No Time To Stamp?

Keyword ssnotime45 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all!  You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!!  The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!!  Please link back here.

The challenge this week is to get a head start on your Christmas cards.  Everyone has Christmas in July, so thought we would, too!!!  Make any type of Christmas card you like — that’s it.  It can be traditional or non-traditional.  Personally, my preference is always non-traditional.  Can’t wait to see what you do and, as always, try to keep it simple.   Most importantly — have fun!!!

Here are some samples (please be patient as we are uploading and linking tonight):

Check out Julie Koerber’s sample here . 

Check out Dee Jackson’s sample here.

Check out Tammy Hershberger’s sample here. 

Check out Jennifer Buck’s sample here.

Check out Janine Orchard’s sample here.

Check out Becky Oehlers’ sample here.

What a fabulous Stamp Simply Team!!!   Thank you girls!!!  Much appreciated!!!

And here’s my sample:

Here’s my non-traditional Christmas card, which also qualifies for Julie’s DTGD08 Challenge to Embrace White Space and my DTGD08 to Stamp Simply.  I love simple blue and white for Christmas — so fresh and pure — like the new-fallen snow we ususally have by then.

The flourished tree from Flourished Christmas is stamped on white, cut and embossed with the my Rectangle Nestabilities.  A single Pearl is added at the tree base.  It is mounted onto the plain white card with foam mounting squares.  The sentiment, cut and embossed with my Petitie Circle Nestabilities, is mounted with a dimensional.  Steele Blue Sheer Ribbon is tied on the bottom for the finish.  Quick, simple, white — and I love it!!!

• Stamps:  Flourished Christmas by Flourishes
• Paper:  White
• Ink:  Color Box Chalk in Azurite
• Accessories:  Steele Blue Sheer Ribbon, Pearl, Rectangle and Circle Nestabilities, Dimensional, Glue Dot.

Remember when you upload to use the keyword above, followed by a comma.  Please come back here to post (as a comment) that you’ve played, and provide a link so we can check out your card right away. You can find all cards uploaded for this challenge by clicking Gallery Submissions Here.

Some wanting to play said they have never uploaded before.  If that’s you and you need help uploading,  just go to my Challenge No. 1 here.

I have an active Blog Candy post — sign up if you haven’t yet!

Read about the Midwest Flood Relief non-raffle going on at SCS and find out how YOU can try to win one of 55 fabulous prizes made and/or donated by SCSer’s and supporting companies.

Thank you all so much for stopping in.  I do so much appreciate it!!! Hope you all have a safe and wonderful  weekend!!!  And hope you find some time to stamp or do whatever it is that pleases you!!!

Yes, that’s my Dare to Get Dirty 08 Challenge – to Stamp Simply — surprise, surprise!!!!  Hope some of you have been playing the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges at SCS.   If you are a Fan Club Member you are eligible to play and enter. And there’s even a chance at some fabulous prizes if you manage to play all the challenges, and combining challenges is A-OK.  If you’re not a Fan Club Member — well, no better time to join than now — you can read about it here.

In setting up my challenge, I told the players what it means to Stamp Simply.  Here’s what I told them:

Stamp Simply means, first and foremost, to keep the process simple, but at the same time, make it beautiful! And that perfectly sums up the way I like to stamp. I believe that if you use beautiful things, you don’t have to DO much. Beautiful cards are easily achieved with the use of gorgeous images and a few pretty embellishments. Really, that’s all it takes.  If you follow these few simple steps, you’ll have a gorgeous Stamp Simply creation:

• Start with a simple layout/design and a beautiful image
• Use some favorite paper (either DP or cardstock)
• Add your stamped image and a sentiment if you wish
• Finish it off with a beautiful ribbon or other embellishment
• Simple, beautiful, done!!!

Another way to explain the Stamp Simply style would be to liken it to Clean and Simple – I think most of you know what CAS (Clean and Simple) is. Stamp Simply would be somewhat Clean and Simple, but with a little extra *pretty* added in. Make sense?

Here’s the sample card I made using the Stamp Simply set,  Thank You,  by Flourishes.

This card measures 3 1/4″ x 6 1/2″ and fits SU’s small open end envelopes.  Love this size.  The small tulip is stamped in Palette Hybrid Charcoal, colored with Copics, cut and embossed with a Long Rectangle Nestability by Spellbinders, mounted on a scallop, and adhered to the card with foam mounting tape. There are holes punched to tie the bow around the tulip stem.  The sentiment is from the same set, punched, embossed and framed with the Petite Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders, brads added, and mounted on foam mounting tape.

