Thursday, February 28, 2013

TGIFlourishes Friday Faves!

Flourishes-Favorites 
Hi all and Happy Friday! Today, the Flourishes Design Team is letting the creative juices flow and decided to pick up their favorite sets to serve up a little weekend inspiration for all of you! As you make the hop, you'll see a bunch of different sets being used. What does that mean? A lot of different kinds of eye candy! YUM!

On to my creation!

While we were supposed to pick a favorite set for today - I picked an image that I love and think is just gorgeous but have hardly got the chance to use! It's the large image from Flourishes' Magnolia set.

I stamped and colored up my image -- stamping with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Flourishes Classic White Card Stock. Colored it up with Copic markers (check out my list below for the color families I used) and then I used the "outside the edge" technique after my image was all colored up. That's when you let a portion of your image fall outside of the die cut shape by fussy cutting and setting the cut image on the inside of the die. If you want a great tutorial on this -- Diane Zechman did a fabulous one over on SCS HERE! From there -- the rest is just matting it all up -- with some fun My Mind's Eye paper, sheer ribbon, paper piercing and pearls! Ta da!!!!

As you make the rounds, you'll also see a new name on our designer link list! Guess who is joining us??? This is Ms. Amanda Havon's first post as a senior design team member -- so be sure to stop by her place and tell her congrats!!

Are you ready for some fabulous creativity? Head on over and see our ever-so-talented Flourishes designers!

Hope you have a fabulous and creative weekend! See you back here soon!
~Julie

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16 comments:

TLady said...

OOOOOoooooOOOOooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this!!!!!!!!!!!! The flowers look REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(They look like they could be picked!) :) AND there's the beaded oval again!!! You use them SOOOO NICELY!!!!!!!!!!! THIS CARD IS GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!:)

Tricia T said...

Friday Favorites is so fun. I like seeing a number of the older stamps used!! (More to add to my wish list, you know!) ; ) Your coloring is wonderful and I love the ribbon you used. SOOOOoooo pretty!

Blessings!

Tricia

Lynne said...

Beautiful. I live in Magnolia, DE so this is special here.

ChristineCreations said...

I just love these magnolias. Gorgeous work with them Julie. I really love the layout too. That edged ribbon is so pretty too!

Linda Carson said...

gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous!

Diane said...

Another gorgeous creation,,,those flowers just pop right at you..so pretty!!

lisa808 said...

Gorgeous!

Dianne said...

I love magnolias and you have colored them beautifully,the background is lovely too. Your Flourishes post is my favorite.. Have a great day..

Amanda said...

Oh Julie, what a beautiful card! I almost used that stamp set but I'm glad I didn't, mine wouldn't have done it justice like yours does! It's absolutely stunning :)

Stacy Morgan said...

Beautiful Julie! I do like when the image is outside of the frame, wonderful card.

Allison Cope said...

Stunning Julie! I love all the rich colouring of your blooms. You always have a great eye for dimension and detail when you colour. Wonderful card this week!

dpkennedy said...

Gorgeous coloring lady! Beautiful card!

Cheryl said...

This is beautiful--your coloring is amazing!

Shelly Schmidt said...

How beautiful is this! Your coloring is amazing! And, I love the L.O. you used.

Sue from Oregon said...

Very pretty!

Heather Rogers said...

WOW Julie! This is stunning! Love the pink petals and your bow is so pretty. :)