Flourishes Hops with Imagine Crafts...Imagine That!

Happy Cyber Monday!
Welcome to my studio.

I am privileged to be included in the Imagine Crafts and Flourishes Hop!

I had so much fun experimenting with embossing powders and ink on this card.
First, I cut out a frame using Flourishes' Exclusive Classic Frames large die.
Using Delicata Pigment ink in Celestial Copper, I inked up Flourishes' Diamond Background stamp. I sprinkled half of the stamped image with Imagine Crafts' Verdigris Embossing Powder and half with Imagine Crafts' Clear Embossing Powder.

After melting the powders with my heat tool, I inked the edges of the frame with more of the copper ink, and embossed it with the clear powder.

Then I did something cool...I inked up the whole die cut
with a Brilliance Pearlescent Dew Drop Ink Pad in Beige. I heat embossed the die cut using the clear embossing powder again.

The flower image comes from the Winter Blooms stamp set by Flourishes.
The flowers are called, Paperwhites. I had never heard of them until Jan Marie asked me to illustrate this set. I researched and learned about them. Now they are one of my favorite winter flowers!

Winter Blooms

 The Paperwhites are colored with Dew Drop Pearlescent ink pads in Beige, Poppy and Crimson. I stamped the three colors on an acrylic block to create a sort of, "palette", then used my waterbrush to paint the flowers.

The sentiment is from the set entitled, Christmas Sentiments.

This set was fun to create...I even wrote a little poem for it!

 The sentiment is stamped with Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink, onto a die cut

from the same set mentioned above.

Hopefully you can see the Imagine Crafts' Shimmer Spritz Sparkle

I added to the entire surface of the card. It give it such a festive touch.

 I have another card done with Imagine Crafts and Flourishes...



You will find more info for this card HERE.

Here is the blog hop list for you to enjoy more creations made with Imagine Crafts products and Flourishes stamps, inks, papers and more.

Make sure to leave a comment on each designer’s blog

as we will be giving prizes away randomly from two of the designer’s blogs.
We have a 30% off all products sale going on in the store!  Code is cybermonday.   If you buy new stamps released since June, 2016 you will get an older one free!

 Barbara Thompson - http://cardsandpaperfun.blogspot.com/

Toni Storie - http://sweetpeasstory.blogspot.com/

Alison Heikkila - http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Beverly Cole - http://bevsbliss.blogspot.com/

Kren Kurts - http://afourthlife.blogspot.com/

Neva Cole - http://snippetscrafter.blogspot.com/

Roni Johnson - http://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com/

Linda Lucas - https://lovelylindascraftcentral.blogspot.com.au/

Davi Long - http://alstromeriaartistry.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Vanderbeek - http://www.scrapsoflife.com/

Naomi Gong - http://www.naomigong.com/

Vickie Yeakley - https://stuffbyvickie.blogspot.com/

Nadine Carlier - http://myscrapnstuff.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Ednie - http://eclecticendeavours.blogspot.com/

Gloria Hayoung Lee - http://iiroom1004.blogspot.ca/

Mark Melnick - http://latidart.blogspot.com/

Shirley Qu - http://mypinkieisinkie.blogspot.com/

Martha Lucia Gomez - http://stampartpapel.com/

Terre Fry - http://terresscraptherapy.blogspot.com/

Mary Prasad - http://artbymdp.blogspot.com/

Trisha Traxler - http://simplystamping.blogspot.com/

Monica Edwards - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/

Enjoy the Journey,

Christmas Red

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

It is Friday, which means it's time for our Design Team Challenge Hop!

The beautiful Naomi Gong has challenged us to make our cards,

Red as Poppies

Here is the stamp set I used for my card.

Must Be Santa

Using beautiful card stock and designer paper from the Flourishes store, I layered some red patterns and brown card stock, then cut a frame using one of Flourishes' Exclusive Die sets. 

 I also cut out some cute images from one of the designer papers...too cute!

Next, I stamped Santa using Imagine Craft's Delicata Pigment ink in Dark Brown Shimmer. As this is a pigment ink, I was able to heat emboss it with some Imagine Crafts Clear Embossing Powder.

Santa is colored using Imagine Craft's Brilliance Pearlescent Dew Drop ink pads in Beige, Rust, Poppy and Crimson. I stamped some of the ink onto an acrylic block and used my waterbrush to apply the ink as a kind of "paint". Isn't he handsome?

