Celebrating Home!

We are 4 days away from the first Flourishes release of 2009 and these three stamp sets focus on all the things that matter most to us - celebrating a new home, another year, important annoucements and friends. And, when you see these three new sets, we are sure you'll fall in love with all the ways you can use them!

To get ready, we thought we'd usher in a challenge. An "inspired by" challenge. All you need to do is find something in our home as a point of inspiration for a card creation or altered project and let those creative juices flow! Post a comment with a link here on this post, or upload to Splitcoast using the key word - FLLCJAN. Use Flourishes stamps if you have them, or...if you don't...join us anyway! We'd love to see what you cook up! Afterall, if your name is drawn- you'll win all three of the stamp sets being released this month!

So, without further ado, let's see what kind of inspiration some of the Friends of Flourishes and Design Team members found for this challenge!

Let's start with Laura Fredrickson! Before this challenge, I had no idea that she collected tins! She also loves Tim Hortons -- so, here's where two loves collided into one inspiration piece. It's easy to see why she picked up the Coffee with Friends set for her card!


Dee Jackson just had to relax to find a little inspiration! She took one look at this cushy chair and she realized the flowers in the patterned fabric looked just like the flowers in the Fantasy Floral set! Here's the chair....

And, here's her card!
Kimberly Crawford was getting ready for her day and found some little jewels of inspiration sitting right there in her jewelry box! Just look at these vintage beauties!

And, look at the card it inspired using the Butterfly Moments set!

Cindy Haffner just had to shed a little light on the subject... literally! She took the shade of blue from a lamp in her home....

To create this beauty of a card using the Spring Ephemerals set!

Faith Hofrichter looked to a floral arrangement in her home for a little color inspiration! She took the shades of pink from this arrangement.....

And turned it into THIS in her stamp room! What a beauty she created with he Poppy Patch set!

Christine Okken picked up some of her fine silver to stir up some romance with a one of a kind invitation! She told me this card, created with the You Are Invited set would be a perfect little number for her hubby! OOoo la la!

And... last but not least - yours truly! I was getting ready for my day when I was hit by my comforter and a vase we have on our dresser. Here's the comforter...

Here's the vase....

And, here's my card! I wanted to use the twiggy elements to create a vase. So, I used my Summer Blossoms stamp set and punched out a vase. Then, I used the same gold and brown swirly pattern to bring in some pop!

I heard through the grapevine that Latisha Yoast also has some inspiration for you to peek at on her blog! Click HERE to see! And so does Cindy Lawrence! So click on their inspiration and then take a trip around your own home to find a little inspiration! We'd love to see what YOU come up with! Remember, leave a comment here on this post or upload your card to Splitcoast using the keyword FLLCJAN.

The contest will close Friday, January 16th at 5 p.m. eastern and the winner will be revealed in our first ever RELEASE PARTY on Splitcoast on Friday evening! Stay tuned for all the details!

Have fun!
Julie