Holiday Toparies - Sneak Peek Flourishes September Release

 

 

Welcome to Day 2 of our fabulous September release week! Today both of our Friends of Flourishes Team and our Design Team will be showcasing a wonderful new stamp set created by our beloved artist Marcella Hawley. Marcella has packed this beautiful 4x6 stamp set called "Holiday Topiaries" with an array of beautiful holiday decorated greenery and 3 seasonal sentiments to match their holiday vibe. This sweet holiday stamp set will surely make an appearance on your homemade cards, handmade gifts, tags and more this season! Don't forget...

Hidden among the Design Team’s blogs today is our Mystery Blogger of the day. Comment on her blog and you could be chosen to win today’s set! The more you comment, the better your chances, so comment away!

• Allison Cope
• Broni Holcombe
• Cheryl Lea
• Christine Okken
• Cindy Lawrence
• Deborah Anton
• Heather Jensen
• Jenny Gropp
• Julie Koerber
• Katie Sims
• Maki Jones
• Silke Ledlow
• Stacy Morgan
• Tosha Leyendekker
• Kathy Roney, our September guest designer

DO YOU WANT TO WIN OUR ENTIRE RELEASE?

If you would like a chance at winning all five of our soon-to-be released September sets…

• You can play in our Get in Shape Challenge – we will have multiple winners there! Deadline for entries is FRIDAY September 13th at 5 PM EST. Check out the link for the official rules!
• All five of our September sets can be pre-ordered now, even before you see them all! Take advantage our New Release Bundle and get 10% off when you purchase all five sets together in a bundle. This discount will be available for only 1 week following the release.
• All sets will be live first thing Friday morning along with the coordinating cut files for this release.
• Come back to the Flourishes Blog Saturday for the Winner’s Circle where we’ll announce all of our winners of this weeks’ challenges!

Our Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week is...

"Make a Good Impression" - Incorporate dry embossing somewhere on your card or project. It could be an embossing folder, stencils, or even a household item for your embossing....just make sure you "Make a Good Impression"! (FTTC237)

How fun is this challenge? I love embossing and I just don't find myself doing that very often.  I was happy to dust off my folders and create this card for the challenge. Before I get on with my card, I wanted to share that today is a big day for my boys as they are BOTH getting braces on!! Oy vey.... I am not sure what the day has in store for me once that gets done, but I have a feeling I will have some cranky boys on my hands.  I've got my Aleve ready...  I never thought we'd be at this stage this early, but I am ok with knocking this part of life out now before the teenage years hit. And luckily, they will not have them in for very long or need them again later! yay!

On with my card:

For my card, I used some SU! red cs for the base, Flourishes Classic Ivory cs,  and Flourishes Color Made Easy cs in the Pistachio collection.  I stamped the image with Memento Black on the Ivory cs, colored it in with the following Copics, and cut it out using Flourishes Perfectly Pierced Hourglass die. The additional Copics would be G28, R59, W1, W4, W6, and some various E's for the small area at the base of the topiary. 

The background was dry embossed using a folder I had from Paper Studio and added some sheer red ribbon before popping up the image and sentiment. The pearls in the ribbon are pearl stamens I had and I just was finding another use for them.  I broke up the sentiment to be on one line which I then snipped the corners to match the base and make the card flow. 

Thanks for stopping by and be sure check out the fabulous other creations from both the Senior DT and Timeless Tuesday Team!!