Serendipity Blog Challenge - Flourishes

Hi and welcome to the Serendipity Blog Challenge!  Mary, the talented creator and owner of Serendipity has challenged the design team to come up with projects featuring flourish images.   Serendipity has several flourish stamps from fancy to casual - you can see the flourish designs available by clicking here. 

Looking for some new designs?  Serendipity just released new Spring and Summer stamps that you can see here.  The special this week is 20% off word stamps.

To create the design pattern on my card  I stamped the bird flourish stamp (shown on pink in the photo) and cut it with an oval die.  To "frame" my bird flourish with the background stamps I lined up the oval die cut with the "wheat branches" on the flourish and mirror flourish stamps and stuck them to my stamping block.  I lined them up just on the edge of the block so I could line it up with the edge on my paper. 

I stamped them on the 4" side of a 4" x 4.25" piece of vintage cream paper.  I then stamped the opposite side of the paper to create this pattern.  The oval will fit nicely in the center of this shape.  Don't worry if some of the wheat branches are showing - or if the design is a little "off"  the scalloped oval die cut placed under the oval die cut with the bird image will cover this up.  Here's what the image looks like stamped twice.   

I made mine a Sympathy card - but the elegance of the design would make an excellent wedding congratulations or invitation.  The wheat  design would also be beautiful for Thanksgiving.

I finished off the card with an embossed strip across the bottom, some lace and a piece of velvet ribbon.  I topped that with my sentiment - a congratulations would look gorgeous on this card as well.  The two metal / gem embellishments are Swarovski Elements sliders that I found in the jewelry section of the craft store.  Here's a close up..

And this is the finished card...

I hope you will hop along to the other design team member blogs and see what they came up with for this Flourishes Challenge.  Just click on the names below (listed alphabetically).

Kathie Bailey

Amy Cokley

Sue Eldred

Jenny Gropp

Miriam Napier

Thanks for having a look - have a fantastic day!

Jeanne

Supplies used:  Finished Size 5 x 7 "

Stamps:  Serendipity Flourish 022D, Flourish Mirror 023D, Bird Flourish 094D, With Sympathy Small 782B
Die Cuts:  Spellbinders Petite Ovals, Petite Scalloped Ovals
Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug Damask Decor
Ink:  Versafine Deep Lagoon
Bling:  Swarovski Elements Sliders EK Success
Paper:  Papertrey Ink Spring Rain, Enchanted Evening, Blueberry Sky, Vintage Cream
Extras Lace, Velvet Ribbon