Flip Flop Hanger

Welcome to Flourishes day 1 of sneak peeks. We are so excited to be back with a new round of beautiful stamps for you this August! Today's stamp set is a new offering from illustrator Sam Pickard and it showcases the unique blooms of the Chrysanthemum flower that is a staple for fall color and bouquets. This 4 x 6 set contains several arrangements of single or grouped flowers, a buzzing bee, plus wonderful sentiments around a sunshine theme. It's sure to bring wonderful cheerfulness to your designs on those crisp Autumn days that are coming. And for even more creative options, we'll have a cut-file available for this set as well on Friday.

 Today for my sneak peek, I am going to show you a quick tutorial on a flip flop hanger using Chrysanthemums. Below are the supplies I used. the flip flop template is one I just goggled and saved to my computer, then in a Word document I changed the sizing to what I wanted. This is about  5 1/4 x 4 inches in size. 

After I printed and cut out the the flop flip shape onto Classic White Cardstock I colored with Copic Collections:

After my flowers were colored I punched holes in a triangle form as you would see on flip flops for my ribbon which will be the hanger part. Below you see the holes and again I just eye balled the holes.

Now you thread your ribbon and I used Color Made Easy Crocus Lavendar ribbon through the holes leaving enough at the top to have for the hanger. Don't worry about the back as this will be covered.

Below you see the front with the excess ribbon threaded through. Now to add our colored backing.

My colors are the beautiful Color Made easy Crocus collection in a light lavendar and the darker richer purple. I really like these colors.

Now to finish decorating. The top of my ribbon hanger is tied off with some Ivory Jute and a Sunflower button. Some stickles was added to the flower petals and some flourished rhinestones around the sentiment.

Then I thught the little bumble bee in the set would be perfect for the center of the ribbon on the flip flop. Voila a sweet little summer hanger today.

So we want to show of some of our Chrysanthemum creations to you today and there's a chance for you to win today's set!

All you have to do is find: Hidden among the Design Team's blogs today is our Mystery Blogger of the day. Comment on her blog and you could be chosen to win today's set! The more you comment, the better your chances.

• Allison Cope
• Christine Okken
• Cindy Lawrence
• Dina Kowal
• Heather Jensen
• Julie Koerber
• Maki Jones
• Silke Ledlow
• Stacy Morgan
• Tosha Leyendekker

DO YOU WANT TO WIN OUR ENTIRE RELEASE?

If you would like a chance at winning all three of our soon-to-be released August sets…

• You can play in our Colorful Creations Challenge – we will have multiple winners there! Deadline for entries is FRIDAY August 16th at 5 PM EST. Check out the link for the official rules!
• All three of our August sets can be pre-ordered now, even before you see them all! Take advantage our New Release Bundle and get 10% off when you purchase all three together in a bundle, this discount will be available for only 1 week following the release.
• All sets will be live first thing Friday morning along with the coordinating cut files for this release.
• Come back to the Flourishes Blog Saturday for the Winner’s Circle where we’ll announce all of our winners of this weeks’ challenges!

Along the way this week as you're hopping you'll notice the beautiful goodies from our new 123 Create Kit called Isabella. Be sure to check it out. It's our way of pulling together all of your design elements so you can create beautiful things! If you want to see this kit and all it has to offer in the store, just click HERE. And, one more piece of fun news for you! Just in time for release week shopping, Flourishes is sweetening the deal by offering an.....

Overstock Sale! If you click HERE, you can take a trip to our SALE page where we've added hundreds, yes hundreds of items! Keep in mind, some items are listed at retail prices. It's only when you add the coupon code OVERSTOCK25 that the 25% will be deducted from your total. This coupon code will ONLY work on SALE PAGE items. We have inks, paper, embellishments, ribbons and even overstocked stamp sets. On those items with sale prices, you will be able to take an ADDITIONAL 25% off! It's the deal of the season! So click HERE to shop early for the best selection! Join us back here tomorrow where we'll show you a gorgeous set with a view!