Happy Birthday Julie!

Beautiful roses for a beauiful lady...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Julie!!!
Today we are celebrating Julies birthday with a birthday blog-hop!



This card was made using A year in flowers 2 stamp set, and it was colored with Distress Inks.
Follow along and visit these ladies as well:

• Jan Marie Caruso


• Barbara Anders


• Christine Okken


• Cindy Lawrence


• Danielle Kennedy


• Dawn Burnworth


• Sharon Doolittle


• Stacy Morgan


• Tammy Hershberger


• Beate Johns


• Cindy Haffner


• Heather Jensen


• Maki Jones


• Silke Ledlow


• Heather Jensen


• Iwona Palmountain


• Kathy Jones


• Mona Pendleton


• Yvonne Hagane


•  Laura Fredrickson

Thanks so much for stopping by!

BBB - Beauty of a fold

Welcome to the Bring Back Beautiful challenge!
With so many different folds out there, try to use something other than an original card fold. You may find some examples online at Splitcoaststampers. I did the Recessed Window fold. Never tried that before, but it was super fun! I used the Lenten Rose stamp set, and colored with Le Plume Markers and Distress Inks.







Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creations HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB16. You have until November 30th to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

Please visit the rest of the team for more inspirational folds.


Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Laura
Iwona
Betty (Welcome to the team Betty!!)

Thanks for visiting today!

Sunflower Rake

Happy Friday!

Best day of the week:) I have a card to share today, using one of the new stamps from Serendipity. It`s called Sunflower Rake. Colored as usual with Distress Inks, and decorated with various Spellbinders dies, pearls and gold thread. Pretty clean and sipmle;)

Have a wonderful weekend all! And thanks for visiting!!

Blue Christmas...

Happy Friday!

Fall is definitely here, and that reminds me that Christmas is getting closer! The image I used for this card is one of my all time favorites. It is a Serendipity image called Christmas Chapel
It was colored in shades of blue with Distress Inks.



For the background I used Snowflake Flourish small. I embossed it with clear embossing powder and added rhinestones. I also added glitter to the snowy parts of the image, but it doesn`t show in this photo.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and thanks so much for stopping by!

BBB - Beauty of a technique!

Good Morning, and welcome to another BBB-challenge!
There are so many on-line resources sharing tips and techniques with stampers. One surefire favorite is the resource library over at SCS! So, this month’s Bring Back Beautiful Challenge is to be inspired by a technique you love, or maybe one you've never tried!



Link up your Bring Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB 15. You have until October 31st to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!


I used embossing as my technique. Love the effect...
Please visit these ladies for more technique inspiration:

Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Laura
Iwona
Mona

Thanks so much for stopping by!

BBB - Beauty of a color!

Good Morning!

It`s the first Monday of the month, and that means another Bring Back Beautiful challenge! This time it`s all about color. Do you have a favorite color? We are asking you to use monochromatic colors for your creation. Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB14. You have until September 30st to enter!




As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! For more monochromatic inspiration, visit these amazing ladies:

Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Laura
Iwona
Mona

I used stamps from 3 different Flourishes sets:
I love Roses
Zinnias
Fanciful Flourishes

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Coloring Tutorial...

Happy Wednesday!

A while ago I was asked by Beate Johns
from Splitcoaststampers to do a tutorial on coloring with Distress Inks. And of course I wanted to! Have a look HERE.



The image used on this card is from the set Zinnias by Flourishes.
Thanks so much for visiting, and have a great day!

BBB - CAS

Good Morning, and welcome to another BBB-challenge!
Many of us like to add bows, lace and lots of embellishments. This month we are asking you to leave all that off and create a CAS card. Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB13. You have until August 31st to enter!



As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

For my CAS-card, I used THIS beautiful Flourishes stamp set. I did the coloring with Le plume markers. Be sure to visit the other BBB-girls as well!

Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Laura
Iwona
Mona

Thanks for visiting!

BBB-12

As summer is in full swing we are enjoying the warmer temperatures and many are going on vacation. Make a creation with the theme of summer or vacation and link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation here to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB12. You have until July 31st to enter!



