft Sky, Flourishes Classic White, Always Artichoke;  Accessories:  Corner Rounder, Copic Markers, Faux Nailheads, Cotton Linen Ribbon, Scor Tape, Circle Punch, Envelope Template, Big Shot, Labels 5 Nestabilities, Dimensionals.




Fuchsia Card:  Stamps:  Fuchsia;  Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Black Stazon;  Paper:  Flourishes European Watercolor Paper, Webster's Vellum Collection, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Scalloped Rectangles Nesties, Labels 13 Nesties,  Deckled Rectangles, Silk Ribbon, Glue Dots, Crochet Ribbon, Bow Easy, Reinkers, SW Markers, Waterbrush, Sparklers, Dimensionals.