Grand Opening Day is Here!

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Thank you so much for an amazing last few weeks of sneak peeks, product reveals, and projects! I hope you had as much fun as I did!

The day is finally here for the store portion of our site to go live. As noted yesterday, we decided to go ahead and open up the storefront right away this morning so you can check it out and get familiar with our site! All of the products will be marked with a “coming soon” label so you won’t be able to add anything to your cart until that label is removed at 10am ET. In the meantime, you can take a look around, create an account, etc.

Before I get into lots of other information that I want to share with you, we have some winners to announce! Ladies, send an email to customerservice@thegreetery.com and we’ll get your codes emailed to you ASAP!

Day #1 Winner is Kim’s Stampin Patch from Lizzie Jones’ blog!

Day #2 is Dawn Y from Laurie Schmidlin’s blog!

Day #3 is Tona from here on The Greetery blog!

Day #4 winner is Emma Sleppy from Keeway’s blog!

New Products!

Here are all of our new products that have been introduced throughout the week!

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• Hand in Hand 4″ x 6″ stamp set – $15
  
• Hand in Hand Die – $21
  
• Fir & Foliage No. 1 – 6″ x 8″ stamp set – $24
  
• Fir & Foliage No. 1 die – $18
  
• Fir & Foliage No. 1 3-step stencil – $9
  
• Pathway Stencil – $6
• Fleur Impressions 4″ x 8″ stamp set – $18
  
• Fleur Impressions die – $18
  
• Comforting Commands 4″ x 6″ stamp set – $15
  
• Comforting Commands die – $23
• BotaniCuts Succulent die – $19
• Terrarium Large die – $22
• Terrarium Small die – $11
• Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You 4″ x 6″ stamp set – $15
• Sentiment Suite: Basics die – $19
• Katie’s Cuties: Panda 3″ x 4″ stamp set – $7
• Katie’s Cuties: Panda die collection – $11
• BotaniCuts Bamboo die collection – $19

Shipping

Understandably, we’ve had quite a few questions about shipping. You can view our shipping policies and rates on our FAQ page. We are starting here, and may tweak things after we get a good feel for things down the road.

Bundles

We’ve had lots of requests for product bundles. It is something we are working on and will be implementing in the future. Due to how the system works and inventory is updated, we were not comfortable having it in place for our initial release. Once we have a better feel for supply vs demand, we will definitely be incorporating some one-click bundles.

Next I wanted to share some fun things about our site that we’ve put into place to make it easy for you to find what you’re looking for – in both product and inspiration!

Homepage

The homepage of our site will be filled with the latest release products. You will find a section for each product category – stamps, dies, and stencils. You can add to your cart using the small shopping bag icon that appears in the lower right corner when hovering over a product.

There’s also a “Shop the Look” section on the Homepage. Here I’ll be sharing a few of my favorite projects from the release, and they’ll be linked with their products – just click on the small circles to see the products used in the project. You can click to view more details, or add them to your cart right from the pop-up window!

We’ll be linking the latest blog posts on the store homepage too, so you can always see what’s new on the blog!

Lookbooks

You may have noticed the “Lookbook” tab that’s located at the top of the blog. It wasn’t active before today, as it links to our store. It is now live and ready for you to check it out! Each stamp set or stand-alone die set that we’re releasing has a Lookbook page. You can visit the main page for the month, where you will see all of the sets linked, or each set can be found in the drop-down menu at the top of the store for easy access.

Lookbook Product Pins

Looking through the Lookbooks, you’ll probably notice some small blinking circles on the images, like this:

Just like the “Shop the Look” section of the homepage, these are product pins! Click on them and the product used in that project will open up in a pop-up window. You can add products directly to your cart from this window. Note: you may need to refresh the page for it to show up in your cart. You can also click to view the details for that product and it will take you to the product page.

Please note that when a project uses a stamp set and matching die, most often only the stamp set will be linked. If there are too many pins on an image it gets difficult to navigate, especially when viewing on a mobile device. So in an effort to keep things looking neat and working well, most times only the stamp sets will be linked, unless it’s a project that uses minimal supplies. You can easily find the matching dies for a stamp set by clicking on “details” on the pop-up box – the coordinating dies for each stamp set will be linked towards the bottom of each page.

If there is a video tutorial for a particular project, that will be linked via a video camera icon, like shown here on the Terrarium Treats. Click on that icon to go directly to the Youtube video for that project.

At the top of each Lookbook page is a banner that you can click to see the introductory blog post for that set. If the project is from one of our guests, you can visit their blog and read more about their project by clicking the book icon, as shown here in Wanda’s amazing Hand in Hand project!

QR Codes

For easy access to our Lookbooks, the majority of our product will come packaged with a QR code on the back of the packaging insert. These small labels are removable so that you can peel them off and store them with your stamps and dies! To read the QR code, you will need a QR reader on your phone or tablet. There are many free QR reader apps available. Simply scan the QR code to take you directly to the Lookbook for that product for instant inspiration!

Wishlist

You will also notice that we have a wishlist enabled in our store. This is located by clicking on the heart in the upper right corner of the site. This feature works best if you connect your list to an email address. Please note that if you purchase an item from your wishlist, it is not automatically removed from your wishlist. You will need to go ahead and remove any items you’ve purchased and no longer need on your wishlist.

I think that’s all for now! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here, or drop us an email. I hope you enjoy checking out our store! Happy shopping — and more importantly, happy CREATING! Thank you SO MUCH for making this week so amazing!