Flourishes Friday Focus

Yeah, lets get this weekend started! This week over at Flourishes the focus is on recipes. I decided to make a recipe card showing one of my favorite cocktails! Join us and show us your favorite recipe!

Mmmm, mmmm…..who doesn’t love a margarita? These are scrumptious! I printed the recipe, from the Noble Pig website, on Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock then I stamped over the text with the large peach image from the Cherries and Peaches stamp set in Memento Tangerine ink. I stamped the smaller peach image on a scrap of ivory and colored it with Copics. It was cut out and popped over a corner die cut that I stamped the word on. The bottom was edged with a scrap of Bo Bunny dot that I scalloped and layered with a piece of ivory crocheted trim. Just a simple piece of sheer dot ribbon and brad finishes it off.

Make sure you stop by the Noble Pig and check out all the scrumptious recipes! I haven't made one that I didn't like, and a few are absolutely my favorites! Cathy's humor, great storytelling, and gorgeous food pics alone are worth your time! Check it out!

Right now you can celebrate with the 12 days of Christmas
sale over at Flourishes! From the 7th through the 18th, all Christmas sets will be 25% off. All of the prices on these sets reflect the discount, so get shopping!

Find the Beauty Within

What do you get when you mix the beauty of stained glass images with the fabulous shapes of Spellbinders Nestabilities? A fabulous new set from Flourishes (link: http://www.flourishes.org/) called Beauty Within. This stamp set was designed to take the guess work out of cutting and trimming an elegant shape. With the help of Labels 11 and Labels 13, you can color to your heart’s content and then trim your image perfectly with these beautiful dies. This set, designed by artist Becky Fleck, is hot off the presses and in the Flourishes store now! Would you like to win this set? Simply leave a comment here (www.flourishes.org/blog) and you’ll be in the running! Winners will be announced Saturday at 12 PM CST on the Flourishes Blog.

Stamped on Flourishes White card stock and colored with Copics-this image is a stunner! The images in this set are so much fun to color! I used a scrap of polka dot paper and a piece of green card stock to mat this on. I used a luxurious piece of silk ribbon from Flourishes under the image and added small flat backed pearl on the die cut tag that the sentiment is stamped on. Don’t miss this fun and beautiful set!

Check out all the amazing samples our design team has to share!

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Dawn Burnworth

Julie Koerber

Laura Fredrickson

Leslie Miller

Stacy Morgan

Sharon Doolittle

And the Spellbinders team!

Beth Pingry http://www.bethping.wordpress.com/
Margie Higuchi: http://margieh.blogspot.com/
Holly Simoni: http://www.hollysimoni.typepad.com/
Heidi Blankenship: http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/
Terre Fry http://terresscraptherapy.blogspot.com/

For the Bride to be...

My husband's niece is getting married soon and on Sunday I attended her bridal shower. I adore Jodi and her fiance Chris and she is going to be a gorgeous bride! They are such a fun couple and I know their wedding is going to be a blast! She is a huge fan of leopard and polka dots and although it would have been obvious to go in that direction, I decided I just had to use the gorgeous new Paper Trey Ink set In Bloom. I had seen so many amazing cards made with it!

Oh, and I am soooo glad that I didn't go with leopard! She got more lingerie and towels and items with a leopard print-yikes!


So I stamped the flowers and leaves on Prism cardstock. The large flower was stamped three times and each section cut out and popped up on each other. I colored with Prisma pencils and oms where each layer meets, just making it a bit deeper. Then I used my Quickie glue pen to add ultra fine glitter all around it. The base paper is Vintage Cream also from PaperTrey and I stamped it with a linen bg stamp, with a Versa Magic Dew Drop in Wheat, that I bought unmounted at a stamp show a few years ago but I can't remember who makes it... I finished it off with a piece of PaperTrey ribbon and a button from my stash with their awesome twine threaded through it! This picture does not do it justice by any means...it's really stunning irl (if I do say so myself!).

The next pictures are the front, back, and a few inside pages of the recipe book that I made for her. Oh how I struggled with the binding! I wanted to use my Bind It All but I couldn't figure out how to get the holes evenly spaced at each end of the cover. I spent so much time on it! I just gave up and went for rings instead.

I had completed all of the inside pages first and went whimsical. But when it came to doing the cover I was just at a loss. I had lots of small images but nothing that I felt was appropriate for the front. I ended up making it coordinate with the card instead.

These are all recipes that are tried and true and many that I make often. I wish I could say that I created them, but they are just a compilation of some favorites that I have found over the years. I thought of a few more after I was done, but I thought that making more pages to add would be a good first anniversary gift! Jodi, bless her heart, thinks I am the worlds best cook! I really have just found some of the best cooks and copy their recipes!

All paper used inside the book, with exception to the white cardstock the recipe is printed on, is from Paper Trey.

The cover paper is Bo Bunny black swiss dots. And the interior is an Imaginesce ( red with large pink dots) and Doodlebugs (black on white dots).

The images are from all different sources. Many of them are from Whipper Snapper sets created by Anna Wight, such as Chicken's in the Kitchen and What's Cookin'.


Several of these recipes are from Cathy, affectionately known as the Noble Pig. If you like to cook, and have a good sense of humor, you must head over there now! She creates or adapts recipes, and if they pass her test she passes them on to us...step by step with great photos! Her blog is a wealth of culinary information and lots of other stuff too!

This clam is from Outlines. Isn't he cute? Too bad he's gonna be dinner! I got this recipe from my mom and she doesn't remember where it originated from. There are lots out there that are similar but not the same as this one...and it's always a big hit!


You don't know what you're missing until you make this recipe from Pioneer Woman!



I had to add the disclaimer...not that the recipient might notice any boo boo's but they're there!

I apologize for the less than quality photo's. I have light box in my basement in my craft area, but several overhead lights have burned out and my two little standing lights for the box were really not strong enough to light the whole book. And of course, I finished last minute and just photographed this book minutes before I had to jump into the shower and get ready to go to the shower!

If anyone wants further details on stamps used or even recipes, please email me! I am more than happy to get the info for you!