Merry Makings Day 2: Make it Bright

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Welcome to the most exciting week of the year here at The Greetery! Holiday crafting is my very favorite, and I’m so excited to finally get to share all of the details of this year’s holiday collection, Merry Makings. Welcome to Day #2 of the reveals!

All of the new products being showcased today will be available for purchase beginning at 10am ET on Friday, October 9 in the shop.

Before we get to today’s product introductions, one more bit of news – Laurie will be hosting an Instagram Live presentation of all of the new products on Thursday morning, October 8 at 11:00am CDT, so tune in if you’d like to check it out!

Today’s product introductions are sure to make the holidays just a little bit brighter! This year is destined to be a different sort of Christmas, but I’m determined to make it just as special as ever! We might just have to get a little creative, but hey…that’s what we do best. 😊

Destination: North Pole stamp set + die

All aboard for the north pole! Map out your next holiday stamping adventure with this adorable set filled with holiday icons. Perfect for special deliveries straight from Santa’s workshop, use these fun images and sentiments for cards, tags, and wraps. The new Destination North Pole set can be paired with the rest of our Destination collection for projects that are really going places. 

This set comes on a 6″ x 8″ sheet and includes a full-color printed stamping guide. The matching die is an 25-piece set of wired dies.

Made in the USA
Destination: North Pole stamp set price – $24
Destination: North Pole die price – $27

Click HERE for more detailed information

Snowflake Soiree stencil, stamp set, + die

Swirling & twirling, these snowflakes are ready to dance across your next project! If you enjoyed our Pinwheel Party collection you’ll love Snowflake Soiree! The Snowflake Soiree stencil set includes a 4-step border stencil that makes it so fun and easy to create beautiful multi-colored snowflake borders. The individual snowflake stencil can be used to stencil snowflakes onto backgrounds, or onto the matching dies. There’s also a mask stencil to use with the border, allowing you to sponge additional color around that pretty border.

The matching Snowflake Soiree die collection includes dies for all of the individual snowflakes in the stencil set, a die for the border, and a “be merry” sentiment and matching shadow. The coordinating stamp set includes an assortment of smaller snowflakes and some mix and match sentiments that can be combined with the “be merry” die or stamp.

This Snowflake Soiree stencil set includes a full-color printed stenciling guide. The matching die is an 11-piece set of wired dies.
Made in the USA

Snowflake Soiree 6-piece stencil set price – $16
Snowflake Soiree stamp set price – $7
Snowflake Soiree die price – $39

Click HERE for more detailed stencil information
Click HERE for more detailed stamp set information

I once again have so many projects! I could not stop creating! 😊 Before we get into the projects, I have a video for you that showcases Snowflake Soiree, showing you all of the details of what you can do with these stencils, dies, and stamps.

Here are some close-ups of the cards I created from the elements that were stamped and stenciled in the video. So quick and fun to do!

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Next I have several more cards using the Snowflake Soiree elements. This one uses the multi-step border stencil on a vertical A2 card. I used Broken China, Blueprint Sketch, Victorian Velvet, and Festive Berries oxide inks for the border.

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I layered a diecut the stenciled border with the border die, and also popped up an individual snowflake to add some more dimension. The sentiment was done with a mix of the dies and stamps. I added a few single snowflakes as accents around the sentiment, and also used the stamps to stamp a few tiny snowflakes in the background.

I sat down and stenciled a whole pile of those pretty flakes in alllll the colors and had the best time mixing, matching, and layering them for a rainbow of flurries!

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I was inspired by Heather’s tone-on-tone diecut background she shared a few weeks ago for a TGIF post. I lightened it up and did a white-on-white background using some branches from the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die. It’s the perfect backdrop for these colorful snowflakes! I arranged them in rainbow order on a slim-line card base, working from cool to warm across the card front. I finished it off with a Written in Ribbons Holiday sentiment.

I created a matching card that is a bit simpler, using the multi-step border stencils. I worked my way across each stencil left to right, from warm to cool ink colors to create these stenciled rainbow flakes.

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I also added some individual snowflakes to the background with the stencil, using texture paste to create an embossed effect. I finished it off with the diecut sentiment, sponged in a rainbow of inks and layered over the shadow diecut, which was cut from vellum for a light and airy look. A few sequins add a little sparkle!

