October Beautiful World Tour

Hello Everyone and welcome to the October Flourishes Beautiful World Tour!!
Once again, it's time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare for take off as once again we prepare to travel the world and be inspired by talented girls from all parts of the globe!

Did you know that your travels around the Flourishes World gives you the opportunity to WIN?? All we ask is that you do a little globetrotting and stamp our passports (leave us a comment) and you could WIN A FREE  FLOURISHES STAMP SET!!! The catch is, you don't know which country is going to be this month's Vacation Spot (chosen blog), so leave a comment on each one by October 31st for your chance to win!!!

This month our hostess is the lovely Dina and our challenge is to CASE each other!!! We've all been inspired by other talented  paper crafters at various times and a CASE challenge (Copy And Share Everything) is one of the best ways to get those creative juices flowing! Come travel with us and see which team member has inspired us to get crafty!

If you've jetted in from Iwona’s blog, then you have arrived at the right destination! If you haven't, perhaps you'd like to start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes Blog so you don't miss all the beautiful inspiration along  the way!

My card is a case of the lovely Anne-Elise’s work. She has created a card which I used for my inspiration on August 12.
My card uses the following sets you can find at Flourishes
Flower Set: Summer Blooms
Sentiment: Botanical Bookplate Vol 2
as well as a variety of Stampin up ribbons and cardstock. Crochet lace and button is from stash.
Dies and 6x6 Design papers are by Spellbinder and Magnolia and can be found at Sir Stampalot.

Thanks for taking time to visit me, it's time to grab your passports and board Flourishes Flight BWT, your next destination is:

September Beautiful World Tour

Hello Everyone and welcome to the September Flourishes Beautiful World Tour!!!
Once again, it's time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and
prepare for take off as once again we prepare to travel the world and be
inspired by talented girls from all parts of the globe! A big thank you to
everyone who traveled the globe with us last month and stamped our passports
(left comments), we were thrilled to have you join us on the maiden flight!!
Do you know that your travels around the Flourishes World gives you the
opportunity to WIN?? All we ask is that you do a little globetrotting and stamp
our passports (leave us a comment) and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP
SET!!!!! The catch is, you don't know which country is going to be this month's
Vacation Spot (chosen blog), so leave a comment on each one by September 30th
for your chance to win!!!!
This month the hostess is Anne-Elise and we've been challenged to Remember our
Friends! Where would we be without our friends? We laugh together and share
our dreams, and when things are hard, we want to be there for them or be a
shoulder to cry on when they grieve. Today we remember those friends with
Sympathy, Missing You, Thinking of You or even Wishing You Were Here cards and
perhaps we'll even have a special story to tell you about those friends that
have inspired us along the way.
If you've jetted in from Kathy’s blog, then you have arrived
at the right destination! If you haven't, perhaps you'd like to start your
journey back in Florida at the Flourishes Blog
so you don't miss all the beautiful inspiration along the way!
I stamped my floral piece from Flourishes “Summer Blossom SS197” set onto Kraft cardstock and colored the flowers with pencils in. The sentiment is from “Hydrangea SS 194 and is one of a set of 7 beautiful stamps” and I stamped it on some lovely papers by My Minds Eye “Rosy” which is also available at Flourishes. Dies (frame and the border die) are both made by Magnolia they can be found through Sir Stampalot.

Thanks for taking time to visit me , it's time to grab your passports and board Flourishes Flight BWT, your next and last destination is going to be the Flourishes Blog.
Take care – Claudia

BBB #23

Welcome to another month of Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge! (BBB23)! This month is all about The Beauty of a Rainbow! Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet -- combine all and you have the colors of the rainbow!

For this challenge, show us how you can combine at least three of those hues to celebrate The Beauty of a Rainbow on your card or creation! Remember, too, that while we spotlight three true beauties winners per challenge, our FAVORITE entry this month will also be asked if they would like to join the team for the August Challenge!

Yet again, I am using Flourishes Mothers Words of Wisdom stamp set to stamp my image on I used Flourishes Classic white card stock. I used the flower wreath image and stamped with Memento Tuxedo black. I distressed all the edges with Ranger Walnut ink and I layered the focal image with Spellbinder's die circle die, mounted the panels on a shape I was able to cut at Angies house yesterday and finished the card of with some ribbons and a cherry blossom. Its small, simple but cute and just the right card for my mother.

