Friday, May 22, 2009

Flourishes Focus... Just Pierce It!

This week over on the Flourishes Newsletter, the lovely Christine Okken is offering up a fabulous tutorial on ways to make your cards sing with a little paper piercing! She used some of Spellbinder's Piercabilities and created some gorgeous cards! You can check it out HERE.

But first, with each Flourishes Focus, the hostess challenges the rest of the team to use her tutorial to cook up some fun!

Here's my card....



For starters, I pulled out the Scallop/Ric Rac Piercability template and that is how I created the pink strip. I also used the die to create the similar edge on my green mat. For a guide on how to use these dies, Christine really takes you through step by step - so be sure to check it out. I love how these dies not only cut and emboss, but allow you to use the die as the piercing template as well! I used this mat and piercer. The mat is a larger size than most and the piercing tool is really a fine tip which creates such a delicate look.

For my card, I used the Labels One Spellbinders die and made a frame from a 3-1/2" by 3-1/2" square that I corner rounded. The tulips were from the Stamp Simply Thank You set. (This set appears to be out of stock - but I am sure it is on order!) I stamped it on some European Watercolor paper with Vivid Tea Rose and Olive inks and then went over it with a damp waterbrush to move the color a bit. The sentiment is from the Signs of Spring set and was done just by using two sizes of oval punches from SU. Add some Kaiser Craft bling and you're done!

Be sure to check out what the other ladies of the Flourishes DT created!

Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan


Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you back here soon!

14 comments:

Cindy Lawrence said...

So soft and lovely, Julie! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL card!

The Rubber Maid said...

Soft and so lovely is the only way to say it...so I repeat Cindy's words . Love the colors. Mom

Julie Koerber said...
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ChristineCreations said...

What beautiful softness Julie! And the elegant rows of piercing add so much don't you think!? Beautiful work!

Stacy Morgan said...

Julie the softness and the elgegance in this is just wonderful. My fav flowers to boot also. hee hee beautiful card.

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

Beautiful Julie! Love your soft colour palette and the piercing is so perfect!

denise g. said...

You fixed it AND you changed out the look of your blog ~ YIPPEE!
Card is still really pretty, too.
Thanks for helping me to pop in, fly off at the fingers and move on to hassle some other poor unsuspecting blogger.

Leslie Miller said...

Oooooh, this is one of the prettiest cards ever, Julie! Wow! So delicate and sweet. Absolutely lovely! The colors, design, coloring, piercing -- everything about this just steals my heart! Love your new summery blog design, too!

Jenny Gropp said...

this card exudes soft and sweet! Lovely job as always!!!

Ida said...

What a wonderful card. The colors are soft and delicate and I just love how you created your frame for the Tulips. Beautiful!

Shirley said...

The colors are just lovely and the card is gorgeous! I love that set too!

Diane said...

Beautiful as always Julie!!!

Ali Manning said...

Your card is so elegant and beautiful Julie!

Chris said...

love your new background!!!