A simple card made with clean crisp colors, a simple layout, one beautiful image, one beautiful sentiment, pretty ribbon and a couple of brads.  Simple, beautiful, done!!!  And I will add, the embossing you get from using the Nestabilities really does add a lot, lending richness and elegance with such ease.

• Stamps:  Thank You by Flourishes

• Paper:  White, Pretty in Pink, Basic Gray

• Ink:  Palette Hybrid Charcoal, Copics for Coloring

• Accessories:  SU Gray Taffeta Ribbon, Long Rectangle Nestabilities, Petite Oval Nestabilities, SU Pink Brads, Foam Mounting Tape.

I’m so glad you stopped in to look — hope you can play the challenges over at SCS!!!

Remember, I have a live and active Blog Candy post.  Check it out.

Remember, too, the Non-Raffle for Midwest Flood Relief.  My post just below explains it all.

The Splitcoast Non-Raffle for Midwest Flood Relief is now live and active.  You can click the link above to read all about it.  Bascially a lot of people put together gorgeous offerings which can all be seen in the non-raffle prize gallery.  Donations are being accepted on behalf of the Red Cross, and those donating will be eligible to win any of these prizes.  There are 55 in all.   This was my offering to the cause:

This prize consists of one Stamp Simply set, the first, called Coffee with Friends, by Flourishes, along with a variety of 5 different cards made using Coffee with Friends.  These cards have all been posted here before, so I won’t go into any details.  And Coffee with Friends, much to my dismay, has been sold out for quite some time now, so here’s your chance to win it!!!  I will let you all know when Coffee with Friends is back in stock.

Please check out all of the beautiful creations in the Non-Raffle Prize Gallery, leave some comments for those who took so much of their time to put these packages together, and then go on over to Splitcoast to read all the details and make your donation.

Thanks much for your support of this cause.

My Dare to Get Dirty 08 Challenge will be posted at noonish today (Eastern Time), 7/24.  Hope you can come back to check it out!!!

I also have a live and active Blog Candy post — scroll down two posts to sign up!

Have any of you been playing the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges over at SCS?  Well, this is my first one — Jenn Balcer’s inspiration challenge — what a gorgeous, flourished cake she chose for the inspiration piece!!!  I honestly think she MUST have had Flourishes images in mind when she chose that cake — LOL!!!  You can see it here.

Ok, now this is one of those cards that I really fought to get an accurate picture and just could not.  The color is a bright lime green, not this yellowish-green we are seeing, and I’m sorry but I just could not get it corrected.  Also the glitter is so pretty IRL, and is coming off this awful blue here — I almost didn’t upload this, but once I made it, I am, just hanging my head in shame over this photo.  It is really quite pretty, IRL — please take my word — LOL!!!

Here’s the Cake Recipe:

• Stamp 1/4 sheet of white cardstock with Palette Noir Black ink using Damask
• Cut stamped piece into 3 strips each 1.5″ high
• Cut the strips to length as follows:  3.5″, 2.5″, 1.5″
• Round top corners of strips with corner rounder
• Sponge all edges of above strips
• Adhere to base layer as shown
• Add Pearls between layers
• Trace with Quickie Glue Pen and add glitter
• Clean off Pearls with a Swiffer cloth as all the glitter will stick to them

That was easy!  The cake layer was matted onto a black layer punched with a Wrought Iron Punch.  And can you see the sentiment — To a Special Couple — this is a little sneak peek at one of the new centers coming out by JustRite for the Monogram Stampers you all have — it’ll fit what you have known as the C-45 and the small wooden stampers as well.  The new stampers coming out have new names, but don’t let it confuse you — when I actually have them and can take pictures to show you — I’ll explain it all — but anyway, this center is one of many to come out, covering all sorts of occasions and events.

What I wanted to show you was the multi-use of these stamps.  Even though this is a center made for the Monogram Stamper, which you typically see stamped with a ring around it, today I used it alone — no ring around it.  I put only the center onto my wooden stamper and stamped on white cardstock.  I then punched it out with my SU Designer Label Punch — talk about a perfect fit!!!  It is backed in black punched with SU’s 1 3/8″ punch that so many of us have.  We know all the JustRite Products work well with the Nestability Circles, but I just wanted to give you some other options, using things many of you already have at home, and oh, what a perfect fit!!!  And don’t you just love the font on this — I do!!!  Anyway, when I get some final product to show you, I surely will, but this worked so perfectly here today I just had to use it.