As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! Be sure to stop by these amazing ladies also:

Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Laura
Iwona
Mona

BBB-11

Good morning and welcome to the Bring Back Beautiful challenge for June!
If you haven't tried the Spotlight technique -- the goal is to make just part of your image POP! For this fun-filled challenge, let's use this technique and 'spotlight' only a portion of your image with color!



Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB11. You have until June 30th to enter!



As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!
Be sure to visit the rest of the team :

Cindy
Heather
Julie
Kathy
Laura

Thanks so much for stopping by!

A gift for baby...

Good Morning,

Long time no see! I guess I`ve had my longest blogging break ever...
I`ve been on a couple of trips, and found it so hard to get back into my stamping room!
Anyway, I`ve been visiting beautiful Malta, a small Island in the Mediterranean, and we`ve also been on a trip to exotic Jordan! We had a great time trekking in the Wadi Rum Desert, "floating" in the Dead Sea and diving in the Red Sea - Amazing!




This baby card was made using stamps from Flourishes. The stamp set is called Baby Love. The cute little teddy was colored with colored pencils.



I also want to share these photos from the Wadi Rum Desert. It was absolutely breathtaking to view the sunset here!







Thanks so much for visiting!

BBB-09 - Spring Colors!

Good morning, and welcome to the Bring Back Beautiful challenge for april!
Soft shades that remind us of spring flowers sprouting from the ground - these shades are the focus of this month's BBB challenge! The color choice is yours!Link your Bring Back Beauty Challenge card here to enter.

If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB09. You have until April 30th to enter. As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!





For my sample I used the beautiful Cherry blossoms stamp set. I watercolored it with Distress Inks. Spring isn`t quite here yet, but looking at these cherry blossoms makes me long even more! Be sure to get some more spring-inspiration here:

Beate
Cindy
Heather
Julie
Kathy
Laura

Thanks so much for stopping by!

BBB-08 - Neutrals

Happy Monday!

It`s the first Monday of the month and that means it`s time for another Bring Back Beautiful challenge!
Have you ever used neutral colors to bring out the depth in one of your coloring projects? Well, let's kick it up a knotch and show you just how beautiful your stamped creations can be without any color at all! That's right, this challenge is to color up your card with neutrals - shades of grey, sepia tones or even black and white!



Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge card HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB08. You have until March 31st to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!





For my sample I used A year in flowers 2 stamp set, and colored the roses with different shades of brown, using Distress Inks. I cut out the colored image and popped it up with dimensionals. I hope you`ll join us with this fun challenge!
For more inspiration, have a look at these beauties:

Beate
Cindy
Heather
Julie
Kathy
Laura

Thanks so much for stopping by!

CAS - With Love

Hi everyone,

I guess some of you know how much I LOVE Clean And Simple cards, even though I don`t see myself as a CAS - cardmaker! I always enjoy trying something new, and that`s just what I wanted making this card set. Not only are these super quick and easy to create, they are also suitable for mailing because they are neither heavy or bulky in any way :)



Believe it or not, but I actually own a Cricut - machine! I`ve had it for years, but never really used it much. As going through my stash I found this cartridge called Home Accents, and just had to try it:) I also used a nestabilities die to cut out the square. One pearl for each card and a sentiment from Flourishes - and voilà!



I might have to make these in other colors too:)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Sweet Peas for Jan Marie!

Let’s light the candles and strike up the music, the owner of Flourishes – Jan Marie Caruso – is celebrating a birthday and we’re helping her by getting the party started! Hop on over to her place on the web HERE and wish her a Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday Jan Marie!



I used one of my favorite sets, Sweet Peas, for my card, and did the coloring with Distress Inks by Rangers. I tried to make it look like an old polaroid photo, and the Spellbinders dies were perfect for the job:)
I also added some photocorners.



I know that the other Flourishes team members have a little something for Jan Maries birthday too. And If you haven`t already been through the list, start here:

Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Betty Wright
Cindy Haffner
Dee Jackson
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Tammy Hershberger
Beate Johns
Cindy Coutts
Heather Jensen
Kathy Jones

Thanks so much for stopping by!