Featured Stamper #10

Our Featured Stamper # 10 is

One Happy Stamper (Cindy)

Huge Congrats! Cindy!!!

This card just jumped off the gallery pages with it's striking colors and beautifully watercolored images. Such a gorgeous creation!!!

Cindy used one of Flourishes newer sets, Poppy Patch, and she paid great attention to detail when she made this card!!! Her images are all watercolored just beautifully using her SU inks and an aquapainter. She then meticulously cut out some of the flowers and leaves and popped them up for dimension -- and what a beautiful bouquet of poppies she created!!! This was all done on a beautiful backdrop of green from the Lily Kate pad by Basic Grey, which was cut, embossed and framed using her Classic Oval Nestabilities. Topped off with a gorgeous red satin ribbon and mounted on black embossed Swiss Dots, this beauty grabbed our attention and captivated our hearts!!!

What a great job, Cindy!!! Thank you so much for playing, and your name is now added into the hat for our prize drawing on August 1. Good luck!

Peace

One word. One simple message. One stamp to convey a spiritual, yet non-denominational thought. The Peace set, created just for Flourishes by master calligrapher Joan Machinchick, provides stampers an elegant image to express the hope of the holiday season and is appropriate for people of many beliefs.

Linda Duke describes her card as simple elegance - and we could not agree more. Her use of blue and silver provides stampers a different option for holiday cards. The ribbon, rhinestones and silver paper are thoughtfully coordinated to match the sentiment.

Peace is currently on sale for 15% off through July 31, while supplies last.

O Christmas Tree

One of my favorite things to do during Christmas time is to put up and decorate our Christmas Tree. Orvil and I make it a point to purchase a Christmas ornament whenever we travel someplace special, so when I start hanging ornaments on the tree they bring back wonderful memories of the places we’ve visited. What this also means is that it takes forever to decorate my tree because I’m constantly stopping and saying, “honey, remember when we were at “x” and how much fun we had” and we recall the memories of that place. I guess you could say my tree is just one large scrapbook of memories!!

The O Christmas Tree set from Flourishes give you so many options to decorate the tree – or you can just go simple and leave the tree undecorated – either way it looks great!
This set is currently on sale for 15% off during our “Christmas in July” special – going on through July 31.

Christmas In July!

Flourishes is celebrating its one year anniversary this month and what better way to celebrate by having a Christmas in July promotion! Down here in hot, humid Florida we are roasting with July's normal weather - mid 90's and humidity as high. SO...to keep us cool let's think snow, roaring fires and ho-ho-ho! Our promotion, which starts today and runs through July 31 will have you saving on our Christmas sets. During this time, all Christmas sets will be on sale for 15% off their regular price.

This card by Leslie Miller is just one of the beautiful cards made by our design team.

No special codes needed! The prices are already marked down - so all you need to do is shop and save! But don't delay - the sale ends July 31!

Take a look at these greats sets - while supplies last!!

Flourishes Feautured Stamper!!

Yes, we're a day or two late in posting this!! It's what happens when CHA occurs - Jan Marie and Sharon J were at CHA over the weekend and things are a little hectic back at the studio! Here is our choice for the Featured Stamper and what a beauty it is!

Karen W. (Krb on SCS) made this stunning creation!

She used the Butterfuly Moments set - coloring the butterfly with Twinkling H2O's - the photo does not do justice to the shimmery colors! We love the background paper she chose - Memory Box paper - the Grove collection. It's soft background is perfect for the image and sentiment. The ribbon and half pearls are wonderful embellishments that add to the overall design, without taking away from the focal point. Karen will have her name in the hat for the August 1 drawing!

Thanks Karen for a great submission and thanks to all who played along this past week!

CHRISTMAS IN JULY - COMING SOON!!

Just a quick heads up to all our faithful readers about a promotion that will take place later on this month.

From July 23rd through July 31, Flourishes will offer all Christmas sets for 15% off the regular price!! No special code needed, just check the store during that time and all Christmas sets will be priced accordingly.

Mark your calendars for Christmas in July!!

Featured Stampers #8

Finally, the much over-due announcement for the winners of this week's Featured Stamper Challenge, and here they are:

Featured Stampers #8

are

Lois (clownmom)

and

Judy (jaydekay)

HUGE CONGRATS to Lois and Judy!!!

The first card I'd like to show you just happens to be the first card that Lois made using her new Stamp Simply set called Thank You. WOW, what a first creation!!! Lois did a gorgeous job on this card. She first stamped on the beautiful parrot tulip, colored it with her Prisma Colored Markers and then masked it, and the Eclispse Masking Tape with its low-tack self-adhesive back works wonders for this. Lois then stamped on the scripted background stamp included in the set to get this lovely look on her main image panel. She then cut, embossed, matted and framed her image using her Classic Square Nestabilities. Love how Lois then softly sponged the edges of her panel -- such a soft look! Some brads, pretty DP, ribbons and a cute little hang charm finish Lois' creation off nicely!!! Thanks so much Lois for this beautiful sampling of our Stamp Simply Thank You set.

This gorgeous card using our Iris set was created by Judy. She so beautifully colored in the Iris using her Watercolor Crayons and an aquapainter. Beautiful coloring in such lovely and realistic colors!!! Judy used her Classic Circle Nestabilities to showcase her Iris in the circle, and her Oval Nestabilities to cut and frame the sentiment. I especially love how Judy also stamped a portion of the image onto her sentiment oval -- sure adds a lot of interest! Judy also used her main image Iris stamp to create a lovely background for her card. Great use of this Iris stamp for both foreground and background!!! Judy finished off her card with some pretty gold cording, a strip of DP and some pretty die cut corners. What a gorgeous creation, Judy -- just lovely!!! Thank you so much for playing this week!!!

Both Lois and Judy will have their name thrown into the hat for the July drawing which will take place on August 1. The prize will be one Flourishes stamp set of the winners choice plus a ribbon bundle package selected by Flourishes.

If you'd like to play along, check out this link for this week's challenge. We'd love to have you join in the fun and have a chance at being a monthly winner!!! Thanks so much for stopping in!!!!

Sharon Johnson