Color Throwdown #169

It's Wednesday once again, and that means we're throwin' down some more colors for you to try! Lori Tecler is our hostess this week with a great set of colors! You can do a lot with this... something for Christmas or winter, a great masculine card, or even something cheerful and flowery! Be sure to stop at the Color Throwdown blog for some great inspiration from the whole team!

For my card, I went with a Christmas/Winter theme and used my new Holiday Hugs snowman stamp from My Favorite Things. These colors just seemed perfect for this little guy, and I paired him with some old Bo Bunny paper from my stash that had all the right colors!
Check out the creations from the rest of my Color Throwdown sisters...

Barbara Anders	Broni Holcombe	Danielle Kennedy	Joan Ervin	Kerri Michaud	Keva Brown
Kristin Eberline	Lori Tecler	Lynn Put	Wanda Cullen	Lydia Fielder, Guest Designer

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I wish all my American friends a most blessed Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow! I hope you have plenty to eat and tons of family and friends to share the day with!!! God bless you!

Timeless Tuesday #145

It's time for another Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge and this week Heather is challenging us to try the Dryer Sheet Technique. You can find instructions on how to do this technique HERE on Splitcoaststampers. It's super-easy to do, and gives your card a very unique, stunning effect! I encourage you to give it a try!

I was inspired by this card by Danielle Kennedy to create my card for today using the Vintage Postcard stamp set. My images were stamped on Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock. I colored the bottom image with a few miscellaneous Copics. The top layer was stamped in Versamark ink and embossed with silver embossing powder. I accented my design with a Lattice Rectangle Nestabilities die cut from some Prima "North Country" paper, and a Ribbon Banner die with the sentiment. On the left side I added a seam binding bow, and a Spellbinders Snowflake die cut accented with some chunky glass glitter.

See what the other Timeless Tuesday designers have to share with you today by visiting their blogs, too...

Beate Johns

Cindy Haffner

Heather Jensen

Makiko Jones

Mona Pendleton

Silke Ledlow

Miriam Napier, November Guest Designer

Be sure to stop at the Flourishes blog for all the challenge details and play along with us!

Happy stamping!

Happy Birthday, Julie!

Our Flourishes Fearless Leader, Julie Koerber is celebrating a birthday this weekend, so all the Flourishes teams have banded together for a blog hop to extend to her our best birthday wishes! Julie is just so amazing and so much of what goes on with the teams at Flourishes just wouldn't happen without her vision and organization. Plus she's just one of the sweetest people I know (and I've had the pleasure of meeting her in person, too... as well as her fabulous momma, Pat!) So please be sure to hop over to Julie's blog, Out to Impress, and wish her a Happy Birthday!

For my card for Julie, I pulled out my neglected Mix-n-Mugs stamp set and some new Authentique "Blush and Delight" papers. My mug is paper-pieced, and the flowers are stamped on Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock. I cut the image out with my Labels 10 Nestabilities, then matted on a Petite Oval Nestabilities. I colored with a variety of Copics, then embellished with some seam binding, some Ivory Crochet Trim and Hot Pink Kaisercraft rhinestones.

Stop and see the beautiful birthday cards for Julie from the rest of the Flourishes girls today...

• 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


• Iwona Palmountain


• Kathy Jones


• Mona Pendleton


• Yvonne Hagane


• Laura Fredrickson

I wish you the happiest birthday EVER, Julie! Enjoy your day, and we love you!

Flourishes Friday Free-for-All

It's Friday so that must mean that it's time for another Free-For-All with the Flourishes Sr. Design team! Today I'm sharing with you one more card using one of the recently released stamp sets, Sentimental Christmas. I paired my sentiment with this beautiful evergreen from the Forest of Trees stamp set. I also used papers, ribbon and pearls from the November 123 Create Kit.

The Kaisercraft pearls in the kit were perfect for decorating my tree!

Remember, today is your last chance to pick up Sentimental Christmas and the other three newly released stamp sets at a 10% discount by purchasing the New Release Bundle! Don't miss your chance to own these beautiful stamp sets!

