September Beautiful World Tour

Hello Everyone and welcome to the September Flourishes Beautiful World Tour!!!
Once again, it's time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and
prepare for take off as once again we prepare to travel the world and be
inspired by talented girls from all parts of the globe! A big thank you to
everyone who traveled the globe with us last month and stamped our passports
(left comments), we were thrilled to have you join us on the maiden flight!!
Do you know that your travels around the Flourishes World gives you the
opportunity to WIN?? All we ask is that you do a little globetrotting and stamp
our passports (leave us a comment) and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP
SET!!!!! The catch is, you don't know which country is going to be this month's
Vacation Spot (chosen blog), so leave a comment on each one by September 30th
for your chance to win!!!!
This month the hostess is Anne-Elise and we've been challenged to Remember our
Friends! Where would we be without our friends? We laugh together and share
our dreams, and when things are hard, we want to be there for them or be a
shoulder to cry on when they grieve. Today we remember those friends with
Sympathy, Missing You, Thinking of You or even Wishing You Were Here cards and
perhaps we'll even have a special story to tell you about those friends that
have inspired us along the way.
If you've jetted in from Kathy’s blog, then you have arrived
at the right destination! If you haven't, perhaps you'd like to start your
journey back in Florida at the Flourishes Blog
so you don't miss all the beautiful inspiration along the way!
I stamped my floral piece from Flourishes “Summer Blossom SS197” set onto Kraft cardstock and colored the flowers with pencils in. The sentiment is from “Hydrangea SS 194 and is one of a set of 7 beautiful stamps” and I stamped it on some lovely papers by My Minds Eye “Rosy” which is also available at Flourishes. Dies (frame and the border die) are both made by Magnolia they can be found through Sir Stampalot.

Thanks for taking time to visit me , it's time to grab your passports and board Flourishes Flight BWT, your next and last destination is going to be the Flourishes Blog.
Take care – Claudia

For Carole…

how blessed am I to be able to travel this year to all those places and I am so excited as of today as I am writing this posting to know already a few people I know for sure I can meet. It is even more exciting to sit here and think who else from the blogging community I might be able to meet in person. OMG!!! THIS IS INSANE!!!

I have made this card to give to my dear friend Carole.. who has been a really good friend of mine since I started to blog. Carole is going to travel just to meet me to Sir Stampalot. I told her I might shed a tear or two when I finally get to see her in person.

I hope she is going to like this card. Since I can give it to her by hand I thought it would be okay to have the tags stick over the 6x6 card base. Usually keep everything inside that perimeter.. its already hard enough to mail those kind of cards with all the high flower embellishments on them.

For my card I used
Magnolia Design Paper forget me not floral – MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE – I have only 2 sheets and I want to stock up on it while I am in the UK
blue kitchen cloth and world map paper
Tilda with anchor
Cat tails, Sandcastle
Dies: So Wrapped Lovely, Tag
Sentiment front: Stampin up, Sentiment inside: created by my very talented friend Tammi – they might become soon available in Rubber through Little Darlings. Please contact Angie Hunt if you are interested. The more email she gets, the more likely she she will have them made into rubber!

The Beauty of the garden–BBB 22 Challenge

Hello, pewh… finally my computer with all my photos is hooked up again and I think I should be able to color this weekend. Things are still crazy here.. still no estimate on how much the damage is but it is large.
Anyways.. without no further delay I want to show you the card I have made already 2 weeks ago for the Bring Back The Beautiful Challenge that went live this Monday. If you like to play along.. you do have the entire month to enter your creation. Check it out The ladies who play there are my huge source of inspiration for my “cute” cards.

As spring begins to sprout in many parts of the world - let's honor Mother Nature by showing off the beauty of what we find in the garden. Pick your favorite flower and make it the centerpiece of your card or creation! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creations on the Flourishes Blog to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB22. You have until May 31 to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! Our favorite Beauty from this challenge will also be asked to join the team for the next challenge, so play along and let's see all those beautiful Garden creations!!

