Spring Fever Day 2: Spring Classics

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Welcome to the second day of reveals for our newest collection, Spring Fever!

Our newest collection is filled with some of the sweet things of spring. All of these new products will be available in the shop beginning at 10am EST on Wednesday, March 10.

If you’d like to see all of the new products up close, Laurie will be hosting an Instagram Live presentation of all of the new products on Tuesday, March 9 at 11:00am CST (that’s today!), so tune in if you’d like to check it out!

Let’s get to the product introductions…

Print Shop: Floral Frame Stamp + Stencil, Frame die, and Elements die

Welcome to the Print Shop – the place for pretty patterns that are fun to stencil and stamp! The Print Shop: Floral Frame Stamp + Stencil bundle allows you to create a lovely multi-color floral frames for your favorite sentiments or other focal points. Start with a bit of stenciling, then add stamped details and watch the pretty design come to life! Have fun playing with endless color combinations. The Print Shop: Floral Frame set also includes individual floral stamps that you can use for focal points, adding even more versatility to this set!

The matching frame die includes a template to aid in repositioning the inner and outer cut lines of the frame should you choose to snip those dies apart.

Click HERE for more info on the stamp + stencil set, click HERE for more info on the frame die, or HERE for more information on the elements die

Print Shop: Floral Frame Stamp + Stencil combo (6×8″ stamp set + single stencil set)- $27
Print Shop: Floral Frame die + template – $27
Print Shop: Floral Frame elements die – $15
Made in the USA

Empty Grave Stamp + Stencil Combo

Celebrating the joy and beauty of Easter…an empty grave and a risen Savior! This sentiment stamp set and matching die are perfect for adding meaningful sentiments to your Easter cards and projects. This sentiment fits wonderfully inside our Print Shop: Floral Frame set.

Click HERE for more detailed information
Empty Grave stamp + cut combo (3×4″ stamp set and single matching die) – $14
Made in the USA

Nordic and Crimped Circles dies

A couple of our most popular die basics are now available in circles! The Nordic Circles and Crimped Circles dies will be wonderful basics to add to your collection.

Click HERE for more detailed Nordic Circles information
Click HERE for more detailed Crimped Circles information
Nordic Circles 3 pc wired die – $18
Crimped Circles 4 pc wired die – $18
Made in the USA

Nordic and Crimped Slimline dies

Our popular Nordic and Crimped Frames dies are also making an appearance in a new slimline version! The slimline canvas provides some new, exciting design possibilities, and these two new dies sets are the perfect basics for creating projects in this popular new size. Slimline cards measure approximately 3-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ and are designed to fit in a #9 envelope.

Click HERE for more detailed Nordic Slimline information
Click HERE for more detailed Crimped Circles information
Nordic Slimline 3pc wired die – $34
Crimped Slimline 4pc wired die – $34
Made in the USA

I’m so excited to share my projects with you today! First off is a pretty, feminine card done in shades of blue and purple using the new Print Shop: Floral Frame set.

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I put together a video while I was creating this card so that you can see this set in action. It is so easy and fun to see these pretty frames come to life. I love to play with different color combos.

The frame is perfect for surrounding so many of your favorite sentiments. Here I used the Opposites Attract set, one of my favorite sentiment sets. With the frame die being two separate dies, you have lots of design options. For this card I cut out just the center, popped up the floral panel and nested that inner diecut back inside after inking it with shades of blue and purple to match the florals.

My next card also uses the new Print Shop: Floral Frame set along with the Empty Grave sentiment set to create a pretty Easter card.

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This time I diecut both the inner and outer parts of the frame and actually layered two of them over the top of each other, rotating the bottom one 180 degrees to create a fuller, double-layered frame. Foam adhesive gives it even more dimension. Inside the frame I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it with gold powder. I finished off the inside of the card with some of the complementary sentiments from the Empty Grave set and also stamped a few of the individual flowers from the Print Shop: Floral Frame set around it.

Next I have a super colorful card with a much bolder look using Print Shop: Floral Frame. The frame die comes with a template for re-aligning the dies should you choose to snip them apart. That template is made from stencil material, so it also works great to use as a mask. I used it here to sponge black ink around the outer edges of the floral frame.

