Welcome to the last New Product Meet & Greet for our June collection! We have some really fun things to show you today! There are two different sets of products being showcased today. Katie’s been busy again, creating some adorable sea friends, and we have a Pot-Pourri of plants! There are also a couple of great new stand-alone dies.
All of the new products being introduced today will go up in the shop tomorrow (Friday, June 21st) at 10am EDT.
Let’s get to all of the fun details…
Katie’s Cuties: Feelin’ Fan-Sea Stamps & Dies
Feelin’ Fan-Sea? These adorable sea critters can be dressed up with all of their “fan-sea” accessories, complete with a top-hat and monocle for him and a cute bow for her! Color them with your favorite medium and experiment with creating underwater scenes using the Sea Scene die!
Sea Scene Die
Create beautiful underwater scenes with a single diecut! The Sea Scene die cuts a pretty frame surrounded by underwater plant-life, shells, bubbles, and sweet smiling fish. Use the die with the Katie’s Cuties: Feelin’ Fan-Sea set to create cards that are cute as can sea, or go for a more elegant look by adding watercoloring or sponging. Try using it to create shaker cards for fun, interactive designs!
Pot-Pourri Stamps & Dies
It’s a potpourri of pots! The Pot-Pourri set is filled with cute pots in all shapes and sizes, and a fun mix of plants to put in them. Each of the plants has two steps for fun, yet quick and easy detail. This set also pairs perfectly with our Macra-Made For You die collection to create cute hanging planters!
Macra-Made For You Die
This isn’t your grandmother’s macramé! Macramé is back and oh, so fun! These dies cut a trio of macramé hangers and pots. Fill them with the plants from the Pot-Pourri set and more!
To aid in your list-making and planning, below you will find the prices for today’s products.
- Katie’s Cuties: Feelin’ Fan-Sea 3″ x 4″ stamp set – $7
- Katie’s Cuties: Feelin’ Fan-Sea die – $11
- Sea Scene die – $22
- Pot-Pourri 6″ x 8″ stamp set – $24
- Pot-Pourri die – $31
- Macra-Made For You die – $21
I can’t wait to show you my projects today using these new products!
First, let’s see some Katie’s Cuties. I just love this set! It’s so fun to color, I just had the best time with these cute images! First off I have a set of birthday cards, one that’s great for a boy, and one for a girl. Katie included the cutest little accessories for these creatures so they can be all “fan-sea!” She has an adorable sense of humor and it comes through in her artwork. She giggled when she drew the umbrella – what underwater creature needs an umbrella? 🙂 For these cards I did a simple watercolor background for each, then topped it off with the new Sea Scene diecut, which makes such a perfect frame! These images were colored with colored pencils using the no-line coloring technique. The “Feelin’ Fan-sea” sentiment is from the set of course, and the “on your birthday” is from the Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You set we released in April.
My next card uses mostly the same elements, but this time I put both the octopus and starfish together inside the Sea Scene frame. I used the other sentiment from the set for this sweet card. The outer frame started with a panel of aqua cardstock, which I sponged with some Distress Oxide ink to add deeper color towards the bottom. The pink/yellow background was also done by sponging Oxide inks. The images were colored again with colored pencils using the no-line coloring method.
For my next card, I couldn’t resist making a rainbow-seashell-juggling starfish. 🙂 He’s dressed up in his top-hat and he’s ready for a party! The sentiment I used here is from the new Sentiment Suite: Birthday set. I created a simple underwater scene by doing a bit of watercoloring in the background, and then stamping some of the details. The little pebbles are included in the Feelin’ Fan-Sea set, and the plants are from the Pot-Pourri set being showcased a bit later in this post. The images here were watercolored.
My last card using this collection uses just the Sea Scene die along with some watercoloring for a more elegant look. I diecut the Sea Scene from watercolor paper and just had fun watercoloring the background and the different plants and fish. When I was finished, I backed the frame with acetate and turned it into a pretty shaker card! The sentiment from the Feelin’ Fan-Sea set is stamped inside the frame.
Up next I have several projects using the new Pot-Pourri stamps and dies and Macra-Made for you dies! This first one is simple and quick to put together. These pots and plants are so fun to stamp! Each plant is two easy steps (except the cactus, which is three steps counting the flowers). They are fun to mix and match and just play around with! A couple of the smaller pots in this cluster are from the Macra-Made For You die collection, which is such a great complement to this set. The sentiment is from the new Sentiment Suite: Birthday set.
Next I paired a few of the plants with the Macra-Made For You dies to create some adorable hanging planters. These come together so quick and easy! I just love those hanging planters, they are so fun! I did some simple watercoloring to create a background for the hangers. The small birthday sentiment is from the Sentiment Suite: Birthday set. I just love that there’s a sentiment in just about any layout I need in that set, this small one was perfect for the space I had beside the planter.
My next card is similar to the last, except this time I filled the planters with diecuts instead of stamped images. Here I used the smaller bloom from the BotaniCuts Succulents die and some small leaves from the BotaniCuts Bamboo die. For the succulent, I used just the two center layers of the smaller bloom and omitted the two larger layers for a succulent that fit nicely in the largest pot in the Macra-Made For You set. I also added some details to the planters using Nuvo Drops.
