Celebrate by Casing the FLLCDT!

Today's Flourishes Celebration Challenge?  Case an FLLC designer! Without our talented designers, Flourishes wouldn't be what it is today! (ok Julie said to say that :)  ).  Hop around our FFLC designer blog roll, pick a card and case it,   just make sure to link up to the original.  You can also go to SCS and use the keywords FLLCDT and find all of our Design Team creations there.  Here's a link you can click to get there:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=all&si=FLLCDT&what=keywords

How would you like to see my case.....AND some New Release Sneak Peeks!?  Today's set is a really lovely one.  I'm so taken by it!  It's called Friendly Reminders and it's illustrated by Lauren Pope.  It will be live in the Flourishes Store right after our Power Hour Release Party which begins Friday night at 9 PM CST in our SCS Member Company Forum!


I decided to case my friend and fellow Albertan Laura Fredrickson.  Laura does such beautiful work, and I chose THIS CARD.    I loved how she made her layout and papers work, and the sense of vintage to it. 

I used beautiful Memory Box papers called Gossamer, I thought it had the feeling of an old country house wallpaper, which was just the look I was going for.  This coat rack and straw hat looked so pretty for me, I wanted to create a whole scene for them with Laura's style of card.  Take a closer look these pictures show the color a little better. 

You can see I tried to create a chair rail border with the white and beadboard for the bottom half of the wall.  The hat and coat rack are colored with copic markers (Hollyhock, Crocus and Spring Green Collections), and I've used the same idea with the crochet ribbon as Laura did. 

So which FLLCDT'er will you case?  Today's challenge keywords are FLLCCEL3, and you can learn more at the Flourishes Blog especially the good stuff...prizes!  Leave me a note if you've cased me, I want to be sure not to miss it!

Stop by the rest of the Design Team and FOF Team to see how they used Friendly Reminders and who they cased. :)

Cindy Lawrence, Dawn Burnworth, Julie Koerber, Laura Fredrickson, Leslie Miller, Stacy Morgan, Dee Jackson, Betty Wright, Maki Jones, Barb Anders

Recipe:  Stamps:  - Friendly Reminders;  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pale Plum;  Paper:  Pale Plum, Kiwi Kiss, Flourishes Classic White, Memory Box - Gossamer DSP;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Labels Three Nestabilities, Pinked Circles Nestabilities, Crochet Ribbon, Lime Organza Ribbon, 1/2 pearls, Copic Markers, Sponge, Bow Easy.

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Celebrate by Casing the FLLCDT!

Celebrate Cupcake!

It's another day of celebration with Flourishes!  Today, for the Timeless Tuesday challenge, the Friends of Flourishes are challenging you all to get in the spirit and create a card full of celebration. Help us celebrate our new spot on the web at www.flourishes.org by creating a card that's full of celebration today. 

Want to see what I've created?  Well, my sweet niece turned the big 1 year old last week and I wanted to give her a sweet card to celebrate the special occasion.  I pulled out the new set Let Them Eat Cake created by Becky Fleck and made something fun and vibrant for her.  I also used yesterday's FLLCCEL1 Sketch from Becky for my design today.

I love the new Valentine paper by Basic Grey, it's called Sugar Rush, and there are some really sweet and fun patterns and colors in the pages.  I picked up the orange and red in this paper and the theme of love for the card.  I embossed the cupcake and stand with white embossing powder on watercolor paper and then watercolored overtop with reinkers to resist the embossing.  I popped up the red embossed cherry and added a little bling for fun.  I added some sponging for warmth too.  I love the little "Hey Cupcake!" sentiment too.  So sweet.

Now, all you have to do is create something that's full of celebration.  Today's keywords for the Celebration cards at SCS are FLLCCEL2, and you can link up your creation to the Flourishes Blog with Mr. Linky. 

Who's also ready to inspire you today? 

Betty, Cindy H , Barb, Maki, Dee, Cindy L, Stacy, Dawn, Julie and Leslie

Recipe:  Stamps:  Flourishes - Let Them Eat Cake;  Ink; White Craft, Only Orange, Real Red Craft;  Paper:  Only Orange, Riding Hood Red, Flourishes European Watercolor paper, Basic Grey Sugar Rush DSP;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Deckled Mega Rectangles, White Embossing Powder, Clear Embossing Powder, Basic Grey Gems, May Arts Chenille Dots Ribbon, Dimensionals, Sewing Machine, Reinkers, Aqua Painter, Piercer, Dotted Embossing Folder, SW markers.

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Flourishes Celebration Week!

It's Celebration week at Flourishes!  We've opened our new store and we're so excited about it we thought we'd throw a whole celebration week for the occasion!  There are prizes, challenges and fun for everyone. 

Today it's a fantastic sketch challenge created by the very talented  www.PageMaps.com Hostess Becky
Fleck, queen of sketches!  For more details see the new Flourishes Blog for info and a picture of the sketch, and see these fantastic DT and Friends Of Flourishes girls up today with their sketch creativity!  Be sure you plan on joining us all week long!  If you upload to Splitcoast, please use the keyword FLLCCEL1. You have until Monday, March 15th at 6 PM EST to link up your cards!

Stacy, Dawn, Julie, Leslie, Maki, Barb, Dee, Betty, Cindy H

I'll be back tomorrow with some Flourishes Celebration!

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Shining the Light Sketch Day

Here we are at Saturday again!  And it's time for another Challenge from the Our Daily Bread Challenge Team.  This week we have a sketch for you.  I think you'll enjoy it very much!

I have to admit, circles and I don't always get along in design.  I think it's the symmetry component.  I'm sort of an off-center-design kind of person...and circles need this sense of balance for them to work, so this was a good challenge for me. 

