Flourishes New Release Day 2

It's day two of the sneak peeks for Flourishes' January New Release and I hope that you've enjoyed the offerings so far!  This next set we're peeking is all about creating a note or two for the friends you truly care about, both near and far.  These messages are from the heart and perfect for Valentine's Day, but also good for the whole year through!

My card uses my most favorite sentiment from the "Heartlines" set because I love the "open" letters that I can color in!  I stamped my sentiment on a Labels 11 Nestabilities die cut, added some die-cut Spellbinders hearts, and some rolled roses.  Then I embellished with some black rhinestone flourishes for a great finish.  The papers I used here are "Yours Truly" from Echo Park.

Want to win this set?  All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below because you need to try to figure out...

One of the ladies on our 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 better your chances are to win!

Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Stacy Morgan
Tammy Hershberger <-- that's me!
Sharon Doolittle
Heather Jensen
Beate Johns
Cindy Haffner
Mona Pendleton
Jan Marie Caruso

Did you know you could win the entire January New Release?  Check out our New Year Challenge HERE.  You can also play in our Noontime Challenges!  The first one, The Year of the Dragon, can be found HERE.  The second one will be unveiled at noon Central time today, and you can check it out on the Flourishes blog.  These challenges are all fast-paced and designed to quickly spark your creativity, hence the deadline of Friday, January 13th at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time to enter.  Just upload your creations to an online gallery or your blog and link them to the appropriate post on the Flourishes blog using the Inlinkz widget.  Winners will be announced on Saturday!

Can't wait until all the sets are revealed on Friday morning?  You can pre-order them all now if you like what you see on the designers' blogs!  Just click HERE for the New Release Bundle, and get 10% off by buying them all together!

Good luck, and happy stamping!

Flourishes Noontime Challenge: The Year of the Dragon

Since it's New Release Week at Flourishes, we've got a couple of Noontime Challenges for you to participate in for a chance to win ALL the new stamps!  Here's the first one...

HOW TO PLAY:  According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, which begins on January 23, 2012 and ends on February 9, 2013.  So, what does this predict for 2012?  Success and happiness!  To play, simply be inspired by the colors of this beautiful dragon with rich shades of red, orange and even pink.  If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword FLLCJANRW1.  You have until Friday, January 13th at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time to enter.  Once you're done with your creation, be sure to link it up to this post on the Flourishes blog using our Inlinkz widget to be eligible to win!

For my card, I was highly inspired by the red of the dragon and paired it with a lot of pink.  I LOVE how the swirly flourishes of this heart from the new "From the Heart" stamp set so nicely mimic some of the dragon's features, don't you?  My heart was stamped second generation with Melon Mambo ink, then I stamped my sentiment with Riding Hood Red ink and embossed with clear embossing powder to make it stand out.  The heart and sentiment are stamped on a piece of paper from the Basic Grey "Kissing Booth" 6x6 paper pad.  I added a couple more flourishes to the card front, did some distressing on the edges, and embellished with some Kaisercraft rhinestones and a seam binding double-bow.  I spritzed the whole thing with some Perfect Pearls too for added shimmer, and added a little gold heart button to my bow with some baker's twine.  (That little gold heart button is a leftover from a Valentine jumper I sewed for my oldest daughter years ago!)

See what some of the other Sr. Design team members have created using the inspiration piece for today's challenge...

Barbara Anders

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Dawn Burworth

Stop by the Flourishes blog for all the challenge details, and please play along for your chance to win some spectacular stamps!

Flourishes New Release Day 1

It's that wonderful time of the month again.... Flourishes New Release week!  This week, love is most definitely in the air as we've got some beautiful Valentine-themed, lovey-dovey stamp sets to share with you starting with "From the Heart" today!  This heart is designed to fit with the Spellbinders Classic Heart and Classic Scalloped Heart.  I paired this beautiful heart stamp with some new "Kissing Booth" paper from Basic Grey, and added some Prima rhinestone flourishes, some Ivory Crochet Trim, a seam binding bow and a heart button from my stash.  The heart is stamped on Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock with Riding Hood Red ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Would you like to win this set? 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 our 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!

Barbara Anders
Julie Koerber
Cindy Lawrence
Christine Okken
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Stacy Morgan
Tammy Hershberger <-- that's me!
Sharon Doolittle
Heather Jensen
Mona Pendleton
Cindy Haffner 
Jan Marie Caruso

DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD WIN THE ENTIRE JANUARY RELEASE?  Have you checked out our A New Year Challenge? Just click HERE to find out how to play!  Or check out the Timeless Tuesday challenge for this week by clicking HERE. You can also play in our Noon Time Challenges this week! To do that, all you need to do is check in on the Flourishes blog Wednesday and Thursday at  noon! These fast-paced challenges are designed to spark creativity and give you another chance to win some wonderful goodies! All challenges will close this Friday at 5:00 PM EST (except for Timeless Tuesday) and winners will be announced Saturday in our Winner’s Circle blog post! So get those fingers inky and good luck!

Can’t wait until all of our sets are revealed Friday morning? Well, you can pre-order them now if you like what you see on our designers’ blogs! Just click HERE. You’ll also see that we are offering our special New Release Bundle again – 10% off if you purchase all three stamp sets in one bundle!

Color Throwdown #174

It's time for another Color Throwdown challenge, and this week Broni is our hostess with these beautiful colors!  There are so many directions you can go in with this color combo, as you'll see by checking out the inspiration from the design team (see links below).  Stop over at the Throwdown blog for all the challenge details, and play along!

