Sneak Peek: Introducing Spring Garland & Inside Greetings Friends

Hello, and welcome to day 5 of our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase tomorrow!

Card No.1: Today, I am sharing ideas using our beautiful new Spring Garland Stamps and Dies, which feature two groupings of tulip & daffodil flowers, an extra tulip flower & leaf to use as filler, two butterflies, and one large bold greeting. For my first card, I stamped and colored all the elements from the set using artPop! Chisel and Brush Dual Tip Alcohol Markers. I then adhered them to a square card base cut from hot pink patterned paper from the Classic Gingham Paper pack using the Scalloped Square 1 Large Dies. I added another mat over the top using the Stitched Square Dies cut from white cardstock to frame my clean and simple card.

Card No.2: For my second card using the Spring Garland Stamps, I arranged the flowers from the set around two of the stacked labels from the Icing Rectangle Frame Dies and heat-embossed a friendship sentiment from the newest Inside Greetings Friends Stamps. I mounted everything onto a piece of coordinating lavender-patterned paper trimmed down to fit an A2-sized card from the Flirty Florals Paper pack. 

Card No.3: Up next, I created an all-yellow and green card with the Spring Garland Stamps, coloring the tulips yellow to match the daffodils for a fresh monochromatic look. I cut apart a few of the tulips and filled in with the extra tulip and leaf from the set to create one continuous growing border. To the left of the border, I added a mini green swiss dot print, and to the right, a yellow tone-on-tone floral print from the Spring Fever Paper pack. Lastly, I stamped a greeting in the bottom, right corner using the new Inside Greetings Friends Stamps with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

Card No.4: My next card using the Spring Garland Stamps, I arranged the flowers colored in pastel pinks and lilacs onto the largest die from the Stitched Oval Dies. I then layered them over a pale blue pierced background using the Dotted Diamond Landscape Dies, and added two butterflies colored to match. Lastly, I once again stamped a friendship sentiment using the Inside Greetings Friends Stamps with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

Card No.5: For my last card, I stamped the two groups of flowers from the Spring Garland Stamps in opposing corners with clear VersaMark Ink, heat-embossed with White Detail Embossing Powder, and then watercolored them using Zig Clean Real Brush Markers. I then colored around the flowers using a really watered-down mixture of Broken China Reinker, before splattering the entire panel with Picket Fence Spritz. Watercolors and I are usually not a great match with my perfectionist tendencies and struggling to color inside the lines, so the white mist was the perfect way to disguise some of those coloring imperfections and smooth out the uneven overlapping lines in my background. I finished my card with a simple white frame using the outer die from the Tropical Trees Backdrop Die set and heat-embossed a birthday greeting onto a coordinating shade of blue cardstock using the sentiment from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps. While this card felt like a hot mess through most of the creative process, I persevered, and I love the painterly feel of my finished card.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. These cards make me so excited for Spring, and I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $40 gift code to one lucky winner, who will be randomly selected from the comments on this blog post, as well as our Facebook and Instagram posts. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, January 10th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, January 11th.

Here's a closer look at our new Spring Garland Stamps, Spring Garland Dies, and Inside Greetings Friends Stamps used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, January 9th.

Other Supplies Used:

Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 1 Large Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Icing Rectangle Frame Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Woolly Friends Stamps & Sydney Alphabet Dies

Hello, and welcome to day 4 of our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase this Friday!

Card No.1: Today, I am sharing ideas featuring our adorable Woolly Friends Stamps and Dies, which include five adorable sheep, a versatile new picket fence border, an Easter basket, and a variety of cute sentiments. For my first card, I used two of the sheep together with the basket of eggs and stacked two of the fence borders to create a continuous border that would bleed off the edge of my 5.5" wide card. For the background, I added a border of trees using the Country Scenes Stamps, and stamped one of the punny greetings onto a shortened pennant strip from the Notebook Photo Corners Dies and a floral patterned paper from the Flirty Flowers Paper pack.

Card No. 2: For my second card, I created a vertical birthday card using Woolly Friends Stamps. For my background this time, I added the hollow tree and fence border from our Fall Scenes Stamps, but colored the leaves for spring in fresh green tones — I love that I can get extra life out of these stamps for other seasons just by coloring them differently. I added the new fence border to the foreground and framed the scene using our Stitched Rectangle Dies, which I shortened ever so slightly to match the width of the fence stamped image by running them through my die-cutting machine a second time. I then mounted the entire scene onto a piece of green gingham paper from the Gingham Pastels Paper pack.

Card No.3: I have one last Spring scene-style card today featuring the sheep & Easter basket from the Woolly Friends Stamps, which I paired with our 6x6 Majestic Meadow Stamps. These wonderful, large background stamps take all the work out of dreaming up the perfect backdrop or card design, and I love them! All I had left to do was add my greeting, which I made by combining the words from the Woolly Friends Stamps, spelling out the word "Easter with our new Sydney Alphabet Dies, and using the word "ewe" that comes with the Woolly Friends Dies.

Card No. 4: Switching gears a bit, I have a clean & simple card with a more graphic feel, using the Woolly Friends Stamps. I started by cutting four Zig Zag Circle Dies cut from a pastel rainbow of polka-dot prints from the Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper pack. I then framed them with a simple Stitched Square Die cut from white cardstock and matted with a 5" square cut from a rainbow stripe patterned paper from the Spring Sunburst Paper pack. Lastly, I stamped a punny greeting from the set onto a Brilliant Banner 1 Die, which had been cut from yellow prints from the same Dots & Stripes Paper Pack and Gingham Pastels Paper packs.

Card No.5: For my last card of the day, I couldn't resist using the fence and sheep from the set to create a "counting sheep" night scene card with the Woolly Friends Stamps. I kept my design fairly simple, just adding a Radiating Circle Die inked with Mermaid Lagoon, Prize Ribbon, & Chipped Sapphire before heat embossing it with the phrase "I love you to the moon and back" from our Lovey Dovey Stamps. Lastly, to finish my scene, I added the moon (mirrored) and stars from our Scaredy Cat Stamps, and some white star dots in the distance with a while gel pen.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $40 gift code to one lucky winner, who will be randomly selected from the comments on this blog post, as well as our Facebook and Instagram posts. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, January 10th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, January 11th.

Here's a closer look at our new Woolly Friends Stamps, Woolly Friends Dies, and Sydney Alphabet Dies used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, January 9th.

 

 

Other Supplies Used:

Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Majestic Meadow Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Majestic Meadow Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Lovey Dovey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lovey Dovey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scaredy Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scaredy Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiating Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Zag Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio
VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio