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Birthday Blog Hop…. Day 3!!!

Posted by: Julie Koerber | August 26th, 2011

Flourishes is celebrating BIG! Why? Just in case you are just now joining us —- we’re celebrating 4 fun-filled years! Four years of creating fabulous stamps. Four years of developing such fabulous friendships with YOU — our fans and customers! That’s why we are lighting the candles on the cake and throwing a party like no other! The good news is — even though it’s our birthday – you could win one heck of a present yourself with some fabulous blog candy! Our designers have lit up the creativity with some fabulous birthday cards and they are involved in just one way that you can get your hands on a great bag of goodies!

HOW CAN YOU WIN? THERE ARE THREE WAYS!

  • Leave a comment on this post
  • Leave a comment on the designers’ posts that are on the hop today
  • Play in our Birthday Bash Challenge!

 

HOW TO PLAY IN OUR BIRTHDAY BASH CHALLENGE!

  • Simply make a birthday card using Flourishes stamps!
  • Entries need to be in by Thursday, September 1st by 5 PM EST
  • You must link your creation on this post using our inlinkz widget in order to qualify
  • You must have a link to our challenge in your blog or gallery post
  • Please DO NOT combine challenges, while we love challenge chasers, we want to give those that follow the rules a chance at a prize valued at more than $60.
  • If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCBDAY2
  • We’ll announce the winners next Friday, September 2nd right here!

 Speaking of candy, what do you win if you comment or play today? Take a peek!!!

 

That’s right, you win a grab bag of stamp sets like the one above! Who wouldn’t want to win all that polymer perfection?? What are you waiting for! Let’s get hopping! Visit these fine designers for your chance to win!

If you want to play in the Birthday Bash Challenge, remember you have to link up HERE on Thursday’s inlinkz widget! Can’t wait to see all the fabulous things you create! Remember, We’re giving away seven, yes SEVEN of these prize packs — so let’s get commenting and creating!

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Let the birthday celebration continue!

Posted by: Julie Koerber | August 25th, 2011


Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday dear Flourishes….. Happy birthday to us! That’s right, this month Flourishes officially turned 4 YEARS OLD! So, we are lighting the candles on the cake and throwing a party like no other!  The good news is — even though it’s our birthday – you could win one heck of a present yourself with some fabulous blog candy! Our designers have lit up the creativity with some fabulous birthday cards and they are involved in just one way that you can get your hands on a great bag of goodies!

HOW CAN YOU WIN? THERE ARE THREE WAYS!

  • Leave a comment on this post
  • Leave a comment on the designers’ posts that are on the hop today
  • Play in our Birthday Bash Challenge!

HOW TO PLAY IN OUR BIRTHDAY BASH CHALLENGE!

  • Simply make a birthday card using Flourishes stamps!
  • Entries need to be in by Thursday, September 1st by 5 PM EST
  • You must link your creation on this post using our inlinkz widget in order to qualify
  • You must have a link to our challenge in your blog or gallery post
  • Please DO NOT combine challenges, while we love challenge chasers, we want to give those that follow the rules a chance at a prize valued at more than $60.
  • If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCBDAY2
  • We’ll announce the winners next Friday, September 2nd right here!

 

Speaking of candy, what do you win if you comment or play today? Take a peek!!!

That’s right, you win a grab bag of stamp sets like the one above! Who wouldn’t want to win all that polymer perfection?? What are you waiting for! Let’s get hopping! Visit these fine designers for your chance to win!

We’ll be back tomorrow with one final hop with five more fabulous designers! Did you check out our customer hop post yesterday? If not, there are three ways to win there too! We’re giving away seven, yes SEVEN of these prize packs above this week! Let’s get commenting and creating!



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Birthday Blog Hop — Day 1!

Posted by: Julie Koerber | August 24th, 2011


Did you know that when August hit, Flourishes hit a special milestone? Well, we are just now getting around to celebrating – but – Flourishes is now officially 4 YEARS OLD! To honor this fine company and better yet, some of its customers – we’ve asked some of our challenge regulars to light the candles and sing Flourishes Happy Birthday! Afterall, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for our fine customers! The good news is – even though we couldn’t put all of our customers on today’s birthday blog hop, each and every customer has a chance to win!

HOW CAN YOU WIN? THERE ARE THREE WAYS!

  • Leave a comment on this post
  • Leave a comment on the designers’ posts that are on the hop today
  • Play in our Flourishes Favorites Card Challenge!

 

HOW TO PLAY IN OUR FLOURISHES FAVORITE CARD CHALLENGE!

  • Simply make a card using your very favorite Flourishes set!
  • Entries need to be in by Thursday, September 1st by 5 PM EST
  • You must link your creation on this post using our inlinkz widget in order to qualify
  • You must have a link to our challenge in your blog or gallery post
  • Please DO NOT combine challenges, while we love challenge chasers, we want to give those that follow the rules a chance at a prize valued at more than $60.
  • If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCBDAY1
  • We’ll announce the winners next Friday, September 2nd right here!

