Happy Birthday Christine!

IT'S A SURPRISE PARTY!!! Grab a handful of confetti, a bright balloon and come along for a fun birthday blog hop to celebrate a special birthday for our dear friend, Christine Okken!  One thing about birthdays, is that you always hope to spend time with those you care about and that's why we're here!  At Flourishes, we're just one big family... so we just wanted to celebrate a wonderful day with one of our loved ones.

Even though we're a day early, we'd like to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTINE!

Join along with members of the Flourishes family today and share some fabulous birthday inspirations, many happy celebratory birthday wishes and maybe even a slice of cyber cake.

Dear Christine, I wish you days full of colors, rainbows and happiness! May your days be filled with love and laughter and may you continue to inspire us all with your gorgeous and breathteaking creations! Here is to many many happy years ahead! Have a beautiful birthday!

The first thing that came to my mind seeing the colorful cupcake picture was to make something vibrant and colorful. And the can with tulips from the "April Showers" stamp set was perfect for the occasion. The sentiment is from "Garden Picks" stamp set. I colored them with aquarel color pencils and aquabrush and used some leftover patterned papers.

In honor of Christine's birthday celebration, we're giving away a special birthday present or two of our own!  Hidden among the Design Team's blogs today is a Mystery Blogger. Comment on her blog and you could be chosen as one of our birthday prize winners! The more you comment, the better your chances of winning.

As well as one lucky commenter, we're having a birthday challenge too!

THE OFFICIAL RULES:

• Simply create a NEW birthday themed card or project.
• Entries need to be in by Friday November 1st at 6 PM EST.
• Those entries using Flourishes stamps will be counted for 2 prize ballots!
• You must link your creation in our InLinkz Widgit to be counted.
• You must have a link to our challenge in your blog post or gallery post.  Please feel free to use our Birthday Graphic too!
• If you upload to SCS please use the keyword FLLCWISH
• We'll announce the winners on Saturday on the Flourishes blog on Saturday November 2nd, so check back then to find out if you are a winner!

Hop along with our Flourishes family today.  Don't forget to leave some love for our fabulous designers today for a chance to win...

Aleksandra Mihelič
Allison Cope
Cheryl Lea
Cindy Lawrence
Deborah Anton
Dina Kowal
Heather Jensen
Jenny Gropp
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Maki Jones
Meredith MacRitchie
Naomi Gong
Stacy Morgan
Silke Ledlow
Tosha Leyendekker

Don't forget to stop by Christine's blog, HERE, and send her some birthday wishes too!

Monochrome Beautiful World Tour

Hello dear Flourishes World Tour Friends! :) Today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by October 31st for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Anne-Elise's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

Dina is our hostes this month and she challenged the team to go monochrome with our projects. I wanted to share with you something new I came up recently and decided to make one of my wooden cards that are made on a real wooden plate with a beautiful image on one side and a space to write your personal thoughts and wishes on the other. Since it it like a small piture on a piece of wood it can also be used later to decorate your special corner of your home.I've inked up my new stamp set with beautiful Dahlias. I love that set! I just recently got it and allready used it so many times. I think it will be one of my favourites! And this is the card that I've made.

Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Australia and talented Iwona with her most amazing projects ever...

Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra

Exploding box with a cake and JustRite Friday Challenge #106

Še enkrat več sem uspela najti čas za "JustRite Friday Challenge #106", katerega tema je tokrat barvno-slikovna kompozicija. Ker je ideja takoj padla, se mu resnično nisem mogla izogniti in nastala je nova škatlica, tokrat za rojstni dan, ki v notranjosti skriva mini tortico iz papirja, okrašeno s cvetjem. Desna stran je opremljena z žepkom za denarno darilo, spodnja stran z mini beležnico za osebno posvetilo.

Once again I managed to join in the fun with "JustRite Friday Challenge #106", for which the theme this week was color-picture story. Since the idea poped up in my mind right away I simply couldn't resist to make another exploding box, which, when we open it, reveals a beautiful birthday cake with flowers and a butterfly in the middle. The right side has the pocket for a money gift and a bottom square has a mini notebook to write your personal thoughts and wishes.

Upam, da vam je všeč. Vaših komentarjev sem vedno zelo zelo zelo vesela, čeprav ob treh otročkih in delu včasih res s težavo najdem čas, da jih vrnem. Upam, da mi oprostite... :)Objemček vsem.

