Princess Birthday Hop!

Today is a special day for the Flourishes Family to celebrate our Birthday Girl - Julie Koerber!  And Julie is definitely worth celebrating!  She’s the right hand on so many levels of what’s beautiful about Flourishes, and we’re so grateful for her and blessed to also call this lovely lady friend.  

This summer a number of the Flourishes Senior Design Team girls gathered for a weekend in Yellowstone National Park.  It was a fantastic time of fun!  One of the great things some of the girls did was go Whitewater Rafting.  Because there were family members along, Julie graciously said she’d sit in the middle of the raft so the kids could get the most out of the experience.  The raft guide however thought that would be a fun opportunity to tease Julie about her “Princess" status.  She gracefully took it and we love to tease her about it - and so the idea for this Princess Birthday Hop was born!  Julie we love you and your fun, spunky spirit, and also the warmth and grace you live your life with!  Happy Birthday from all of us at Flourishes!  

We invite you to hop along today with many of our Flourishes Family to see our pretty Princess and Birthday inspiration, and join in on our wishes for Julie!

Julie, my dear, sweet friend - Happy Birthday!!  May today bring you joy and laughter and the year ahead be filled with fun and adventures!!

I've used Flourishes' Make a Wish stamp set and I've coloured it with Copics using the Flourishes' Creamy Collection, Lenten Rose Collection, Sunflower and Candy Pink Collections.  The image has been cut with Small Circle Nestabilities and matted with pink and vanilla card cut with Captivating Squares Nestabilities.  The sentiment has been stamped in Tuxedo Black and cut with 5x7 Detailed Scallops Nestabilities.  While still in the die, I've added a little colour with Copic E50.  Add plenty of pink, pretty paper and a bit of bling and you have a card fit for a Princess!!  :)

Stamps - Make a Wish (Flourishes)
Paper - Blending Card, Vintage Pink and Mauve Ice Bazzill, Very Vanilla, FabScraps Chic Pink DP
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Small Circle, Captivating Squares and 5x7 Detailed Scallops Nestabilities, Pink Ribbon, Rhinestone Flourish, X-press It Foam Tape.




Comment along the way and you could be entered to win any Birthday set of your choice from the Flourishes Store!  Winners will be chosen and announced on Saturday November 23rd on the Flourishes Blog.

And don’t forgot to drop by Julie’s place to send her your Happy Birthday wishes too!

Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Heather Jensen
Silke Ledlow
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker 
(Big Happy Birthday Wishes to Tosha today too - hope your day is extra special Tosh!!)
Cheryl Lea
Deborah Anton
Jenny Gropp
Judy Rozema
Katie Sims
Aleksandra Mihelič
Kathy Jones
Meredith MacRitchie
Naomi Gong

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!

Birthday Scoop!

Hello Everyone!  My 6yr old daughter had a birthday party to go to on the week-end.  Her friend was turning 6 and he lives next door.  I had a present and I thought surely I had a boy card in my stash somewhere.......but noooooooo I didn't!  ACK!  So this is a card I whipped up in a hurry.  :)

I've used a base of pumpkin pie and layered with old olive and some kaisercraft Jungle Bug DP.  I've then used more Jungle Bug to create a notched tag.  The bunting is made using JustRite Papercraft's Buntings and Button Die and more Jungle Bug DP.  I've stamped the ice-cream cone from The Scoop Vintage Labels Four clear set in Memento Rich Cocoa twice and coloured them with Copics.  I've fussy cut them and used the top of the second one to make the cone a double scoop!  The 'SIX' was made using Spellbinders Font One - Uppercase and old olive card.  There you go - one card in a hurry!

Stamps - The Scoop Vintage Labels Four (JustRite)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Kaisercraft Jungle Bug DP
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories - JustRite Buntings and Banners Die, Spellbinders Font One - Uppercase, Copics, Scissors, X-press It Foam Tape

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!

Dahlias

Hello Everyone!  It's the second Monday of the month and that means there is another Copic Tutorial on the Flourishes Blog!  Today I'm showing how I coloured these beautiful dahlias from Flourishes' Dahlias stamp set.  The fabulous thing about dahlias is that they come in a HUGE range of colours, so try colouring them in pinks, purples, reds, yellows etc... so much fun!

You can find the Copic details on the Flourishes Blog HERE!  For the actual card, I've used a base of Old Olive and layered with white cut with Spellbinders A2 Scallop Borders One and topped with Summer Breeze DP also cut with A2 Scallop Borders One.  Next I've added a strip of white topped with more Summer Breeze DP and then added white and orange ribbons.  The main panel is white cut with Flourishes' Perfectly Pierced Classic Window Die and airbrushed it with Y32 Copic while still in the die.  Next I've stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black in the corner and added a rhinestone flourish down one side.  The Dahlias have been stamped with Tuxedo Black and coloured with Copics (see the Flourishes Blog for Details!) and popped up on foam tape.  To finish I've added a fun bow topped with a button.

Stamps - Dahlias (Flourishes)
Paper - Blending Card, Old Olive, White, Kaisercraft Summer Breeze DP
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories - Copics, Flourishes Perfectly Pierced Classic Window Die, Spellbinders A2 Scallop Borders One Die, White Ribbon, Orange Ribbon, Bow Easy, Button, Twine, Rhinestone Flourish, Scissors, Foam Tape.

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!

Wedding Day

Hello Everyone!!  Today's card is a special one that I made on behalf of my daughter's Prep class (Prep is the school year before Grade One here in Australia) for our wonderful teacher Liz who was married on Friday!  We presented this to her a few days before the wedding in front of the whole class along with a gift - she was so surprised!  :)

This is a big card measuring 5 inches x 7 inches.....but when you have 24 Prep children aged 5 and 6yrs having to write inside, it's still not big enough!!  So one thing I like to do when I lot of people have to sign a card is slip in several sheets of writing paper cut to size and tied with a piece of gold or silver cord.

I've used a base of Very Vanilla and layered with kraft and then more vanilla.  Next I've taken a piece of Soft Sky card cut with Spellbinders Exquisite Labels Eleven - I've used soft blues and greens since this is the colour palette for the Wedding.  Next is another piece of Vanilla cut with Grand Labels Four and layered with blue cut with 5x7 Elegant Labels Four.  Next is another piece of kraft cut with Labels Four topped with vanilla (sponged with Memento Summer Sky ink) cut with Lacey Oval Nestabilities.  Finally I've stamped the bride and groom image from Flourishes' Wedded Bliss stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black onto vanilla and cut it with Opulent Ovals Nestabilities.  Whew!  Yep, it's a lot of layers!!  :)  I've attached a blue ribbon, added some pretty ivory pleated trim from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store and stamped the sentiment (also from Wedded Bliss) onto vanilla card.  It's been cut out with Spellbinders Labels 33 and sponged with Summer Sky ink.  The top corner is embellished with Prima Flowers and leaves, a couple of die cuts made of vanilla and Spellbinders Botanical Swirls and Accents and finally added a couple of  ivory pearls to the top and bottom corners.

Stamps - Wedded Bliss (Flourishes)
Paper - Very Vanilla, Soft Sky, Kraft
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Summer Sky
Accessories - Spellbinders Exquisite Labels 11, Grand Labels 4, 5x7 Elegant Labels 4, Labels 4, Lacey Oval Nestabilities, Opulent Ovals Nestabilities, Labels 33, Botanical Swirls and Accents Shapeabilities, Ivory Pleated Trim, Blue Ribbon, Bow Easy, Prima Flowers and Leaves, Ivory Pearls.

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!