TS Monday Celebrating Canada

Happy Monday! We got back really late last night from DH Area One Match in Oregon. Very fun weekend and the kids survived with grandma and grandpa while we were gone. hee hee Went shopping and got some summer clothes so a great weekend all around. On to my creation.....

Over on the Totally Stampalicious Blog today we are celebrating Canada Day July 1st, so make your creation Red and White. I used Stampalicious Scarlette for my creation. You can only get this stamp if you spend $50 or more in one purchase. She is adorable and fun all around. This was a little binder that I made that has two pockets inside holding a few packets of jewels and a gift card to Hobby Lobby. Very simple and sweet and with the trip we had this was perfect.
Hope you get a chance to play along with us. Have a great day.

Beautiful Days

Happy Friday! I hope that you are enjoying summer so far. We have been non stop busy and its only starting. Today Flourishes Blog is a free for all, so I pulled out Zinnias for my creation. These flowers in the pot are so pretty so I went with a rose and burgundy colors today. Spellbinders has some of the most beautiful designs and this Parisian Motifs seemed perfect today. The copic collections I used to color the Zinnias are Dahlia, a touch of Fuschia and Green Grass for the leaves. Added a bit of the light pink pleated satin ribbon and done. This turned out so pretty I thought. Be sure to check out what the girls created today:

Christine
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

New Templates at Clear Dollar Stamps

Good Morning! I am so excited to show you the two newest templates from Clear Dollar Stamps. This first one is a classic of the red Radio Flyer wagon we all had as kids. Classic memories and such a great little gift idea. This Wagon is for the desk top to hold a friends favorite goodies Kit Kat. Now they may not thank me later having their favorite at hands grab every 5 seconds. ha ha Lisa made a darling little baby gift card holder you can see it here.

Next is the Wishing Well. If you missed the CDS Blog hop on Sunday you missed the sneak peek of this one. Here I have a baby gift for a friend of ours that had a baby girl recently. The well has two onsies inside and the bucket is holding the socks. Isn't it adorable? Great idea for a Get Well gift with soup packets inside and some cough drops. Birthday well with goodies inside, even a white and black one for a wedding would be awesome, so many options with the Wishing Well.

You can see all the templates over at Clear Dollar Stamps HERE! Enjoy and happy paper crafting!

House Mouse challenge 98 Summer

***Clear Dollar Stamps Blog Hop Below this post***

Happy Monday! We had a non stop weekend of activities and I am excited today is a slow day. Over on the House Mouse and Friends Blog it is all about Summer time. Our host is Christine who wants you to create a summer theme or around summer activites for your creation. Our
sponsor is Di's Digi Downloads with a prize of 3 Digis.

So many house mouse stamps and I choose this one today Sunny Side Up. He looks so content and happy just laying in the sun, not a care in the world. hee hee Very simple card with just a little bit of bakers twine along the side panel. Makes for a quick thinking of you card. I did add stickles to the sunflower however its hard to see in the photo. I hope you get a chance to play along with us today! On Wednesday be sure to check back and see the new templates from Clear Dollar Stamps! Have a great day.

Baby Wishing Well CDS Blog Hop

Welcome to Clear Dollar Stamps Monthly Blog Hop. If you just arrived from LISA'S Blog you are in the right spot. If you are just joining us head back to Lori's blog to start at the beginning.
Our hop this month is Sugar and Spice and everything nice, that is what little girls are made of. For hopping along with us you might be one of 2 lucky winners that receive a $10 gift certificate for the CDS store for purchase of clear or digital stamps ONLY. All winners will be randomly chosen from comments received on two DT member blogs. Winners will be announced on the CDS blog Wednesday, June 22nd.

Some friends of ours had a baby girl on Tuesday names Bailey, isn't that just the sweetest name?For the gift I made them, I am going to show you a sneak peek of a new template coming out on June 22nd called Wishing Well. This is one of the new templates coming out on Wednesday. You can find all the templates new and older ones HERE at the Clear Dollar Stamps Store!
The presentation for the baby gift is just perfect I think. The stamps are from Welcome Little One. The bear is popped up on dimensionals along with the sentiment panels. The bucket has a pair of baby socks inside of it and there are two pairs of onsies inside the well. The mom just loved this!

I hope you enjoyed my sneak peek of one of the newest templates. Now to continue your hopping you will want to head on over to SARAH'S Blog! Have a wonderful day!

FF Chocolate Zinnias

Welcome to Flourishes Free for all Friday! A reminder that time is running out for our New Release Bundle of the June Stamp sets. If you missed the release be sure to check out the bundle for some savings! About 7 months ago we finally got a Hobby Lobby in our town. Now this is huge for us and it is always so busy with crafters you almost don't want to go. However the pull to create is so great you go anyways and deal with the crowd. ha ha Anyways on one of the visit I came across these gorgeous flowers in a cream color and brown shades. They were beautiful and the colors were so soothing that I have started to color some flowers in creams and browns. Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful team had a challenge awhile back of coloring all things creams and browns even the flowers were fabulous.