Next I switched to an ultra cool color palette…it reminds me of Frozen! I stenciled the 4-step border at both the top and bottom edges of this vertical A2 panel using shades of blue and purple inks. I used Blueprint Sketch, Shaded Lilac, Milled Lavender, and Stormy Sky.

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I stamped a few snowflakes as well, to the centers of the stenciled snowflakes just to add a little more depth to the centers. I added some pine branches, cut with the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die, which were glittered with some glass glitter. I finished it off with a Written in Ribbons Holiday sentiment.

For my final card featuring Snowflake Soiree, I miiiight have gone a little overboard. 😂 I mentioned at the start of this post, that Snowflake Soiree is very similar in concept to our Pinwheel Party set. That got me to thinking about how fun it would be to combine the two. And that is what I did here and it was so very much fun!

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It turned out looking almost like intricate Moroccan tiles. I stenciled several pinwheels and several snowflakes in shades of all different blues and greens. Then I had fun arranging them on my card base, and layering all sorts of different combinations. The pretty “merry Christmas” from Written in Ribbons Holiday is layered over the top, and a few iridescent sequins add some shine!

Next I have some fun projects using the new Destination: North Pole set. These are so fun to work with as well. I just sat and stamped a pile of the small icons from the set so I could just add them to my cards as I went along creating. This first card uses the previously released Destination: Round Map die as my base.

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The two-step North Pole sentiment that’s included in the set is so fun! I stamped it using my MISTI so that I could add some shading on the inside portion of the letters by sponging some darker green onto the lower half of the letters with a finger sponge. The street names are such a fun little touch, too! The stamps are straight, but you can curve them on your block to fit along any of the streets on the Map dies. There are also dies for all of the other small sentiments that go along with the “north pole” words so that you can easily layer them when using the maps dies, etc.

This next one uses the previously released Destination Map stencils. I used some texture paste along with the waterfront map stencil to create dimensional snow drifts. Before adding the texture paste with the map stencil, I used the Snowflake Soiree stencil set to add some snowflakes to the background as well.

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I added lots of details from the Destination: North Pole set and that fun sentiment as well. The polar bears might be my favorite. I stamped them in a very light gray ink, then added just a little shading with a gray colored pencil and a pink pencil for rosy cheeks. The eyes and nose were added with a black pen – to both the polar bears and the reindeer.

My next card was inspired by a book I used to read my kids when they were little…Snow Bear’s Surprise, an adorable book about sweet polar animals and the northern lights. The last page of the book had little twinkling lights – my youngest especially loved that book! This card was inspired by it. 😊

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I started with a panel of water color paper and used my watercolor paints to create something resembling the northern lights. I added some splatters for “stars”. I used the Drifting die along the bottom to create a place to tuck some mountains from the previously released Destination stamp set. I used the polar bears and trees from the new North Pole set. The sentiment is also from that set, of course. I layered everything over a Postal Frames diecut. I also added a few Snowflake Soiree snowflakes.

Lastly, I have a few tags using Destination: North Pole along with the new Wood Slices die. Such a fun combo! I layered lots of elements from North Pole over the slices.

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I used a brad to secure my embellished slice to a second slice which was stamped with the to/from sentiments from Merry Sprigs. This allows the tags to “swivel” to reveal the to/from message. Everything used to embellish the slice is from North Pole, with the exception of the “special delivery” sentiment, which is from the Pretty Postmarks set.

I so hope you enjoyed all of my projects today. They brought me such joy to create!

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. We will be giving away one $50 gift card for today’s blog hop!

Read on for details…

• Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person). I’d love to hear your best Santa story…maybe a childhood memory or something you’ve done with your children or grandchildren!
• Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ and Guest blogs for more entries (one comment per person, per blog)
• Comments close at 11:59pm EDT on Thursday night, October 8
• Winners will be posted at 7am EDT on Friday, October 9 here on the blog

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

(click on the images to visit the Inspiration Team blogs, or click HERE if viewing this post via email)

Thank you so much for joining me today! We have one more day of reveals tomorrow before the whole collection goes up in the shop on Friday, October 9 at 10am ET.