This card will be on the way to my mother tomorrow.. I can not WAIT to see, hug and kiss her after all those years we have been apart…

As always thanks so much for stopping by! Make sure to check out all the other beautiful creations from the Bring Back Beautiful Designers!

Betty Wright
Claudia Rosa
Iwona Palmountain
Kathy Jones
Linda Duke

page maps

Have you ever been on page maps?

The very talented Becky Flick is hosting this great sketch blog! There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to find.
For June this sketch is up to follow, if you like to join, make sure your cards is horizontal.

This is the card I came up with. I have used some of my new lovely stamps from Flourishes. I totally love this set. I initially got it for Mothers Day but since it has so many sentiments that comes with the set I am able to use it all year long.

Stamps: Flourishes “Mothers Words of Wisdom”
cardstock: Flourishes (ivory and white)

The Beauty of the garden–BBB 22 Challenge

Hello, pewh… finally my computer with all my photos is hooked up again and I think I should be able to color this weekend. Things are still crazy here.. still no estimate on how much the damage is but it is large.
Anyways.. without no further delay I want to show you the card I have made already 2 weeks ago for the Bring Back The Beautiful Challenge that went live this Monday. If you like to play along.. you do have the entire month to enter your creation. Check it out The ladies who play there are my huge source of inspiration for my “cute” cards.

As spring begins to sprout in many parts of the world - let's honor Mother Nature by showing off the beauty of what we find in the garden. Pick your favorite flower and make it the centerpiece of your card or creation! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creations on the Flourishes Blog to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB22. You have until May 31 to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! Our favorite Beauty from this challenge will also be asked to join the team for the next challenge, so play along and let's see all those beautiful Garden creations!!

Supplies used on my card:
Flourishes stamps: Butterfly and Blossoms,  Botanical bookplate vol 2
Dies: Spellbinder – circle – lacy circle, book plate die
other: Cuttlebug tiny tag (retired), Go Kreate tag
Papers: Stampin up (retired)
Cardstock: Flourishes
Coloring: Copics – Flourishes

Flourishes Blog - http://flourishes.org/2012/05/the-beauty-of-the-garden/
Betty - http://gbedwright.blogspot.com/2012/05/flourishes-bbb22-challenge-and-quick.html
Iwona -  http://ipalamountain.blogspot.com/2012/05/bbb22-beauty-of-garden.html
Kathy -  http://www.inspiredtostamp.blogspot.com/2012/05/beauty-of-garden.html
Linda -  http://lindaduke.typepad.com/lindas_works_of_heart/2012/05/flourishes-bbb22-the-beauty-of-the-garden.html
Naomi - Still coming
Yvonne - http://yvonne-anabelle.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/bbb-22.html

Here is s a litte shot of the new linen stitch scarf. I finished it yesterday and I know already the dear friend how’s getting it I wanted to sent the card along with the scarf.. but since the water damage happened I sent this card to someone else and I will make a new one to match the colors of the scarf.

Thanks again my friends for all your support.

with love Claudi

Bring Back Beautiful Challenge Team ~ Flourishes

Hello again! Today I would like to share with you my first Design Team card for the Bring Back Beautiful Challenge! I am so excited to be invited to participate for Flourishes in this monthly challenge and also along with those wonderful talented Designers. Have you seen the wonderful Flourishes stamps? I love, love, love the all the flower sets the company has. OMG, how exciting to be able to do something different than cute cards.  For the ones of you who have not been on any of the Flourishes sites, it may be nice to know that Flourishes has several Challenges – you could check them all out going from the store site to all the Challenges, that are currently running. Bring Back Beautiful Challenge is a challenge that runs always 1 entire month, starting Mondays.


For this month’s Bring Back Beautiful challenge, we’d like to honor those in our lives that bless us with their friendship with THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDSHIP. The challenge is just that simple – make a card or creation with a friend in mind! The Bring Back Beautiful Team did an amazing job showcasing all the ways you can send off some caring thoughts to those special people in our lives.

Flourishes stamps are clear acryl stamps – I love those cute little bunnies in the grass so much, so before it was too late to use this year I wanted to make a simple Spring card with “Spring has Sprung” to sent to dear Janice. I stamped the image onto Copic x-Press Cardstock with Memento ink and it stamped all details the very first time perfectly. Got to love that!!!

For more inspiration for this months challenge you could go to
Betty
Beate
Heather
Kathy
Julie
Iwona
Yvonne