The rest of the Sr. Design team have some beautiful creations to share with you today, so be sure to go check them out...

Barbara Anders	Christine Okken	Cindy Lawrence	Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth	Julie Koerber	Sharon Doolittle	Stacy Morgan

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Color Throwdown #168

It's time for another week at the Color Throwdown and this week Keva has her turn at hosting for the very first time! She picked this really pretty, rich color combo for us today and at first I was stumped but now I LOVE it! I hope you'll like it too! Remember, you don't have to have the exact colors listed... just whatever you have that is most similar. Stop by the Color Throwdown blog for all the details!

For my card, I turned to what has become my go-to stamp set, my Sentimental Occasions from My Time Made Easy (designed by my friend and fellow CTD-member Kristin!) and paired the stamps with the Occasional Labels stamp set, and the Occasional Label cut files.

I added a doily cut file behind the labels, and some silver pearls to go with the dark gray of my card.

Check out the creations from the rest of my Color Throwdown sisters...

Barbara Anders	Broni Holcombe	Danielle Kennedy	Joan Ervin	Kerri Michaud	Keva Brown
Kristin Eberline	Lori Tecler	Lynn Put	Wanda Cullen	Lydia Fielder, Guest Designer

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Thanks SO much for stopping by, and hope your day is great!

Timeless Tuesday #144 - Flag, You're It!

It's time for another Timeless Tuesday challenge, and this week I am the hostess! My challenge is “Flag, You’re It!” Today I am challenging you to add a flag to your card in some way… whether it’s a flag to show your patriotism, or maybe you have a race fan in your life and need something with a “checkered” flag? Or you could do something with a banner or pennants (a form of a flag) or a sentiment flag like I’ve used on my card here.

My card uses the Moments in Time stamp set, papers from the My Mind’s Eye “Sunshine” 6×6 paper pad, and the new Tailor-Made Classic Keyhole Die Set behind the hourglass. I embellished with someblack Kaisercraft rhinetones, some May Arts twill ribbon and a stick pin. I also used the Classic Scallop Edgeabilities die for the border beneath the ribbon.

See what the other Timeless Tuesday designers have "flagged" on their cards today by visiting their blogs, too...

Beate Johns

Cindy Haffner

Heather Jensen

Makiko Jones

Mona Pendleton

Silke Ledlow

Miriam Napier, November Guest Designer

Be sure to stop at the Flourishes blog for all the challenge details and play along with us!

Happy stamping!

Flourishes New Release - The First Noel

It's the last day of sneak peeks of the November New Release for Flourishes! All the beautiful Christmas sets you've seen this week are NOW available for purchase in the Flourishes online store. Get yours now, or pick up all 4 in the New Release Bundle at 10% savings!

Our last stamp set for today is The First Noel, and depicts another one of Lauren Pope's wonderful silhouettes with this beautiful Nativity! This is truly a most outstanding stamp set, which includes two Scripture verses, and the Merry Christmas sentiment you see on the front of my card. (I stamped one of the Scriptures on the inside, but forgot to photograph it.)
I decided to go with a rustic look for my design, stamping the image on River Rock cardstock and adding some distressing on the edges of the papers from Authentique. I embellished with some gingham ribbon, a small evergreen branch and some buttons with my sentiment tag.

Want to win this set and matching die? All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below! Why? You need to try to figure out…..

One of the ladies on the link list below will be picking a name from the comments on her blog post today. We don’t know which one it is… so the more blogs you leave comments on, the more chances you have to win! So, head on over and see how our fabulously talented design team used this beautiful new set and matching die combo that is sure to be a holiday fave for years to come!

Barbara Anders

Julie Koerber

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Danielle Kennedy

Dawn Burnworth

Stacy Morgan

Sharon Doolittle

Jan Marie Caruso

Heather Jensen

Beate Johns

Cindy Haffner

Also, don't forget the Snowy Delights Challenge still going on, the Timeless Tuesday challenge and the two Noontime Challenges where you have the chance to win ALL the stamps from the new release! If you're not playing along, you're just plain ol' crazy! :)