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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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Timeless Tuesday #215 ~ Around the House!

Posted by: Ally Cope | April 9th, 2013

Howdy stamp lovers!!! I hope this fine Tuesday is treating you fabulously! Don’t forget my fantastic stampy friends, that we are having a Friends of Flourishes Design Team Call! You could become another fabulous designer for your favorite stamp company… yes.. .YOU!!! You can get all the details on how to send in an application right HERE! Good luck to all of those whom apply! Now onto this week’s challenge!

Hi there, Flourishes friends! It’s Broni and I’m your hostess this week for the Timeless Tuesday Challenge! Today I’m asking that you use items found around the house on your creation this week (FTTC215). It’s that simple. Look around and see what you have!

For my card today, I picked up a piece of paper towel that was lying on my craft desk and cut it down to be one of the layers on the card. Can you see it?

It’s the textured white strip behind the image/tag.

My card base is Flourishes classic kraft cardstock and my sentiment was stamped onto some of the patterned paper using Versafine onyx black ink.

I stamped the beautiful tulip image from Tulips for Friends on Flourishes classic white cardstock using Memento tuxedo black ink after cutting the shape using my Silhouette and the Tulips for Friends cut file. The image is colored with these Copic collections:

Thanks Broni! We had an amazing 52 entries plus 10 entries that qualified for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Denise’s “Wrap It With Ribbon” challenge last week, and our random winner is #25! Congrats Dee! 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.
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 FTTC215.
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

We can’t wait to see what you create with Broni’s challenge this week.

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Timeless Tuesday #214 ~ Wrap It With Ribbon!

Posted by: Ally Cope | April 2nd, 2013

Happy Tuesday and welcome to Flourishes! We’re starting a new month so we have a fabulous new guest designer joining us for April. Take a moment and welcome… Debbie Marcinkiewicz! We can’t wait to see what you have in store for us this month Debbie!

Now… on to the show! Grab a cuppa joe and join us for our newest Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week!

Hi everyone! It’s Denise and it’s my turn to host the Timeless Tuesday Challenge ! Your challenge this week is to layer two or more ribbons together (FTTC214). Take a wide ribbon and layer a more narrow ribbon over top of it, layer two or more colors of twine together, etc. Be sure to read the challenge rules below for more details.

For my card, I used stamps from my Strawberries stamp set, which is one of my favorites! I layered some sheer ribbon over some white crochet lace. The image is stamped on Classic White CS and the scallop oval is up on foam tape. Papers are Pebbles Seen and Noted, and the layout is Deconstructed Sketch #95. Oh, and I added some stardust Stickles to the center of the flower and all around the image.

The Copics Collections I used for my creation this week are: BG000, BG10, BG11, G21, G24, G28, G40, R20, R22, R24:

~ Denise ~

Thanks Denise! We had an amazing 61 entries plus many entries that qualified for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Maki’s “Grab Some Thread!” challenge last week, and our random winner is #36! Congrats Jenny Gropp! 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.
If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC214.
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 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

We can’t wait to see what you create with Denise’s layered ribbon challenge this week.

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Some Exciting News!

Posted by: Julie Koerber | March 31st, 2013

Hi all! Hope you had a blessed Easter. We have some exciting news to share and we just couldn’t wait! First up, last week if you read the Flourishes blog, you know that it was Maki Jones’ last week with the girls who usher in the Timeless Tuesday Challenge week in and week out. Well, what we didn’t tell you then was — Maki isn’t going anywhere, in fact……

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Maki is one of the newest members of the Flourishes Senior Design Team! We should have spilled the beans then but what fun would that be? So, don’t worry, she will still be creating with Flourishes and will be doing a lot more of it! So congrats Maki! Ms. Maki has been with Flourishes since September of 2009 and she’s been wowing us ever since! She’ll start creating with the Senior DT this Friday as we usher in our Release Week Challenge for April!

With Maki’s departure from the Timeless Tuesday Team comes a WONDERFUL opportunity for one super talented designer!

Well, it could be YOU!!!!! Do you love to stamp? Do you love to create cards, layouts and other fabulous projects? Then we want YOU!

For the first time in Flourishes’ history, we are having a design team call for our Friends of Flourishes Team. If you are a creative person that loves to stamp then this is the job for you! Our newest team member will be expected to post on their blog every Tuesday and will be given a new challenge every week to create with showing off the beautiful versatility of Flourishes stamps! Members will not only receive product from the Flourishes store but a discount as well. The person chosen will be given all the specifics on all the perks when they are invited to join the team. Do you love to create with beautiful images and would you like to be a part of a friendly, energetic and talented team? Now is your chance! To apply, simply email me at flourishes@bresnan.net with the subject “FOF Design Team Call” in the subject line.

HOW TO APPLY FOR THIS FRIENDS OF FLOURISHES CALL!

Simply send an email sharing a little bit about yourself – your name, where you are from as well as your blog address. Why would you like to join our team? What do you think you could bring to this team?
Do you have any Flourishes creations you would like to share? If so, simply provide links to your top three creations. Don’t have any Flourishes stamps? Please send us a link to your three favorite cards!
Are you on any other design teams or has your work been published? If so, please share!

This call is for designers located in the United States and Canada only. Deadline for your application is April 25, 2013. We hope to be able to pick the winner by the first few days of May so that our new designer could join us for the first May “Timeless Tuesday Challenge” on May 7th. Good luck!!!!

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Timeless Tuesday #213 ~ Grab Some Thread!

Posted by: Ally Cope | March 26th, 2013

Happy first full week of Spring everyone! Have you spied any flowers sprouting or trees budding yet around your area? We’re certainly excited about the prospects of green grass and leaves soon. We’d like to take a quick moment to thank our guest designer, Deborah Felts for joining us this month. Thanks deb for all your fabulous creation inspiration for March!

And with great sadness, our extremely talented Friends of Flourishes team member, Makiko Jones, is leaving our Flourishes family. This will be the last challenge she will be with us so please make sure you take a moment and visit her blog and bit her a fond farewell from the team. We know we’ll see her around but we’ll miss her dearly! Best wishes in your future endeavors Maki!!

NOW… Let’s find out what our last challenge of March will be…

Hello everyone! I’m Maki and it is my turn to host the Timeless Tuesday Challenge (FTTC213)!

The challenge is to use any sewing, stitching technique into your project. Don’t like to sew?? Faux stitches are also welcome! Please be sure to read the challenge rules below for more details.

For my card, I used Stitched For You set. My sewing skill is very limited. I can sew only straight or zig-zag… LOL. I really need to bring my sewing machine to different projects around my house.

I mainly used Classic White cardstock for the card and some leftover designer papers for the strips. Then I sewed them with sewing machine. The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic markers. The frame and sentiment piece were die cut with Perfectly Pierced dies (Victorian Ovals & Classic Window).

The rest of my supplies: Memento Rich Cocoa, Cantaloupe, Spellbinders die

Here are the Copic Markers Collections I used to color my image today:

~ Maki ~

Thanks Maki! We had an amazing 100 entries plus many entries that qualified for 2 ballots because that stamper used some Flourishes stamps for Allison’s “Spring Inspired” challenge last week, and our random winner is #23! Congrats Jackie C.! Please email Allison at: sosketchy@live.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 you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FTTC213.
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 to hear from you!

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