 Then I had some fun with the sentiment. As you can see in the stamp set, the complete phrase on the stamp is, "Guess who's coming for cookies?" Since I only wanted to say, "Guess who's coming?" I masked the part of the stamp I didn't want with a Post-it note, inked the stamp, removed the mask, and stamped, "Guess who's coming". Then, I masked everything but the question mark and did the exact same masking, then added the ? to the end of the sentiment.

I promise you, it was easy...just remember to remove the mask before you stamp!

It's difficult to see, but I sprayed the entire card with

"sparkle" Shimmer Spritz by Imagine Crafts.

Finally, I added some baker's twine from my stash.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

My Turn to Host!

Hello and welcome to my studio.

I am so excited to be the Artist in Residence at the new Flourishes!
Every Friday our Senior Design Team is challenged by one of the designers on the team.

For today's blog hop, it's my turn!  I have challenged the team to use:

Non-traditional Colors

I have the great pleasure of using the Year of Flowers 3 set

And Christmas Sentiments

I used Patriotic Colors instead of the usual Christmas red and green, and I threw in some striped in the pieced background to add to the "theme".

Today's card images were masked and stamped with Memento Ink.
I colored them with Prismacolor Premier Pencils, blending with a blending pen.

The sentiment is framed using one of Flourishes exclusive set of dies.

a few sequins and some gold Stickles, ribbon and I'm done!

Here is the blog hop list for you to enjoy more non-traditional colored creations:

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie

Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Friday with Flourishes

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

Today I am using a stamp set I illustrated for Flourishes this month.

It's the 5th day of the Flourishes November Release.

We are featuring,

Winter Birds by Beverly Cole

Using beautiful card stock from the Flourishes store, colored pencil, and alcohol markers,

I embossed the background with a snowflake embossing folder.

I used a die from the Flourishes store, and used some Glossy Accents

to make little dots.

It's difficult to see, but I sprayed the snowflake background with

"frost" Shimmer Spritz by Imagine Crafts.

Finally, I added some ribbon from my stash.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Flourishes November Release Day 4

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

Today I am using a stamp set I illustrated for Flourishes this month.

It's the 4th day of the Flourishes November Release.

We are featuring,

It's All in the Details 2 by Beverly Cole

and

Art Deco Alphabet

Using beautiful paper and card stock from the Flourishes store, colored pencil, and alcohol markers,

I embossed the stamped image with a script embossing folder.

I also rounded all the corners, and used some Enamel Accents to make little dots in the corners.

It's difficult to see, but I inked the edges of everything with an inkpad an sponge.

Finally, I used a strip of mirror paper across the middle of the card.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Flourishes November Release Day 3

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

Today I had fun using a stamp set I illustrated for Flourishes this month.

It's the third day of the Flourishes' November Release.

We are featuring,

Camellia Love

Using dies from the Flourishes store, papers from my stash, and alcohol markers,

I only fussy cut part of the image, using a square around it, using my paper trimmer.

It's difficult to see here, but I sprayed it with Shimmer Spritz in "Sparkle"

by Imagine Crafts to dress it up.

This card was created for my friends who got married on Saturday evening.

It's so wonderful to be able to create one-of-a-kind cards for the special people in your life.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Day Two of Flourishes November Release

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

Today I had the opportunity to use a stamp set I illustrated for Flourishes this month.

It's the second day of the Flourishes November Release.

We are featuring,

Winter Bouquet

Using beautiful paper and cardstock from the Flourishes store, colored pencils and alcohol markers,

I fussy cut the image, after coating it with Glossy Accents.

It's difficult to see here, but it is really shiny and pretty in real life.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Day 1 of Flourishes November Release

Hello, and welcome to my studio...

Today I had fun using a stamp set for Flourishes.

It's the first day of the Flourishes November Release.

We are featuring,

My Cup Runneth Over by Lauren Pope.

Be sure to stop at all the Designers' blogs and the Flourishes store to pick up this fun set.

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie
Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,

Friday With Flourishes

Hello and welcome to my studio.

I am so excited to be the Artist in Residence at the new Flourishes!
Every Friday our Senior Design Team is challenged by one of the designers on the team.

For today's blog hop, Lovely Linda Lucas has challenged the team go:

Monochromatic

I have the great pleasure of using the Year of Flowers 2 set

Today's card images are colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.
I embossed them with clear embossing powder over white ink.

The frame is done with a die from the Flourishes exclusive set of dies.

The sentiment is from another stamp set.

Here is the blog hop list for you to enjoy more monochromatic creations:

Flourishes Blog
Barbara Thompson

Beverly Cole (me)

Linda Lucas

Naomi Gong

Rebecca Ednie

Tricia Traxler

Enjoy the Journey,