Bring Back Beautiful: Rustic Beauty & Some Blog Candy

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Good morning and welcome to Flourishes Bring Back Beauty Challenge 2! Everybody was so thrilled to see the awesome turnout we had for our first challenge. For our True Beauties winners, don't forget to pick up your True Beauty blog badge!

Our new challenge for you today is Rustic Beauty. As the leaves start to change colors to usher in fall, we want to see you rustic beauty. Interpret this challenge however you like – want to use a little distressing? Want to use shades of rust? Want to use things that look aged or antiqued? You choose! Just make sure that the end result has a rustic feel to it. Link up your Bring Back Beautiful Challenge card here. If you upload to Splitcoast Stampers, Christian Paper Crafts, or other online galleries, please use keyword BBB02. You will have until September 30 to enter. As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge. The winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and receive a True Beauty blog badge to proudly display on their blog!

For my card that I wish to share with you, I did a little bit of everything from distressing to shades of rust to the leaves turning. I used a technique for my tree that's normally reserved for enhancing images rather than using it for the entire image, and that's sponging. Layering color with sponging can still have stunning effects. I sprayed my image with Krylon Triple-Thick Crystal Clear Glaze to shine it up a bit. This card is similar to the card that I have published in the Paper Creations Fall Edition, available on newsstands now. This is a fabulous stamp set and I've had 3 cards published in the past 6 months using Forest of Trees. I hope that you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by today to visit me and God bless!

Please be sure to stop by the Bring Back Beauty Design Team member blogs to see how they brought your some beauty!

Beate Johns

Becca Feeken

Julie Koerber, Design Team Coordinator

Kathy Jones

Michelle Woerner

Yvonne Hagane

BLOG CANDY: Today's Treasure is Exodus 3. Read it and you'll see why I chose this. Now for the blog candy. If you can tell me why I chose Exodus 3, leave a comment, and become a follower of my blog by midnight CST September 17. I'll draw a name from those who left a comment and became a follower of my blog, or already follow my blog and commented, and your prize will be the Flourishes Forest of Trees stamp set! Be sure to stop by around noonish or so CST on Friday, September 17 to see if you're the winner. And please, don't become a follower of my blog just to win a prize. I think that is very thoughtless and greedy. Become a follower because you want to.

Stamps: Forest of Trees by Flourishes
Card Stock: Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Designer Paper: Basic Grey Indian Summer
Ink: Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze, Poppy Parade, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Stampin' Up! 5/8" Basic Black satin ribbon, Black Flourish Designer Jewels, Jenni Bowlin Stick Pin, Maya Road Pearl Trinket Pin, leaf embellishment from craft supply, Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, Krylon Triple-Thick Crystal Clear Glaze
Technique: Sponging, machine stitching
Size: 5-1/2 x 4-1/4
Challenge: Bring Back Beautiful #2 (BBB02), Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #87 (MTSC87)

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16 thoughts on “Bring Back Beautiful: Rustic Beauty & Some Blog Candy”

  4. Hey girl!  This is indeed a beauty!  I saw your card in PCreations and it was just as stunning.  I love the treatment on the tree image and love the simple strand of black rhinestones.  Hugs,

  9. Gorgeous card, Cindy. . .it burns but it is not consumed. . .what an awesome passage of scripture that is, as the Lord reveals himself to Moses and prepares him to bring His people out of slavery. Thank you for the encouragement to read this passage again! Blessings!

  11. Hi Cindy, I love your Blog & just became a follower!  Gorgeous card depicting God revealing Himself to Moses in the burning bush that wasn't consumed & directing him to go to Pharaoh to free the children of Israel.

  13. Cindy, a bush 'consumed' with fire from which holy ground surrounding the bush was where Moses was to approach, meet God, commune on God's strength protecting Moses, and God's outpouring of agreement with Moses establishes leadership formation under God's voice and might.  The bush was not consumed/destroyed by fire upon culmination of the 'meeting', which only God can do!  Right On! Cindy, good choice! Blessings upon you this day, this moment. 
    I have no blog but follow yours and comment there/here from time to time as I tell and direct/ cyberspace version of show 'n tell your great techniques to friends working on RAK cards blessing youngsters 2 – 19 with critical health issues (and their parents/ caregivers).  You know about one RAK…..CARDS4KIDS …..right after Christmas to get us all stoked for Valentine's Day colors and greetings.
    Thanks for the bush blessing!  Keep Looking Up!
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  14. Cindy, the leave shoes at the door thing was left out of this retelling.  Take shoes off on holy ground, in places of holy honor.  Yap!  God is good.

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