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Timeless Tuesday #220 ~ Blue & Green

Posted by: Ally Cope | May 14th, 2013

Welcome everyone! We are extremely happy to welcome our three newest designers, Katie Sims, Jenny Gropp and Judy Rozema to the Friends of Flourishes Team and all three of them will be playing along with us this week.

But with that happy news, we have some sad news to report too. It is with great sadness that we report that our long-time designer Cindy Haffner will be leaving our team. Cindy is off on a new adventure… a new home, a new town… some brand new life adventures! So please, take a moment a visit Cindy’s blog HERE and wish her well on her new venture! Thanks Cindy for being a part of the Flourishes family. We’ll miss you!

Now… on to our challenge!!

Hi everyone! It’s Broni and I’m hosting this week’s Timeless Tuesday Challenge. My challenge to you is to use the colors blue and green (FTTC220). It’s pretty simple…whether you color your image blue and green or just use blue and/or green ribbon, it’s up to you!

I used the beautiful new Old Tea Rose stamp set for my card. It’s stamped in Desert Sand Memento ink onto Flourishes Classic ivory cardstock. I colored the rose itself in neutrals and then colored the leaves in greens and the background in blues using these Copic Collections:

My card base is also ivory and I used mats from both the Pistachio and Emerald Coast paper collections. I rolled back one of the corners and added some beautiful Teal Blue seam binding. The sentiment is stamped in Rich Cocoa ink.

Please play along with us! We always love to see your beautiful creations!

Today we have all of our new Friends of Flourishes Team members sharing their “blue & green” inspirations with you! Take a moment and leave some love on all of our designers’ blogs.

Come and hop along and visit with all of our super talented designers and join us in our challenge this week for a chance to win!!

CHALLENGE RULES

HOW TO PLAY: Everyone can PLAY and anyone can WIN! Here’s how you can win…

Create a new card or paper-crafted project fitting the challenge. Flourishes stamps are not required, but if you’ve got them, why not use them?
Why not use Flourishes stamps on your creation?!? You will receive two ballots towards our weekly prize if you use our stamps! Hooray!
Include a link back to this challenge in your blog post or gallery upload.
Please clarify in your blog post, how your creation specifically meets our challenge.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC220.
Deadline to enter is next Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST.

One random winner will be picked from all of the entries.

We had 45 fabulous entries including 19 entries besides our Designer creations that qualify for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Denise’s “Black Accents!” challenge last week. Our randomly chosen winner is #14! Congrats Carley! Please email Allison at: me.love.stamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Good luck this week!

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Timeless Tuesday #219 – Plus a SNEAK PEEK!

Posted by: Ally Cope | May 7th, 2013

Hello Flourishes Fans! We have a special treat for you today because we are kicking off the festivities for Day 1 of our Flourishes‘ Sneak Peeks for May and we have a brand new challenge for you too! Want a little peek at the set we’ll be showcasing today?

Our Glamour Girls stamp collection, illustrated by Lauren Pope, is a fabulous collection of lovely ladies and some classic “girl talk” sentiments perfect for all those charming gals in your life. This classy stamp set arrives just in time for Mother’s Day! What more can you ask for? You should know that just like in releases past, all of our new sets are available for pre-order — if you like what you see on our designer’s blogs today. And, you can also take advantage of our New Release Bundle for May as well! It’s a deal where you can get all of our new sets HERE for 10% off if you purchase as a bundle!

Hi everyone! It’s Denise here and I’m excited to be your Timeless Tuesday Challenge hostess this week! This week we want you to use “BLACK ACCENTS” (FTTC219) on your card or project. Let’s see you use some black matting, black die-cut images, black ribbon, or try the ever popular “chalkboard” technique that’s popping up all over the blogging world.

Here’s my card…

Supplies used: Glamour Girls, Flourishes Classic Ivory CS, May’s 1-2-3 Create Kit (patterned papers, large button gem, and ruffled ivory ribbon), BG0000 Copic (highlighting around the main image), Memento Tuxedo Black, foam tape black scalloped rectangle behind main image), black twine.

Today we have both our Flourishes Finest Design Team AND our Friends of Flourishes Team sharing their “Black Accents” inspirations with you! Take a moment and leave some love on all of our designers’ blogs.

Come and hop along and visit with all of our super talented designers and join us in our challenge this week for a chance at winning our ENTIRE new May release!! Yup… that’s right… you could win our entire new release just by playing along.

CHALLENGE RULES

HOW TO PLAY: Everyone can PLAY and anyone can WIN! Here’s how you can win…

Create a new card or paper-crafted project fitting the challenge. Flourishes stamps are not required, but if you’ve got them, why not use them?
Why not use Flourishes stamps on your creation?!? You will receive two ballots towards our weekly prize if you use our stamps! Hooray!
Include a link back to this challenge in your blog post or gallery upload.
Please clarify in your blog post, how your creation specifically meets our challenge.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC219.
Deadline to enter is next Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST.

One random winner will be picked from all of the entries.

