Happy Birthday, Jan Marie!

Light the candles, cue the music and get ready for a little bit of birthday fun! It will SOON be a very special lady's birthday and so we rallied the troops to send some birthday wishes her way a little early! On Monday, February 25th, Jan Marie Caruso, the fearless and creative force behind Flourishes will be another year older -- what a wonderful thing to celebrate! So, we've asked Flourishes' designers from all of our teams to join us to help make this day super special with a......

Here's the scoop, there's a way YOU can help Jan celebrate and win some Flourishes stamps as well! HOW? We just love creative challenges here at Flourishes and so, why not usher in another one! One randomly drawn winner will get a $25 gift certificate to the Flourishes store, just for playing along!

Here is the birthday card I made for Jan Marie.

I wanted to create a nice and feminine card for her birthday so I used Flourishes Feminine Charm shoe image that I stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the shoe in with Copics then cut the image out with Flourishes Tailor-Made Classic Keyhole die. I used some Scor-Tape under the diecut to attach my paper lace doily, then I added a bow from Flourishes Color Made Easy Seam binding in Baby Pink from the Poppy line. I used paper from My Mind's Eye Lavender and matted it with Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock as my card base.

Jan Marie, I hope you have a very happy birthday filled with lots of love and surrounded by family and laughter. Thank you for creating the perfect company offering elegant stamps and embellishments! I love what I do and I'm so thankful to be a part of your design team!

Here are the Copic sets that I used for this card:

One extra note? Jan may be the head of this company but one thing she doesn't get a ton of is happy mail from customers using her stamps? Let's change that for her birthday and flood her with some creative "love" by sending her your Berry Sweet Birthday Blog Hop creations! Here's her address so you can pop them in the mail!

Jan Marie Caruso

4140 Lyric Lane

Pensacola, FL 32514

I know she would love to see "in real life" what beautiful work you all do and I know it would bring a huge smile to her face!  So, join us in singing her a special little birthday song! Be sure to check out all the fun and festive wishes and grab some great ideas for birthday cards along the way!

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence         

Danielle Kennedy

Heather Jensen

Julie Koerber

Silke Ledlow

Stacy Morgan

Allison Cope

Broni Holcombe

Cindy Haffner

Maki Jones

Amanda Havon

Aleksandra Mihelič

Dina Kowal

Iwona Palamountain

Kathy Jones

Meredith MacRitchie

Sasha-Marie Holmes

Deborah Anton

Thanks for stopping by and helping us with Jan Marie a wonderful and fabulous BIRTHDAY on Monday!
Thank you for visiting!

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday: Think Pink Challenge

Good morning Flourishes Friends! Today is a very special Timeless Tuesday. This week we are teaming up with Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful team for our Timeless tuesday Challenge: Think Pink! Create a card featuring the color Pink!
Because October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, we are teaming up to create for the cause!  Stay tuned to the Flourishes Blog, if you play along with this challenge - you might be eligible to play along in another challenge that's making strides and saving lives in the fight against Breast Cancer!

I used Flourishes "Feminine Charm" that I colored in with alcohol markers (not Copics) and fussy cut it out and popped it up on popdots off of my paper. The sentiment is also from the Feminine Charm set that I stamped onto Flourishes Tailor-Made Classic Tags die set. I used some Spellbinder dies and embossed a background on my paper with them to highlight my image. The black faceted pearl flourish, and the black and white paper is from Flourishes 123 Kit. I also used Flourishes Baby Pink ribbon to finish it off.


All this month I will be using Flourishes October 123 Kit so keep your eyes out for it!! :)

Please visit the rest of the Timeless Tuesday team to gather more inspirations!

Cindy

Broni 
Denise
Ally 

Maki

Nina Brackett - October's Guest Designer

Thank you for visiting and please have a great day!

Timeless Tuesday BINGO

Good Morning! It's time for another fun Timeless Tuesday, again! 
This weeks Timeless Tuesday's hostess is Heather and she is challenging everyone to create a card using the BINGO method. Every time I hear the word BINGO, I think "..And Bingo was his Name-O!" Be careful, that song can get stuck in your head :)
Here is the fun Bingo card with choices for us to choose from.

I chose: Pink, Ribbon and Diecut.

I used Flourishes "Feminine Charm" I stamped in Memento "Rich Cocoa" onto an oval diecut, that I placed over some patterned paper I stitched around. I am using May Arts "White" Silk Ribbon that I placed a couple hat pins in.


Please visit the rest of the team to gather more Flourishes inspirations.

Beate

Cindy

Heather

Maki

Mona

Silke

Tammy

Geri Utterback - April's Guest Designer

Kazan Clark - April's Guest Designer

Thank you for visiting and please have a great day!


~ Amanda

Timeless Tuesday and Some Exciting News!

Good morning everyone :) 

 If you read the post Sunday from Flourishes HERE, you already know my exciting news! Or if you have just arrived and don't know, I was recently invited to be a member of Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Design Team! I am so excited and honored to have been asked, I have been using their stamps for two years now and I even dreamed of being on their team one day! Still can't believe they asked me and I'm still in shock but excited to get started so let's begin, shall we? 


This weeks Timeless Tuesday hostess is Beate and her challenge is to create a Birthday Card. I decided to create a pretty blue feminine card, keeping it soft.

I used Flourishes "Feminine Charm" stamp set with some blue papers and pearls. I embellished my card with May Arts "Light Blue" silk ribbon and Webster's Pages "Ladies and Gents" fabric ticket and a flower.
 
I am in love with the May Arts silk ribbon, I've never felt anything like it! It is so soft and silky, it will give you those big delicious voluminous bows you have always wanted. You will probably be seeing more of these ribbons in my future cards they are so pretty :)


Here are links to the rest of the team for more wonderful Flourishes inspirations.

Beate

Cindy

Heather

Maki

Mona

Silke

Tammy

Geri Utterback - April's Guest Designer

Kazan Clark - April's Guest Designer 

Thank you for visiting and please have a great day!
~ Amanda