I wanted this to be a masculine feeling design, and I hadn't yet had a chance to ink up this beautiful cardinal from the Sing for Joy set yet.  I thought this cardinal looked regal and wise and great for a masculine card.  I colored him with Copic Markers, and then sponged a lot of Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Vintage Photo overtop to really go with these very warm paper I chose.   Doesn't this cardinal look fluffed up with the feathers on his head?  Must be chilly!  :)

Along the bottom strip I added some fancy piercing with my Spellbinders Borderabilities, and swiped my Distress Ink pad over the strip and sentiment too.  I added a touch of velvet ribbon and some pretty fancy flourishes from Spellbinders to highlight the corners as well. 

We'd like to invite you to jump in on the sketch too, all you need to do is link your creation on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog with Mr. Linky, and then you'll be eligible for prizes to the ODBD store!  Woo Hoo!  AND if you have ODBD stamps and use them for the challenge, you might be showcased next week on the blog with the Shining the Light Award. 

Don't forget too that NEXT Saturday begins our week long Anniversary Celebrations with Our Daily Bread Designs, wonderful things in store!

For more lovely sketch inspiration, please head over to my team-mates creative spots:  Chris Olsen, America Kuhn, Francie Gumprecht, Natalie Dever, Patter Cross and Sabrina Jackson

Recipe:  Stamps:  ODBD - Sing for Joy, Confirmation;  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo;  Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Gypsy Market - 7 Gypsies Designer Paper, Gina K Pure Luxury White;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Pinked Circles Nesties, Fancy Label Die, Borderabilities, Piercer, Copic Markers, Dimensionals, Sponge, Velvet Ribbon.

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Flourishes Friday Get Well

Well, I'm sure all of know someone in our lives who has been under the weather.  We Flourishes girls decided that today would be a good day to design  - just for that theme, Get Well Wishes. 

I took this lovely Irish Blessings set and created a lovely shamrock vined frame with some of the shamrock stamps, on European Watercolor paper.  I watercolored these and then added a few of the shamrocks popped up.   I cut out the center with a Nestie Oval shape and trimmed out the outside outline. 

Inside the oval I added the pretty Claddagh image embossed in gold.  Did you know the meaning of the Claddagh?  Often you see it made into rings, and it stands for Friendship, Love and Loyalty.  A perfect image for friendship, and a word of encouragement for someone.  The center heart is popped up as well. 

The sentiment "Nurture Yourself" is actually from the new From the Garden Set. 

These pretty papers are new Basic Grey Origins paper, which really works well with an Irish themed card.   You can also see I added a little atyou Spica pen to the inside of the heart and the sleeves of the hands too, a big silk bow to finish it off which to me really adds to the card. 

Be sure to tune back in here Monday! Flourishes is celebrating the Grand Opening of its new web store and there is so much in the way of fun planned! 

Look for daily challenges with prizes on the line - you won't want to miss it! Then on Wednesday, the DT kicks off the sneaks for our March release. This release is full of spring time fun! So come back and join us for all the festivities!  I'm really excited about it! 

Now you can head over to my DT partners who are creating some more Get Well Wishes today:

Julie Koerber, Cindy Lawrence, Dawn Burnworth, Leslie Miller, Stacy Morgan. 

Recipe:  Stamps:  Flourishes - Irish Blessings, From the Garden;  Ink:  VersaMark, Black Stazon;  Paper:  Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Basic Grey Origins, European Watercolor paper;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Oval Nestabilities, Pinked Hearts Border Punch, Silk Ribbon, Dimensionals, Reinkers, SW Markers, Aqua Painter, Gold Embossing Powder, Basic Grey 1/2 Pearls, atyou Spica pens.

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One Style - Two Designs

Busy couple of days around here, and not too much time for stamping! 

On Tuesday night I hosted our long running SU 10 for 10 group, and we did a great card designed by my upline.  It has a really great youthful, masculine, grungy sort of look.  I just loved it's style so much I recreated the style with a different feel. 

Here's the card we did with Susan my SU demo...

Isn't it cool?  What I really love about it are the side triangles popped up, yet still part of the base card design.  And don't you love the dragging technique on the skater?  It was fun to do.

So I took this style and gave it a completely different look with a brand new released set from Our Daily Bread Designs.  These March sets are just STUNNING, and mine just arrived.  This one is called The Lord has Risen.

I stamped the side trianges in Memento Tuxedo Black ink with the violet stamp so I could color it in, and then added the verse in Melon Mambo ink.  I sponged the triangles heavily with Always Apricot and lightly with Melon Mambo.  I wanted it to look like a real flower garden.  On the apricot panel I stamped the violets in Apricot and added some sponging and separated the verse into two sections.

I also tooked some cream looped ribbon and colored with both the apricot shade and the deep pink shade to tie it all in.  I also jazzed up the triangles by adding the pinked hearts punch and I like how it sets them off. 

So - two designs with the same style of card!

I'll be back Friday with something new again!

Recipe: Sk8ter:  Stamps:  SU - Extreme Skateborad, Extreme Elements;  Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, Basic Black;  Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, Basic Black;  Accessories:  Word Window Punch, Star Punch

Season of Singing:  Stamps:  ODBD - The Lord has Risen;  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Melon Mambo, Always Apricot;  Paper:  Melon Mambo, Melon Mambo Textured, Always Apricot, Gina K Pure Luxury White;  Accessories:  Big Shot, Labels Two Spellbinders, Sponge, Pinked Heart Border Punch, Dimensionals, Looped Ribbon, Copic Markers. 

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One Style - Two Designs