We had 26 fabulous entries including 14 entries that qualify for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Ally’s “It’s All in the Date!” challenge last week. Our randomly chosen winner is #6! Congrats Donna Jones! Please email Allison at: me.love.stamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Don’t forget about playing along with our Pre-Release Challenge, “Colorful Creations” this week!

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Timeless Tuesday #218 ~ It’s All in the Date!

Posted by: Ally Cope | April 30th, 2013

Howdy Flourishes fans! How are you this fine Tuesday? Are you ready for another fabulous challenge from our Friends of Flourishes Team? Before we get to our challenge today, I want to take a moment to thank our April Guest Designer, Debbie Marcinkiewicz for tagging along with our team and designing some amazing creations this month! Thanks Debbie! We sure hope you will continue to play along with us in the future. Alrighty… grab a cuppa your favorite beverage and let’s begin our challenge journey…

I’m Ally, your hostess this week, welcome to the last “Timeless Tuesday Challenge” for April! Yes… May is only a few days away!

This week’s challenge is all about DATES… birth DATES that is! For this challenge, we want you to create with the TWO items listed next to your birth month (see image below). So for example, my birthday is in June, so I had to create a “birthday themed” project using the color pink. You may use any additional supplies in your creation as long as you use the 2 elements listed below.

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If you have any questions about this week’s challenge, please leave a comment below and I’ll be able to get answer to you.

So as I said above, I have to create project using the JUNE elements: a birthday theme and the color pink! Here is the card that I came up with…

I first started with a simple A2 card base using Flourishes Classic Kraft Cardstock. I created a mat using Flourishes Classic Black Cardstock next and created my multiple patterned paper layers with additional stitching detail.

For my focal image, I die cut a rectangle from Flourishes Classic White Cardstock. Leaving the die on the cardstock, I stamped the present image from the “Bike Ride” stamp set first. I created a simple “Post It Note” mask and then stamped my bike image right over the mask. Then I took my Copic Marker airbrush tool and sprayed some Copic Y13 and splattered some R14 from the following Copic Collections:

I removed the cardstock from the die and coloured the remainder of my image using these Copic Collections:

Inside my card, I used the same patterned papers and created a block for my writing. To finish off my birthday theme, I stamped my “Happy Birthday” greeting from the “Inside & Out: Happy” stamp collection using the Memento Ink colours, “Bahama Blue” and “Rose Bud“. I also stamped another bike image from the “Bike Ride” stamp set in a more subtle yellow ink.

I hope you have fun with my challenge this week!!

We had 30 fabulous entries including 14 entries that qualify for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Deborah’s “Wedded Bliss” challenge last week. Our randomly chosen winner is #28! Congrats Kim L.! Please email Allison at: me.love.stamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!

CHALLENGE RULES

HOW TO PLAY: Everyone can PLAY and anyone can WIN! Here’s how you can win…

Create a new card or paper-crafted project fitting the challenge. Flourishes stamps are not required, but if you’ve got them, why not use them?
If you do use Flourishes stamps on your creation, you’ll receive two ballots for the weekly prize.
Include a link back to this challenge in your blog post or gallery upload.
Please clarify in your blog post, how your creation specifically meets our challenge.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC218.
Deadline to enter is next Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST.

One random winner will be picked from all of the entries.

Take a moment and leave some love on our designers blogs! We all love hearing from you.

Take a peek at what the Timeless Tuesday designers have created for today’s challenge…

Allison Cope
Broni Holcombe
Cindy Haffner
Deborah Anton
Denise Marzec
Debbie Marcinkiewicz, our April Guest Designer

Thank you to the many, many talented designer entries we received for our Friends of Flourishes Team call. We have so many talented crafters out there that love Flourishes just as much as we do! Stay tuned! We’ll be announcing our new designer in the very new future!!!

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Timeless Tuesday #217 ~ Wedded Bliss

Posted by: Ally Cope | April 23rd, 2013

Hello fellow stamp lovers! Welcome to the newest edition of the “Timeless Tuesday Challenge” here at Flourishes! We are so happy you have joined us today. Grab a cuppa of your favorite beverage and come along on a journey with our Friends of Flourishes Team today! Let’s get started…

Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome back to another Timeless Tuesday Challenge with me, Deborah, as your hostess.

This week is all about weddings! With summer around the corner, so are lots of weddings or wedding planning. My challenge to you this week is to create a project or card that has to do with, yep, you guessed it… weddings!

I have decided to go a little out of the box in creating my wedding “package” in hopes of giving some old ideas a new look!old ideas a new look!

As you can see, I have here a fan for those warm, outside summer weddings, a rice cone, and a tissue pouch for your guests. Of course the tissue is to wipe away those tears of joy… Here is a close up of the top of the cone:

I used the April’s new release stamp set of Bees and Blossoms which I found to be quite nice to use for a wedding. I used the following Copic Collection colors for the flowers and bee:

For the fan, I colored in the blossoms and cut around to have it popped up over my Perfectly Pierced Victorian Oval die set. I stamped the background using the Damask Background stamp (retired) while the green ribbon is some wonderful raw silk ribbon I have had in my stash. The background stamp was a perfect size to make the fan and I rounded the corners for a softer look! I completed it by stamping the sentiment from Old Fashioned Florals on the bottom corner and some pearls on the die.

