A Turtley Awesome Birthday Card with Vanessa

Hello everyone! Vanessa here with a card using some of the newly released stamps. Aren't they amazing? I love every single one of the new sets and it was difficult to decide which one to use first :)

I ended up using Turtley Awesome for this card.

I first trimmed a panel of white cardstock slightly smaller than my yellow card base. Now I stamped everything from top to bottom, always masking the previously stamped image. That cute bird is from the Easter Wishes set. And that balloon? It is the small egg from Blissful Baking! Voilá, a perfect little balloon for the bird. And the string is from the same set. After I had colored the images with Copics, I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card. Finally, I added tiny star sequins.

I hope you like today's idea! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

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Froggy Friends Hoppy Birthday Card with Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here today sharing a birthday card using the adorable Froggy Friends. I just love the sweet little frogs and there are a lot of different cards you can create with this set. It's also perfect for boy cards.....bonus! Let's get started on how I created this card.

To begin, I cut an A2 sized card base from some plaid patterned paper. I then cut a coordinating smaller stitched rectangle, and finally an even smaller rectangle from some blue card stock. Next, I stamped my sentiment on a light blue piece of card stock that would become the "water" in the scene. I stamped the images from the set that I wanted to use and colored them with Copic markers. I cut them out using the Froggy Friends dies. 

I built my scene on the small blue rectangle allowing some of the images to hang off onto the larger green rectangle. I also added some die cut clouds to balance off the top of the scene. I decided to add another layer of color with a yellow rectangle behind the green one and then, adhered the yellow rectangle to the plaid card base using from tape.

That's it for me today. I just love this set and can't wait to use it again. I hope you'll give it a try. You get a lot of bang for your buck with this one. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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My Life Would Suck Without You Card Set by Emily

Today's card set features the mini stamp set That Sucks and its coordinating die set. This mini set can be used in various ways, to express love/friendship or condolences on an event that 'sucks'. I made a card set showing it with one version of the sentiments with the scripted word die. I had so much fun paper piecing the cute vacuum cleaner and coordinating the scripted word dies with the other papers in each card.

The vacuums were stamped and trimmed from their respective patterns. Then I embellished them with white silk bows. The little hearts were die cut from the white panel using a tiny heart die and reveals the patterned paper in the layer beneath. The adorable little heart die is included in the That Sucks Die Set. The front two panels are popped up with fun foam for a bit of dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Have a Toadally Awesome Birthday Card with Eloise

Hello everyone! Eloise here and today I'm kicking off the week using a brand new stamp set that was just released called Froggy Friends. These frogs are just the cutest and the set comes with a bunch of images and sentiments to create so many scenes. Today I went with a simple birthday card, but there are so many types of other cards you can make with this set too.

To start off my card today I took a piece of watercolour paper and did a quick water coloured background using some Misson Gold watercolours. I just used a few different blues, dropped in the colour and dried it with a heat tool to get the cool effect. I then stamped all my images from the Froggy Friends stamp set on some white cardstock and coloured them all in with some Copic markers. I then used the coordinating dies to cut them out too.

Once all my images were cut out, I die cut down my water coloured panel and then arranged my images on top and then adhered them down once I was happy with placement. For my sentiment I used a mix of phrases from the Froggy Friends and Turtley Awesome stamp set and stamped them onto a red banner that I previously die cut with some black ink. I popped up my sentiment and adhered it under my scene. I then added some fun foam on the back of my panel and adhered it to a green card base. I added a little shimmer with a Wink of Stella to make some of the images sparkle.

That finished up my card today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. Make sure you stop by the rest of the week for more inspiration using the new stamps and dies that were released.

- Eloise

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Spring Inspiration Week Winners

Hello there!  Rafflecopter has picked the five winners for last week's giveaways and they are...

• Monday- Vornlen Wong
• Tuesday- Barb Glasier
• Wednesday- Samantha Jackson-Houp
• Thursday- Mary Holshouser
• Friday- Waleska Galindo

Congratulations!  I will email all the winners this afternoon with the $25 gift codes.  Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate this week!

Inspiration Week: Introducing Color Me Happy Stamps & Sun Ray Dies

It's the big day!  I'm so excited to finally share the last of my sneak peeks!  Today I'm showcasing our versatile new Sun Ray Dies, a cheerful new 3x4 Sentiment set called Color Me Happy and a matching Color Word die!  I'm a rainbow girl at heart so I've really been enjoying these products and all their possibilities!

With our Sun Ray dies you are only limited by your imagination.  There are so many different fun ways they can be used and at a price point of $13 they're pretty affordable too!    

For my first card I die-cut each of the rays from white cardstock and then sponged them in a rainbow of graduated colors using distress inks for a cool tie-died look.  To help you line things up, I have created a number of free printables with guides that work especially well with a light box.

The Sun Ray dies come with circles that are 1/2", 1" and 1-1/2" in size. The largest size works well for the sunburst designs, but I didn't want the space inside to go to waste so I included two smaller circles nested inside to give extra options.  

I used the medium 1" circle to die-cut circles from watercolor paper that I had colored with Kuretake Gansai watercolors.  I added adhesive to the back of each circle and arranged them face down on the printable and then carefully laid my 5.5" x 4.25" black cardstock panel over the top.  The printable allowed me to space my circles perfectly symmetrical and by doing it this way I didn't need a light box which would have been too hard with black cardstock anyway.  I wanted the look of stitching on the outside edge, but I couldn't decide on a color so I ran i through my sewing machine with no thread.

