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: Baked With Love, Loopy, & Icing Rectangle Frame Dies

Hello, and welcome to the first day 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'm happy to be sharing ideas with our adorable new Baked with Love Stamps and Dies. This set includes a variety of heart cookies, a fun oversized cookie sheet, and a number of baking-themed kitchen accessories. 

I started this card by creating a subtle white pierced background using the Dotted Diamond Portrait Die. To form a shelf to hang my oven mitts and spatulas from, I used the crown molding from our Distinctive Door Dies. For my greeting, I cut out one of the two labels from our new Loopy Rectangle Frames Dies, first from metallic silver cardstock and then from white cardstock, to fill the center. I then inked the center with a light amount of Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink and stamped a punny greeting from the Baked with Love Stamps. My own kitchen is accented with red, but I must admit this card made me think how happy a rainbow of colors would be!

Card No.2: For my second card, I started by stamping the large oversized baking sheet from the Baked With Love Stamps and arranged six heart cookies with sprinkles from the set, added to personalize two of the cookies. I colored all the images with Copic Markers and then framed them with the largest frame from our Loopy Rectangle Frames Dies, which looks a bit like icing. I cut a second frame from pink textured cardstock to fill the center and stamped my kraft background using the Background Basics 2 Stamps. Lastly, I stamped the cute greeting from the Baked With Love set onto a pale pink banner die-cut with the Brilliant Banner 2 Dies.

Card No. 3: For my next card using the Baked With Love Stamps, I kept an almost identical color palette, but this time I stamped my background with the polka-dot border from the Background Basics 2 Stamps. I paired my heart cookies from the new set with the cocoa, coffee, latte, and star cookie from the Mug Hugs Stamps. I then framed the grouping with one of our new Radiating Circle Dies (to be shared more closely tomorrow) and stamped it with a greeting from the Mug Hugs set.

Card No.4: Next up is another card using the baking sheet from the Baked With Love Stamps, but this time I scattered the cookies and other kitchen accessories to look a bit messy after what I picture as a long day of baking. I once again stamped my card's background using the same Background Basics 2 Stamps and added a scalloped edge using the Icing Border Dies. I completed my card by creating a custom sentiment using our new Sydney Alphabet Dies, together with the cookie image in place of the letter "O". 

Card No.5: Up next, I switched things up with a new color palette, coloring the cookies from the Baked With Love Stamps in shades of pink and arranging them in a 3x3 grid. For my card base, I cut the Scalloped Square 2 Large Die and layered it with a Stitched Square cut from a hot pink diagonal stripe from the Sleek Stripes Paper set. For my greeting, I substituted the words "Love You" with words from our Gift Card Pocket Dies and Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies. If you don't have either of these two sets, you could also spell out the words using our Loopy Letters Alphabet Dies. Finally, I positioned the icing bag to look like it was spelling out the scripty words in icing.

Card No.6: For my last card of the day, I couldn't resist pairing the Baked With Love Stamps with the cookies from our Baking Spirits Bright Stamps. This new set was born out of my wanting a baking sheet and other accessories to pair with the holiday set. Unlike my second card, this time I gave my baking sheet a landscape orientation and colored the snowman, mitten, and snowflake cookies to coordinate in blue and white. I framed my little scene using the new Icing Rectangle Frame Dies and filled the center with a cutout from the Classic Gingham Paper pack. Lastly, I stamped a punny sentiment from the Baking Spirits Bright set onto a Brilliant Banner 3 Die.

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 Baked With Love Stamps, Baked with Love Dies, Icing Rectangle Frame Dies, and Loopy Rectangle Frame Dies used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, January 9th.

Other Supplies Used:

Mug Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mug Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gift Card Pocket Shop at: Sunny Studio	Icing Border DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sleek Stripes Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 2 Large Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sydney Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Dotted Diamond Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Distinctive Door Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes 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