Sneak Peek: Introducing Penguin Pair Stamps & Dies

Hello, and welcome to the final day of our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week, I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which is now available for purchase!

I have put together a video sharing a closer look at all the new products, including the new Penguin Pair Stamps I am sharing here today. You can also view it directly on our YouTube channel HERE.

Card No.1: Before you run off to shop, I have one final stamp set to share. It's small, but mighty. It's a 3x4 set called Penguin Pair to complement our popular Roly Poly Penguins Stamps. You get two additional penguins in brand new poses and a couple of outfits and accessories to add to them, which are really fun for Valentine's Day! 

For my first card, I used a strip from our Tulip Path Background Stamps, cutting it from a previous scene to create a vertically oriented card (which I shared HERE). Still, after all that coloring, I hated to throw it out, so I hung onto it, "just in case," and I'm so glad I did because I love how this new card turned out, turning it into an intentional technique. I used pale taupe ink to stamp the scene again onto white cardstock, then lined the colored portion on the left and added a small zig-zag edge in hot pink using the Ric Rac Border Dies. All I had left was to add my penguin couple to the pathway and stamp a large, bold sentiment to match from My Heart Stamps and Dies, with some scattered pink hearts from that set. It felt like all the work had already been done when I colored my original background a year ago, so this card came together really quickly.

Card No.2: Next up is a fun card using one of the penguins, a hot cocoa mug, and a hat from the Roly Poly Penguins Stamps with the sitting penguin and the new hat from the Penguin Pair Stamps. The original hat was fashioned to look like Santa's hats, but by coloring them blue and adding white polka-dots with a gel pen, they have been transformed into stocking caps for bedtime. For the card background, I cut a baby blue panel using the Quilted Hearts Landscape Dies and layered it over navy blue cardstock. I then framed my penguin couple by layering the Stitched Heart Dies and Scalloped Heart Dies. Lastly, I added a perch for my penguin pair by layering the Brilliant Banner 2 Dies and stamping a punny greeting from the Penguin Pals Stamps.

Card No. 3: For this card, I started by inking a pink cloud background using the Fluffy Clouds Border Dies, masking material, and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I then trimmed down the panel and added stitching to each side using the rectangular die from the Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies. I also added 1" wide strips of heart print patterned paper to flank the outside edges of my center panel using the Flirty Flowers Paper pack. 

To set my little scene, I positioned my main penguin from the Penguin Pair Stamps floating with a bouquet of balloons using the Balloon Alphabet Stamps, spelling out the word "HUGS," stamped in alternating rosy reds and pinks to coordinate with the heart headband. I taped small pieces of red thread to the back of each balloon so that I could knot them and put them in my penguin's flipper. I also left room to stamp the word "sending" above "hugs" using the Heartfelt Wishes Stamps and VersaFine Onyx Black Ink. Along the bottom of my card, I included the other penguin from the Penguin Pair Stamps and one of the original penguins from the Roly Poly Penguins Stamps, both holding hearts. 

Card No.4: For this card featuring the Penguin Pair Stamps, I added the fashions to my boy and girl penguins and created a scene behind them using the fence border from the Country Scenes Stamps and the Fluffy Clouds Dies. I stamped the tufts of grass using the three grass images from the Woolly Friends Stamps. For my greeting, I stamped "You're My Favorite" using PinkFresh Studio Candy Apple Ink from the Lovey Dovey Stamps. I then added a subtitle below it using a sentiment from the Inside Greetings Friends Stamps with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

Card No. 5: For my last card set of the day, using the Penguin Pair Stamps, I created clean & simple Valentines that are easy to mass-produce and hand out in a child's classroom or other settings where you need something easy to make in bulk. The finished size for these cards is 1/4" smaller than A2-sized cards at 4" wide x 5.25" high. For my base panel, I used pink prints from the Dots & Stripes Pastel Paper and Flirty Flowers Paper packs. I then added the smallest frame from the Icing Rectangle Frame Dies, cut from red cardstock, and cut it again from white cardstock for the interior. I then stamped the two cards with bold Valentine sentiments from our My Heart Stamps and Lovey Dovey Stamps in red ink to match the frame trim. Lastly, I added the penguins wearing heart deely bopper headbands and heart glasses with scattered pink and red hearts around them from the Penguin Pair set.

With each new collection, we have a free mini die we include automatically with orders placed in our online store. For this release, we have a fun new mini flower shape die!

When shopping, we have two ongoing promotions you can choose from to be entered at checkout, depending on which offer is better for you. Limit one discount code per order.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give one last $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. If you haven't entered our other five daily giveaways, there's still time. Our daily contests will run through tomorrow, January 10th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, January 11th.

Here's a closer look at our new Penguin Pair 3x4 Stamps and Penguin Pair Dies, which are now available to purchase in our online shop!

Other Supplies Used:

Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ric Rac Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds 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
Penguin Pals Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Quilted Hearts Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
My Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	My Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tulip Path Background Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tulip Path Background Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Woolly Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woolly Friends 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	PinkFresh Heartbeat Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Alphabet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

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