• Stamps:  Damask by Flourishes, Sentiment is soon to be available by JustRite
• Paper:  Black, White, Green is by Prism (my chart is missing, I think it’s in the Kiwi family)
• Ink:  Palette Noir Black
• Accessories:  Quickie Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Pearls, Black Sheer Ribbon, Hole Punch, Sponge, Mounting Squares, and punches by SU:  Corner Rounder, Designer Label, Wrought Iron, 1 3/8″ Circle

I am hosting one of the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges today (Thursday), so be sure to check it out and play along.  I think they pop up at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, which I think is 12:00 noon Eastern Time.  It’s  a fun one and, you guessed it — simple — LOL!!!  Hope to see you later, playing along!!!

Yes, it is Christmas in July at Flourishes.  Starting today, July 23, through the end of the month, July 31, all Christmas sets will be at 15% off.  The price has been reduced on the item in the store to make it easy on everyone — no codes, no nothing — just click on the item and it will key in at 15% off.  What a great time to stock up on some Christmas sets.

I’ve been quite sick since returning home from CHA, so I needed a really simple card for tonight.  Also, I’ve always really preferred Christmas cards in a non-traditional color scheme, so that’s what I went with.  Here it is:

This card was quick to make in that it contains merely one stamped image from Peace.  I LOVE this set for quick cards — you can’t beat it!  It isn’t showing well on the photo, but the image was stamped in Versa Mark and embossed with a mixture of retired SU brown embossing powder and SU Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  It is so beautiful and sparkly IRL, just wish you could see it as I do.

I used paper from the Provence pack by Memory Box.  This is definitely not a Christmas pack of paper, but I just loved this sheet and thought with the tree and flowers it would work with the dove.  I like it!!!  Gussied up a bit with a ticket corner punch, a Pearl and a bit of Chocolate Sheer Ribbon, all on an Almost Amethyst base, which brings out the color of the flowers.  This card is 5.5″ square.

I challenge you to try some non-traditional Christmas cards — they’re FUN to do!!!

• Stamps:  Peace by Flourishes
• Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Almost Amethyst, Very Vanilla, Provence by Memory Box
• Ink:  Versa Mark
• Accessories:  Sheer Chocolate Ribbon, Embossing powders (Chocolate and Iridescent Ice mixed), Ticket Corner Punch, Pearl, Mounting Tape Squares

Please take a minute and check out all these wonderful Christmas creations done by our fabulous Design Team:  Leslie Miller, Julie Koerber, Faith Hofrichter, Susan Roberts, Linda Duke, and Sharon Doolittle has a beautiful card as well!

Thanks so much for looking — remember 15% off all Christmas sets thru July.

Also, I have a live Blog Candy post going — just scroll down a bit.

Thanks so much for stopping in.  Hope you are having a wonderful week!!!

Keyword ssnotime44 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all!  You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!!  The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!!  Please link back here.

The challenge this week is to make a card that has BOTH a flower and the color purple.  Now, just how easy is that!!!  The flower need not be purple, as long as there is purple used in the card — Flowers + Purple — that’s it!!!  I LOVE Almost Amethyst and haven’t used it in a bit, so just wanted to — no other reason!!!  Can’t wait to see what you do and, as always, try to keep it simple.   Most importantly — have fun!!!

Here are some samples (please be patient as we are uploading and linking tonight):

Check out Julie Koerber’s sample here . 

Check out Dee Jackson’s sample here.

Check out Tammy Hershberger’s sample here. 

Check out Jennifer Buck’s sample here.

Check out Janine Orchard’s sample here.

Check out Becky Oehlers’ sample here.

What a fabulous Stamp Simply Team!!!   Thank you girls!!!  Much appreciated!!!

And here’s my sample:

There is a bit more stamping on this card than on my normal cards for this challenge, but I just felt like it — and it is all simple stamping.   I used the latest Stamp Simply set called Thank You, and I used Palette Hybrid Charcoal ink (gray) to stamp my background script (included in the set) along the entire left edge of the card.  I then white embossed the parrot tulip from the set over the scripted background in a diagonal formation as shown in the photo.  Then I took my Craft White pad and DTP’d (direct to paper — take the ink pad in your hand and apply it directly to the paper from the pad) the edges of the card to soften it.  I do this often with snowy/winter cards, but I just thought today’s card called for it.  I love the way it softens the overall look. My main image tulip is colored with Copics, holes punched for the Lavender Sheer Ribbon to run through, sentiment stamped in the same Charcoal ink, and tiny Pearls added to the ticket punched corners.  A very soft and lovely card IRL, much softer than it comes across in the photo.  My photo skills still lack, no matter how hard I try — LOL!!!  I am so absolutley in love with this single stem tulip, I can not tell you.   I hope I don’t begin to bore you with it all!!! 

