Monday, March 18, 2024

Happy Monday!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day weekend! Now there is only two weeks until Easter so, it's time to work on those cards and any other projects done! I always give my kids a basket on Easter and usually a gift card or two. For this week's sample, I decided to make a cute gift card holder using products from both Doodlebug and MFT.


Doodlebug has been releasing more dies (called Doodle Cuts) with each of their releases. These dies have such wonderful detail and so much fun to put together. This small gift bag from MFT can hold a gift card or some chocolates.

Supplies used:

--Doodlebug: Bunny & Friends die set

--MFT:  Gift Bag Die

I hope that everyone has a very crafty week!--Kim

Monday, March 11, 2024

Happy Monday!

The weather this past weekend was not ideal so I hope that everyone found time to get some projects finished. I was able to play with some of the new Pretty Pink Posh Easter/Spring stamps and dies. I love each new season and holiday because of the different color palettes that go along with them.


Pretty Pink Posh has been adding on to their cupcake theme with each of their new releases and they are adorable! With this new cupcake set, there are three cupcakes that are Easter related and the others have butterflies and flowers which can be used for Spring or Mother's Day. 

Supplies used:

--Pretty Pink Posh: Easter Cupcakes, Sentiment Strips-Easter, Eyelet Circles die set, Sentiment Strips die set, Eyelet Rectangles die set

I hope that everyone has a very crafty week!-- Kim

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Stamp Camp Weekend and Week

A quick post from Mona and Sharon. There was no Wednesday night video as Sharon was in Syracuse visiting Kaitlyn, Dave and Manny. She was back on Friday and introduced Mona and her introduction of the latest Pretty Pink Posh Easter release.  We'll start there. Mona pulled a selection of solid colored cardstock that coordinated beautifully with the Doodlebug plaid pattern below.

Mona is going to stamp a bunch of these flowers for Sharon to color. This stamp set has a matching die set seen in the next photo.

There is also this stand alone die set featuring tulips, a favorite of both Mona and myself.
There is also this leafy cover plate but we may be out of stock. Memory Box makes a very similar cover plate.
There are also butterflies in three different sizes and patterns.
A Cupcake and Easter add-on.
This is an add-on to the train set released earlier. You have Easter based cars in this one, but you need the engine from the original set (Christmas or Valentine's Day, Mona wasn't sure.)
Adorable cupcake stamps.
More butterflies, I mentioned in my last post that butterflies were the insect of the summer this year!
Next we have stencils. this first is a four stencil set. Remember, you can use all of the stencils in the set or just one or two, especially this set.
Here is the second layer.
The third layer.
There fourth layer.
Single stencil with Easter words. 
The leafy criss-cross.
Flowers added to the intersections.
This is a similar two die set.

You can position the butterfly stencil at the intersections or you can off-set slightly and put them in the center of each diamond created.
This is the funnest one! It's a bunny head background. It is multi-layered stencil set.
The faces and whiskers.
The nose and the inside of the ears.
Mona's sample with bunny head stencil as a background and the upcoming dies make a great shaker element.
Here is the bunny head that can turn into a shaker or used flat.
A variety of egg dies.
Remember the French Fry container die? Mona used a flat bunny head along with the doily die to decorate this next sample.

A few snaps of Mona creating the solid flat bunny head and the shaker. She likes to cut out five or six layers to create the height you need for a shaker. By positioning the inside die and taping it to the full head die Mona creates as many layers as she needs that line up perfectly.
She backed her paper with score tape before she cut the whiskers and face features. It makes for easy placement and attachment to the acetate. Mona also has a suggestion for cutting acetate. She sandwiches her acetate between two pieces of copier paper. It helps the acetate cut cleanly.
Another card sample with this release. The Easter Wishes is from a previous release.
The rows of eggs were created with the egg die below.
Cut out butterflies, the negative space and patterned paper underneath,
You can see the Spellbinder's box that Mona used to store all the bits and pieces of her dies.
You can see the the detail of the butterfly dies.
Mona also used this pearlescent watercolor set to accent her samples.
Next up is Sharon's products from Saturday morning. It's a 49 and Market release and more. First is the Crafter's Companion Die Storage Stand, a great idea for keeping track of all those little bits and pieces as you craft. Warning, there are only about four left and Crafter's Companion is out of stock.
More samples from Mona and from Pretty Pink Posh.

Waffle Flower is picking strawberries. We have dies, stamps and stencils.

Great new sentiments in one package.

Two more great background plates.

Dies of plates and bowls. Now you have a place to put your strawberries!
We have two new collections from 49 and Market, Kaliedescope and  Charcoal. We have these bags and much more.

Sharon ordered almost every piece of the Charcoal release starting with Fabric Tape.
Acetates
Frames
Die Cuts and more. Both collections have multiple add-ons and we've got it all in our on-line store.
Kaleidescope is a multi-colored, foral, butterfly and more collection, 
Sharon pulled one of the acetates out of the package to see what they were like. 

Sharon mentioned that several store owners have been requesting products for card making as much of 49 and Market is geared to scrapbooking. To that end they've released notecards with matching envelopes.

 The Big Picture Album Kit

Washi Tape stickers, postage stamps and more.
Chipboard front and back photos.


Paper packs


Rub-ons
Laser Cuts
Enamel Bubbles and Baubles
Ephemera Bits
Sharon loves this little guy from Avery Elle. Perfect for taco Tuesdays!
Aall and Create colored and you color ephemera.
New dies 
Stencils
Rub-ons are spreading. Look at all the color combinations.
Sharon took one out and using her bone folder tried it out. 
Today's funny. If you know, you know.
I'm away this coming week and will miss Wednesday's video and probably Saturday's also. Have a crafty good week everyone and above all Stay Safe. I'll see you all when I get back.