Hope you'll like it. And you know... your comments make my day, although I'm having hard times finding some time to return them, since three little kiddos and work take lot of time... :) But I'm tryiiiiiing... :) Have a great day! Hugs.

Aleksandra

A Gift Collection and JustRite Friday Challenge #104

Zadnje čase ni bilo mnogo priložnosti za nove izzive, čeprav zelo rada ustvarjam zanje. Mnogo časa je minilo od mojega zadnjega JustRite petkovega izziva. Redno sem jih spremljala in pri sebi načrtovala projekte, a nikoli našla časa, da bi načrte uresničila. Danes pa mi je končno uspelo, saj sem morala izdelati darilno kolekcijo za naročilo in uporabila sem skico zadnjega izziva "JustRite Friday Challenge #104". Nastal je tale kompletek:

Lately there hasn't been much time for challenges, although I must admit I love creating for them. It has been a long long time since my last JustRite Friday Challenge. I have been checking on them regularly and planning what to make but never found a time to make my plans come true. But today I managed to squezze in some time, since I had to make an order anyway and used the sketch from the latest "JustRite Friday Challenge #104". And this is what I've made:

Uporabila sem rožice iz že "upokojenega" JustRite seta "Plant a Little Love", metuljčka iz seta "Botanical Butterflies" in napis iz seta "Shabby-Chic Labels Four".

I've used the flowers from already retired JustRite set "Plant a Little Love", butterfly from set "Botanical Butterflies" and a sentiment from set "Shabby-Chic Labels Four".

Upam, da vam bo moj novi kompletek všečen. Uživajte v preostanku dneva.

Hope You'll like my new gift set. Enjoy the rest of the day!

Aleksandra

Flourishes Beautiful World Tour and a Postcard

Hello dear Flourishes World Tour Friends! :) Today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by September 30th for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Naomi's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

I am honored to be the hostess for this month. Since the summer and summer vacations just finished and we are getting ready for another bussy autumn season, I thought it would be perfect to challenge the BWT girls to make some postcards. I am sure they did great job so hop on over to their blogs! I don't know if I ever said that out loud but I am trully proud to design in a group of a such talented and warmharted ladies. You are the best!

Now onto the crafting... I have to admit I had some BIG plans for this project. I wanted to make a set of postcards, I had so many gorgeous Flourishes sets in my mind that fitted perfectly for the postcard of our country. But... I am learning, although slowly, that sometimes things get in our way and we can't complete everything like we've planned to. And it happened to me this time too. Since I had to stay in a hospital for the rehabilitation with my little girl I had to remake plans the last moment and I opted for just one postcard. Since I still wanted to give you something extra, I've made two fridge magnets with the same images to go along... like a souvenirs. I chose the set "In Nature", which fitted perfectly, since Slovenia is a green country, full of a beautiful nature scenes. I hope you'll like it.

Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Finland, our talented Anne-Elise will take you there...

Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra

Darilna kolekcija "Bambus"

Danes pa po dolgem dolgem času spet ena objavica za simpatično trgovinico mavelu.com z ustvarjalnimi pripomočki. Če je še niste uspeli obiskati, hitro skočite pokukat. Marina je bila tako zelo prijazna, da mi je poslala nekaj pripomočkov za ustvarjanje in z veseljem vam danes pokažem, kaj je iz njih nastalo. Ker zelo rada delam kompletke nakita in voščilnice, sem tudi tokrat posegla po tej kombinaciji. Lepa darilca vedno prav pridejo. Nastal pa je naslednji kompletek:

Today, after a long time, one post for the DT of mavelu.com shop with craft supplies. If you haven't checked it out yet, hop over, there are quite some "delicious" things to see. Marina was kind to send me some of the crafting supplies and I'll be glad to show you what I have created with it. Since I love to make the collections of jewelry and cards this is what I have chosen this time too. And this is the collection I made:

Za več informacij in za ogled ustvarjalnih pripomočkov, ki sem jih pri izdelavi uporabila, lahko skočite na blog mavelu.com, kjer si lahko ogledate tudi objavice drugih ustvarjalk. Čudovito nedeljo vsem!

For more information and to see the list of crafting supplies I've used please feel welcome to visit the mavelu.com blog, where you can also check out the creations other DT members have made. Have a great day!

