Birds and Vine Retiring

We have a beautiful and bittersweet treat for you today.  The Flourishes Design Team is showing off sets from the store that are saying good-bye.  That's right, we're retiring a number of our beautiful sets to make room in the store for what's new in 2012 and 2013.  So, these wonderful sets will only be available for a short time and when they're gone they're gone!  Some of them are amoung my all time favourites of Flourishes too.  

I pulled out a set you may not even be familiar with if you haven't been around Flourishes for a while, it's called Bird and Vine, and it's a beautiful large set that was introduced in the first year or so that Flourishes was in business.  It's a classically beautiful set that combines elegant images large and small - of beautifully detailed vines and silhouetted birds.  

I began by stamping the vine image onto Flourishes Classic White Cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then roughly colouring in the leaves in the Pistachio Copic Collection.  I say roughly because you don't need to be too fussy with it because of the next step.  Then I took two inks Pool Party and Memento Teal Zeal and sponged over the image using the Ink Blending Tool.  Then adding some white opaque pen to the flowers.  

I stamped, cut out and sponged one of the silhouetted birds from the set and popped it up on the design, adding the Ornate Artisan frame and some Want To Scrap Nestabling to bling it up.  

On the inside I stamped another of the birds and a sentiment from another Flourishes Set Botanical Bookplates Volume 1 not retiring), and a sponged piece of designer paper (MME - Christmas).  

So join the rest of the team today to see some retiring goodness and visit the Flourishes Store to be sure you don't miss out on these sets!

Beate Johns

Christine Okken (you are here)

Cindy Lawrence

Danielle Kennedy 

Sharon Doolittle

Silke Ledlow

Stacy Morgan

Tammy Hershberger

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Birds and Vine Retiring