Sending Sunshine and Black Friday Deals

Hello Flourishes Shoppers! Before stores even opened on Friday morning, the “elves” behind the scenes at Flourishes were busy adding new items to the store’s sale page. EVERYTHING today and tomorrow is 25% off, which means anything on the sale page is being offered up at an additional discount for even bigger savings! Keep in mind, this sale is only 48 hours long – so shop early for the best selection! All you need to do is use the code BLACKFRI11 to get 25% off your entire order!

I made a card in the craziness of the week using Sweet Nature for you. A vibrant and cheerful looking card. This Spellbinders Picot Edges circles is awesome and in white even more so. There is some stickles on the flowers for a bit of sparkle yet its hard to see in the photo. The copic collections I used today for coloring are Poppy Collection and Evergreen. Hope you have a wonderful day creating and shopping!

New Dining Set.... Sorta

I promised I would post pictures of my latest project and here it is. DH's uncle bought some gorgeous material in Egypt for me a few years ago for my dining room chairs. And I am just now getting around to re-upholstering them, right before a major holiday I know crazy. However it only took me a week. This is what the chairs looked like before. See Ranger peeking out of the corner? hee hee
Below is a picture of the chairs with the panels removed. The material is stapled along the sides, top and bottom. Material is cut and wrapped around front and back of the back panel, and on the top of the seat. We counted about 250 staples per chair. EEK! When I said my hands hurt I was not kidding. These staples were really hard to take out. I had a baby ice pick to dig up under it, then a small screw driver to loosen it more then needle nose pliers to pull it out. I started that all on Monday, by Saturday morning when my mom showed up I had one panel left to do.
We started at 8 am with the first panel. Trying to figure out a routine and how you want to add this new material was a little tricky. We took a gamble on not cutting the material down the sides and instead wrapping it around (still stapling it) just not cutting and it paid off. Lot less cutting and seem to go a bit faster. Now the silly staple gun we rented was not the best however it worked and we got done with everything that evening. The only thing left to do was redrill holes for the seat and attach it back to the bottom. I had new cushions cut at the local foam shop, what a GREAT idea as now you don't sink down like you are sitting in a hole. ha ha Early Christmas present to me. My mom was awesome help and did all the stapling since I took them out. Thanks mom, and please don't edit my grammer. Yep she read my blog again and said I need to edit my posts better. Ha....

Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving

CDS New Lantern and Secret Bench

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Well today has been crazy as I was at the school today helping with the last of the Colonial days celebrations. I completely forgot to get my post pre-set for me and just now remembered. Clear Dollar Stamps new Templates are available today! You can see all the templates HERE or HERE.
This first one is called Secret Bench. The top of the seat lifts up and you can put candies or notes inside if you wish. The little pillow is made out of some chocolate squares with a scripture on the front.

Next is the template Lantern. This can be made either open if you have a baggie of goodies you want to put inside such as I have. Or you can added vellum or clear cardstock and add loose candy that way. The tag is from Antique ornaments with a bit of ribbon and silver cord.

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and Friends. Thanks for stopping in.

House Mouse Warm and Cozy Challenge

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge 109 Warm Fuzzies. This challenge was brought to us by Vicki. Our sponsors this week (2 Prizes/2 Winners)DDD-3 Digi Downloads /Pizzazz Aplenty-$10 Gift Pkg Embellishments. Hope you get a chance to play along with us.
With all the cold weather and snow lately the hot chocolate has been in mugs across the table a lot lately. Infact we have gone through a whole deal of cocoa and it wasn't even the second week in November yet. ha! This house mouse is a new one for me and a gift from the twins. It is called Hot Cocoa Social. hee hee perfect! Used my MFT dienamics snowflake and added it to my ribbon bow with some silver cord and a button. This card speaks for itself on the warm fuzzies in more was than one. ha!

On another note finished re-upholstering the dining room chairs. My hands are hurting so bad from removing the staples but its worth the gorgeous dining chairs now. I will have photos for you later this week of before, during and after. Thanks for stopping in. Have a creative day!

CDS Thankful Blog Hop

Welcome to Clear Dollar Stamps Monthly Blog Hop, this month is Thankful. If you just arrived here from Shell's Blog you are in the right place. If you are just joining us head back on over to the CDS Blog and start at the beginning. For hopping along with us one lucky winner will receive a $25 Clear Dollar Stamps gift certificate for digital images! winners will be announced on Wed. Nov 23rd on the CDS Blog.

Simple card today as time is crazy at my house. I like how the sentiment is the focus though. I used Leaf Hellos for my card today. Added a bit of stickles to the leaf for fun. A button twine combo to tie it all together. Your next hopping place is over onto Jerusha's Blog. Have a creative day!

Birthday Surprise hop

Flourishes has a very special birthday today as it is Julie's birthday. What better way to celebrate with everyone from a far than with a blog hop of birthday cards for you. So head on over and wish Julie a happy birthday and see what everyone has created for Julie!

For my card the beautiful Orchids were talking to me so I colored them up in some girlie pinks from the Lenton Rose Copic Collection. These Orchids fit beautifully in our new Tailor-Made Classic Keyhole Die which is too cool! What card is complete without some pearls and lace to finish it off. This card is going out late to Julie however I know she will forgive me. :0) I hope you have a minute to wish Julie a happy birthday!
Be sure to stop by and see all the other birthday creations from everyone for Julie:

Jan Marie Caruso
Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Sharon Doolittle
Stacy Morgan
Tammy Hershberger
Beate Johns
Cindy Haffner
Heather Jensen
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Heather Jensen
Iwona Palmountain
Kathy Jones
Mona Pendleton
Yvonne Hagane
Laura Fredrickson

Snowglobe Gift Tag

Happy Friday! Flourishes is showing you a few last minute creations with the new sets from November. Don't forget the new release bundle ends today with the extra discount of 10% off the bundle pack.

This is a large picture so you can see the tag up close. Today I made a gift tag to show you with the Joy is in the Air set. I stamped the globe out on classic white paper then adhered that to some more paper to make the tag. Colored with a variety of the Copic Collections as you can see. The rim of the globe has liquid glass to make it shine and the snow has stickles for sparkle and yes again neither show in my photo. Sorry! Check out the fabulous creations from the DT today:

Christine
Cindy
Julie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Tammy
Sharon

See you back here tomorrow as it looks like I have a post everday for the next week. Have a wonderful day.