For my sentiment I heat embossed the words in white using the Color Me Happy Stamps and Color Word Die on a piece of vellum and then die-cut two thin circles from white cardstock to sandwich my vellum between and give me a place to hide my adhesive.  I was able to use a glue pen behind the word "color" and again for the outside ring.  I think the polka-dot print fits the sentiment really well and it was so fun to create.

Up next I used the Sun Ray Dies to form a rainbow striped retro print along the top and bottom of my card.  My friend inspired me to try using them this way and I love the results! 

To create this card I cut two rays of each of my 6 colors from textured cardstock (which is easy to do since the set comes with two dies) and then snipped them in half with my scissors so I could stretch them to fit the entire length of my card.  I then hid the gap in the center with my sentiment.  For my color word die I cut it once from white cardstock and then used scraps to cut the other letters which I pieced back together.  So fun, right?!

For my last new card of the day, I turned to our Rain or Shine set and paired one of the new sentiments from Color Me Happy with the umbrella image.  These sentiments would be awesome with the rainbow image from that set too, but sadly I just I ran out of time...

For my focal point image I stamped it in black using Versafine Onyx Black ink on Bristol paper and then watercolored the images using my Zig Clean Color Brush markers and a paint brush.  I then repeatedly stamped the same umbrella using Versafine Smokey Grey ink and shaded them with a light grey brush marker.   

For my sentiment I used my MISTI tool to help me line things up and then stamped each letter one by one in different colors of ink, carefully masking off the other letters with scotch tape before inking up my desired letter and then pealing off the tape before stamping it.

My last card was actually shared yesterday, but I just wanted to show it off again since I created it with the Sun Ray dies.  When I was done adhering the rays, I stitched down the center of each one with my sewing machine & pulled the threads to the back before adhering the 1-1/2" circle in the center.

Here's a full look at the Color Me Happy 3x4 stamps, Color Word die & Sun Ray Dies...

      

    

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peek.  Would you like to win a $25 gift code to our online store to spend on some of the new sets?  Use the rafflecopter below to enter to win. If you're just joining in the fun, don't forget you can still enter the contests from each day this week by visiting the earlier posts!  Contests close on January 14th at Midnight PST.  Winners will be announced here on our blog on Sunday, January 15th.  :)

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Before you go, I wanted to let you know about a couple promotions we have going on right now:  

• Use the code "SPRING2017" to save $3.50 on all orders over $25.  This is my way of helping everyone with shipping (expires Monday, January 16th at Midnight PST).
• We also still have the code "SAVE5" which is good for all orders over $49.
• All orders will automatically come with a free 5/8" flower die.  :)

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Inspiration Week: Introducing Easter Wishes & That Sucks

Hello there!  Are you ready for our release tomorrow?  I'm super excited, but I'm also happy to have another day to put some finishing touches on tomorrow's sneak peek cards.  ;)

Today I'm showcasing two new sets.  Up first is a 4x6 stamp set called Easter Wishes.  These stamps coordinate well with the images from last year's A Good Egg set, but also work well all on their own.  It comes with a cross, 2 bunnies, 3 chicks, a sheep, 2 flower images and a handful of sentiments.  Some have been curved to fit on the cross and there is also a nice large sentiment that is perfect to use inside your cards.

Can you tell I have a thing for tulips?  This set comes with a cute little trio of tulips that will work well for so many scene building type cards.  I love to fussy cut so I cut them around the outside edge and then used a Copic marker to the color the inside portions to match my sponged background for a seamless look.  Don't worry... If you prefer dies we have those too.  ;)

For my second card I stacked all the critters to create a sweet little scene.  I then stamped some tone-on-tone clouds and grass using our Sunny Sentiments stamps.

For my next card I wanted the cross to take center stage, keeping the rest of the card super simple.  I paired it with a fun new die set that I will be sharing more of tomorrow.  ;)

Up next I turned to our Sunny Semi Circle dies to create an arched window for my scene with the baby chicks and lilies.

For my last Easter card I used the little chicks with the larger chick, Easter basket & Sentiment from A Good Egg.

For my next card I have a new little 2x3 stamp set called That Sucks.  My 10-year old daughter dreamed up the idea for a vacuum themed set when listening to Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" which I thought would be super cute for Valentine's Day.  It comes with a number of faces to add personality to the vacuum as well as another set of sentiments to expand it's versatility for other occasions.

For this card I created my chevron background using our Sunny Borders stamps and my MISTI to help me space them every 1/2".

For my second card with the set I cut my 4.25" card base using the largest heart from our Stitched Heart dies.  The coordinating That Sucks dies come with a bonus mini heart and "suck" word die in the extra space inside the vacuum that would have otherwise been empty wasted space.  

Here's a full look at the new Easter Wishes and That Sucks stamps and coordinating dies available for purchase early tomorrow morning in our online store.

    

    

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peek.  Would you like to win a $25 gift code to our online store to spend on some of the new sets?  Use the rafflecopter below to enter to win.  We will be giving away a new gift code each day for a total of five chances to win!  Contest closes on January 14th at Midnight PST.  Winners will be announced on Sunday, January 15th.  :)

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Make sure to check back tomorrow when I will be sharing two last sets that I'm hoping you'll love. ;)

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