So I have picked up the colors and having a grand time with it. This is one of the flowers in the new set called Zinnias. Don't they look marvelous? I just want to eat them up they are so chocolate and sweet looking. I colored these flowers with Copic Collections Creamy, a touch of Flesh Tones 2 and the leaves in Fields. Very simple layout and textures to my creation. I really like how this turned out.
The Design team has some beautiful creations for you today:
Christine Has Blog Candy
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Danielle
Barbara
My FIL 60th birthday is this weekend and we have a surprise party for him. hee hee I have had to avoid him and talking to him because I am a horrible liar, so its been hard for me. Clear Dollar Stamps Blog Hop is Sunday and I have a special surprise for you, so don't miss it! I know he will enjoy our surprise though. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Summer Sailing

I don't know about you but the smell of the salt air when we go to the beach is so relaxing and inviting. We go every year and I enjoy the family time we get without all the electronic world interupting us. In just a few short weeks we will be at the beach and I can't wait.

Today I pulled out Smooth Sailing and started coloring. This boat is so cool and the map from Lost at sea finishes it off for a great masculine card. I have lots of layers on this card and that is very unsual for me, however I really like how this turned out. I hope you are enjoying your summer so far! Have a great day!

Grand Finale....

Hi all and welcome to the grand finale of Flourishes Sneak Peeks! If you hop on over to the Flourishes store, you’ll see all of our offerings for June are ready for the taking (or shopping!). Before we put the wraps on this release week, we thought we’d give you one more chance to WIN with one last noon time challenge! If you hop through the link list below, you’ll find each designer has a letter on their noon-time blog post today. Take all of the letters from this hop and see if you can unscramble the hidden word!

What’s my letter….



Now be sure to hop on over and grab the rest of the letters at these designers’ blogs!

Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan -- You are HERE!

After you’ve unscrambled the word, all you need to do is email us at flourishes@bresnan.net and your name will go in the hat to win the entire June release! So, put that thinking cap on and let’s test out your word skills! Good luck! Don’t forget to find out who won all of Flourishes challenges this week in Flourishes Winner Circle. Flourishes will post all the lucky names over on the Flourishes Blog tomorrow at noon CST. Thanks for stopping by

Garden Fresh

Flourishes last set for June is sure to make you hungry it is called Garden Fresh. You still have time to play in our Star Spangled Banner challenge and your chance at winning the entire release. The New Release bundle will last till next Friday so be sure to get in on the savings. We have the Mystery Blogger happening today so make sure to comment on all the Design Teams blog posts for your chance at winning the set of the day!

With the Garden Fresh we have a Digi file of Fresh Recipe and Fresh Labels that goes with this set. I have used the recipe card in the file with my creation above. I have the best pickled beet recipe that my family LOVES. The kids will eat the beets over anything else its awesome. Now I have not dived into making the beet jelly that everyone in the family loves yet, but it isn't too bad I am told. I made a little card and recipe card along with one of my canned pickled beets to bring to dinner at a friends house next week. They love my beets and now they will have their own jar and recipe to make some just like it.

Next is a simple and sweet card that I made for my hubby. He needed to stay home with me on Monday because I was really sick. So this is for him and being such a great hubby. I know he will appreciate this even if it has a bit of lace on it. ;0) I used Spellbinders Lacey circles and Standard Circles. They are each popped up on dimensionals. Finished it off with some bakers twine and button combo.

Check out the wonderful creations from the DT today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Sharon

Flourishes Color Challenge

This is your chance to win our Entire June Release. See these colors above? Just create a card using these colors. Rules are if you use Flourishes stamps you get two entries, in order to be in the running please do not combine challenges, you must mention the challenge in your blog post or gallery write up.

For my creation I used the new set Make A Wish. Isn't this adorable much more on the little girl side with this one. I adore the wand it is so whimsical and cute. This awesome checkered ribbon was calling out to me so I used it. A few added Rhinestones and voila! Be sure to check out the creations from the girls:
Julie
Dawn
Danielle

See you back here tomorrow for the last of the sneaks and games. Have a wonderful day.

Princess for a day

Welcome to day two of Flourishes June Sneak Peeks. We have some fun in store for you this release. A reminder about our Star Spangled challenge that gives you the chance to win our entire release.

We have a Mystery Blogger for you today, one of the Design Team members is our mystery stop so make sure to comment on all the DT blog's for your chance to win the set of the DAY... Make a Wish.

