Well, there is a lot to celebrate today — both old and good — LOL!!!
I am the Oldie!!! It’s my birthday today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!
And Flourishes offers the Goodies!!! Today is the grand opening of the Flourishes Member Company Forum at SCS. You can check it out here. You’ll find a thread offering some special prices on certain items and free shipping on certain orders. I’m sure there are going to be a lot of fun things in the works, so stay tuned so you don’t miss out!!!
Today is also the day I had planned to post some Oldies from my SCS Gallery for you to see, but in light of the fact that we are celebrating Flourishes becoming a new Member Company at SCS, I thought I would post some of my very first cards done with Flourishes very first sets — Cake Decorating 101 and Flourished Words. Now, I don’t have any details here for you today, only the photos, but I want you to realize that all of these cards were made with Cake Decorating 101 which is, of course, a cake set!!! Look carefully and you can easily see that both the lamp and the hat on the stand are made using the basic cake and different cake pedestals. I had so much fun with that set!!! I will include my SCS link to each card which will give you some detail as to supplies, etc. if you are interested. (Please note - if some of you click on some of the links and they don’t seem to work for you, it’s because I think 1 or 2 of these cards were uploaded into the Dare to Get Dirty Challenge last July, and I believe they will only appear to Fan Club Members. To learn about Fan Club Membership, click here.) OK, here they are:
Company’s Coming!
Lily Kate Birthday Cake
Millinery 101
Is This a Cake?
I have a busy day today teaching classes and I want to pop in and see what is happening in the Flourishes Member Company Forum as well!!! Maybe I’ll see you over there!!! I should be back tomorrow with a new upload — thanks for stopping in!!!
Hi, everyone! I have nothing new to show you again, but I had an idea. I have a gallery full of projects over at SCS that have never been posted on my Blog. I thought maybe it would be OK if on occasion I could pull a favorite project from my SCS gallery and share it with you here. Now, if you are one to frequent SCS, this may be old hat to you, and if so, I’m sorry, but I’m just assuming there may be many of you who have never seen this one. I’ve created a category for my Oldies But Goodies, and plan to add these Oldies from time to time. Here’s the one I chose for today:
This card uses a favorite set of mine, Baroque Motifs, and this is a sympathy card; however, any sentiment could be used for any number of occasions. I used a favorite sentiment of mine from All I Have Seen. The sentiment is done with Marvy punches and is up on pop dots, with a rhinestone brad on top. The card is my favorite size, 5 1/2″ square. The stamped panel, framed in Soft Sky, is raised up on mounting tape. I love to do that on special cards. It lends such — gee, I don’t know what — an air of importance, or grace. I think it just adds so much. The Groovy Guava strip is stamped in the same ink and highlighted with a Signo White Gel pen. The edges of the large panel are softly sponged in Soft Sky. And I doubled up on my ribbon here — I love doing that — again, I think double ribbon just adds to the *specialness* of the card. And, quite frankly, sometimes neither color is just quite right, but when you double them up and use both, it works!!!
- Stamps: Baroque Motifs, All I Have Seen (retired)
- Paper: Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Whisper White
- Ink: Black Stazon, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Creamy Caramel, Signo White Gel Pen
- Accessories: Marvy Punches, Rhinestone Brad, Ribbon, Mounting Tape, Pop Dots, Sponge
Hope you didn’t mind seeing an Oldie today!!! Thanks much for stopping in. I’m excited about my first workshop with the new catalog tomorrow!!! Talk to you later!!!