 

Our first leg of the hop is right here with customer and designer extroidinaire Elizabeth Lincoln! Elizabeth picked not one, not two but three Flourishes stamp sets for this fabulous and feminine creation!

She picked up Fanciful Flourishes, Lenten Rose and Flourishes Words (which is a discontinued set). Isn’t this just the best little piece of birthday candy? Be sure to check out Elizabeth’s Splitcoast Gallery HERE – there’s plenty more where this came from! There, you’ll also find the details for her card today! That link is HERE!

Speaking of candy, what do you win if you comment or play today? Take a peek!!!

That’s right, you win a grab bag of stamp sets like the one above! Who wouldn’t want to win all that polymer perfection?? What are you waiting for! Let’s get hopping!  Next up on the stop is…. yours truly– Julie Koerber! 

HAPPY HOPPING! 

 


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A Pair of Exciting Challenges!

Posted by: Julie Koerber | September 1st, 2010

If you like challenges, then today, you have come to the right place! First up, a special invitation from the ever-so-talented Becky Fleck landed some of your favorite Flourishes designers in the spotlight!

 Page Maps Logo

Every quarter, Becky Fleck of PageMaps dishes out 10 fabulous sketches to get those creative juices flowing with her CardMaps. Well, this month, some of the lovely ladies from Flourishes did the honors and took her sketches to bring CardMaps to life with beautiful and creative samples for each and every sketch. To check out CardMaps for September, click HERE and then click on the CardMaps link off to the left.  And, don’t forget to hop on over to each of the ladies’ sites to see their creative work!

  • Christine Okken
  • Cindy Lawrence
  • Danielle Kennedy
  • Dawn Burnworth
  • Julie Koerber 
  • Leslie Miller
  • Stacy Morgan
  • Maki Jones
  • Barbara Anders
  • Betty Wright

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    Now, if that wasn’t enough — 10 beautiful and fun-filled sketches — then hold onto your hats because we have another challenge that could have you turning BLUE! That’ right, it’s the 1st of September, which means it’s time for another Christmas Spirit Challenge!

    HERE’S HOW TO PLAY: Be inspired by that famous Elvis tune, ‘I’m dreaming of a blue Christmas’ and use blue to create this month’s card. Please use Flourishes stamps! When you wrap it up with a bow, just link up to the SCS challenge thread here and you’ll be in the running to win a Flourishes Christmas stamp set of your choice!!

    Just think, you’ll get a jump start on your Christmas creations AND have a chance at winning stamps to make even more Christmas cards! Oh what fun it is!! Please use the Keyword FLLCNOEL5 if you upload to Splitcoast. You have until September 30th 5 pm EST to submit your cards and Flourishes will announce the winner with next month’s challenge! Remember: In order to qualify for the monthly prize, you need to leave a link to your card on the Christmas Spirit Challenge 5 thread over in the SCS Forum here.

    Before we go, we want to share the winner of our August challenge. And, it is……. Linda aka Leenda. Congrats! PM me over at SCS ( Julie aka OutToImpress on SCS) with the Christmas Stamp set you would like!

    Thanks for stopping by and let’s see those fingers get inky! :-)

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    The Feel of Fall — let the fun begin!

    Posted by: Julie Koerber | September 3rd, 2009

    All of us at Flourishes are giddy getting ready for our September release and we can’t wait for the fun to begin!

    In a little less than a week – we will usher in the ‘Feel of Fall’ and will unveil a handfull of new stamp sets that are just perfect for this time of year! Wait until you see them! While some are sure to create that perfect homespun charm, another one-of-a-kind set urges us to band together and “Fight Like Girls!” We’ll kick off the sneak peeks next Wednesday on the Flourishes Newsletter — and you won’t want to miss a minute of the action! Each day will bring a chance to win the set of the day!

    But first, a chance to win all FOUR of our new releases! Just make a card using this sketch for our Feel of Fall Challenge! Edited to add: You can use Flourishes stamps (if you have them) but, if not — we’d love for you to play along!!

    Need a little creative inspiration? How about checking out these fabulous creations from our even more fabulous Senior Design Team!

    Faith Hofrichter

    Christine Okken

    Leslie Miller

    Stacy Morgan


    Julie Koerber

    Laura Fredrickson

    Latisha Yoast

    For more on the mechanics of these fine ladies’ cards, simply click on their names to find out more!

    Christine Okken
    Faith Hofrichter
    Julie Koerber
    Latisha Yoast
    Laura Fredrickson
    Leslie Miller
    Stacy Morgan

    We hope you make time for play time! All you need to do is link your creation onto our new Mr. Linky link box below – click on the box and a second box will pop up, add your URL linking to your actual blog post and… you’re in the running! If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCSEPT. Remember though, in order to be in the running, you have to link up your card by clicking on the Mr. Linky logo. The contest closes Friday, September 11th at 4:00 PM CST. The winner will be announced during our Power Hour Release Party which kicks off that night at 9PM Central time!

    Good luck and we’ll see you back here Sunday when we unveil our latest designer to be “In the Limelight!!” We love this designer’s creative talent and we know you’ll love Sundays on the Flourishes Newsletter watching her in action! We’ll see you then!

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