Jun 09 2009
Flourishes Preview, Day 1: Waterlilies
I’m always excited to see what’s coming next from Flourishes, and they never fail to surprise and delight me when I see the new sets for the first time. This month they’ve done it again – I wasn’t expecting a waterlily set.
I felt inspired to create something very soothing and peaceful with these images, and I thought this perfect as a sympathy card, or anytime you’d wish to send caring thoughts to a troubled soul. Actually, there are a lot of uses for a card like this: hello, goodbye, get well…
I colored this with Prismacolor markers and painted the water with SU!’s Sage Shadow ink. Since I was using regular white cardstock, rather than watercolor paper, I had to go very lightly with the water, but the effect turned out to be exactly what I was looking for — soft. I felt ribbon would have spoiled the effect, but I couldn’t resist adding the pearls. I hope you enjoy it!
Please visit the other Flourishes designers for more samples with the Waterlilies set. Each one is very different from the next and they’re all beautiful: Christine, Cindy, Faith, Julie, Latisha, Laura, and Stacy.
Visit here for the pre-release challenge and a chance to win all three new sets, and check in here to find the release party this Friday night, 9 pm central. The length of the party has been reduced to an hour for the summer, hoping to make it easier for folks to attend, considering all the outdoor activities this time of year. And — don’t miss out on this — go here, simply leave a comment, and you may win the Waterlilies set. All new releases will be available in the store after the release party. Thank you for joining me for today’s preview. I’ll have more tomorrow! Wishing you a peaceful day.
Stamps: Waterlilies (to be released by Flourishes Friday night) Paper: Sage Shadow, white Ink: Ranger Distress Tea Dye, Sage Shadow, Prismacolor markers Accessories: Kaiser flat-backed pearls
Oh no. This is a budget busting disaster. Wow Leslie. JUST PERFECT. You know I need this set now. UGH!!
Wow! Breathtakingly beautiful. Perfect for comforting a soul.
as always Leslie gorgeous
Very peaceful and serene! A perfect look for these images.
Leslie, this is so refreshingly beautiful! Love all the white, the simple design, and your drop-dead GORGEOUS coloring! Beautifully done!
This looks like another beautiful set. I really like the way your design fades into white space, it just adds to the peaceful feel of the whole card.
A beautiful interpretation using another beautiful set! This is so serene, Leslie. Absolutely wonderful!
So peaceful and beautiful!!
Stunning.
Soothing and fabulous Leslie! I really like how you layered the lilies. I see a lot of you layered them very well… I am the goof ball of the group. hee hee The pearls are a the perfect touch. Wonderful card.
Peaceful and elegant! Your colouring is amazing and the card is just gorgeous!
Beautiful-love how you used the lilies, the Sage Shadow for water and the sentiment placement. Sage Shadow is a fav of mine. tfs
So lovely and serene!!
So beautiful and soothing! I love this!
WOW! Absoutely BEAUTIFUL. The colors are just stunning. Just love, love love it!
It IS beautifully soothing Leslie! Dreamy! I’m enjoying it immensely
So peaceful and gorgeous, Leslie!
Just lovely! The softness is perfect for a sympathy card…
This is just elegant, I love the coloring,
This card is so peaceful and elegant at the same time! I love how you created a water effect by watercoloring!
Wow Leslie, this is so breathtaking, and your coloring is just flawless. Stunning creation for sure!!
I feel calm just looking at this online. Your coloring always makes me feel right there.
OH MY!!! This is so beautiful! Love these new images!!
Leslie, this is gorgeous!!! I love the layout and design. Gorgeous coloring, too!!!
I know what you mean…..I LOVE this set, too!!!!!
Wow - this is just absolutely stunning!! You could frame this and hang it in an art gallery!!
This is gorgeous, Leslie. So tranquil and definitely peaceful. I have need for a card like this right now as we learned one of our dearest friends has inoperable cancer. What can you even say? Thanks for sharing your beautiful creation.
Very Soft, Delicate and Beautiful.
An amazing job of colouring the lily pads!
The card is serene!
Beautiful Leslie!!
Leslie, How do you do it??? You have such a knack for taking an image and bringing a personality out of it! Amazing! Your “painting” (it should be framed by the way) is such a peaceful scene and to pretty for words!
So very very beautiful! Just breathtaking really.
Like Julie says- the scene looks so peaceful. What a wonderful card!!
Oh, this is amazing! I love how quiet and ’simple’ it looks. Although I’m sure there was much more work to it!
Wonderful, wonderful card! How very, very soft, and your coloring is perfect…esp on reg cardstock rather than watercolor paper. Beautiful!
Leslie - this card looks like a painting - absolutely beautiful!!!
Just stunning, took my breath away when I saw your card!
oh so pretty!
Day 1 - wow I missed so much - beautiful - love it!
Sandra
It’s a beautiful card. I love this set!
This is so beautiful and serene-looking!! I love your simplicity, and gorgeous coloring, Leslie!!
Absolutely stunning Leslie, so soft and peaceful!
This is so stunning and beautiful! I love the softness you achieved with the watercoloring.
Oh my gosh I adore this card!!!!! Such a beautiful image - hmmm - may need to place a Flourishes order in August!!! Sorry I’ve been such a horrible blogging friend lately! I just can’t find the time to keep up with blogs (even my own!) as I’d like to. I’ll have both kiddos in preschool 3 days a week starting in August, I’m *hoping* I’ll get back in the swing of things then!