CardMaker Blog Hop with Flourishes!

  

Today the CardMaker Magazine Blog Team is pairing up with the Flourishes Design Team to bring you some fabulous inspiration with our most recent Flourishes May Release sets! It’s a taste of creativity you’re sure to love! Flourishes loves CardMaker Magazine and its endless source of inspiration in each edition. You’ll find gorgeous photography; beautiful creations, step-by-step instructions and card and paper-crafting designs from the simple to the elaborate; and we love that a number of our Flourishes designers have been published in its pages!

So hop along today and be doubly inspired by two great teams, and you'll want to be sure to comment by Friday, May 17th 5pm EST because we're giving away our entire May stamp release valued at more than $70...one prize here at the Flourishes Blog and one prize hidden along the blog hop!

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Howdy everyone!  I am so honoured to be joining such an amazing group of designers today!

Today we're high lighting the AMAZING new May stamp release from Flourishes and I just couldn't help using one of my favourite new sets, the "Call Me" stamp collection.  This fun collection includes 3 detailed line images along with 6 corresponding whimsical sentiments and would be a fabulous find in your stamp collection...

I started off created my fun card today by die cutting one of the Flourishes Tailor-Made Dies, the "Classic Keyhole" shape using Classic White Cardstock.

Leaving my cardstock in the die, I carefully added some Ranger "Dried Marigold" Distress Ink to the inside edges of the die and then I stamped my telephone image using Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink.  This ink works like a dream with our smooth white cardstock and it's the only paper I use for colouring with Copic markers.

Then I proceeded to colour my image in using the following Copic Collections from Flourishes:

W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, N0, T3, T5, T6, T7, BG000, G0000, E19, E21 and E25.

 

 

 

I even added a little "gloss" to my telephone using a Sukara "Gloss" pen. For the books, I paper pieced them both.

All my patterned papers are from the Authentique "Gathering" Collection.  My seam binding is a Flourishes product: "Tiger Lily".

Thanks for stopping by today!!  I hope you've enjoyed my card today.

You next stop on our Blog Hop today is...

AJ Otto

Thanks for joining us today and good luck!

 ~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Call Me)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, Bazzill
patterned papers: Authentique (Gathering)
die cut shapes: Flourishes Custom Dies, Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn Designs
ink: Memento, Copic, Ranger
ribbon:Flourishes
tools: hole punch
gems: Prima
other: thread.