Day 1 Flourishes Release… Again!

Apparently the calendar was incorrect and the set we are releasing today is My Cup Overflows!

I bet you haven’t seen one of these in a while! It’s a waterfall card if you aren’t familiar with them.  You can get instructions over at Splitcoast Stampers. I stamped the images in various places on square die cuts. Then I cut a mask with a slight border and placed that over the image. Sponged ink was added and the image coloured in. I got the idea from a recent card by Debbie Hughes.

The background was stamped with the little mug image from Must Be Santa on top of patterned paper. I love this paper, I would have bought an entire pack if it was available! Ombre woodgrain? What’s not to love? Just so you know, in the photo above the card isn’t crooked, it’s just that it was hard to photograph and the pull tab was sitting a bit crooked.

So fun right? I hope you love this fabulous set. It’s in the Flourishes store right here My Cup Overflows.

I can’t wait to see what the other girls have created. There may be a delay for some of them because of the mix up as to which set we were featuring today. Visit all their blogs to see the versatility of this set!

Flourishes Blog
Barb Thompson
Beverly Cole
Linda Lucas
Naomi Gong
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy, Rebecca

Camellia Love Card

It’s that time again! Another month of Flourishes l.c. releases! 5 new stamp sets for you to enjoy. And in case you are paying attention, no, it hasn’t been a month already. We have moved up our releases for November and December to avoid all of the holidays.

This gorgeous flower is a camellia. Please tell me I’m not the only one who’d never heard of it before? Perhaps they don’t grow this far north, no idea. They are a woody shrub or tree and have the loveliest rose-like flowers in shades of white, pink and red. But I guess when they are small they can also be an indoor plant because the set below shows one in a pot!

I hope you  love this set as much as I do. It will be available in the store on Saturday. It really colours up so beautifully and if you usually have trouble figuring out where the shading should be, it’s all figured out for you!

Now, off you go to see all the cards the super amazing design team have created for your enjoyment!

Flourishes Blog
Barb Thompson
Beverly Cole
Linda Lucas
Naomi Gong
Rebecca Ednie –That’s me!
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy, Rebecca

Sweet Fruit Card

Is everyone having weather as great as we are getting here in Southern Ontario? It’s been unseasonably warm the last few days and for a winter hater like me that’s awesome!

So when we got a theme of strawberries or fruit in general for this week’s Crazy 4 Challenges, I was happy to make a tropical looking fruit card! The stamps are about 10 years old maybe from SU! I can’t even remember the last time I used them! But they were perfect for the challenge. I inked each up several times using my MISTI which makes the rock and roll technique even easier! You can add layers of ink without ever worrying about contaminating any of your ink pads. I do recommend working while each layer is still wet though for best results.

Do you have any fruity papers, embellies or stamps? Then you should join our challenge this week! You are welcome to add a card any time this week and we’d love to have you play along with us, the Crazies!

Enjoy, Rebecca

Monochromatic Floral Card

This week at our Friday Blog Hop we were challenged by Linda to make a monochromatic card. I debated on which colour to use but I finally decided on purplish-blue.

OK, yeah so I know the green isn’t monochromatic but I felt I couldn’t do purplish-blue leaves!! ha ha! So I broke the rules a wee bit. The flower is an iris from Year Of Flowers 1 and not only is it lovely but so are the other 3 flowers in the set.

Be sure to check out the Fabulous Design Team’s cards. I’m sure they will blow you away!

Flourishes blog 
Barb Thompson
Beverly Cole
Linda Lucas
Naomi Gong
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy, Rebecca

Shabby Fall Branches Card

I was looking at a few challenges and trying to come up with a card that would fit. While pulling some supplies, I realized that now that I’m on two design teams, I don’t just make what I feel like making much anymore!

So I just started creating with what felt like fun! In the end it turned out it did match one of the challenges after all! The greenery and pinecones were handmade using Susan Tierney Cockburn dies. It definitely takes a while to make the pinecones but I thought they turned out very cute and pretty realistic. I used my little Delicata copper ink pad to highlight the tips of the scales.

For the background, I started by adding gold crackle paste through a script stencil. Then I added more stenciling through a Moroccan style stencil with green ink. Some random gold splatters, clear crackle paint and evergreen ink competed the background. The cluster in the corner includes burlap, twine, ribbon, a gold stamen bunch, tiny flowers, lace, cheesecloth, the large fabric flower and the greenery and pinecones. I also dabbed some gold Stickles in random places all over the card. Finally I added sequins, a butterfly sticker and a bit of brown ink distressing.

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered in: the Paper Players Tic-tac-toe challenge #319

I used die cuts, pine and ribbon if that wasn’t obvious!