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The flowers on the stencil included in the Floral Frame set are spaced far enough apart that it’s super easy to stencil them in lots of different colors like I did here. The black background really makes them pop! I added some white paint splatters to finish it off. This is a one-layer card, using the inner frame die to cut a window from the front to show the sentiment stamped inside (stamped with the Opposites Attract set). The pretty Put a Bow on It bow is the perfect finishing touch to the floral frame.

My next card uses some of the individual floral elements from the Print Shop: Floral Frame set. I created a pretty cluster and topped it off with the new bow from Put a Bow on It.

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Doubling up is good when it comes to bows! Here I layered two of them – one yellow, one pink. I filled in around my flowers with greenery sprigs cut with the Boxwood Heart Details die. My little nosegay is layered over a couple of circles, cut with our two new circle die sets – Nordic and Crimped Circles. They’re pretty on their own, but even prettier layered together! Underneath that is a Nordic Frames rectangle, cut with our original Nordic Frames set.

Next I have another Easter card. This one uses the new Empty Grave sentiment paired with some of our Easter things from last year – Caring Cross and BotaniCuts Palm.

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I had fun putting this one together using the new Crimped Slimline as a base. I diecut a panel of watercolor paper using the largest rectangle from the set. I added some soft, loose watercolor to the background. I diecut and stamped/stenciled the cross from Caring Cross and surrounded it with some BotaniCuts Palm diecuts. I stamped the Empty Grave sentiment onto the matching diecut, and diecut two more so I could layer them all together for added thickness. I stamped a companion sentiment from the set onto one of the banners from the Crimped Slimline die set. I double-cut the banner to create a shorter length to fit across my card front. The banner dies from the set are a bit longer – designed to be used along the longer side of the slimline die, but you can easily cut them down to fit across the narrow width for a portrait orientation as well. I just diecut the banner, stamped my sentiment closer to one end of the banner, then realigned my diecut back into the banner die and cut the opposite end shorter, if that makes sense! I finished off my design by adding gold splatters using a bright gold metallic alcohol ink.

Next I have a card that you might have caught a peek of in yesterday’s BotaniCuts Wildflower video. I use our new Nordic Slimline dies as the base and created a pretty linear bouquet of dainty wildflowers.

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I had so much fun creating yesterday’s black slimline carrot card, this one was inspired by that one. The slimline canvas is just so new and refreshing to work with – it opens up all sorts of new design possibilities! I thought this would make a perfect wedding card, so I finished it off with a pretty love sentiment using a combination of things from our last release – the Let’s Have a Word: Love die and a sentiment stamp from the Love Is set. The Wildflowers were cut with the BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die of course, and sponged with Distress Oxide inks, detailed with colored pencils. Of course I had to add some white ink splatters to finish the design – I can never resist!! 😊

My final project for today is a set of soft, pretty notecards that use the Nordic Slimline dies in a different way. I scored and folded the largest rectangle from the set down the center to create the notecard bases. It does create a bit of an odd size, so finding the perfect envelope might not be possible, but an A1 fits pretty well with just a bit of extra length – or you could always try making your own!

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I used the medium-sized frame from the Nordic Slimline to cut the panel that layers over the base. I trimmed them in half, so one cut was enough for two notecards. On each panel I stamped some elements in gold ink – I used the outline image from the Sketchbook Roses set on a few of them, and some Pretty Postmarks elements on the others. Each one is topped off with a stem of wildflowers cut with the new BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die. I kept these very soft and delicate. One other thing to note here is the combination of white and cream cardstock – I used to think using those two together was a no-no, but I am currently loving the way it looks!

That wraps up my projects today, but there’s 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. 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).
• Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ and Guest blogs for more entries (one comment per person, per blog)
• Comments close at 11:59pm EST on Tuesday night, March 9
• Winners will be posted at 7am EST on Wednesday, March 10, here on the blog

The inspiration team has been busy creating lots of beautiful things with these new stamps and dies! Hop along to see what they’ve been up to (click HERE if viewing via email)

Thank you for joining us! I’ll pop in with a post in the morning with a few release details and our blog hop winners!