Supplies used on my card:
Flourishes stamps: Butterfly and Blossoms,  Botanical bookplate vol 2
Dies: Spellbinder – circle – lacy circle, book plate die
other: Cuttlebug tiny tag (retired), Go Kreate tag
Papers: Stampin up (retired)
Cardstock: Flourishes
Coloring: Copics – Flourishes

Flourishes Blog - http://flourishes.org/2012/05/the-beauty-of-the-garden/
Betty - http://gbedwright.blogspot.com/2012/05/flourishes-bbb22-challenge-and-quick.html
Iwona -  http://ipalamountain.blogspot.com/2012/05/bbb22-beauty-of-garden.html
Kathy -  http://www.inspiredtostamp.blogspot.com/2012/05/beauty-of-garden.html
Linda -  http://lindaduke.typepad.com/lindas_works_of_heart/2012/05/flourishes-bbb22-the-beauty-of-the-garden.html
Naomi - Still coming
Yvonne - http://yvonne-anabelle.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/bbb-22.html

Here is s a litte shot of the new linen stitch scarf. I finished it yesterday and I know already the dear friend how’s getting it I wanted to sent the card along with the scarf.. but since the water damage happened I sent this card to someone else and I will make a new one to match the colors of the scarf.

Thanks again my friends for all your support.

with love Claudi

Spring Cleaning

Hello friends.. have you started your spring cleaning??
Don’t you just love to do laundry
awwhhh… all the wonderful things we are responsible for in the house thought this sweet image drawn by Krista would be quite sweet to give to Mom or just somebody who does a lot for us. Iam always so grateful if somebody can help me out watching the boys if I have to go run someplace. It’s really the little things that matter the most

I am so excited…we are currently in Ottawa, Canada and I am meeting my dear friend Danielle there. whoohoo… iam looking so forward to meet her in person and have a great time with her. If everything worked out the way planned it, we had dinner together last night and probably hang out today and colour some images in, in our hotel in Ottawa. Maybe we get some sightseeing done too.Defenetly we will have fun. I will share some photos later this week. I hope to be back home on Friday or Thursday night.

Stamps/Digi image: Krista Smith “Wash Day”
Papers: ??? I forgot
Crochet lace: The Ribbon Girls
Sentiment: Stampin up
other: Cuttlebug/buttons and flowers from stash

LOVT peek

Hello friends.. sorry for my lack of postings… I have had a rough 2 weeks. Both of my boys got sick and there is just not much sleep for me in. We have also painted a large room in our house which made a lot of dirt and moving furniture around. It feels good now to look a the new colour and placement of the beds in the room. On my card today I used one of the new soon to be released LOVT images. I am trying to use more of my dies I have in my collection. Just spent a bunch of money on some plastic sleeves and files to just organize all that stuff and I am quite happy the way it works out for me. I can now actually see what I have and just flip through my stuff.

well.. there is not much else to say about the card I guess… details like colours I have noted on the end of this posting. Oh yes… the size of the card is 6x5.5 inches and I oriented the layout horizontally. Man, I can not even remember when I have made the last time a layout like that! Thank god, for oval shaped images

Paper: My Minds Eye “Dolled Up”colours: YG 0000/01/11 YG91
E0000/000/00/11/13/01 (different skin for boy and girl)50/37/31/34
R:000/20/11/22/21 0000/232/35 BG72/10/70
W0/5 C1/0/3/5/
N4 Black/ Warm Grey/Cool Grey/ French Grey 90% Kelp Green, Scarlet Red, Espresso, Raspberry,Muted Turquoise,

Thanks for all you do..

I listed this card on Etsy here: Thanks

Hi friends… hope you are all well.  Feels good to be able to color again. I have had this week some crazy unexpected things going on with the boys and my personal life. Today I was feeling like making a Spring card and found some inspiration on Splitcoast.

