Merry & Bright

 We’re delighted to bring you another Friday round of creations with the Senior Design Team at Flourishes! Today we’re getting in the cozy Christmas mood and showing off to you all that’s beautiful about the holidays at Flourishes, you’ll see some of our beautiful newer offerings for the season and some of our equally lovely past sets too. Time to be inspired for one of our favorite times to create cards for others! Stop on by and see our cozy Christmas today!

I colored this beautiful Poinsettia flower and fussy cut around the edges.  I used some pop dots to give it some depth.  I can honestly say that I don't miss using ribbon at all.  Isn't it funny how we go through phases in our crafting journey?

SUPPLIES USED:

InLinkz.com

I loved the sketch at Sweet Sunday so much that I had to use it again.

• Allison Cope
• Christine Okken
• Cindy Lawrence
• Heather Jensen
• Julie Koerber
• Silke Ledlow
• Stacy Morgan
• Tosha Leyendekker

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

Happy Birthday Christine

IT'S A SURPRISE PARTY!!! Grab a handful of confetti, a bright balloon and come along for a fun birthday blog hop to celebrate a special birthday for our dear friend, Christine Okken!  One thing about birthdays, is that you always hope to spend time with those you care about and that's why we're here!  At Flourishes, we're just one big family... so we just wanted to celebrate a wonderful day with one of our loved ones.

I would like to wish Christine a very Happy Birthday.  I hope you enjoy your special day and eat lots of delicious cake.  Thanks for all you do for us here at Flourishes.

SUPPLIES USED:

InLinkz.com

Even though we're a day early, we'd like to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTINE!

Join along with members of the Flourishes family today and share some fabulous birthday inspirations, many happy celebratory birthday wishes and maybe even a slice of cyber cake.

In honor of Christine's birthday celebration, we're giving away a special birthday present or two of our own!  Hidden among the Design Team's blogs today is a Mystery Blogger. Comment on her blog and you could be chosen as one of our birthday prize winners! The more you comment, the better your chances of winning.

As well as one lucky commenter, we're having a birthday challenge too!

THE OFFICIAL RULES:

• Simply create a NEW birthday themed card or project.
• Entries need to be in by Friday November 1st at 6 PM EST.
• Those entries using Flourishes stamps will be counted for 2 prize ballots!
• You must link your creation in our InLinkz Widgit to be counted.
• You must have a link to our challenge in your blog post or gallery post.  Please feel free to use our Birthday Graphic too!
• If you upload to SCS please use the keyword FLLCWISH
• We'll announce the winners on Saturday on the Flourishes blog on Saturday November 2nd, so check back then to find out if you are a winner!

I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday and the birthday challenge at Seize the Birthday.

Hop along with our Flourishes family today.  Don't forget to leave some love for our fabulous designers today for a chance to win...

Aleksandra Mihelič
Allison Cope
Cheryl Lea
Deborah Anton
Dina Kowal
Heather Jensen
Jenny Gropp
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Maki Jones
Meredith MacRitchie
Naomi Gong
Stacy Morgan
Silke Ledlow
Tosha Leyendekker

Don't forget to stop by Christine's blog, HERE, and send her some birthday wishes too!

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Serinity Now

Hello again!  I have vowed to make more time for my non required DT projects.  So, I pulled out this darling PI girl from MFT and used her for the current sketch on the MFT blog.  Isn't she a doll?

  I will save it to give the teacher of the classroom I am in.  Almost every day is a stressful day for us.  Working with high school kids that have behavior disorders will test your patience any day.

SUPPLIES USED:

InLinkz.com

For some reason the In Linkz will not allow me to add new items to my Project Manager.  The stamp I used is the Pure Innocence Serinity.

I used the current MFTWSC sketch on the MFT blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

With Sympathy

Hello and welcome to Free for All Friday!  Today the Flourishes Senior Design Team is pulling out some of our sets that are on the overstock or retiring list and giving them a new spin! We always love when we can do that, because it makes you fall in love with those sets all over again! 

I chose to work with Country Charm Labels, but used a sentiment from another set that I will link below.  I love this set because you can fit many different sentiments from Flourishes stamp sets, right inside the pretty decorative frames.  There is a matching Spellbinders die set, but I don't own it, so I fussy cut around the edges.

SUPPLIES USED:

InLinkz.com

I chose to work with the sketch over at the Retro Sketches blog.

 We invite you to take a trip on over to the rest of the Design Team to see what they have up their creative sleeves today:

• • Allison Cope
  • Christine Okken
  • Cindy Lawrence
  • Heather Jensen
  • Julie Koerber
  • Maki Jones
  • Silke Ledlow
  • Stacy Morgan
  • Tosha Leyendekker

Please be sure to give some extra love for our lovely Designer Maki Jones…Maki is taking a break from the design team and we’ll miss her very much while she’s gone! She’s such a talented lady who has treated us to some amazing and creative designs these last few years on the Timeless Tuesday Team and the Senior Design Team. We send big hugs out to Maki!