Friday, June 10, 2011

Garden Fresh Goodness...

Hello all and welcome to the last of the sneak peeks for Flourishes June release! This one just might have your mouth watering thinking about all the fresh produce that is just now starting to hit the stands! Flourishes has gotten a lot of requests for veggies and finally, it's delivering!

Introducing...

You can almost taste the fresh goodness of summer looking at this set called Garden Fresh designed by Marcella Hawley. With a healthy bunch of radishes or beets, deliciously sweet snap peas and fresh-picked carrots, this set is ready to plant itself onto your creations! Three main images plus a series of sentiments that will help you deliver some of summer's best - not just in cards, but in gift tags, recipe cards, canning labels and more!

Speaking of Recipe Cards.... Flourishes has two new digital downloads that are PERFECT for labels and recipes! Be sure to check out their new Fresh Labels and Fresh Recipes downloads! I used both on my creation today.

On to my creation! I wanted to make something that would be good for potlucks or for barbecues that you could make and give to honor the hostess. So, I put my thinking cap on. You might think this is just a regular card, but you'll find out, it's a little more.

For my creation, I used a portion of Flourishes new 123 Create Kit called Yacht Club. The paper and brad are in this fabby kit! I used the new set Garden Fresh for the front and stamped it on Flourishes new Fresh Labels digital download that I had printed on Flourishes Classic White. After stamping once over the entire label, I stamped the sentiment 'What's Cookin'?' from the set on a second label, cut out and popped up the sentiment window. I colored my radish (or beet) with Copic markers and used the Creamy, Spring Greens, and Dahlia Collection and then added some highlighting with the Flesh Tones 1 Collections grouped by Flourishes.

Here's a close up!



And, here's a peek at the inside! I printed off one of the Fresh Recipes cards and stamped Flourishes Strawberries set on the edge coloring with the Poppy, Daffodill and Spring Greens Copic Collections. I thought this was perfect for my Strawberry Salad recipe. I created a pocket from my decorative paper and thought the recipe plus a cook book book mark would be a fun little extra!


For the book mark, I used one of the Fresh Labels digital downloads, stamped some of the veggies from the Garden Fresh set and colored them up with Copics. Add a heavy duty eyelet, a book mark tassel and... good to go! On a portion of the pocket, I stamped one of the sentiments from the set, which says "From Our Kitchen." I thought that'd be a fun little addition.



And that, my friends, is it! A fun little card that acts as a homemade "gift" of sorts! You won't believe the creativity that our design team cooked up using this set. You'll have to hop on over and see what they whipped up!

Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber --you are here!
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Sharon Doolittle
Jan Marie Caruso

Would you like to WIN this set? YOU CAN!!!! One of the ladies listed above is the….


What that means is, of all the blogs, one of these ladies (as the Mystery Blogger) will pick a lucky commenter that left some love in the form of a comment on her post today showcasing the Garden Fresh set. The name chosen will WIN this fabulous set! We’ll announce the winner Saturday during our Winner’s Circle post at Noon CST!

Want a chance to win the ENTIRE FLOURISHES RELEASE FOR JUNE?

Check back today right here on the Flourishes Blog at noon for the final noontime daily challenges! This one could bring out the wordsmith in you. So, be sure to click back and see what’s in store! We hope you had fun this week. We sure had fun showing off some of the wonderful new polymer that is on Flourishes shelves. We can't wait to see what YOU create with these fun new sets!

FYI: All of this week’s sets will be live in the Flourishes store today by 9 AM CST! So, if you don’t win and can’t wait, pre-order now by clicking HERE to get to the store!

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

What can I say besides outstanding? I love everything about your set, including the design and the colors, of course. Thanks for sharing this with me.

Joan
MN

Shannon White said...

Wow!! Miss Julie, this is Fabulous!! I love your gift set! Gorgeous coloring and love the dp's too. Just Wonderful! thanks so much for the inspiration!

Hugs!
Shannon 8-)

petra,s cards said...

oooohhh my goodness juli its fabulous everithing is so perfect together the papers collours and image!!!
xx petra

Leslie Miller said...