This card is a good representation of my vision for a Stamp Simply set.  Lots of different things and interest in this card, all done with the contents of one small set!!!  My kind of stamping!!!

• Stamps:  Thank You by Flourishes
• Paper:  White, Basic Gray, Almost Amethyst
• Ink:  Palette Hybrid Charcoal, Craft White, Copics for coloring — BV000, BV02, BV04, G40, G21, YG03, C1,0.
• Accessories:  Lavender Sheer Ribbon, Pearls, Ticket Corner Punch, White Embossing Powder, Hole Punch.

Remember when you upload to use the keyword above, followed by a comma.  Please come back here to post (as a comment) that you’ve played, and provide a link so we can check out your card right away. You can find all cards uploaded for this challenge by clicking Gallery Submissions Here.

Some wanting to play said they have never uploaded before.  If that’s you and you need help uploading,  just go to my Challenge No. 1 here.

Thank you all so much for stopping in.  I do so much appreciate it!!! Hope you all have a safe and wonderful  weekend!!!  And hope you find some time to stamp or do whatever it is that pleases you!!!

Not my day — I just wrote this entire post, only to have it disappear into cyberspace — so here goes again –

A nice and quick card today, using just one stamped image, one stamped sentiment and layers of paper with a bit of ribbon added in for good measure!  Here it is:

• Stamps:  Butterfly Moments by Flourishes
• Paper:  Very Vanilla and Scarlet’s Letter by Basic Grey
• Ink:  Palette Noir Black
• Accessories:  Black Sheer Ribbon, Pearls, Petite Circle Nestabilities, SU Brad, Mounting Tape

This card is 5.5″ high and 5.75″ wide and fits a 6″ square envelope, available at Action Envelopes.

A very abbreviated version of what I said and lost:

• Love my Nesties — so versatile and easy to use — you can’t appreciate them till you try them
• For a rich, lush card with little effort, use a rich, lush background paper.  If you’d like to see all the sheets in the Scarlet’s Letter pad, check out this older post.
• Check out this inteview in the FLLC Forum at SCS — tips from Leslie Miller on watercoloring.
• Vote for your favorite in the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol  Contest — our own Julie Koerber (outtoimpress) has a card in the running using our newest Stamp Simply set, Thank You (she used the little tulip) — just a gorgeous creation, Julie — thank you!  Good luck to Julie and all the other contestants!!!  You can vote here.

Thanks so much for stopping in - hope you are having a great week!!!

CHA is rapidly approaching and I’m so exicted!!!!  I’m going  and I can hardly believe it!!!!  For those who may not know, CHA stands for Craft and Hobby Association and their Summer Convention and Trade Show is being held in Chicago next week, Friday through Sunday, July 18 - 20.  And to answer the question I keep getting — NO, Flourishes does not have a booth there, but maybe one of these days!!!!  Now, wouldn’t that be something!!!  But both Jan Marie and I will be there shopping our hearts out for Flourishes, along with Susan Roberts, one of our fabulous Design Team Members.  Can’t wait to see what we find to fill our shelves with!!! Fun, fun!!!

I do, however, have one little job at CHA that has me SO excited!!!  You all know how I love using my monogram stampers by JustRite — well, I will be one of the demos working at the JustRite booth — how fun is that!!!  And wait until you hear who all the other demos are — I’ll have the schedule at the end of this post.  All I know is that I’m going to have a hard time tearing myself away from their booth!!!!  LOL!!!  Anyway, here’s my project, along with a few extras I made to go along with it.

What I’ll actually be doing as the demo for JustRite at CHA is the bridesmaids dress on the right.  Both the dress and tuxedo are favor boxes cut by AccuCut.  How fun and easy they are to put together!!!!  The monogrammed CHERISH is one of the new releases by JustRite — oh, just wait until you see ALL they have coming out to go with the stampers you all already have –  you won’t believe it, you truly won’t!!!!  I used Petite Circle Nestabilities to cut and emboss my monogram tags.  The C-45 makes it so quick to mass produce these tags in the event you may be doing a real wedding or other large project.

