Hats On for Watercolor!

Fran’s latest Watercolor Series Video really makes use of the fabulous On My Mind Perfectly Clear Stamps Set.

The set comes with darling flowers you can use to make all kinds of lovely thoughts spring from the head of this beautiful face.

She also demonstrates how to use the wonderful Gift Card Wallet Die Set to make gorgeous gifts for any occasion.

But she really started creating some fun when she explored making hats for this sweet character with only a circle and an oval cutting die.

To find out how she created all these great looks, and to see lots more inspiration, be sure to check out our YouTube video. You might want to click on the video so you don’t miss a minute, from mixing flesh tones to making hats! All the great samples are here –

Sassy Silhouettes in the City

Our fun Sassy Silhouettes are back in two new, fabulous Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Sets. We’re having so much fun with these new sets on various colorful backgrounds where they are enjoying all sorts of your favorite activities. Our first set is Sassy City, and the girls are playing all around the city.

Fran made a special video to showcase these two sets and show how easy card making can be when you can just stamp a dark silhouette over a splash of color and make something dynamic and interesting! Pair them with our Big Words Happy or Big Words Thanks sets or our Greetings Galore to create cards for absolutely any occasion. Check out the video, then the products are below. Then visit our Design Team blog posts and comment for your chance to win some stamps! We’ll give away two of each set!

 

SSC1279 Sassy City Perfectly Clear Stamps

SSC1280 Sassy Travel Perfectly Clear Stamps

 

Sassy City by Fran Seiford

 

Our Design Team also played along here! Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win. U.S. Mailing Addresses only and our Official Rules are always here.

 

Jamie Martin

Alison Heikkila

 

The April Catalog is HERE!

 

Hooray! Our new April Catalog is all finished! Want to peek at it? Take a look! This convenient flippy book lets you see all our newest images plus you can download it as a pdf to your computer, or you can print it out at home! (or just parts of it!). This can be a great reference if you’re working on a card, and you’d like to use one from our catalog as a sample.

 

Of course on March 30 all of our newest products will be online for our retail customers (they’re already live now for wholesale customers), products like our adorable Sassy City set. You’ll see lots more samples of the Sassy sets in May blog posts, but here are a couple of cards that will pique your interest. They’re so easy and fun with just a splash of inks in the background and our great Sassy Silhouettes doing their thing in front.

SSC1280 Sassy Travel by Fran Seiford

 

SSC1279 Sassy City and SSC1282 Big Words Happy by Fran Seiford

 

Let’s have a look at some sneak peeks from our Design Team and guest blogger, Sue Drees.

Lea Fritts

Janelle Stollfus

Sue Drees

 

These great new stamps are just getting started! Next week we’ll look at the last of our Spring selection from the January catalog, then we’ll dive in to this new collection. We hope you’ll visit us often to see what’s new!

 

We Wish Shoe A Well Weekend

So many shoes, so little time. Friday is already here and we are wrapping up our love for shoe stamps and stencils for the week. We sure hope you have taken a peek at all the design team projects with our new foot fashion products. If you missed them you can hop to Monday, Wednesday and Thursday’s post to catch up!

We think our team gives you some fabulous ideas to get you started and we have a few more designers sharing today. Enjoy!

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Tenia Nelson

Stencil-etto on Thursday

FMS4022 Stiletto Stencil

Aren’t shoe glad it’s Thursday? Oh we are, since it’s time for some stenciling inspiration that is solely about shoes!

This dazzling fashion stiletto stencil is a new design by Fran Seiford with nice open spaces for adding unique details with so many techniques. Here’s one idea by Janelle Stollfus who used a second brush stenciling over the Stiletto for a great design.

Stiletto by Janelle Stollfus

There are more great projects to see with this fashion stencil over on these designers’ blog today! Enjoy and we’ll see you here tomorrow!

Laura Drahozal

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

So Many Shoes, So Little Time

 

HMQ07 Shoe Babies by Kristine Reynolds

There are so many great pairs of shoes out there that we dedicate this week to the gorgeous, practical, and super sweet shoe images we carry for stamping and stenciling fun.

Today is a look at a few super sweet House-Mouse® and HappyHoppers® stamps from previous catalog releases. They are so cute we couldn’t imagine not showing them this week! Enjoy a peek and click any of the photos to go to our website for more information.

HMCQ07 Shoe Babies Rubber Stamp

HMM12 Tiny Runner Wood-Mounted Stamp

House-Mouse®Tiny Runner by Lea Fritts

HHQ01 HappyHoppers® Diva Hopper

HappyHoppers® Diva Hopper by Wendy Price

Our design team is excited to share their fashionable projects this week and here is one we know you are going to love!

Jamie Martin

Wish Shoe Were Here

If you love shoes you are going to love our week of inspiration! It’s all about the shoes for our stamps and stencils from the April catalog and we can’t wait to put on a show!

Here are the stamps in the spotlight today with oodles of shoes that will make you squeal with ideas.

CRR257 Shoes Galore Cling Rubber Stamp

SSC1247 Shoe Sense Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Our design team is excited to share their fashionable projects today!

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Fashion Dame with Lindsay Weirich from The Frugal Crafter

Lindsay Weirich is having some vintage fun with Nathalie Kalbach’s Cling Fashion Dame Rubber Stamp Set in a video tutorial and it’s perfect timing with the blog hop we just had this week. Here’s her video, enjoy!

Two tips to keep in mind that are different from the way Lindsay used the products. First, ink your stencil flat on the table, not in your hand. Second, when peeling off your stencil, turn it upside down and peel the paper off the stencil, holding the stencil flat against the table. These two tricks will keep your stencil from getting bent and warped, warping will impair its function if used later with paste or sprays.

Products that we spotted in the video are:

NKCRS07 Cling Fashion Dame Rubber Stamp Set

DWLX7027 Quatrefoil Stencil

ASCRS05 AS Cling Shabby Chic Rubber Stamp Set

Blogging this week with Dreamweaver Stencils

We’ve had so much fun showing off our new April products to you, and we ALWAYS have loads of fun playing with our friends on the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team. So this week we’re going to show you all sorts of fun and amazing inspiration with both!

We invited the Dream Team to play with one of our favorite new products. We supplied their team with the Blossom Beauty Cling Rubber Stamp set with matching Cutting Dies. When they combined them with their newest products….well, WOW!!!  Our team received a very generous assortment of the hottest stencils from Dreamweaver to combine with their own Blossom Beauty stamps and they’ve made some real magic!

Of course we’d love you to have your own Blossom Beauty and Dreamweaver Stencils, so this week we’re giving away three prize packages to lucky commenters!

3 prize packages with Stamps, Dies, and Stencils

Here’s who is posting today! Be sure to leave some sweet comments, because we’ll do some random drawings from those comments at the end of the week to determine our three lucky winners.

Dream It Up!
Janelle Stollfus
Kristine Reynolds
Louise Healy
Wendy Price
Pam Hornschu
Alison Heikkila