The Occasional Card: The Sweetness of Friendship

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Flourishes Free For All Friday!

Hello and welcome to another Flourishes Free For All Friday! It's my turn to host the Flourishes blog and show off a creation using another Flourishes Image.

I am using another Flourishes retiring set called The Sweetness of Friendship.

I stamped out The Sweetness of Friendship on an acetate frame with some Memento ink so that it wouldn't smear after drying. Then I took an old back piece of Prima flower packaging and used that as my card background. After letting the stamped sentiment dry on the acetate, I placed popdots under the acetate to lift it off the card background to create depth. After placing the acetate image where I wanted it on the card, I added some flowers, leaves and some pearl swirls over the white popdots so that they couldn't be seen and also add some color and beauty to the card's overall look.

This was an experiment to see if I could find a way to place popdots under the acetate so I could lift it off the card to add some depth and interest. I really like how it all turned out and I may try this again, although working with acetate is tricky and it doesn't photograph easily. I'd like to encourage you to try it, if you haven't, you may find you like it!

Don't forget that Flourishes is having a huge blow out sale to retire old sets and make way for some of the new ones! Don't miss out, you only have a couple days left to buy your favorite sets. The sale ends July 31st.

Thank you for visiting and I will see you next Friday for another Free For All Friday!
~ Amanda

Monday, July 9, 2012

Timeless Tuesday # 177

Good Morning Flourishes Friends! We have a very special Timeless Tuesday this week, filled to the brim with inspirations, goodies and information! Today's challenge is: Getting Sentimental. Create a card featuring a sentiment on it.
So why is this week so special? The Flourishes Design Team is using the "Sweetness of Friendship" stamp set which is one of our new July Releases!! So it's a challenge with a sneak peak, too!! Isn't this fun? ;)

And Jan Marie, the owner of Flourishes, is launching her beautiful new blog, too! The Sweetness of Friendship takes on the mantra of Jan Marie's blog - a place where friends can gather to enjoy the laughter and sharing of pleasures in creating! The stamp set is available right now and you can check it out in the Flourishes Store HERE.
What's even more fun? Jan Marie is giving away this stamp to the first 25 people who leave comments on today's post over on her new blog: Jan Marie's Flourishes

I stamped Flourishes new "The Sweetness Of Friendship" stamp on a patterned tag that I had laying around, then attached it to a Spellbinders "Romantic Rectangles" diecut, cut from Flourishes "Classic White" cardstock. I added a Prima flower and a Zva "Taupe" Pearl Swirls strand that I cut up and attached to my card.

I can just see using this stamp set quite frequently! I am so glad Flourishes has such beautiful sentiments with a wonderful scroll like script! It gives your cards that extra elegant touch!

And as you make the rounds in today's Timeless Tuesday hop, you'll notice that some of the designers are using a fresh picked 123 Create Kit!

These kits have everything you need to create color coordinated cards with paper, ribbons and embellishments - all in one kit! Travel HERE to see for yourself!

Please visit the rest of the team to gather more of today's Flourishes inspirations!

Thank you for visiting and please have a great day!