Love Letters Collection Day #2: Coming Up Roses

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Thank you so much for your enthusiasm about yesterday’s reveals! Today we’re back for Day 2 of reveals for our newest collection – Love Letters!

All of the products being introduced on the blog this week will be available for purchase in The Shop, beginning at 10am EST on Friday, January 17.

Before we get to the product introductions, just a reminder that Laurie’s doing an Instagram Live presentation of all of the new products this morning at 11:00am CST, so tune in if you’d like to check it out!

Now let’s meet today’s new products…

Sketchbook Roses stamps & die

A rose is a rose is a rose…taken straight from a hand-drawn pencil sketch, the pretty Sketchbook Roses set features a large-scale flower cluster that’s perfect for focal points and backgrounds. Using the solid images to add color to the sketchy outline is like a stamper’s version of a paint-by-number. The carefree style of this set makes for no-fuss layered stamping. Experiment with embossing the outline image with metallic powder for an elegant look, or use your favorite coloring medium to fill in the outline image. The “beautiful” script sentiment can be combined with a handful of text sentiments from the set to create projects for a variety of occasions.

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This set comes on a 4″ x 8″ sheet and includes a printed full-color stamping guide

Approximate sizes:
large bouquet – 4.2″ x 4.4″
beautiful word – 2″ x 1.25″
you make life more sentiment – 2.2″ x .15″

Sentiments include:
beautiful
you make like more (beautiful)
have a (beautiful) day
hello, (beautiful)

Written in Ribbons stamps & die

Like flowing, graceful ribbons, these pretty sentiments will wrap your cards in style. The large-scale two-step script words can be stamped in any colors you can imagine. Using two shades of the same color will give you a pretty tone-on-tone look. Have fun experimenting with different inking techniques to create an ombré effect, or layer different ink colors for a bolder look. The companion dies are a bit different than your typical centered outline die in that they are slightly offset to create a fun shadow effect. The smaller text phrases can be combined with the larger script words to create a variety of phrases for several occasions.

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This set comes on a 6″ x 8″ sheet and includes a full-color printed stamping guide.

Approximate sizes:
thanks – 3.5″ x 1″
happy – 3.5″ x 1.5″
hello – 3.1″ x 1.7″
just for you – 2.25″ x 2.6″

Sentiment Suite Love stamps

Do you ever find yourself hunting for the perfect sentiment to finish your card? The Sentiment Suite stamps cover the most popular card making occasions, with sentiments in many different layouts. You’re sure to find the perfect fit for your project, whether it’s a one-line sentiment, a small sentiment for a tag, or even the perfect saying to stamp on the inside! The Sentiment Suite Love set has stamps for weddings, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day and more. Pair these sentiments with the Sentiment Suite Basics dies for lots of layering options! You’ll be reaching for these great basics again and again!

Let’s Have a Word: Beautiful die

Let’s have a word! This stand-alone die cuts the word “beautiful” in a lovely script font, accompanied by a few smaller sentiments to complete a handful of phrases. It coordinates beautifully with the Sketchbook Roses stamp set to provide you with more design options for the sentiments found in that set.

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Set of 4 dies
Approximate sizes:
beautiful – 3.25″ x 1.75″
have a – 1.5″ x .4″
hello – 1.3″ x .4″
day – .8″ x .4″

BotaniCuts Rose die

Everything’s coming up roses! The BotaniCuts collection is a series of stand alone dies for cutting various botanical designs. This BotaniCuts Rose set creates two sizes of layered roses, an assortment of leaves, and a small rose bud. Keep it simple by cutting them from colored cardstock, or have fun experimenting with your favorite coloring method, such as ink blending, watercolor, markers, and more! The layers on these roses create beautiful dimension!

This die collection comes with a full-color printed layering guide

Set of 25 dies, wired together.
Approximate sizes:
large rose – 2.5″ x 2″
small rose – 1.8″ x 1.6″
large double leaf – 1.7″ x 2.25″
single leaf – 1.7″ x .75″
assembled rose bud – 1″ x 1.25″

To aid in your list-making and planning, below you will find the prices for today’s products.