This bride has her table settings all set to go with the favor boxes and place cards — aren’t they just the most gorgeous things!!!  The frame for the place card was made by cutting a rectangle of white, then just cutting the center opening with a Long Rectangle Nestability, and adhering the frame onto the black card.  Names can easily be written with the Inkksentials Opaque White Pen.

The groom’s tux is stamped, tone on tone, in black with the Damask background stamp.  His shirt was embossed easily using the Scor-It, black Pearls were added for buttons, and a tiny flower, folded into quarters was attached with a black brad.  The tux, shirt and bowtie were all done on the AccuCut, as was the dress. And, of course, all monogram tags are done with the monogram stamper by JustRite.

The dress and place card were stamped with the flourish stamp in Wedding Essentials, gone over with the Quickie Glue Pen, and covered with Dazzling Diamonds.  The dress has a Black Sheer Ribbon belt.  Such FUN to make these!!!!

This bride is also ready with the cards requesting her bridesmaids to serve and her Save the Date announcements.

What a gorgeous bridesmaid!  She is from Wedding Party, colored in with Copics and adorned with pearly colored Pearls.  Her dress bodice was colored with a black Copic, gone over with the Quickie Glue Pen and Dazzling Diamonds.  The Will You Serve sentiment is from Wedding Essentials.

Again, continuing in the same theme.  The sentiment, Save the Date, the rings and the flourish are all from Wedding Essentials.  A pretty self-explanatory card.  And I’ll tell you, making cards and projects like these — with the flourishes and glitter — are just my all time favorites!!!  They have class, elegance, eye-appeal and, best of all — they hardly take any time at all!!! Now, THAT I like!!!

Now, back to CHA and some important things to know — if you’re going to be there, PLEASE come to see all of us at the JustRite booth and do some fun make-n-takes.  There will be 9 different make-n-takes!!!  JustRite will be located in Booth #3309 and has 32 new products to introduce — can’t wait!!!  Here’s the schedule of fun events planned:

Friday, July 18 — 9 - 11 a.m. — MICHELLE WOODERSON (Mish Mash)

Friday, July 18 — 1 - 3 p.m. — SHARON JOHNSON (notimetostamp) (that’s me!)

Saturday, July 19 — 10 - 12 noon — TAYLOR VAN BRUGGEN (tayloredexpressions)

Saturday, July 19 — 1 - 3 p.m. — JERRI JIMENEZ (Jerri Kay)

Sunday, July 20 — 10 - 12noon — SUSAN ROBERTS (rainy)

Before, after and in between the above, there will be a ton of fun projects being conducted by the JustRite crew!!!   And, to SEE all the projects, read about each designer, and see some of the soon to be released new products, check out the JustRite Blog.

If you’re at CHA, we surely would hope to see you!!!  I’d LOVE to meet each and every one of you!!!

Thanks for stopping in — hope you are having a wonderful weekend — we are having such beautiful weather today!!!  Hope you are, too!!!

Keyword ssnotime43 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all!  You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!!  The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!!  Please link back here.

The challenge this week is to make a thank you card.  I am always out of thank you cards and it’s just nice to have a few on hand.  No other rules — just a thank you card.  And if you make a really simple one, make 2 or 3 once you’re at it — you’ll thank yourself later when you need them!!  Can’t wait to see what you do and, as always, try to keep it simple.   Most importantly — have fun!!!

Here are some samples (please be patient as we are uploading and linking tonight):

Check out Julie Koerber’s sample here . 

Check out Dee Jackson’s sample here.

Check out Tammy Hershberger’s sample here. 

Check out Jennifer Buck’s sample here.

Check out Janine Orchard’s sample here.

Check out Becky Oehlers’ sample here.

What a fabulous Stamp Simply Team!!!   Thank you girls!!!  Much appreciated!!!

And here’s my sample:

This is one of the larger butterflies from Butterfly Moments, one of the new releases this week by Flourishes, and the gorgeous scripted sentiment is from another new release, Thank You.  I just love the gorgeous wings and shape of this beautiful butterfly.  I can see her being used over and over again!!!  I used the 2nd, and last, of my favorite sheets of paper from the Sultry pad by Basic Grey.   Doesn’t she look like a butterfly in a garden?  I thought so!!!  Here’s what I did to make this butterfly:

• Stamp butterfly onto white cardstock with Palette Noir Black ink
• Color in the white portions of her wings (I used Copics, but any way to color works)
• Cut and emboss image with Rectangle Nestabilities, frame with scalloped rectangle
• Use black self-adhesive Pearls on her head, antennea and for the dots on the wings.  I used various sized Pearls as the dots were of various sizes.
• Using a Quickie Glue Pen, and working in small sections at a time, color over the black portion and then sprinkle with Dazzling Diamonds or other fine glitter . Tap off excess.

