FS295 Merry and Bright

This weeks Featured stamper is Vicki and VDM. Beautiful gallery with lots of Christmas creations and I just had to go with Christmas, it was calling me. hee hee   This is my case of Vicki's Christmas in June creation. I kept the simplicity with all the white space, a poinsettia image and a Christmas card. Changed the colors and stamp. Hope you can play along this week!

I stamped out my Poinsettia and Pine from Flourishes onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. Several copic collections were used in coloring this flower:

After I layered the flower onto some green galore cardstock, I added my pearls to the corner and sentiment with an added pink satin ribbon that has a finishing touches silver ribbon slider. Voila!  Thanks for stopping in today!

Fall decorations

Hi all and happy Friday! We have a fun treat for you today! Since Autumn was officially ushered in less than a week ago, we decided to pick up one of Flourishes' sets that honors the season! We're talking about the set Falling Leaves. Before I get to my creations....
 Flourishes is having a..... Need to stock up on decorative paper? Well, now is your time! All decorative paper in the Flourishes store has been marked down a whopping 25%! No codes needed, the price has already been marked down. So, hit the store and stock up! We have some beautiful papers with shades of autumn, Christmas papers, plus some oldies but goodies as well! Click HERE to see! This sale will take place for 48 hours -- FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLY! So, head on over before some of your favorite papers are gone! ;-)

  Now for my creations. The leaves in this set are super cool and fun to color. Two simple creations for you today. First up is a CAS card. I took my favorite leaf in the set and stamped it along the bottom part of my card. I am using the beautiful Color Made Easy Sunflower collection paper and the ribbon in the collectio antique gold.
The leaves are colored using a few copic collections:

Once colored I added some of the beautiful white cotton lace trim and added a finishing touches antique copper ribbon slider to finish it off. For my second creation I had some fun. Decorating the table for holiday's usually means we have a few tables with the large group we have. The kids table is sometimes left pretty bland in decorations since the little ones are not as careful with things.

 This year I thought it would be fun to have some little touches for them too. I took our Tailor made classic keyhole die and made a toosie roll holder and napkin holder. For the tootsie roll holder I punched out the die using a piece of the Color Made Easy Terra Cotta collection since the one has some fun textures to it. Once I punched it out I scored a little 1/4 inch section in the middle so that it will stand up right. The extra label punched out made for a great flap to close it up, with some gold metallic cord for a bow. My sentiment is from the set A Season of Thanks that I places on the front with some gold brads.For the silverware and napkin again punched out the label and simply folder it in half and closed with the label for a flap.
My leaves are from Falling Leaves that I colored using the same copic collections above. Once they were colored I simply cut them out and popped them up on dimensionals over the flap. Added a brad and some matching gold mettalic string with a bit of fairy dust added and voila. The kids will have a fun decoration and this way if it gets torn or ruined not a lot of work will be destroyed.  ha!
Be sure to check out the beautiful fall creations from the design team : 

• Christine Okken
• Cindy Lawrence
• Danielle Kennedy
• Heather Jensen
• Julie Koerber
• Sharon Doolittle
• Silke Ledlow
• Stacy Morgan
• Tammy Hershberger

Parker Frame

Happy Wednesday! Today I will share another gift that I made for my SIL and her new hubby. Yep another gift and another creation with the gorgeous Letters in Blossom set from Flourishes. I wasn't kidding when I said that I love this set. ha! Pictures of large items are so hard for me and I do apologize however I did get a close up for you below. I stamped out my letters onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. I colored the letters using copic collections:

I have some kaiser rhinestones about the background and for the corners the beautiful nestabling classy corner grace. Added a few of the Pat prima's I have in my stash and voila.

Here is a closer picture. I know they are going to love this! I think it turned out really elegant.

 Thanks for stopping in with me today. Have a great day!

HMF #129 Autumn Harvest

This weeks House Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge 129 is brought to us by Dorte. Your challenge today is to create a Autumn creation. Our Sponsors is House MOuse Designs with a $25 giftcard for one lucky winner. Hope you can play along with us this week!

