This week with the sneaks really put me in a Holiday moce. With six new sets there is bound to be something for everyone.

After almost a week of tempting you with sneaks of some GORGEOUS art from some of the most talented stamp illustrators in the land…. we’re going to just pull the lid off and unveil these beauties! Thanks to those of you who joined us for our POWER HOUR Release Party! We had a blast!

And now…. the moment you’ve been waiting for! Say “hello” to….

Christmas Drummers

Musical Score & Words

The Holly & The Ivy

Christmas Wreath

Santa, I Believe…

Holly Background

Thanks for joining us this week! If you want to get your hands on these beauties, all you need to do is click HERE! Remember, the best deal by far is our New Release Bundle. It’s a one week only special — all six sets for 10% off!

Happy Stamping!

This is the last set to be released this month…..SIX  new original art works by 3 of the best artists in our indursty.

The set today was designed by Marcella Hawley, her ever present sense of what works captures the details in Nature  wonderfully.

The card I have made today embodies the Williamsburg style of Dellia Robia and the Holly, Poppy and Tiger Lily Copic Collections from FLLC

.  I also added some red rhinestone to set off the holly berries.

This month’s issue of Victoria Magazine had a great inspiration for these colors.

Here is another shot of the wreath up close.

Now off  you go to visit the Design Team blogs for more inspiration.
Leslie Miller
Christine Okken
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Stacy Morgan
Cindy Lawrence
Sharon Doolittle

Ciao,

Hi Everyone,  Thanks for stopping in.  I have been so under the weather, that stamping seem to much at the time.  The excitement of the upcoming holidays really got my mojo in high gear. 

  Today we are doing a sneak peak of a new release for FLLC, The Drummer Boy.  Lauren Pope was the artist of the very fun set.  I have always loved the song…so this is extra special.

 /Drummer+Graphic+copy.jpg” border=”0″ /> This gorgeous set drawn by Lauren Pope features a handful of images that are sure to add a rich and regal touch to your Christmas cards! We even have an added bonus, a background stamp that will be unveiled with this set on Friday called Musical Score. It’s a timeless classic featuring the words of “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Now, don’t forget to march on over to visit these fine designers!

Christine Okken

Julie Koerber

Latisha Yoast

Laura Fredrickson

Stacy Morgan

Cindy Lawrence

Do you want to win this set? All you need to do is leave a comment here on this post and you’ll be in the running! Random.org will draw a number and we’ll have the winner in tomorrow’s post!

MORE FUN AT FLOURISHES…

• You’ll want to keep scrolling down to the next blog post! It is Tuesday  and that means another Timeless Tuesday challenge!  Today our Friends of Flourishes team used this set and background for a super duper fun sketch that you can try and play along with! There is even a $10 Gift Certificate on the line!
• Since we are talking about challenges, did you see our A Season That Sparkles Challenge? If you play, you will have a chance at winning all SIX of our new releases for October. That’s one valuable prize – you could even call it an early Christmas present!  Click HERE for the details.
• One last fun fact to throw your way…. Mark your calendar for our RELEASE PARTY coming up this Friday!  It’s our power hour of fun with games, goodies, and prizes up for grabs!  We’ll host it in the Flourishes Forum over on Splitcoast HERE from 9 to 10 PM Central Standard Time.  As the party wraps, all of our sets that we peek this week will be put into the store for your shopping pleasure!

It’s going to be a fun week at Flourishes!  Tomorrow’s release is one that might have you singing a little bit of the 12 days of Christmas!  You’ll see why when you come back tomorrow!

I hope that you will do the blog hop of the great Flourishes,llc design team.  As usual they are out of this world creative.  Remember the Friday Night Power Release at SCS.

Caio,

I was not able to really post anything in the Sneak Peaks for FLLC as I have been in the hospital.  I was allowed to color my images so I will post a special feature of the creations I have done a little later.

FLIP- I did want to tell you that the new sets are up and are for sale…….so GO Shopping!!!  While shopping remember that if you spend $100.01 in product we will sign you up automatically for FLIP.  You will the receive beautifully embroidered Flourishes market tote bag.  This will entitle you to a years worth of special sales and other surprises along the way.

NEW RELEASES:

This beautiful set is by Marcella Hawley….oh my this is calling out to be colored.  It is a 6 x 6″ set

Who can resist BABY LOVE this set is just perfect for so many occasions.  Lauren has captured the delicateness and sweetness that a baby deserver.  We have added great sentiments to make if useful for a wide variety of applications.  I will share my with you later next week.