Aleksandra

Flower representing our country with August Flourishes Beautiful World Tour

Hello dear Flourishes World Tour Friends! :) Today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by August 31st for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Naomi's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

Our hostess this month is Naomi and she challenged us to select flower that represents our country and create something with it. The perfect choice to represent Slovenia would be a carnation flower but since this wasn't an option I decided to go with Hydrangea flower. I was admiring them all the summer season here, they are bursting in their lovely colors all over the gardens. It is so beautiful and gorgeous! I love them. I've used my new Hydrangea set. I decided to go with multiple colors instead of one and to make this post little special I, once again, created a gift collection of a card and a jewellry in a gift box. The sketch is borrowed from talented Iwona and her Sketcbook Saturday Challenge #102. And here is my project:

Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Iwona and her beautiful Australia...

Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra

Getting Citrusy in July with Flourishes Beautiful Worldtour

Hello to the world! :) Today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by June 30th for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Kathy's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

Our hostess this month is Sasha and she challenged us to get Citrusy this month. I decided to go with citrus colors not images, although Flourishes has some gorgeous citrusy stamps. You have to check them out! But I love fresh citrus colors and they are just perfect for summer creations. I've decided to combine them with beautiful "Garden Gate" set. And here is my card:

Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Sasha and her lovely England...

Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra

June Flourishes Beautiful World Tour with neutrals and textures

We are allready in June, it seems though that the summer is so far away. It is hard to believe we are stepping into it and the school is just about to finish, since we realy didn't have many warm and sunny days here. Most of the time it is cold and rainy and today we finaly got lucky and we can enjoy in alittle bit of sun. It feels nice! But anyway, today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by June 30th for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Naomi's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

Our hostess this month is Meredith and she challenged us with "Neutrals and textures". I love the combination but rarely choose neutrals to work with. Not sure why though... I tend to use a lot of layers and a lot of distressing when working with neutrals. This time I've decided to work with a beautiful rose branch from the gorgeous "Garden Gate" set and build my "story" arround it. The sentiment is from another beautiful and fun "April Showers" set. And here is my card:


Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Anne-Elise and her lovely Finland...


Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra

RIC #35 and a Trendy card with a Bird Cage

Pozdravček vsem. Je pri vas tudi kaj sončka? Jaz sem ga prav vesela, letos je bilo slabega vremena že toliko, da je prav čudovito videti s sončkom obsijano naravo. S sončkom obsijana je tudi moja današnja voščilnica. Nastala je po inspiraciji na blogu Runway Inspired Challenge #35, ki jo tokrat predstavlja spodnja fotografija z modnih brvi:

Hi bloging friends. :) I hope sun is shining at your place too. It is nice to have it around after a looooong period of bad weather around here. And I also have a bit sunny card to share with you today. The inspiration comes from Runway Inspired Challenge #35, which is all about this photo from a fashion show:



Tole pa je moja kreacija:

And this is my today's creation:



Navadno ne pišem dolgih postopkov, kako je voščilnica nastala. Najverjetneje zgolj zaradi kroničnega pomanjkanja časa. A ta mi je zanimiva in zato sem se tokrat odločila, da vir inspiracije miselno povežem s svojim izdelkom. Nič ne bom huda, če ta del preskočite. :)

I usually don't write long posts about a making process of the card. Probably due to a serious lack of time. But this time I decided to do so and link together the inspiration photo and my card. You can skip this part if you don't love long posts. :)

Ozadje za voščilnico sem črpala iz obleke dame na sliki, ki ima črtast vzorec. Iz črnega potiskanega papirja sem izrezala trakove in jih pritrdila na belo ozadje. Ob robu sem dodala bel papir, ki sem ga embosirala s pikčasto srajčko, pikice pa nato pobarvala s črno - tako sem zajela vzorec, ki je na torbici modela. Ozadje je rumeno, da pride bolj do izraza, s tem pa sem skušala ujeti rumen model v ozadju slike. Tudi ptička sta dva, rumen in roza, kot sta na sliki dva modela, zgornji del kletke pa sem opremila z roza trakom z belimi pikami - inspiracija rutke na modelu na sliki. Roza ptiček ima rdeč biserček za uček, kot ima model rdeče žabe. Meni je bilo zanimivo. :) Upam, da tudi vam. :)