The rice cone is one I made using a 5″x 5″ piece of Flourishes Classic Cardstock in Ivory and stamped the image where I wanted it once it was to be rolled into a cone. I would suggest a lighter paper or cardstock when making a cone such as this. It will make rolling the cone a lot easier! I then colored it and rolled it up using some Scor-tape to secure. I then determined where to score the top flop so it can connect to the cone. I punch a hole into the cone and flap for the twine to thread through. I stamped and cut out the bee to be popped up on the flap.

The tissue pouch is one that I actually was making for my wedding 12 years ago that is from Martha Stewart. It uses an entire 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of cardstock, again, lighter is better, scored on the long side at 2″, 5″, and 1″. Accordion fold and fold back the ends the length of the tissue and tuck into one another to hold. Decorate as you wish! I used some crochet ribbon and twine to wrap around the top and popped up one blossom cut out to use as the center image. I then added the sentiment and the bee to complete it.

We hope you will join us in this challenge and show what fabulous wedding creations you all will share! Don’t forget to check out the other wonderful projects by the Timeless Tuesday Team!

~ Deborah ~

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Thanks Deborah! We had an amazing 58 entries plus 23 entries that qualified for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Cindy’s “Frame It” challenge last week. Our randomly chosen winner is #48! Congrats Cheryl Lea! Please email Allison at: me.love.stamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!

CHALLENGE RULES

HOW TO PLAY: Everyone can PLAY and anyone can WIN! Here’s how you can win…

Create a new card or paper-crafted project fitting the challenge. Flourishes stamps are not required, but if you’ve got them, why not use them?
If you do use Flourishes stamps on your creation, you’ll receive two ballots for the weekly prize.
Include a link back to this challenge in your blog post or gallery upload.
Please clarify in your blog post, how your creation specifically meets our challenge.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC217.
Deadline to enter is next Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST.

One random winner will be picked from all of the entries.

Take a moment and leave some love on our designers blogs! We love hearing from you.

Take a peek at what the Timeless Tuesday designers have created for today’s challenge…

Allison Cope
Broni Holcombe
Cindy Haffner
Deborah Anton
Debbie Marcinkiewicz, our April Guest Designer

DON’T FORGET… this is the LAST week to submit your application for our Friends of Flourishes Team call! We are looking for one lucky crafter and that crafter could be YOU!!! For further call details, CLICK HERE. The deadline is THIS Thursday, April 25th 2013!! Good luck!

We can’t wait to see what you create with Deborah’s challenge this week…

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Timeless Tuesday #216 ~ Frame It!

Posted by: Ally Cope | April 16th, 2013

Happy Tuesday everyone! Have you weathered the last throws of winter where you live this week? I don’t know about you but I’d love to see green grass and blue skies and SOON! I’ve been getting cabin fever and I need a good excuse to enjoy the warm Spring breezes. Wishing you a fabulous week this week!

Hello everyone, and welcome to Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, FTTC216! I’m your hostess Cindy and today’s challenge is to “Frame It“!! We want to see a frame on your creation!!

I have used the Perfectly Pierced Victorian Ovals Die Set. I placed the oval die inside the Victorian die to make my frame.

The stamp set I used is the pretty Make A Wish .

I used the following Copic Collections to color in my image:

~ Cindy ~

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Thanks Cindy! We had an amazing 33 entries plus 15 entries that qualified for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Broni’s “Around the House!” challenge last week, and our random winner of the ENTIRE April Release is #13! Congrats Helen Airton! Please email Allison with your full mailing address at: me.love.stamps@gmail.com to claim your prize!

CHALLENGE RULES

HOW TO PLAY: Everyone can PLAY and anyone can WIN! Here’s how you can win…

Create a new card or paper-crafted project fitting the challenge. Flourishes stamps are not required, but if you’ve got them, why not use them?
If you do use Flourishes stamps on your creation, you’ll receive two ballots for the weekly prize.
Include a link back to this challenge in your blog post or gallery upload.
If your project does not follow the challenge theme/details then your link may be deleted. Please clarify in your blog post, how your creation specifically meets our challenge.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC216.
Deadline to enter is next Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST.

One random winner will be picked from all of the entries.

Take a moment and leave some love on our designers blogs! We’d love to hear from you!

Take a peek at what the Timeless Tuesday designers have created for today’s challenge…

Allison Cope
Broni Holcombe
Cindy Haffner
Deborah Anton
Denise Marzec
Debbie Marcinkiewicz, our April Guest Designer

DON’T FORGET… we are having a call for our Friends of Flourishes Team! We are looking for one lucky crafter and that crafter could be YOU!!! For further call details, CLICK HERE. Time is ticking by fast so get in your application!!! Good luck!

We can’t wait to see what you create with Cindy’s challenge this week…

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