• Sketchbook Roses 4″ x 8″ stamp set – $24
• Sketchbook Roses die – $24
• Written in Ribbons stamp set – $24
• Written in Ribbons die – $28
• Sentiment Suite Love 4″ x 6″ stamp set – $15
• Let’s Have a Word: Beautiful die – $8
• BotaniCuts Rose die – $40

I have so many projects to share, and just wait until you see what the Inspiration Team has created for you! Before we dive into projects, I put together a video showing how to layer and assemble the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die.

So I’m just going to get right to the point here and throw out my favorite card of the day (possibly the year?!) I had so much fun completely filling this card front with the BotaniCuts Roses!

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All of the roses I used here were cut from plain white cardstock and then sponged with Distress Oxide inks. I did add a bit of shading to some of them using colored pencils to add just a little deeper color into some of the layers. I love playing around with sponging all different colors…the leaves have mixes of all different greens, and even some blues and yellows for a really pretty variety of color. I also snuck in a few BotaniCuts Pine Bough sprigs…I mentioned the other day that I was loving putting those pine sprigs in with other things too, like my daisy cards. They’re perfect here with the roses too and just add a little variety! I also used some clear Nuvo drops to create some dew drops, and also added some splatters with white acrylic ink. In the center is that pretty “hello” from the Written in Ribbons set, stamped in shades of yellow and gold. The layers and layers of color on this card just make me happy!

You might be wondering how tricky these roses are to assemble. Well, I put together a video for you that shows how easy they go together. Each layer has some guides built in in the way of scored or cut lines, so you’ll always know just how to stack them up. You will also receive a full-color layering guide with your die to keep as an easy reference.

My next card uses just a single BotaniCuts Rose along with a pretty mix of foliage. I love all of the different leaves in this die set almost as much as those blooms! The pretty bloom here was watercolored, as were the leaves.

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The mix of foliage behind the rose is made up of the leaf cluster from the new Signed & Sealed With a Kiss that was introduced yesterday, some BotaniCuts Pine Bough sprigs, and leaves from BotaniCuts Rose. It’s all layered over the medium rectangle from the Nordic Frames die, which is layered over a panel stamped with the new Windowpane Plaid background. The sentiment I used here is from the new Sentiment Suite: Love set. I love that vertical layout and it was perfect for my card design!

Creating layers and bouquets with these roses is just so fun I couldn’t stop. I sat one evening and just had fun playing around with watercoloring the leaves and flowers. The leaves are especially perfect for experimenting with different watercolor blends and color combos. You can see the leaves here have lots of shades of blue, green, and yellow.

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The rose here was done with ink sponging, along with some colored pencil shading. Behind the rose is an Inside & Out Berry Branch diecut – both the outline and some of the individual branches. The sentiment is of course from the new Written in Ribbons set, this time stamped with two different ink colors – green and blue, instead of shades of the same color. The background behind everything was stamped with the new Sketchbook Roses set. I used just the outline image, which makes super quick and pretty backgrounds!

The rest of my cards today feature the new Sketchbook Roses set. I thought it might be helpful to put a video together showing how this is put together. There are a lot of individual bits and pieces, but as you’ll see from the video, you can combine many of those into a single step if you use a stamp positioning guide like a MISTI.

So now that you’ve seen the Sketchbook Roses set in action, I have several projects using it. This first one uses the outline image along with all of the solid filler layers to create this pretty, colorful bouquet that makes for a pretty focal point all on its own.

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Behind that pretty bouquet is a panel of watercolor paper. I stamped some script from the new Pretty Postmarks set and heat embossed it with white powder before watercoloring over it with shades of pink and yellow. The sentiment here is a combination of the new Let’s Have a Word: Beautiful die and some sentiments from the Sentiment Suite: Birthday set. I used the new Postal Frames die to add the pretty edge to the bottom of the watercolor panel.