The background is the same as the model on the picture has on her dress - white and black stripes. I cut out stripes from a black patterned paper and attached them to a white base of the card. Along the edges I added a white paper that I embossed with dots and colored them black - the pattern that the model has on her purse. The background is yellow - I tried to capture the yellow model from the background. The birds are also two, pink and yellow to match the two modls on the picture. I added a small red rhinestone for the eye of the pink bird to match the red socks of the model. On the top of the cage there is a pink ribbon with white dots - I tried to capture the scarf that model wears around her neck. It was fun doing it and fun describing it. I hope you enjoyed it too! :)

Have fun and see you soon! Hugs, Aleksandra

The Play Date Cafe and Color Splash Time

Zadnje dni nastaja kar nekaj novih izdelkov, saj se intenzivno pripravljam na prodajno-razstavne sejme v mesecu maju. Tokrat je nastala voščilnica po foto in barvni shemi izziva na blogu The Play Date Cafe.

I am making quite some new cards lately, due to intensive preparation to sales-exhibition craft fairs in may. This time I made a card for this weeks The Play Date Cafe challenge.



Malo sem sem poigrala z bleščicami. Že celo večnost jih imam na polički a so me zamikale šele potem, ko sem videla čudovite pobleščičene izdelke nadarjene Erum - E.T. Ustavite se še na njenem blogu Vibgyor krafts in ji pustite kakšno lepo sporočilce. Gotovo ga bo vesela.

I played a little with my glitter. I have loads of it in my crafting supplies but haven't felt the desire to use them until I saw a gorgeous use of it by Erum - E.T. She does an amazing job. Stop by her blog Vibgyor krafts and leave her some love.

Uživajte v dnevu, jaz pa se vrnem še s kakšno novostjo v tem dnevu.

Have an amazing day! I'll be back with some more creations later on.

Hugs, Aleksandra

CASE Study #139 and "Sparkly Butterflies"

Še ena objavica za danes... tokrat za izziv CASE Study Challenge #139. Uf dolgo je že kar sem nazadnje sodelovala v tem izzivu. Nasploh je bilo zadnje čase malo priložnosti za raznovrstne izzive, a sem in tja skušam stlačiti kakšnega vmes... tokrat je ideja takoj padla in seveda sem si vzela čas, da izdelam voščilnico, preden sem se potopila v sanje.

Another post for today... this time for the CASE Study Challenge #139. Oh, It's been a looong loong (to long) time since I last participated in CASE Study challenge in fact there wasn't much time lately to participate in any of the challenges. But this time I got the idea right away and I managed to make a card before going to bed yesterday.





Upam da ste lepo preživeli prvomajske praznike in ste pripravljeni na nove izzive. Čudovit teden želim vsem!

Hope you spend your holidays nicely and you are all ready and set up for the new life's challenges. :) I wish to all of you a great week ahead!

Hugs, Aleksandra

Flourishes Beautiful World Tour

It is allready may - I can't believe how time flies, soon we will again be making christmas cards :D lool - but anyway... today it is time for yet another inspiring Flourishes Beautiful World Tour. Once again, it’s time to get those passports ready, grab a cup of coffee and prepare to travel the world! I invite you to travel with us, do a little globetrotting and 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 of the team's blogs by May 31st for your chance to win!!!

If you came from Kathy's blog then you have arrived at the right destination. If not, you can start your journey back in Florida at the Flourishes blog so you don't miss any of the inspiration along the way!

Our hostess this month is Kathy and the challenge this time is "A Picture says A thousand words". I was thinking about my most cherished moments in life that I could and would like to put into a card and a wedding kept crossing my mind. And the gorgeous stamp set "Hearts&Flowers" was just perfect for it. I used an image of a heart with roses. It reminds me of my wedding bouquet that was mainly made out of peach an champagne roses. I've also used some butterflies from stamp set "Gerber Daises" and white embossed it on a vellum. I included some Swarrowski rhinestones that I've also used on our wedding stationery. And here is my card:





And here is a picture of my bouquet and another one from us. This was only three years ago, we allready had our Kaja and Sara was on her way. I was 6 months pregnant and a month later Sara was born almost two monts too early.





Thanks for your visit! I hope you enjoyed it here in Slovenia, your next stop on the Flourishes tour around the Globe is Iwona and her dreamy Australia...


Enjoy the rest of the tour! Hugs, Aleksandra