I recently unearthed my older Flourishes calendar stamps and was so happy to have discovered that I still had them because I thought I'd given them all away a long time ago. I was pleasantly surprised to find them since the company has now gone out of business. I pulled this Iris stamp out first because an Iris is one of my favorite flowers - probably because it's purple. (my favorite color) It also happens to be the flower for the month of May which includes Mother's Day. I colored the image with Copics and a glaze pen, adding some die-cut grass with a SNSS border grass die. The frame was created by using 2 different sizes of stitched square dies and the sentiment is by Verve who has also gone out of business too unfortunately.
I'm entering this into these challenges:
The Triple B April Challenge - Birds, Butterflies, Blooms or all 3
Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday, and thanks so much for stopping by.
Carol
23 comments:
Wonderful card Carol, the iris is just beautiful. xx
Beautiful card and love the beautiful iris stamp-they are one of my favourite flowers too
Carol x
Gorgeous card, the way you framed the iris's is fabulous, my favorite color too!
I like this kind of iris as well - great colour combination here and lots of possibilities because they come in such a a wide variety of colours. Good job you'd not given the stamp away.
I love Iris flowers too! I have some in my backyard that come up late Spring and always look forward to them blooming! Love the frame around your image with the grassy border! Beautiful card!
Hi dear Carol! I'm glad you haven't given this stamp away, it's so pretty! Sadly a lot of companies are out of business, and in the last times more and more, as we know, especially little companies.
Love your delicate colouring, I have Iris in my garden but they are only white. It's a perfect card for Mother day, so clean but impressive and love the touch of grass and the elegant sentiment!
Sending you my big hugs and love across the ocean as always, have a sweet week!!
This is a beautiful card for mother's day, love the colours, too. Have a great week, have fun creating! Hugs, Valerie
Beautiful and I love that stamp! I was just in the store this morning and came so close to getting some Iris bulbs - but think it's getting a little late here to plant them now. I guess I'll just have to look at your beautiful card instead.
Lynn
So lovely, Carol - gorgeous irises! Great job on the frame - such a great feature! Thanks so much for playing at Retro Rubber!
Oh, how lovely! Those purple irises remind me of the ones that my Mom used to grow. I have yellow ones that are trying to come up. We had snow flurries this morning...brrr. I thought it was supposed to be spring not winter, lol! Have a great week, hugs!
oh wow, your florals are stunning. Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Four Seasons Challenge.
What a beauty, Carol! I did not know that both companies went belly up over the years....so sad! Your card is every bit of lovely with your beautifully colored Irises and I love how you framed them! Purple & green are definitely your colors and you used them here so nicely! Love it! Have a great day!! Hugs~
Oh Carol this is just beautiful! Love your clean design and iris flowers is one of my favorites! My dad used to grow them in so many beautiful colors but the purple (of course) were my favorite! Well done my friend! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our newest adventure - Triple B challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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So beautiful
A gorgeous Iris card, my favorite garden flower and I have a nice collection of Flourishes stamps myself, too bad they weren't still in business!! I can't wait for my Iris's to bloom, though it is way too early here!
Thank you for joining our challenge at The Four Seasons and Triple B!
Diane FS and TB Co-Owner
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So pretty and that is lucky that you have them still. I discovered them too late. Great job with your card.
Hi Carol, it is fun to find those treasures we've re-discovered from our stash, isn't it? Your pretty flowers look fabulous in the frame and I love how you added a bit of grass. Thanks for making my colors shine at Color Hues!
Beautiful card, Carol.
Love the pretty colours.
Hugs and blessings
Gorgeous coloring of the wonderful iris image.
I must admit that irises were my first thought when I saw the Color Hues duo but I didn't have the right stamp, unlike you! Such a great take on the current challenge, TFS. :)
Very Pretty card! It's so sad that so many of these neat craft company's have gone out of business!
Perfect flower choice to showcase our challenge colors! This is so pretty ♥ Thanks for playing at Color Hues !
Gorgeous card Carol! You have done these iris's justice with your coloring as they are stunning. My neighbor's iris's are bloom now as well I just saw. They are gorgeous flowers aren't they?! Hugs, Brenda
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