Do we love this set or what, Julie? I think a big YES! What fun we've had with it! More veggies! This project is so cute -- you were holding back, sly girl. I LOVE it!

Luv 2 Create said...

Fabulous gift set and fabulous stamps set. TFS.
Marcie

jjocarlson said...

What pretty colors! Thank you for sharing your creations with us!

Peachy Wessels said...

Great card and gift set! So pretty - fresh and fun! I love your idea of the bookmark, using the label!

Anonymous said...

Amazing what the DT did with vegetables this month! Your cards are so creative and colorful-you really capture the essence of the vegetable!

Glenda said...

Oh my goodness, I love this! Your coloring is wonderful and I love the background papers you chose. I'm gonna love this set!

Dawn B. said...

I agree with Leslie.. More Veggies. Your creation is amazing. I just love all the things we can do with this set.. Great job.

DottyA Cards & Things said...

You outdid yourself on this today!! I just love this collection and the way you used it... The bookmark is a really nice thing to add too!

Alica said...

Amazing! Wonderful coloring and papers too! Thanks for the inspiration!

Anonymous said...

Oh that's awesome!! Love that your card is also a little holder. Wonderful stamping and colouring on the book mark.
Beth Greco

Theresa's Studio said...

So many ideas in your post for this set....Great colors and designs on each. Who would not want this set after seeing all these ideas??? Great job!

Robbie said...

This is so pretty! Beautifully done.

ecpiercy said...

Wow! What a great gift you've created! Thanks for sharing!

Sherry Kushibab said...

Your card and idea are just down home darling looking. Great pocket you created for the recipe card...coloring looks fabulous.

Evette K. said...

Oh my goodness your creations are just fabulous!!!! These new sets are just the bomb. Gotta have them somehow. My list of "have to Haves" have grown out of site. Need to win the lottery to support my habit. LOL

Tanya said...

Wow, wow, wow! I love your projects! I want the stamps, and I want to make some yummy goodies, lol! I love new ways to give recipe cards!

The Rubber Maid said...

Who would have thought veggies could be part of a card..but this is just fantastic. Coloring is perfect as usual and all in all a wonderful project. Mom

Emily Keaton said...

What a WONDERFUL gift, and so beautifully colored. Julie, your veggies look amazing!! This set is terrific. :)

Barbara said...

Over-the-top fabulous project, Julie!! I love the book mark idea using the label--gonna have to CASE that idea, for sure!

Debbie D. said...

Wow what a lovely gift set...beautiful job coloring.

E. Marie said...

Fantastic job. Your card is gorgeous and the recipe/bookmark holder is amazing - great idea.

Linda Carson said...

Wonderful, creative, inspirational, fabulous, beautiful....and I like it all too!

Heather said...

LOVE it!! The whole project is fabulous, but I have to say that the little bookmark is downright adorable! And a really great idea.

dinosaur said...

What a great card! I love the checkered red paper!

Allison Cope said...

Genius Julie! Love the tag... your card... your colouring! Amazing work!

Anonymous said...

These are fabulous. Liz Williams

dpkennedy said...

This totally rocks! Your coloring is outstanding woman! I love this idea, the pocket and bookmark are adorable! Who wouldn't love to receive this!

Beth Miller said...

Red and green, it's not just for Christmas!! Beautiful.

Lee said...

I'm in love!!! This recipe design is seriously FAB---U---LOUS!!!!!

ChristineCreations said...

ooo the red and green contrast is just yummy looking lady! And the label with the beets looks so great for the card. I really love the book mark with the combination of all the stamps on it...beautiful ensemble!

Ravengirl said...

I'm so glad you mentioned that the beets could also be radishes! I completely saw them as that! Love, love, love this new set!

Stacy Morgan said...

Beautiful! I never thought to use that digi like that with the beets. Fabulous Julie! I adore that polka dotted paper too!

miatagal said...

Julie,

You are so creative and such an inspiration! Your colouring is amazing as is choice of DPs. Love all of the images you used, flowers and veggies.