Stamp Spotlight - The Many Faces of the Flourish

Hi Everyone!  Its Katie here welcoming you to another Friday, which means we are coming upon another weekend which could be a yay or nay.  I worked many years on weekends and they were just like any other day to me so I completely get you guys that are doing the time.

But its not quite the weekend yet, so I wanted to feature another stamp set that I find very versatile and I hate to admit it, but is relatively new to me.  Its called Elegant Flourishes and has been on my wish list for a very, very long time and I wish I had gotten it much sooner, so seriously, if have or haven't seen this set, it's a MUST HAVE!!! But fear not... it's mine now (muuwahhh)

So, the point of today's post is to share with you 4 very different cards that all feature this very set.  I tried to make them different and they are, but I must admit I was in a pretty clean and simple mode when creating these so bear with me.

As you can see there are some lovely flourishes in this set along with several sentiments and little flowers to go along.  Seriously, lots of versatility going on here.

My first card features the very largest flourish stamp in the set and I chose to create a non traditional color holiday card.  There are no layers to this card (gasping, I know) and I chose to add the Basic Grey Bling It to give it some pizazz.  My thinking was to use the rhinestones as little "holly" bits.  Imagine this same card in a deep green ink with bright red pearls or rhinestones... love that idea, unfortunately for me I just had pink and green which I still likey :)  I finished off this card with a little Merry Christmas sentiment that can purchased independently.

My next card was created because I had seen several of these little birds created from buttons out on blog land and when I saw this one flourish in the set, I immediately thought "plumes" and bird plumes at that.  My buttons are from my general stash at home and then I created the accessory parts of my bird with some plain old markers that I had lying around.  Here's a little quick how to.

I first decided on some super cute paper from the Mini Deck 6x6 pads by Cosmo Cricket.  This particular one is called Early Bird.  I then grabbed coordinating buttons and placed them where I thought they would work best on my cardstock.

I then stamped my single flourish 3 times to create the tail feathers.

After the flourish was stamped, I put my buttons back on with glue dots and then grabbed my pens and drew in a beak and the legs.  Then I used a sharpie to create the eye.

For my next card, I created a sympathy card using Versamark ink and silver embossing powder.  Again, I kept this super clean and simple.  I used another flourish image that to me looked like brackets and I paired it with another Clear Dollar set called Words of Sympathy.

Using Versamark and embossing powder makes such a statement and I just love, love how it looks.

And finally, one last card.  I again paired it with the Cosmo Cricket, but this time grabbed the Jolly by Golly, which is really  a holiday paper, but as you can see I didn't' create a holiday card.  I created a fun and bright card instead.  For this card, I didn't use any of the flourishes, but rather several of the accessory images - the 2 flowers and a straight dotted line that I used as a stem.

Well, that's it for me and if you don't have this set, click away as fast as you can to grab it up.  If you do have this set, I hope I have sparked some new ideas for you.  Please feel free to comment and leave links to your own work... we'd love to see what you've created!!

Thanks again for stopping and spending your time here at Clearly iStamp. 

Katie signing off for Clearly iStamp.

Items you can find at Clear Dollar Stamps:

• Elegant Flourishes stamp set
• Merry Christmas sentiment
• Words of Sympathy stamp set
• Cosmo Cricket products
• Basic Grey embellishments
• Versamark ink
• Embossing powder
• Inks
• Acrylic Blocks
• Scor pal products
• Atg tape
• Markers

Other items that were used:

• CTMH inks and cardstock, PTI cardstock, misc buttons, misc markers, heat gun

Comments

[Nancy Grant]

Very creative stamping Katie! AWESOME!!!
:-)

[LORI BOYD]

Love love love that sweet button bird!!!

[Candy Fosta]

Great inspiration by you in this post. I love all the cards but the little button bird one is my favorite and what a great idea to use the flourish as feathers!

[Cassie]

Golly, Katie, your postings are so inspiring ;D I love that button bird!

[Marilyn]

This was the first stamp set I ever bought from CDS! It is and will always be my favorite. It is so well loved just by looking at the stains on it. It would be wonderful to see a flourish II set... I know I would buy it! :o) Marilyn

[Tricia T]

What a great post! I love that bird card!!!!!!

[Ali]

Awonderful post Katie, and beautiful cards! I love clean and simople! WTG! i am a new stamper & a now-dedicated CDS Store shopper so appreciate the inspiration!

[Tina]

I just got this set, thanks so much for the inspiration!