Image: Lili of the Valley
Sentiment: Stampin up
Coloring: Copic Sketch and Prisma Color Pencils
E:000/0000/00/13/31/34/25/29/93/50/53
R21/22/30/000, Y35/32 W0/ G82/YG17/21/0000

Paper: My Minds Eye Howdy Doody
Embellishments: Some by the Ribbon Girls, Tacky Glue, Flowers, Sticky strip (for ribbons), Circle, ribbon banner by Spellbinder, Paper Doily, button from stash, Word Window punch,

Thanks a bunch

Hei there….. well.. guess this card does not really fit into the season. I did make this sample back in June/July 2011 for a  book submission. Emphasis was how to color backgrounds and folds just with Copic markers in. The card made it to the final cut but was than denied because it had too many layers. I still like this card. The photos look a bit odd – the card is in real not so “bright”. Speaking of bright.. I am so lucky.. my husband noticed how upset I was about the broken bulbs, so he ordered for me new ones. They have arrived yesterday and they give me really bright light, much lighter than the ones I had before.. best part. They were less money! We spent around 40 bucks for 4 daylight bulbs (they were on sale and had free shipping) vs. the ones I broke 1 bulb did cost $27.00 I think you can understand now why I was so upset breaking them.

Well I should go, I must crochet a baby hat, a kind lady ordered through Etsy. I want to post all my mail today.

Garden Tilda – she is on sale Apple Basket
Magnolia border die

Sentiment: Stampin up
Paper: Maja Design
Ribbons; Stampin up
crochet lace and hemp from  The Ribbon Girls

DT #2 Thanks

Good morning everyone…

Thank you so much for swinging by today. I would love to show you one of my cards that i have made with some stamps and supplies that i have gotten though Magnolia Sweden.

Magnolia wanted us this time, to use some of the stamps from older Collections. So in my DT package i have found the cute flower pot from last years “Chasing Butterfly Collection” .

I could not resist and combine that stamp with a stamped image for Honey Bee Tilda (Raising the Ceiling Collection) that i have gotten though my wonderful friend Carole last week. Thank you so much Carole for everything xoxoxox :-)

The little tag Tilda is holding can be found in the Magnolia “New Years Collection 2008”. The sentiment is by Stampin up.

The embellishments, flowers & ric rac ribbons are all by Magnolia – i have gotten 1 sheet of Design paper – per card i have to make, but obviously.. lol.. i like to have more so i have added a couple of more sheets from my own stash (Basic Grey “Wisteria” line).

Coloring is done with Copic Sketch markers.

Thank you

 Hi and a wonderful Monday. Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my card this past Friday! I think iam going to have a tough week ahead of me with some family coming to visit us later this week from Toronto and getting my family prepared for the vacation (we drive with by car down to Miami). I have decided that i am going to have this month here and there some random blog candies to give away. I would love to avoid the blog candy blogs.. I want the prizes going to some of you who come and visit me regularly and to be honest.. i will not have the time to just check if you have advertised my candy on your blog. So iam not going to ask much..the candies i will have up are always for one day only. :-) Some gift sets are bigger, some are smaller.. but i hope it is going to be much fun for everyone. Please know that i appreciate each and everyone of you. Thank you for coming to see my cards and if you have time to leave me a message.
lots of love Claudia

 This card is made for Stamp with fun Challgenge blog

and i have used the super cute Tilda with bunch of roses from the Butterfly Collection 2009 for my card.

Sentiment: Stampin Up (btw.. one candy is going to include this wonderful set by Stampin up - retail $9.95)

Papers are: My Minds Eye and Stampin up

Embellishments: Stampin up, Martha Stewart

Tools: Nestabilities Label, Fiskars "Daisy" border punch

Take care

Thank you

i added some bling to my card lol :-)

Hi, ready for the next challenge over on the Friday Sketcher blog ??? :-)
Well as you know you could combine the Cute Card Challenge with the fab sketch Jaqueline created for us. Wow... at first i was totally intimidated by it. I had never used a triangle on my card before. But once i cut the paper and i layered it on my card - i was like WOW THAT looks really good and interesting! No wonder Jaquelines cards are on many magazines published!!! So please check out her card and the other Designers work for this week - oh and btw.. of course we have again a great prize for challenge week #26!

Stamps: Magnolia with sunflower

CS/DP: Fiskars (double sided paper), Stampin up: So Saffron, Old Olive and Chocolate chipEmbellishments: Robins Nest, Stampin up Hardware, Sizzix Die coloring: Copic Sketch Markers, white gel pen

Stamps: Sunflower cut out from Tilda. Magnolia-licous does have the set of sunflowers now in the store!! Sentiment Stampin up

Ink: Versafine brown and Close to cocoa for sponging