The Sketchbook Roses set has lots of opportunity to play with different techniques. I love the look of heat embossing the outline image with gold powder, and then adding color using the fill-in stamps.

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I used lots of bright ink colors and my favorite method of inking my stamps using finger daubers and Distress Oxide inks to give these images lots of interesting color blends. Because the oxide inks can get a bit messy stamping over the embossing, I stamped the outline image first in black ink to use as a guide for filling in my flowers with all of the solid images. Then when I was finished stamping all the flowers, I went back and stamped the outline again, this time with Versamark ink, then heat embossed it with gold. The sentiment here is a combination of the Let’s Have a Word: Beautiful die, and a sentiment stamp from the Sketchbook Roses set.

I loved the look of the embossing on that outline image, so I wanted to try that again, but this time add color using watercolors instead of the fill-in stamps. I wanted to just create kind of a free, messy look with lots of color!

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I used loose brushstrokes, and didn’t fill the images in completely, and used lots of color, especially in the leaves. When I was finished watercoloring that bouquet, I also added some watercolor to the background before diecutting that bouquet. Doing it this way made it feel more natural, and some of the image kind of extends into the background. For a fun shadow effect and to give the image a whole lot of pop, I diecut the bouquet from black cardstock and nested it back inside the background, then layered my watercolored bouquet over the top, offsetting it just a bit to allow the black to show, and popped it up with some foam adhesive. I also tucked in some leaves from the BotaniCuts Rose set and sprigs from the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die. The sentiment was stamped using the Sketchbook Roses set. I created a matching envelope by sponging some ink over the scalloped Flappable stencil, then stamped the outline floral from Sketchbook Roses with the stencil still in place using Versamark, and heat embossed it with white powder. The layering/shadow technique I used here was really fun and I would love to experiment with it more!

My next card again experiments with some watercoloring and the outline image from Sketchbook Roses, embossed with gold embossing powder. This card was about one hot minute from ending up in the trash. 😉 Once I decided that it was not working out, I went a little crazy and just started adding leaves by hand with my watercolors and brush.

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The result is…well, interesting. Maybe it should have gone in the trash. 🙂 I layered some diecut leaves from the BotaniCuts Rose die over the top of my watercoloring, as well as the “thanks” sentiment from the Written in Ribbons set. I added some gold splatters because well, splatters fix a lot of things!

My last card for today is a much softer take on the Sketchbook Roses set. I wanted to create a pretty wedding card and play with some colors outside of my usual color palette.

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I started by stamping the outline with some gold ink, then I filled in just the bouquet in the lower corner with with solid fill-in stamps using soft colors of Distress Oxide inks. The sentiment is from the new Written in Ribbons, stamped in the same soft colors – Tea Dye and Tattered Rose. I added a few diecut leaves from BotaniCuts Rose behind the sentiment, which were cut from watercolor paper and then watercolored. The inside is finished off with the online image stamped in gold ink, and one of the sentiments included in the Sentiment Suite: Love set.

That wraps up my projects for today, but there is still so much more! Now that you’ve gotten to meet all of today’s new products and see them in action, you can “greet” them for a chance to win a $50 gift card! Read on for details…

• Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person). What caught your eye today, and gets you excited to get creating?
• Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ blogs for more entries (one comment per person, per blog)
• Comments close at Midnight EST on Thursday, January 16
• Winners will be posted at 7am EST on Friday, January 17 here on the blog

You are in for such a treat! It’s time to see what our amazing Inspiration Team has to share with you today!

We also have a special guest today! Please give a warm Greetery welcome to Caly Person, who is joining us in today’s hop!

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Thank you so much for visiting today! Tomorrow is the day! All of the new products we’ve been showcasing will go up in the shop tomorrow morning at 10am EST. Just a little housekeeping note about the new products. They’re already loaded into the shop, but the stock has not been added. SO, if you see an “out of stock” notification, no worries – we’re just getting the store ready, and the stock will be added Friday morning at 10am EST!