Friday, April 24, 2009

Flourishes Focus.... Flower Soft!

Hi all! You've likely seen that fluffy colorful stuff called Flower Soft popping up on cardmaking blogs recently. But, have you tried it? If you haven't and needed a how-to before you dive in, then you will have to check out the Flourishes Newsletter this week as Cindy Lawrence gives us all a fabulous tutorial! Just click HERE!!


As Cindy was putting together her tutorial, she challenged the rest of the Flourishes DT to try their hand at it too! I remember when we first got this product in the store. The "Flourishes" all sent us a little to play with and in the note, one of the owners (I won't say who) warned us -- don't try this technique if you have a moving ceiling fan in the room! I got a laugh out of that -- but it's true. Flower Soft is a light and fluffy way to add texture!

So.... here's my card!

I knew I wanted to use the new Swing Set and I wanted to keep it simple. I stamped my image colored it, paper pieced it with this darling Jenni Bowlin paper and then grabbed my Flower Soft glue. At that point, I just pressed some of the Shamrock Green Flower Soft into my tree! Just a simple way to add a pop of texture and color.

Here's a close up! See the clouds in the background? I used an old template I had and just sponged in some ink. But, if you don't have a template, cut some reverse cloud shapes into a piece of text weight paper and use that as a mask!

You'll have to make the rounds to the rest of the Flourishes Senior Design Team! As you'll see with each hop, there are so many ways to use Flower Soft. You can get pretty creative with it.... or you can grab it like I did for a simple pop of texture!

Flourishes Newsletter
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller


Thanks for stopping by!

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

sweet card Julie, I am liking that fluffy stuff, hehehe!

Cindy Lawrence said...

This is just lovely, Julie! I love that gorgeous paper-pieced dress! So glad you played this week! :)

Silke Ledlow said...

Julie - the Flower Soft on the tree looks so wonderful!!! This is one beautiful card!!!

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

Love it Julie! Your colours are so bright and fresh and those trees look just awesome with the Flower Soft!

Cathy and Steve said...

Julie, this card would brighten anyone's day and it is different - not your typical "cheer up" card, which is what I love about it.

Fun summer colors - LOVE your choice of colors. And I love the way her dress matches the bg... I never think to do that!

Just a really great card!

ChristineCreations said...

Well it's totally sweet and springy Julie :) I want a dress like that! Glad you posted girl it's totally adorable!

Leslie Miller said...

Well, now, Julie...this is a very pretty and spring-fresh card! Mmmmmmm, I think I feel a breeze and it feels wonderful. I just love your card!

Alex said...

Such a pretty card Julie - I love the fluffy stuff, lol!! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

Latisha said...

I don't know what you were worried about, this is a beautiful card!

Diane said...

That's so cool! Lovely card girl!

Stacy Morgan said...

Julie this is so cute and the tree looks great. You silly girl it looks awesome!

Betty Wright said...

Julie,

Beautiful card and love the colors and flower soft detailing. Okay...I guess I need to finally get some of this stuff myself!!! LOL!!!

Love the new blog look!!!!

Lesli said...

Wonderful card Julie. I always enjoy looking at paper pieced work too!

Darlene said...

Very creative Julie! Love too how you paper pieced her dress ... your work is always so inspirational!
Thanks too for the wonderful uplifting card ... it truly "made my day" (I love getting surprises in the mail, lol).

Janine said...

Hey Julie!!! Can you redo my blog banner!!? Yours is gorgeous!!!

Kay said...

I really like this fluffy stuff, and I like the tip about how to make clouds. Gonna have to give that a whirl. Love the new blog look!

Shirley said...

How wonderful! I am not really excited about this set, but you really make it shine! Love the card!