Marcella is up again with another summer delight.  These peaches and cherries look good enough to eat!

BASKET WEAVE:  My oh my my heart is pounding and my head spinning with ideas and applications for this Basket weave.  We created this image for our Stampers Dream Weekend as a gift to participants, so now you too can have this 4″ x $4″ image.  There is just nothing like it any where.  This set retails for $9.95

Now go on and shop till you FLIP and drop!

Ciao

There’s a big announcement over at the Flourishes Newsletter.  You won’t want to miss this….

     It has something to do with this bag…………

Go on over there and get the details!

Ciao,

We are celebrating at Flourishes! Sometime it is hard for me to imagine that is already two years and other days it is just as hard to imagine that it has only been two years. 

 So much has changed.  For one ,my creative time is much less and I miss is so much.  We have one of the best, if not the “berry best” ,(sorry I could not help it!) Design Teams around, and in my humble opinion the Very Best!.  We are blessed with two very talented artist in Senior Design Artist, Marcella Hawley and up and coming Assistant Artist Lauren Pope.  Nancy, Sharon and I are blessed to have Julie Koerber as our Design Team Coordinator and so much more.

Two years ago this month, this one of a kind stamp boutique opened its doors to a whole new kind of creative expression. Now, we want you to help us celebrate! Today, the entire design team cooked up creations to honor Flourishes’ special day.

 So here is my card for today.

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Here are some closeups of the detail of the card:

  And some even closer: 

Luscious enough to want to eat, don’t you think.  I think my very special friend will enjoy her card don’t you?

We want you to join us! Simply make a birthday creation of your own – link your card to the Flourishes Newsletter post or upload to SCS using the keyword FLLCBDAY. We’ll pick one lucky winner with the prize being a stamp set of your choice! So, make time for play time and you might just be a winner! Don’t forget to click onto the Flourishes Newsletter tomorrow — there is a BIG announcement that you won’t want to miss!  Trust me this is going to make you flip!

Today, the entire design team along with some of our Friends of Flourishes cooked up creations to honor this special day! Be sure to check out their fabulous and festive handiwork!!

Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Dee Jackson
Silke Ledlow
Supplies:

Stamps: Strawberries

Paper: FLLC Classic White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Flourishes Poppy  and Spring Greens Copic Collections, Copic Spica Red Glitter Pen

Cuttlebug  folder; Nestabilities Petite Small Circles and Petite Small Scallops Circles

Ciao,

Flourishes,llc are bringing you another Summer Classic today.  Again we have the wonderful artistry of Marcella Hawley. As Julie said perfectly “ I don’t think you need me to tell you — she is a master at bringing out the best in a stamp set!”  The name of this set is Sea Side Life.

Living on the water, sea life is important to me.  I love to walk along the beach.  One of of the treasures of these walks are the sea shell I collect. I love the smell of the salt air, the feel of the sand under feet,seeing the sea oats that sway in the breeze, the changing shape of the sand dunes.  Each of  these is a beauty is truly a gift of nature.  Needless to say these are treasures in my life.

So here is  a sneak at my card that is a part of the sneak peak for the set Sea Side Life. 

These are the Sea Shell on my card.  I wanted you to see a close up of these because when you see the entire card you may not see all of the detail.  I had fun putting this together.  I used masking to create this sea shell collection.  Only two of the shells were done separately….the rest are all on flat piece of paper.  OK are you ready to see the entire card????

Can you find the two shells that are not part of the card front?

Supplies:

Stamps:  Sea Side Life

Papers:  Flourishes Classic Ivory and European Water color paper, SU Basic Black Cameo Coral.

Inks: Hybrid Palette Inks-Raw Sena; Claret; Copic inks

Accessories: May Arts Reversible beige and gold ribbon, Kaiser pears, Spellbinders double ended tags, all available at Flourishes.

Over at the Flourishes Newsletter you can get all of the details on our give away and the party details etc.

 
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Sharon Doolittle

I thank you for taking your time to visit me today. 

Ciao,

With July, we usher in a brand new set of stamps ripe for the picking! And today’s stamps — boy are they ripe!

Introducing…

This set hand drawn by the ever-so-talented Marcella Hawley is another sure fire winner in our book. It’s got a sweet and innocent flair to it that is sure to be used for all kinds of projects! I can see this on labels for sweet summer jam, on a tag of a basket full of strawberry muffins, or as you’ll see on one of our designer’s blogs — on clothes!

We just know you’ll love this sweet batch of summer as much as our Design Team did! Hop around to see all the fun things they created with this sugary sweet set!

Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Julie Koerber
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Sharon Doolittle

And be sure to check out the fabulous coloring tutorial cooked up by our own Nancy Kirk!

Would you like to WIN this set? Simply leave us a comment here on Flourishes Newsletter  post! We’ll announce the winner tomorrow!

Fun Flourishes Happenings!

Did you see there is a By the Sea challenge where you can win ALL of the new releases from Flourishes for July? Click HERE to read up! You have until Friday at 5 PM Eastern time to enter!! Don’t miss out on all the fun!

The Flourishes POWER HOUR release party is set for Friday night at 9 PM central over on the Flourishes Forum on SCS! We hope you join us for samples, games, fun and suprises!

And lastly, there is our ongoing project to help out the Wounded Warrior Project. There is a big challenge and card drive going on for the troops with prizes for YOU on the line! Click on HERE to check it all out!

Thanks for stopping by! We’ll see you back here tomorrow when we take a trip to treasure hunt on the ocean shore! (Yes, that’s your hint!)

Having lived for so many years on foreign soil made me relaize just how much I truly love and treasure it and what we stand for here.  I thank all those that have fought to give us the Declaration of Independence and to keep this country free.

I meant to post this last night and then today just was really busy as we have a young military family that we have know for years with us.  The house is very busy with small ones.  Neal is the father of these pretty little girls and we first met him(single back then) at church, and eventually his girl friend Natalie.  Their marriage felt like our own children were getting married.  We have been there for each of the births of their little girls, Madeline and Claire.  Neil is now in flight school training with the Air Force and we miss them.  Here is a start of a mini book that I made for them to remember today with us. This is going to be the cover.

Not your usual red white and blue, but very fun and spunky.  Below are a few of the pictures to go inside for memories of our day together.

 Mike & Neal

                                 Mike,Neal, Natalie & Claire

This is  Claire up close.  What do you suppose she is thinking?

Now this is a hammock full of love

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Hope you enjoyed a taste of our 4th of July celebration for 2009.

Thanks for visiting the Atelier.

Ciao,

Whether you live near the water as we do here in Pensacola or not the lure of the water is great.  Summer nights, sunsets, the sound of waves crashing on the shore – what could be more relaxing? Because these are the sights and sounds of life on the beach – what better way to challenge you all to a fun contest than to invite you to put a taste of of the ocean into one of your creations! 

Here in Pensacola, beautiful sugar white beaches abound; so do grassy parks.  It’s the best of so many worlds…white caps on the gulf or just absolutely flat water, the lone sail boat or the hundreds of boats that dot the waterfront. 4th of Julyfireworks are  spectacular  done from a special boat in the bay giving all a water front viewers or those that actually view from a boat.  The Navy Blue Angles call Pensacola home and that gives us another awesome free treat so many times during the year, but 4th of July and their homecoming are hosted over the coast of Pensacola Beach.  I guess you get the point that we love the water –the bay or the gulf-here in Pensacola. 

A By the Sea challenge is perfect for us that live here “where thousands live as millions wish they could” to quote a former Pensacola mayor.  And it is true! 

There are two trees in my mother yard, each over 450 years old and said to be the very oldest in the area according to the Florida foresters.  The young children love those trees, who’s branches are larger that most trees…swings, climbing are perfect for the mix of these trees and many a good time will be remembered.  FLLC’s Swing Set is perfect was this challenge….so here is another look at my card for today. 

I used Copics for this Challenge–lots of them

Other items that I used for this fun card were:Copic Colorless Blender to push the colors away to create the sky;Light Blue Silk ribbon which I colored with the BG15 from the Water Collection –how fun is that…I got just the color I wanted;  three beautiful gold filigree flowers from The Finishes Touches Beautiful Brad Collection, Basic Grey and FLLC Classic White paper and Kaiser White Pearls….All available from Flourishes,llc.  So now it is YOUR turn to join the fun….and maybe win some prizes!

HOW TO PLAY: Try to incorporate the “feel” of the sea in one of your creations. It could be with a fun embellishment, a photo or even just a color scheme. Link your creation to this post or upload to Splitcoast using the keyword FLLCJULY. You have until Friday, July 10th at 5 PM Eastern to have your creation uploaded! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!WHAT YOU COULD WIN: All of our new releases that will be revealed starting next Wednesday, July 8th, right here on the Flourishes Newsletter.
To get ready for the big reveal and spark some ideas for our challenge, our Senior Design Team got their creative juices flowing! Here is a peek at a few of their “By The Sea” inspired creations!Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan

Sharon Doolittle

Thanks for stopping in the Atelier today.

Ciao,

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