Here’s a close-up view of the butterfly:

• Stamps:  Butterfly Moments and Thank You by Flourishes
• Paper:  White, Black, Sultry by Basic Grey
• Ink:  Palette Noir Black.  Copics to color in:  G40, G21, YG03, R20, RV11, RV34, Y000, Y21, Y15
• Accessories:  Black Sheer Ribbon, Black Pearls, Quickie Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Rectangle Nestabilities, Petite Oval Nestabilities, Mounting Tape.

And here’s a quick look at the full Butterfly Moments set so you can see all it contains.  It was designed so there are butterflies that can be used as stand alone images, as well as smaller butterflies for accents on any  of your creations.

And the scripted Thank You on today’s card came from the latest Stamp Simply release called Thank You.  Such a gorgeous and versatile set!

And please check out more samples made with our newest releases by the Flourishes Design Team:  Leslie Miller, Linda Duke, Faith Hofrichter, Susan Roberts, as well as Nancy Kirk.

Remember when you upload to use the keyword above, followed by a comma.  Please come back here to post (as a comment) that you’ve played, and provide a link so we can check out your card right away. You can find all cards uploaded for this challenge by clicking Gallery Submissions Here.

Some wanting to play said they have never uploaded before.  If that’s you and you need help uploading,  just go to my Challenge No. 1 here.

Thank you all so much for stopping in.  I do so much appreciate it!!! Hope you all have a safe and wonderul  weekend!!!  And hope you find some time to make a thank you card, or two!!! Have fun!!!

Today I have a card I made using the newly released Poppy Patch by Flourishes —  what a fun set!!!  All the various stems are separate so you can create your own cluster of Poppies, however you like!!!  Here’s the set:

And here’s the card I made — much brighter colors than my normal choices, but I just thought a Poppy card needed some bright colors.

To create my main image, I first stamped the large center poppy on a piece of white cardstock.  I then stamped the image again on my Eclipse Masking Tape and cut it out.  This Masking Tape is wonderful for those who like to mask.  The entire back has a low-tack adhesive so you can  press it on over your image and it stays tight, but then you can just pull it off when you’re done and save it for next time — really works great!!!  Anyway, once my mask was over my large center poppy, I then stamped on the remainer of the poppy stems, pulled off my mask and colored in my images using Copic markers and then stamped on my  SU Sanded background.  Then I cut and embossed the image using my Petite Oval Nestability Dies by Spellbinders, matted again in black and framed with the yellow scallops.   

For my background the lower green sheet is from the Scarlet’s Letter pad by Basic Grey and it is stamped with the background from the newly released Stamp Simply set called Thank You.  Love that little background stamp!!!  The upper half is run through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  I punched the corners and the butterflies, and after wrapping with the Black Sheer Ribbon and adhering it all together, I was done.  The oval is on with mounting tape to elevate it a bit and I used Zots to adhere the butterflies. 

• Stamps:  Poppy Patch and Thank You by Flourishes.  Sanded b/g by SU.
• Paper:  Black, White, YoYo Yellow, Scarlet’s Letter by Basic Grey.
• Ink:  Palette Charcoal and Noir Black.  Copic to colors:  Y-15, YR09, R14, R27, R29, YG03, YG63, G99, C-1, 0.
• Accessories:  Black Sheer Ribbon, Brad, Petite Oval Nestabilities, Photo Corner Punch by SU, Butterfly Punch by Martha Stewart, Mounting Tape, Zots.

And here are some reminders:

To see more samples using this weeks new releases by Flourishes, you can access the Flourishes Design Team Blogs here:  Leslie Miller, Linda Duke, Faith Hofrichter, Susan Roberts, Julie Koerber, as well as Sharon Doolittle, Nancy Kirk.

Voting is currently taking place for the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol contest, and Flourishes own Julie Koerber is in the running, being one of 20 finalists.  You can find the link and instructions on Julie’s Blog.  Please vote NOW as time is of the essence.

Tomorrow, Friday, you can expect a fun and really easy Stamp Simply Challenge here.

And you have until 6:00 p.m. EST today,  Thursday, 7/10, to enter a card or project using Coffee with Friends in our Coffee Time Challenge.  You can’t hope to win unless you enter — check out the link for the challenge rules and a photo of the prize.

And I think that wraps it up for today.  Thanks so much for stopping in and I hope you all are having a wonderful week!!!!