Timeless Tuesday ~ Going in Circles

Howdy everyone!  I certainly hope you have a had a great long weekend if you are from my neck of the woods here in Canada!  We celebrated another birthday for Canada.

Welcome to another fabulous Timeless Tuesday Challenge with Flourishes!  This week, the super talented Judy Rozema brings us our newest challenge...

Create a circle card this week (FTTC227).

Yup... it's a simple as that!

Here is my card for this week's circle card challenge...

First I created a scalloped circle card base in my digital cutting machine software and designed both a card base and a matching card front.  I cut my card front using the super cute papers from the June 123 Create Kit ~ Trial Mix.

Then I matted a piece of the pretty leaf print paper form the kit using some Flourishes Classic Kraft Cardstock and stitched around the edges.

Then I stamped the new gingham stamp from the "Berry Sweet Frames" stamp set using some fun Memento "Bamboo Leaves" ink onto Classic White Cardstock.  I coloured in the darker checks with some green Copics and fussy cut it out.

Next I die cut a piece Classic White Cardstock using the Perfectly Pierced Classic Frames Die set and trimmed it down to use as a tag to insert into my little gingham pocket.  I airbrushed it with a light brown Copic marker.

Next I stamped the "Congrats on your bundle of joy" from the "Inside & Out: Congrats" stamp set using Memento Rich Cocoa ink.  The dark green ribbon, twine and button are from the June 123 Create Kit ~ Trial Mix.  Such a cute kit!

I also added the "Hi Sweet Pea" from the "Garden Fresh" stamp collection.  It of course goes along with the sweet box of peas as my focal image.

To colour and airbrush my card, I used the following Copic Collections:

(E30, E31, E33, YG01, YG21, YG23, YG25, YG63, YG93)

 

 

Take a moment and leave some love on all of our designers’ blogs.

• Allison Cope  -- you are here!
• Broni Holcombe
• Cheryl Lea
• Deborah Anton
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Katie Sims
• Margaret Gilmer, our July guest designer

For further challenge details and where you can post your entry, please click here!

Thanks for stopping by today!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC

Supplies:
stamps:  Flourishes (Inside & Out: Congrats, Sweet Berry Frames, Garden Fresh)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic White & Kraft
patterned papers, ribbon, button, twine, pearls: Flourishes 123 Create Kit ~ Trail Mix
die cut shapes:  Flourishes & Spellbinders
ink: Memento, Copic
tools:  Klic n'Kut
other: thread.

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~ Ally ~

Timeless Tuesday ~ Make a Splash!

Hello everyone!  Hope your Tuesday is going well!  It's time for another inspiring Timeless Tuesday Challenge over at Flourishes!

I'd like to take a moment to say good-bye to the lovely Denise Marzec.  Today is Denise's last day with the FOF team.  Strangely enough, today is actually both our FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY with Flourishes!  Yup... one year ago today, we both joined the Flourishes Family.  Denise, I wish you all the best with your family and friends.  I know you will be sadly missed by all the girls on the team.  I wish you well in your future endeavours, whatever they may hold for you!  Best wishes to you!  I know we'll be see you around!  Big hugs! 

I also wanted to say a quick thank you to all the people who were concerned for my family.  We live about 45km East of Calgary and if you are not aware of Calgary's (Canmore, High River, South Eastern BC) situation, it was flooded late last week as our area was doused with tons of rainfall in a small amount of time.  Thankfully, even though we live on a lake, we were not directly effected by the flooding as the lake is not connected to a river source of water - only rainfall. The only ill effect we suffered, was our loss of Internet because our provider is located inside the flood evacuation area and they removed all the power sources to the affected area on Friday afternoon.  Thankfully it came on late yesterday.  I'm so relieved!

Now... on to this week's challenge...

This week's challenge comes from the lovely Broni!  Broni is challenging us...

...to create a card or project inspired by water!  (FTTC226)

You could use watercolor, water scenes, colors of water, etc.  Whatever you think is water related.  Have fun with this one!

For my project this week, I decided to make a card featuring the new "In Nature" stamp set from the June release...

I started off my die cutting a piece of Flourishes Classic White Cardstock using a Spellbinder's die and then stamping the tent & canoes image onto the cardstock using Memento "Black Tuxedo" ink.  I also cut and folded my card base using "Sugar Cookie" cardstock from the Color Made Easy Paper Collection ~ Sunflower.

Then I used the following Copic Collections to colour in my image...

I matted my white cardstock and image using a piece of Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock that I added some Ranger "Wild Honey" Distress ink to.

Then I created the patterned paper  and layered ribbon aspect of my card.  For this, I used the Flourishes June 123 Create Kit - Trail Mix.  I also added some bright Primrose Seam Binding ribbon too!

This kit, called Trail Mix features a 6 X 6" Bo Bunny Trail Mix paper pad, 1 yard of gold burlap ribbon, 2 yards of brown seam binding ribbon, 2 yards of kraft jute, 1 pack of wooden buttons, 2 yards of two-tone green ribbon, 1 pack of copper pearls and 1 pack of embossed mini-brads. What a bounty of card-making fun!

Now... go on and check out all the fabulous water inspired creations the rest of the Friends of Flourishes Team as created today...

• Allison Cope  -- you are here!
  
• Broni Holcombe
• Cheryl Lea
• Deborah Anton
• Denise Marzec
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Katie Sims
• Berni Cuttino, our June guest designer

Join us for our challenge this week and you could win some money to shop in the Flourishes store with!  Thanks for stopping by!

Don't forget to check out my Flourishes BLOG CANDY too!  Click the banner at the top of the blog or click HERE for details.  This is the last week you can add your comments to WIN!!!!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (In Nature)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic White & Ivory
patterned papers: Flourishes 123 June Create Kit
die cut shapes: Spellbidners
ink: Memento, Copic, Ranger
buttons, ribbon, jute: Flourishes 123 June Create Kit
tools: Scor-Pal
other: thread.

Roosters & Sketches

Hi everyone!  Today is the newest sketch reveal for Let's Capture Our Memories!  Today's reveal is using one of my very own sketches... a card sketch at that!

Here is what I created using my own sketch this week...  an easel card.

I used the super cute "Giddy Up!" patterned paper collection by Carta Bella and for my rooster and greeting, I used Flourishes stamps.

Come on out and check out what my fellow design team members created using my sketch this week!  Click HERE!

~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes
cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Bazzill
patterned papers: Carta Bella (Giddy Up!)

ink: Memento

stars:BasicGrey


other: thread.