For my card, I couldn't resist using my brand new Clearly Swanky stamp set from The Cat's Pajamas, Warm Fuzzies!  This set is right up my alley because yes, even though we just had Christmas I am MORE than ready for Spring to get here!  TAMMY. DOESN'T. LIKE. WINTER!  I added some embossing to my card for today too in the form of big polka dots for the TCP Tuesday challenge.

See what my Throwdown sisters have created for today, too!

Barbara Anders	Broni Holcombe	Danielle Kennedy	Joan Ervin	Kerri Michaud	Lori Tecler
Lynn Put	Wanda Cullen	Stacy Morgan, January Guest Designer

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by, and happy stamping!

Timeless Tuesday #151

It's another Timeless Tuesday challenge with Flourishes, and this week I'm the hostess with a simple inspiration challenge!  Check out the photo below and be inspired... maybe by the patterns, the colors, the ribbons, the tree itself... whatever floats your boat!  Have fun with this!

For my card, I was inspired by the topiary, the colors and the patterns so I pulled out my DIY Topiary stamp set to get started.  Since the lovey-dovey Valentine season is almost upon us, I decided to make a Valentine-themed card, using a sentiment from the Tag Lines stamp set.  My image was cut out with a Labels 8 Nestabilities die, and I colored my Topiary with Copics from the Poppy, Dogwood, Evergreen, Flesh Tones 2 and Warm Neutrals Copic collections on Flourishes Classic White cardstock.  The designer papers I used here are from Doodlebug Designs, and I added some red curly grid ribbon to my button/tag combo to mimic the curly-Qs in the inspiration photo.

Be sure and see how the other Timeless Tuesday designers were inspired by the photo today...

Cheryl Lea, January Guest Designer

Silke Ledlow

Mona Pendleton

Makiko Jones

Heather Jensen

Cindy Haffner

Beate Johns

Be sure to stop at the Flourishes blog for all the challenge details, including some changes to the rules for playing that I think a lot of people will like!

Thanks for stopping by, and happy stamping!

Flourishes Pre-Release Challenge Friday

It's time again for my favorite part of the month... Flourishes New Release!  It’s a new year and a new round of Flourishes stamps is just about ready to be revealed! So, let’s ring in this new year, with a release week challenge designed to honor the changing of old…to new!

HOW TO PLAY: Ring in the new year with “Father Time” or “Baby New Year” – this challenge is a fight between new and old! To be in the running, simply use a card that showcases an image of time or one that showcases little baby new year i.e. a baby card. Either will get you in the running! After you’re done making your creation, don’t forget to link it up on the Flourishes blog post using the Inlinkz widget! You have until January 13th at 5:00 PM to get in the running! Use Flourishes stamps if you have them, but if you don’t, play along anyway — you could win some! The winner will recieve all three sets that are a part of our January release! If you upload to Splitcoaststampers, don’t forget to use the keyword FLLCJANRW2.

I don't currently have a baby stamp set from Flourishes, so I pulled out my Moments in Time set to create my card for today's challenge, and paired it with some new Echo Park "Yours Truly" paper.  I stamped my clock face and embossed with clear embossing powder and embellished with a pearl stick pin and some black Prima crystal swirls.  For the layout on my card, I used Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch #149.

Please visit the other Flourishes Sr. Design team members for more inspiration and join us for this challenge! AND stay tuned next Wednesday through Friday for sneak peeks of all the new stamp sets!  You're going to LOVE them!

Barbara Anders

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Danielle Kennedy

Dawn Burnworth

Julie Koerber

Sharon Doolittle

Stacy Morgan

Many thanks for stopping by today, and happy stamping!

Color Throwdown #173

The Color Throwdown team is back for the year, and we've got a few exciting changes for you, too!  Barbara Anders is working on some fabulous new color graphics for us, starting with the one above with the colors for this week!  I think you'll really like what we've got in store for 2012!

Now, I'm running late with my card today because I had a screaming migraine yesterday and couldn't get my card done, but I happily have it done now!  I had to use my sweet Key to My Heart ala' mode stamp from My Favorite Things, along with a little heart cut with my Hearts a'Plenty Die-Namics die, and used the MFT Wednesday Sketch #53, too.  The papers I used here are the "Love Me" line from My Mind's Eye.

Stop over at the Color Throwdown blog for all the challenge details, and play along!  We'd love to see what you create with these colors!  And visit my Throwdown sisters for some great inspiration, including our January Guest Designer, my sweet friend Stacy Morgan!

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

InLinkz.com

Thanks so much for stopping by, and happy stamping!

Timeless Tuesday #150

 The Flourishes Timeless Tuesday team is back again to kick of 2012 with a fun challenge being hosted by Mona Pendleton!  Check out this tutorial on Splitcoaststampers for Cami's Tri-Fold card, and join us for the challenge!  These are easy cards to make with a fun twist!

For my card, I'm using the Tokens of Affection stamp set and some new Valentine papers from Doodlebug Designs.  Here's the front of my card with a sentiment and tea cups from the stamp set.  My image is colored on Flourishes Classic White cardstock with Copics from the Poppy, Dogwood and Flesh Tones 2 collections.

And here's the inside of my card, with another sentiment from the stamp set.  

The Timeless Tuesday team will surely have more awesome inspiration for you with their tri-fold cards today, so be sure to stop by their blogs as well as our new January Guest Designer, too!

Cheryl Lea, January Guest Designer
Silke Ledlow
Mona Pendleton
Makiko Jones
Heather Jensen
Cindy Haffner
Beate Johns

Be sure to stop at the Flourishes blog for all the challenge details, including some changes to the rules for playing that I think a lot of people will like!

Thanks for stopping by, and happy stamping!