Flourishes' Birthday Pennants Blog Hop!

When Flourishes first laid eyes on two of the brand new die sets fresh off the production line at Spellbinders, we just knew that we needed a stamp set to coordinate with these funky and fresh dies! Are you ready to take a peek?

This fun set just screams celebration and offers 6 different pennants and flags all designed to coordinate perfectly with Spellbinders Nested Pennants (S5-028)&  Spellbinders Lacey Nested Pennants (S5-029). There are also 9 sentiments and 8 accents in the set that you can use to deck out your pennant shapes in fun and different ways! Want a little more to coordinate with your cards? How about our new Strips and Stripes background set? This set offers three strips to use together as one background or separate as three different strips that coordinate with our Birthday Pennants set! Since the set was just released last night, we can show you it in its entirety now!

Birthday Pennants

Strips and Stripes

For my first project, I used both sets to make a card. Very simple design, but those pennant images pack a punch when done up in some bold colors. I liked playing them off of the black strip and added the little colored rhinestones as accents.

And, just to show how versatile these images are, I made a little Spring banner. I'd been wanting to do this ever since I saw the new Lacey Nested Pennant dies, so I've been giving it a little thought and here's what I came up with. I had to hang it on this cabinet for this picture because the whole thing won't fit in my light box stretched out. 

First, I cut out the base of my pennant with the largest Lacey Nested Pennant die, using my Grand Calibur. Then I cut the top layer out of Prima's Sparkling Spring paper, in the same manner, with the largest Nested Pennant die.Then I just started embellishing.

 

Here's a close up of one end. I used Strips and Strips to stamp the headers and the paper that I used for the rosettes. I also stamped some of THESE flowers with it for each end.

 And the other end.

It's going to be hanging in this doorway--I couldn't get a good picture of it here without using my flash. It's so SWEET, I just love it!!

Because we just knew this set was a match made in heaven with the Spellbinder's Pennant Dies, we asked some of their ever-so-talented designers to join the Flourishes team for a little show and tell! Make sure to hop on over and see....

Barbara Anders - you are here

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Danielle Kennedy

Dawn Burnworth

Julie Koerber

Leslie Miller

Stacy Morgan

Jan Marie Caruso

Heidi Blankenship

Beth Pingry

Margie Higuchi

Holly Simoni

Mona Pendleton

AJ Otto

Latisha Yoast

Deborah Young

Kazan Clark

Terre Fry

Thanks SO much for stopping by! Have fun at the hop--I'm heading there now!

~Supplies~

Stamps: Strips and Stripes, Birthday Pennants (Flourishes)
Paper: Classic White (Flourishes); Rose Red, Basic Black (SU!); Spring Moss (PTI); Sparkling Spring (Prima)
Ink: Rose Red (SU!); Pear Tart, Bahama Blue, Cottage Ivy, Lady Bug (Memento)
Accessories/tools: Grand Calibur; Lacey Nested and Nested Pennant dies (Spellbinders); ribbon, buttons, twine, rhinestones, multicolored jute twine; flowers (Prima); glittered chipboard letters (Making Memories)