For my creation I used the adorable Tumble rubber sheet of House Mouse that I bought a few weeks ago. Yes just now getting to use this one I know. ha!  Stamped out onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. Colored with various copic markers. Added a little lace trim and ribbon combo to the side and a few brads to the ends. Easy Peasy fall card today. Don't forget to add your creations to the House Mouse Hand Made by me gallery found HERE. Thanks for stopping in with me and have a wonderful day.

FS294 Wild and Wonderful

The weekend's just go by way to fast anymore... hopefully you are having a great weekend. This weeks Featured Stamper 294 is Jackie aka westie2  with a beautiful gallery full of creations. I choose this masculine card for dad to case. I kept the over all layout just made mine a bit larger, kept the colors, a button and masculine theme. Changed the stamp and size.

This fun stamp is from Flourishes called Cowboy Christmas. I stamped the horseshoe onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. My image is colored using copic collections:

Jackies card had a button and twine combo so with keeping a button I pulled out a felt one that I have had and never seem to use. This fits the Dirty Dozen Christmas challenge this month to use felt of some kind on your creation. Anyone can play along with us, just use the keywords SCSCCSEP12 when you load to SCS. Two challenges in one creation today, whohoo! Hope you can play along in either challenge. Have a wonderful day.

Free for all Friday Trimmed with Love

Happy Friday! Today is Flourishes Free for all Friday where we share a few last minute creations with you of our new release for September. Don't forget the discount on the New Release Bundle of all 5 sets ends shortly! You don't want to miss these sets.
My creation today is using Trimmed with Love. Figured I would brighten things up a bit from my all blue and silver creation last week. First stamped out my beautiful tree onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink.
Then colored with various copic collections such as:

My textured panel is using a sizzix snowflake folder that I added fairy dust to once embossed. My sentiment was cut basically around the letters with a kaiser red rhinestone added to the end. Simple bit of red checkered gingham and a rouge sparkler added to the top. A bit more fairy dust to my tree and voila, easy peasy today. Hot off the presses is our new Christmas catalog  in stock for $8. This catalog has beautiful samples, several tutorials and all our Christmas set for you to see. Along with a few sneak peeks of sets to come.
Be sure to check out the creations from the design team today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Danielle
Tammy
Heather
Silke
Sharon
Jan Marie

10 Minute creations

Have 10 minutes and need a quick card?
Check out my post over on Flourishes Blog for a quick and easy 10 minute creation today!

 

Birthday Fishing

Yes another birthday card today. This is a fun birthday card using Gone Fishin from Sweet n Sassy Stamps that I got a few weeks ago. Do you see a trend right now with my stamps? I don't always get to use them when they come in the mail, but I do eventually use them. ha!
This guy was stamped out onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. Colored with color combo from CR84FN blog challenge 63, here is a snippet of the colors.

Just a few brads and some piercing for detail. The little tags along the side were just for fun. I like the simplicity of this and for a guy card that is just about perfect. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Photo Finish birthday

The boys had a birthday party this weekend and the boy loves cars. They wanted me to keep after I made it, ha! The adorable Henry's Racecar from Whiff of Joy was perfect for this birthday party. Stamped out the racecar onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. Colored with copic markers then cut out and popped up on dimensionals. My film strip was made using the Silhouette cameo machine . This machine has a ton of files you can purchase and use over and over. I really do love this machine. My flags and sentiment are from At the Races from Clear Dollar Stamps. A few brads and voila a Photo Finish Birthday card! Have a fabulous day!

House Mouse and Friends #128

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. We were busy but it was nice and the Colts won yesterday, whohoo! Tonight is Denver's game and I am hoping for a win there too. Today is the mid week post for House Mouse and Friends Blog challenge 128 Let's be Friends. We have two sponsors Simon Says Stamps with a $25 gift certificate and Di's Digi Downloads with a $10 gift certificate. Be sure to link your creations on the HMF blog!
For my creation I used one of the cling mount House Mouse stamps that I got a few months ago and just now am inking up its called Balsam Pillow. Now who doesn't like a friend who can suggle up and take a nap with you? hee hee First I stamped out the image onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. My image is colored using several copic markers. Added a little bit of ribbon along with a ribbon slider and popped the image up on dimensional. Easy Peasy! Thanks for stopping in today.