Today we are showing you Make a Wish. I adore the set for the different ages you can use for cards. This is a bit more on the adult side of things I think. I have the crown popped up on dimenisonals. Added a few of the Cameo Roses heather to the corners and went a bit crazy with the jewels. ha ha

Check out the DT creations today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Sharon

Don't forget to check back today at noon central for the challenge of the day and your chance at winning the entire release! See you back then.

Thanks a Bunch Zinnias

Welcome to day one of Flourishes June Sneak Peeks. We have some fun in store for you this release. A reminder about our Star Spangled challenge that gives you the chance to win our entire release. We have a Mystery Blogger for you today, one of the Design Team members is our mystery stop so make sure to comment on all the DT blog's for your chance to win the set of the DAY... Zinnias.

Today we are showing you Zinnias. Marcella sure can draw a flower oh my word. This is becoming one of my favorite flower sets. This first card is fairly simple using some scrap dp that I had in my stash. I used the new Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Squares for my framing. The Copic collections for the flower that I used are Robins Egg, a touch of Azure and Green Grass. Very simple but oh so pretty don't you think?
This is a gift that I made for a friend of mine. Inside is a fresh flower for her to plant outside in her flower garden. I used the Birdcage temlate from My Time Made Easy. The corner flower on the birdcage is the single flower in this set. However I stamped it out a few times and cut in layers to layer the flower up so its popped out. It really does look cool this way and I plan to make more layers like this.
For my card I used a fancy scalloped white ribbon and tied it off with a silver ribbon slider. I hope you enjoyed my sneaks today. Be sure to check out the DT creations:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Sharon

Be sure to check out Flourishes Blog later today at noon central time for the challenge of the day and your chance at winning the entire release! Have a great day.

HMF Challenge 97 Tea time

It's Monday and only 4 more days till summer vacation starts! Yippee!!! I am just as excited as the kids to have summer vacation here. Well today is House Mouse and Friends blog challenge which is brought to us by America and its all about Jewels or Jewlery. This weeks sponsor is Simon Says Stamp with a $15 Gift Card AND A Prize from America. Now America sent all of us Design team members some wonderful goodies for this challenge.
This sweet House Mouse image is a new one for me called Chamomile Tea. I got it a few weeks ago and just now inked it up. I have so many ideas with this stamp. Now I am not a flashy stamper so this challenge was hard for me. I did manage to put some jewels on the card along with this little charm that America sent me in my goodies. Thank you again girlie! I got some of the new bakers twine that everyone has been using lately, they are all springy colors so great timing. I hope you get a chance to play along with us this week.
Wednesday is the start of Flourishes sneak peeks, see you then. Have a wonderful day.

Star Spangled Banner Challenge

Happy Friday! It is that time again for Flourishes pre-Challenge and your chance to win our ENTIRE release. We have some fun planned for you next week. This is all assuming that Blogger doesn't go all crazy on us all again. EEK! The Star Spangled Banner challenge is: As we get ready to honor the Independence of the good ole U.S.A, let's see your patroitism shine! Use red, white and blue if you hail from the United States. If you live in other parts of the world, turn to your nation's flag for inspiration! Be sure to check back on the Flourishes blog to link your creations.

I made two cards for this challenge. This was my late night creation when I couldn't sleep. I really love the Hearts and Flowers set. Added a bit of the red crochet ribbon I found at the LSS with some new bakers twine I bought. Lots of sparkle added to flowers but couldn't get it in the photo very well.
This one is with Kids Play and I tried something new that I saw somewhere. I stamped the image in black, then I took a color and traced around each image. Not real easy to see in the photo but it looks okay. I may have done it wrong but I think it was worth a try. Sponged some clouds around the image but left the back panel white. Added the sentiment with some more of the bakers twine to tie it off.

Check out the fabulous Star Spangled Banner creations from the Design Team:

Christine
Cindy
Julie
Leslie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara

Have a wonderful day!

Christmas Spirit More is More

Flourishes Christmas Spirit Challenge 14 this month is MIM, more is more. Make a creation and then in your next version spice it up a bit more than your original. You have all month long to create and get those Christmas cards ready for this December. 5 Lucky winners will recieve Vintage Postcard this month as the prize.

I have two money holders that I made. Now they look very similar don't they?The one on the top is the MIM version. Using Christmas Borders I have each present cut out and popped up on dimensionals. There is sparkle along all the ribbon and the ribbons on the gifts. Then I added a few Rhinestones around the sentiment. Easy peasy and now I have two money holders done for this year. I hope you get to play along with us. Check out the SCS Forum HERE for linking your creations this month. Don't forget this Friday is our Pre-Challenge and your chance at winning our entire new release coming out next week. Sneak Peeks start on Wednesday! Have a great day.