FTTC241 - Lace and Pearls

Hi all!  Here is my card for this week's Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday challenge, to use Lace and Pearls on your project, hosted by Cheryl.  

For my card, I used their set, Butterflies and Blossoms.  I think you could call this 'stamping-lite' or 'stamping on a diet'?  Lol, maybe I'm just tired? All I did was stamp one of the gorgeous flowers in the set in pink lemonade ink, then stamped one of the sentiments on top of it with black licorice.  Add some snazzy dp, lace and pearls and voila - a cute and quick card when you don't have a lot of time but need a card and just don't want to break down and *gasp* BUY a card!  {fainting at the thought!}  I did add some piercing around the navy dp.  The sketch is from the Blueprints 6 die-namics by MFT.

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Thanks for stopping by!  We look forward to seeing all of your projects!

Your Next Stamp- Fun Friday/SACC - Merry Christmas!

Hi all!  Here's my card for the YNS Fun Friday post and for the Sister Act Card Challenge!  I used the newly released digital stamp by Your Next Stamp, Waiting for Christmas - {love} .  I colored this sweet orange tabby with copics and added glitter glaze to the ornament.  I love cutting into new dp ;)  The sentiment is from MFT, as are the wild cherry card base, gumdrop green button, scalloped border die-namics and fishtail flags STAX. 

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Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the YNS Blog and SACC blog for more inspiration!

FTTC240 - Sending Smiles

*2nd post of the day - see my YNS Digi Blog Hop post below*

Hi all!  Look at who gets to guest design for Flourishes in October?!!  Yup - ME!!!  I'm so thrilled and honored that they asked me to join this extremely talented group of designers!!!  Ok, now on to the fun stuff...

We have something extra special for this Timeless Tuesday Challenge. If you play along, not only will you get a chance to win our weekly prize drawing, you might get a chance to be one of our Flourishes' Guest Designers for December! HOORAY! And, there will not be just ONE winner. We will actually be choosing FOUR Guest Designers for December!!! Hip hip hooray!!!

The Friends of Flourishes and the Senior Design Team will be voting on their TOP THREE favorite projects once all the entries are in on Monday evening. The designers of those top three projects will be offered three of the four guest designer slots. Then, starting Tuesday October 8th, YOU will get a chance to vote for our PEOPLE'S CHOICE award by voting for your favorite creation! Stay tuned because next Tuesday, we'll share all the details of how you can cast your vote to help with our Guest Designer line up for December.  

Our 4 final Guest Designers will each receive...

• a stamp set of their choice from the Flourishes Store;
• a special 2013 Guest Designer badge for their blog;
• featured status on the Flourishes Blog the week of their challenge;
• and they get to lead and create the challenge that you and all of our fabulous designers use to create with for their assigned week!

THE GUEST DESIGNER CONTEST RULES

1. You must follow all of the regular FTTC Challenge Rules as listed below.
2. Only a MAXIMUM of ONE entry per person for the challenge this week, so make it is your best work! Please use at least your first name when titling your link so we know who you are.
3. Your project may not be combined with any other challenges for this week. It must be solely designed for our contest.
4. Your project must contain some kind of stamping! We'd love to see your Flourishes stamps used but everything is welcome.
5. No back linking to previous projects. This must be a completely new creation.
6. You must have a personal blog to be considered for a Guest position.
7. This contest is open to all countries.

Awesome right??

So... let's find out what the lovely Broni has in store for our contest and challenge today...

         

For my card, I used the set Tulips for Friends.  I paper pieced the pitcher and carefully cut around the leaves for a realistic look.  Everything else was colored with copics.  The sketch is from the MFT Blueprints 3.  A button with thread and a trio of brads add the finishing details.

Detail shot...  

Take a moment a leave a comment on our talented Friends of Flourishes Team member blogs and our guest designer for the month...

• Allison Cope
• Broni Holcombe
• Cheryl Lea
• Deborah Anton
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Angel Rivera, our October guest designer {you're here!}

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Your Next Stamp Digital Stamp Launch Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to Your Next Stamp Digital Stamp Launch Blog Hop!!!  YNS has teamed up with Penny Johnson of Omnia Designs to bring an adorable and exclusive line of digital stamps for everyone to enjoy! 

Digital stamps are fabulous because you get instant gratification ;)  Once you place an order, you will have the ability to download the image from the YNS website, then you simply print it out and you’re good to go!  

All YNS digital stamps are .png files so you can easily resize them, print them out onto designer paper for paper piecing and so much more!

To start the hop, head over to the Your Next Stamp blog.

We are releasing 11 adorable new images today!  If you hop along and leave comments on all of the DT blogs, you will have a chance to win one of the new images!  Every DT blog will have a winner!  You have until Thursday, October 3rd at 12 midnight (EST) to leave your comments.  The winners will be posted on the YNS Blog on Friday, October 4th.

Onto my project:

I used the darling Snowman Family for my card.  I colored them with copics and cut them out with my MFT die-namics.  I colored the image without deciding which dp I would use, so I was tickled when I realized that this new paper from Basic Grey!  The sketch is the SSSC194.  The sentiment is from the MFT set, Christmas Ornaments.  A pretty button, some white twine and a couple of brads add the finishing details to this sweet image.  

Now it’s time to hop on over to Bonnie's blog, but don’t forget to leave a comment before you go!  Happy hopping and shopping!

Hop order in case you get lost...

Karen

Angel

Bonnie

Brianna

Deborah

Nicole

Ruza

Shelia

Celebrate!

*2nd post of the day - see below for my YNS Digi Sneak Peek post!*

Hello again!  I wanted to share my *late* anything goes SACC card!  I used the MFTWSC143 sketch for my card.  I used the MFT Party Balloons die-namics and their LLD Accent It  - Celebrate die-namics to whip up this super cute and quick card!  The only stamping on this card are the balloon strings from the Party Balloons stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to play along with us at SACC!

Your Next Stamp Digi Stamp Sneak Peek!

Hi all!  Well, in case you hadn't heard, I am now a part of the Your Next Stamp (YNS) Digi Stamp DT!!!  Wahoo, I'm so excited!!!  Our first release is Tuesday, October 1st and we thought it would be fun to give you a little sneak peek of the AMAZINGLY ADORABLE digis that will be available!

GAH!  SO CUTE, right?!!?  Just WAIT until you see them ALL!  All of the DT blog links are on the left side ----> of my blog.  Don't miss out!!!  See you soon!  Here are some details:

SACC - Enjoy your special day

Hi all!  Time for another anything goes card challenge on the SACC Blog!  I used some new MFT goodies for my card - MPD Contemporary Roses (stamped in lemon drop and the leaves in factory green inks) and die-namics, the MPD Scallops stencil, which I used to emboss and sponge on the steel grey layer, and large scale backgrounds.  The sentiment is from the Doodle Garden Party Time set which I stamped on steel blue cardstock cut out with the oval tab die-namics.  The small steel blue strip on the left was cut out using the small scallop border die-namics.  I used one of the circles in the Blueprints 3 to cut out the notch in the main layer.  The sketch is the MFTWSC141.

Thanks for stopping by!  We look forward to seeing your anything goes cards!