FS293 Perfect will of God

This weeks Featured Stamper FS293 is Tricia. Tricia is such a sweet person and talented crafter, I was more than happy to case her to celebrate her week as FS. I choose her Perfect Will of God creation.

I kept the layout, scripture Romans 12:2 and design. I changed the colors and ribbon and added some rosets that Pat made me and some flourished pearls. This is another scripture for the stand I made for the boys teacher. I actually am going to make two of these stands. So I have lots of work to get done since I didn't work on it much this summer. EEK! Thanks for stopping in today!

Peace and Joy this Christmas

Happy release day! That's right the last 4 days Flourishes has been sharing the September Christmas stamp sets with you. If you missed them check back through the last few days, these sets are fabulous! Today all 5 sets are available for purchase! Today is the last of our sneak peeks and we are showing you Peace and Joy.

We have some EXCITING news to share! Four out of the five sets released this week have a Silhouette Cameo cut file available as well. AND, for those folks who asked for SVG files so that they could also use our cut files in other digital cutting machines, we say -- you asked, we answered! We now have all of our cut files available in an SVG format as well! Just click HERE to visit these files in the Flourishes store! These digital downloads are purchased from the store and upon completion of your order, you’ll receive a link to download your cut files. We think these will add so much fun when creating!
On to my creation today. First I stamped out peace onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. I also stamped out the little holly in the set so that I could add it later. I used the fun snowflake sizzix folder for the textured background that I added Fairy Dust to for sparkle.

I colored my image using copic collections:

After I layered my peace panel up on dimensionals I added more Fairy dust to the letters for sparkle. My holly was popped up on dimensionals with some metallic silver string and a few kaiser pink rhinestones to finish it off. Easy peasy creation today. Be sure to check out the creations from the Design Team today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Danielle
Tammy
Heather
Silke
Sharon
Jan Marie

September Release Reminders:
**Don't miss your chance to win the entire release by playing in our Any which wasy sketch challenge found HERE!
**You have a chance at winning the set of the day by commenting on all the designers blogs and you might just be our Mystery Blogger.
**The New Release Bundle is available for a limited time for the extra 10% discount.
**Check out the new 1,2,3 Create Kit called Rejoice, while supplies last.

And last, but certainly not least -- Starting now, you can download our BRAND NEW 2012 Christmas Catalog! We will have printed copies that you can order starting next week, but if you prefer a digital copy, you're in luck! For just $5 you can purchase a downloadable PDF with 20 full color pages packed with not only all of our Christmas stamp sets but samples and a handful of tutorials that are perfect for gift giving!



Just click HERE to visit our catalog in the Flourishes store! Hope you have enjoyed the beautiful creations this week. Now get shopping! :0)

Cowboy Christmas

Today is day 4 of Flourishes September new release and if you have missed the last few days, head back through them over on the FLLC Blog. This months sets are FABULOUS! Today we are showing off the wonderful Cowboy Christmas set. OH MY!!! First my sister is going to flip when she sees this set and already will have a list of cards she needs and for who. ha! Okay enough babbling onto my creation today.
I stamped out the hat image in Cowboy Christmas onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink twice as I will pop up the hat itself later. My image is colored using copic collections:

After I colored the extra hat I then cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals. My frame for the card is using Spellbinder romantic rectangles that I layered up on dimensionals as well. My ribbon is using the beautiful black faux suede ruffled edge that I tied off my sentiment using our Tailor made classic tags. Tied it off with some metalic silver string. The fun candi in saville row seemed to fit this card perfect and added some of those. I love how this turned out. Enjoy checking out the creations from the Design Team today:
Christine
Cindy
Danielle
Tammy
Heather
Silke
Sharon
Jan Marie
September Release Reminders:
**Don't miss your chance to win the entire release by playing in our Any which wasy sketch challenge found HERE!
**You have a chance at winning the set of the day by commenting on all the designers blogs and you might just be our Mystery Blogger.
**The New Release Bundle is available for a limited time for the extra 10% discount.

**Be sure to check out the noon challenge today on Flourishes Blog!
**Check out the new 1,2,3 Create Kit called Rejoice, while supplies last.