Flourishing Phrases Cards & Memories Gift Set!

The Cards and Memories Gift set is a great gift idea to bring for the Hostess of your next New Year’s Eve Party event, what a nice way to start the New Year than with a fresh new set of cards and a photo album to showcase your favorite moments. This is a very easy to reproduce project and great for your next Class or Workshop, you can also make one for a Birthday Gift or any other occasion. The Flourishing Phrases Cards and Memories Gift Set tutorial includes four cards of different occasions and one accordion style photo album all this packed in a beautiful keepsake box. In this tutorial you will learn how to build an easy keepsake box with a magnetic closure, how to make your own tassels and embellishments, how to quickly create a cute photo album and a set of cards.

This pretty project was made by Olga Cavanuagh and you can get her tutorial when you subscribe to the month of December over at Craft Project Central.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie B

Creation Station Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Creation Station blog hop for July! Our theme this month is Gifts from the Garden - and there are so many awesome new sets that fit this theme! One of my favorite new bundles is the Flourishing Phrases stamp set and coordinating Flourish Thinlits.  

So this is the first card I've created with this new bundle of goodies! I Love that the large flower-vine thinlit is such a perfectly pretty focal point to fill a card front. It can really stand alone, but has so much potential for other ideas... I started by adhering it to a Soft Sky watercolored background. But, of course, I added a few more details to it!

It was simple to just run the thinlit through the Big Shot one extra time, using two small scraps of Calypso Coral Cardstock. That created the two extra flowers that I just glued on top of the original Old Olive piece.

And another easy, but quick sparkle I added was using the Wink of Stella Gold pen to the little 'buds' of the die cut. They sparkle even more in person! With that touch of gold, I decided to add the Gold Foil detail along the edge to tie the look of the card together.

And in keeping with the color scheme, I added the saying onto a Soft Sky banner, with a Calypso Coral bow! One other detail that I like about the die cut is that it's not completely glued onto the card front. There are spots that I just left without adhesive so that it gives some dimension. - Kind of a nice touch!

I hope you enjoyed my card! 

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Kathy Kartak

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Jen Arkfeld

Enjoy the rest of the hop,


Julie B