Stamps & Scraps - Take a Peek!

Happy Family Day everyone!  Yes... today is Family Day here in Alberta and I'm lucky enough to have my son and husband home today to share it with and then it's back to reality tomorrow.

Today is Create With Me Monday on the Flourishes blog!  It's my turn to share something fabulous.  This month's article is all about paper piecing.  So take a moment and stop on by to take a peek at my creation this month... click HERE!

Find out what I do with this...



 See you there!

Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes
cardstock: Flourishes, Bazzill
patterned papers: My Mind's Eye 
washi tape: My Mind's Eye 
embossing powder: Hero Arts
inks: Versamark, Memento
tool: Klic N'Kut machine
mists: Tattered Angels
mask: Crafter's Workshop
gems: Kaisercraft
accessories: thread.
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Super Simple Homemade Valentine's Cards

There is nothing more stressful than realizing that you have forgotten to make cards for important people.  This year I bought Valentine's Day cards for my son to sign and hand out to his friends.  He some how got into them early and there was no longer enough to hand out to his 2 teachers (and his principal and vice principal as he had wanted to! :) )

Being strapped for time this week, I knew I had to whip up 4 cards that were easy to make but yet super fun too!  So I came up with these super, simple cards...

Quilted Hearts
Here's how to make them:

  1. Die cut 4 identically shaped hearts out of 4 different patterned papers.
  2. Holding ALL 4 hearts lined up together in one hand, cut them into 4 different pieces with scissors. (This could be done with 3 hearts and 3 cuts or 2 hearts and 2 cuts! EASY PEASY!)
  3. Assemble each heart so that you have one of each patterned paper as part of the heart.  I put a piece of tape across the back of the pieces of each heart to hold them together while adhered them down.
  4. OPTIONAL:  Adhere them to another slightly larger heart die cut.  I used a slightly larger scalloped edge die for mine.
  5. Stitch the edges where your patterned papers meet.  If you don't have time to sew, use a fine tipped marker and make faux stitches instead!
  6. Adhere your patchwork heart to your card and stamp a simple greeting!  I used the "Happy Valentine's Day!" greeting from the Flourishes "Token of My Affection" stamp set.
Here are the other 3 cards I produced using this technique...

I hope you enjoyed this super easy tutorial.  Try adapting your shape to a star, a circle or even a simple square!  I hope you try it yourself. 


Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes 
cardstock: Flourishes
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
patterned papers: My Mind's Eye
inks: Memento
accessories: thread.
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Timeless Tuesday ~ Have a Heart!

Hey everyone!  It's Tuesday!  Time for another Timeless Tuesday Challenge at Flourishes!  Valentine's Day is only two days away and sadly I have made many beautiful cards but just haven't sent them out yet.  Oh well!  I know they'll be appreciated even if they are a little late!

This week's challenge from the super talented Maki!  Maki is challenging us this week to create a card or project with hearts on it (FLLC207)!  Yup... it's as easy as that! 

I knew just what kind of card I was going to create! I found out this week that my "brother" (he's like my brother! - known him since he was a baby!) and his wife are expecting their first baby!  So I knew I wanted to use the super cute "Hello Baby!" stamp set.

I began my card by first stamping the onesie image from the "Hello Baby!" stamp set onto some Flourishes "Color Made Easy" light pink cardstock from the "Poppy" collection using Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink.  I also stamped in on to some cute heart patterned paper.  I fussy cut each image out and applied the heart papers to the top of the pink cardstock.  I also added some white pen detail to the snaps and mini tag on the image using a Inkssentials™ White Opaque Pen.


Then I began to assemble the remainder of my card.  I designed to be a Surprise Pop-Up style of card.  You check out the video tutorial here for Splitcoaststampers.  It's a super fun card to make!

I die cut out the frame for the onesie from the Flourishes Perfectly Pierced Victorian Ovals die set and mounted it on my card front.

When you pull on the tag at the top, you reveal a message of "Best Wishes... Congratulations!"  Both sentiments are from the "Sentimental Favorites" stamp collection.  I used Memento Rich Cocoa ink to stamp all of my sentiments and verses.

The upper portion of the tag created using Flourishes Classic White cardstock, reveals the message:

A baby is a blessing,
a gift from heaven above,
a precious little angel,
to cherish and to love.


This verse is from the "Hello Baby!" stamp set as well. Such a sweet verse too!

I hope you'll join us this week for our fabulous challenge!  We also have our February Pre-Release Challenge that you can enter to win our new release stamps too! Click here to find out what that challenge is all about!

Our February stamp reveal begins TOMORROW on the Flourishes blog!  Make sure to check out what the Senior Design Team has created using this month's amazing new stamp sets!  I promise... you'll want them ALL!


Now, take a peek at what the Timeless Tuesday designers have created for today's challenge… 
You can find all the challenge details at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge FTTC207.


Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Hello Baby!, Sentimental Favorites)
cardstock: Flourishes (Classic White), Bazzill
patterned papers:  Carta Bella
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
pin: Making Memories 
pen: Inkssentials 
inks: Memento
ribbon: Offray
accessories: thread.
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Timeless Tuesday ~ It's Sketchy!

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Hello everyone and happy Tuesday to all! I want to take a quick moment and welcome our newest designer to the Friends of Flourishes Team, Deborah Anton!  Welcome Deborah!  We're so happy to have you as one of the Flourishes family.

Our challenge this week, FTTC206, comes us from me this week.  I am challenging you to create a card using the following sketch this week...

FTTC February 5th Sketch 
Please feel free to flip or rotate our sketch this week to fit your project.  You may also substitute the heart for anything your heart desires.

Here is the card I created for this week's challenge that you saw on the Flourishes blog today...

Thank You
sketch FTTC206 Allison Cope

So instead of sharing it again, I decided to create another card using the sketch to showcase to you here on my blog.

Thinking of You

To begin my second card creation, I first created my card base from the rich dark purple cardstock from the Flourishes "Color Made Easy", the Crocus collection, and then cut three different pieces of patterned paper to fit within the matting of my Flourishes Classic White Cardstock. I then cut a long strip of patterned paper and matted it as well with a fishtail cut at the end.

Then I used my electronic die cutting machine, using the "Stitched for You" SVG Cut File (also available for the Silhouette, here!), cut out my shape and stamped my "Stitched For You" image on the Flourishes Classic White Cardstock using Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink.

I then coloured my image in with a variety of Copic Collection markers; 
Here's a close up of my coloured image...
I stitched all my patterned panels and then added my final greeting strip of paper.  I used the "Botanical Bookplates Volume 2" stamp set for my simple greeting.  And voila... a card was born!

I can't wait to see what you do with my sketch this week! Good luck!

Take a peek at what the Timeless Tuesday designers have created for today's challenge… 
You can find all the challenge details at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge FTTC206.


Supplies ~ "Thank You": 
stamps: Flourishes (Botanical Bookplates Vol.2, Inside & Out: Thank You, Tiny Flowers & Tags, Pears)
cardstock: Flourishes (white, black), Bazzill, vellum
patterned papers: My Mind's Eye
ribbon:  Flourishes (Primrose)
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
inks: Memento, Ranger, Copic
gems: Queen & Co.
accessories: thread.

Supplies ~ "Thinking of You": 
stamps: Flourishes (Botanical Bookplates Vol.2, Stitched For You)
cardstock: Flourishes (white, dark purple)
patterned papers: Bo Bunny
inks: Memento, Copic
gem: Prima
accessories: thread.

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