My last card for today was so much fun to make! I wanted to create something that looked like a lush jungle. I started off by sponging shades of green ink onto a panel of cardstock. Then I stamped one of the larger plants from the Pot-Pourri set over the sponging. I also tucked in some BotaniCuts Bamboo into the background. In the foreground I put a mix of pots from the Pot-Pourri set and the Macra-Made for You dies. The sentiment is from the Lemon Blossom set and was heat embossed with white.
I just had an absolute blast creating with today’s products, and I hope you enjoyed “meeting” them! Now that we’ve done that, you can “greet” them for a chance to win a $50 gift card! Read on for details…
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- Comments close at Midnight EDT on Thursday, June 20
- Winners will be posted at 7am ET on Friday, June 21st, here on the blog
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That’s officially a wrap to the countdown to the release of our June collection! All of the new products are ready to go and they’ll be live in the shop Friday morning at 10am EDT! I’ll have a post up here at 7am EDT announcing the gift certificate winners!
247 comments
Your projects are so pretty. Thank you for all your beautiful designs and inspiration.
Looking forward to tomorrow. So excited.
Everything is so lovely. Everyone did an awesome job showcasing all the new products.
What a stellar release!
Betsy thank you for this amazing week of peeks. Everything in this month’s release is so wonderful. It was so great to see how all of the ladies used these new things. I hope I don’t spend too much…..
Love seeing your creativity!
Another great release day. The cards are all beyond fantastic. I really like the detail in the plant hanger die & who doesn’t need more pots & plants?!
Wonderful stamps and dies with the succulents/pots/macra-made hangers. Your examples are gorgeous as are the samples from your design team. Looks like another outstanding release, Betsy!
Another day of beautiful items in this release! The Macra-Made for You dies are so cute & unique!
Beautiful! The sea scene die you created is genius!
Love the macrame hangers. Brings back so many memories!
The sea scene die & the macrame dies are GENIUS!
Love the hanging plants & all your fabulous projects with those stamps & dies!
I am loving all of these new products. Those sea themed ones are so fun and I love the hanging pots with the macrame holders.
I love these two sets! They are my favorite!
FABulous release!! Once again, I’m loving everything! 🙂 Beautiful cards and inspiration!
Super gorgeous plant cards..and super cute Fish cards…amazing projects!
Such lovely artwork showcasing your new collection of products. Your background watercoloring is very nice.
Betsy, you and your daughter make an awesome team!! So talented!!! What an absolute stunning and beautiful release of products!
A fun end to your peeks, Betsy – these are darling!
All the sets have been great, but today’s was the best! My husband has a huge aquarium and so those fish stamps are calling my name. I love how they can be used for masculine and feminine cards
As always, your projects and designs are stellar!
Fun projects today! Love that you’re doing novel designs- haven’t seen anything like the macrame set!
I’m blown away!
Such eye candy!
It’s fun to see whimsical sets that not only we can enjoy but also the younger artists can create with also! Lovely always!
Such beautiful projects and incredible inspiration! Love, love the sea scene die…. brilliant!
Oh …. these pots are absolutely cute!
WOW! Another day of great products and ideas. How will I ever be able to choose?
I’ve really enjoyed seeing all these exciting new releases this week. Great job! I love the new ones and the samples are wonderful. The Macra-Made for You and the Pot Pourri sets go perfectly together.
Great projects! Love all the new products. Tbe fan sea set is so cute!
Such adorable stamps and dies!! Your projects are so fun to see
All these are so cute, but I LOVE that starfish juggling the rainbow shells! So clever!
Your daughter Katie did a great job again. That Fan-Sea set is really cute. And that Sea Scene die…fabulous. Love the Pot-Pourri stamps too. Your projects are a great inspiration.
OMG! I love love love the feeling FAN-SEA set! Sooooo cute! Just gorgeous cards!
Incredible! Can NOT wait for this release!
These new supplies are so adorable! I absolutely love the Macra-Made products – so clever and fun! Loving all the beautiful samples.
I love the products today, especially the potted plants!
There’s truly something for everyone in this release! What gorgeous cards.
What a wonderful mix of projects today! Love the Pot-pourri stamps and macrame dies!
Love the underwater scene! So cute!
Love all of the cards today and Katie’s cuties Feelin’ Fan-Sea set is perfect for my grandkids! I am getting my list ready for tomorrow! Great release Betsy!
WOW! So many awesome new products! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win. 😀
Love the pots and the macramé hangers. I remember making some of those hangers!
Beautiful stamp, dies and cards today! I especially love the Pot-pouri and the Macra-made… so so unique!!
Katie’s Cuties are just adorable! That chubby little octopus is just begging to be hugged. I’m loving all the variety of plants and pots in Pot-Pourri — so many sets do only succulents or tropical plants, but not both. The previously released succulent die looks fantastic in the Macra-Made For You pot!
You are so creative. Love the new stamps and samples.
Katie is an awesome stamp designer :). The Fan-Sea set is so adorable…and the Sea Scene die is fabulous.
Love the Pot-Pourri stamps also and your cards are all so beautiful, Betsy!
Love the macrame. Takes me back to my first crafty attempts at that knotty fun.
Just darling Sea Scenes. And love the Macrame and botanicals. So inspirational! Thank you!