Popping in today with another sneak peek of some new things from our latest collection called New Beginnings! Today’s peek is all about spring!
There’s a brand new BotaniCuts die, a pretty new sentiment set, a fun new stencil, and some jumbo versions of some popular previously released dies!
I’ll be back tomorrow with the team to star the full reveals + tons of projects! Our New Beginnings collection will go up in the shop on Friday at 10am ET. 🙂
Happy Friday! We have lots to share over the next week here at The Greetery! We’ve been busy behind the scenes getting everything ready for the release of a new collection called New Beginnings…filled to the brim with sweet things for Easter, spring, and babies!
We’ll spend next week counting down to release day on Friday with sneak peeks, reveals, and projects from the team. I hope you’ll join us!
For today, Wanda is here with a beautiful TGIF project to kick off your weekend, which hopefully involves some crafty time. 🙂
Hi there my Greetery friends! It’s Wanda, here to share a fun and cheerful birthday greeting with you today! We always need to have birthday cards on hand, right? It’s the most popular kind of card to make! I am excited to share my pink and green birthday card with you. I am featuring the gorgeous Balloon Bouquet stamps and dies along with the Square Dance Stencils and more great Greetery products. Let’s get started!
My finished card is an A2 white card base that I covered with pink cardstock. I used the Square Dance Stencils and Blender Brushes to ink up a pink gingham background. I stenciled only using one color of ink, instead of two or three – to get a much softer effect. I die cut out an A2 Arches die to frame the gingham pattern as my background.
I used the Balloon Bouquet stamps and dies to ink up that main large balloon. I used subtle shades of pinks and cool greens. I die cut out the floral portion after stamping it with four matching stamps. I used the same ink color to blend out just the bottom portion of the balloon to match and add some color interest. I die cut out other balloons using vellum and pink cardstock and the Big Balloons die. The strings were die cut from silver cardstock. I inked the main sentiment onto the large balloon using sparkling silver embossing powder. I lastly die cut and stamped that small banner using the Cake Pops Sentiments stamp set and the Cake Pops Banner dies.
My finishing touches here are some pink glitter droplets and some white paint splatters! I made this a birthday card but I think this could also be a baby card or even a graduation card, simply by changing up the colors and sentiments! I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, keep on crafting! XO Wanda
It’s TGIF – The Greetery Inspiration Friday! Laurie is here with a sweet thinking of you card, which is giving me warm, summery vibes on this bitterly cold Friday. It’s looking like spring in my craft room, though…lots of spring things going on here, with new products coming to the shop in just a few short weeks. We have a lot to share in the coming days, so stay tuned! 🙂
Hi crafty friends! It’s Laurie here, stopping in with this week’s TGIF. I don’t know about you but I am SO ready for spring. It is super cold here in Kansas so I definitely channeled in a little spring to today’s card. If you follow my blog, you know I the clean and simple stamper of the group. I love simple backgrounds with a focal point that pops!
One of my favorite things to do is to collect stamped images and save them for future projects. When I am feeling low on mojo, I will grab a few stamp sets and then stamp and die cut all the images. I keep those images in an envelope in the back of the stamp set. That way when I need to make a card, I can grab images that have already been stamped and ready to go! This is also a great recipe for a quick and easy card! I used several stamp sets in today’s card but had all those fun little die cuts ready to build my springy little scene.
To create this card, I stamped the honeycomb images from the Buzz-Worthy Sentiment Stamp Set in a light brown ink. Next, I found the honey pot and wand from the Honey Jar Stamp Set. Using foam squares, I added them to the card front. Next, I grabbed some flowers from the Container Garden Stamp Set and those gorgeous green leaves from the Lemon Blossom Stamp Set. I finished off the card with a sentiment from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You die cut with the Tear Strip Tag Die. It was fun to have all those details ready to go!
I hope this gives you some inspiration to save up those stamped images and create your own quick and simple cards! Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Are you like me and craving spring? If so, Melissa’s here with a gorgeous project to inspire you! I’ve been itching to get busy creating some springy projects, but have been buried under design files for all of the fun things we have coming over the next few months! So for the moment, I’ll have to live vicariously through Melissa’s beautiful project…
“I love creating for Spring! Hearts and flowers and fresh, pastels are my favorites. My card today uses the BotaniCuts Lavender dies tucked into my Mini Boxwood Heart.
I used the beautiful, Sketched Wildflower Bouquet around the edges of my card front (cut from the Postal Frames die) adding a pretty, soft floral. The bow and sentiment are also from this same stamp set. My pink card base was stamped with the Sketched Wildflower Frame stamp. I added a few sequins for a little shine.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and Happy Spring creating!”
Happy Friday! If you haven’t already, this weekend is the perfect time to wrap up your Valentine crafting! Angelica is here with some fun and quick ideas for creating some simple cards using just diecuts paired with some sentiments. Perfect for those last-minute Valentines!
I was putting away product the other day in my craft room, and came across Shapely Hearts Die set. I seriously hadn’t touched this die set in almost two years! So I pulled the set out, and picked Hot Stuff Sentiments stamp set to use as my sentiments.
When I’m working with dies, I like to die-cut a lot of whatever die I’m using, and I LOVE to make backgrounds with the die cuts. So with these hearts, I spent about an hour die-cutting colored card stock and white card stock. I made several styles of backgrounds, using the hearts in different ways.
With the colored cardstock hearts, I made a background of hearts on pink card stock. I also made a frame of hearts, using black hearts under the colored cardstock hearts for depth and shadows. I love how black cardstock can really brighten cards up.
Another idea for using dies is die-cutting a panel several times, repositioning the dies after each run through the die-cut machine. That’s what I did with an inked panel. I used oxide inks to ink-blend a background, then used the two smaller hearts to die-cut the panel. It took maybe 5 minutes to die-cut the panel. Once finished, I had a panel that looked like I die-cut it with a cover plate, and I also had beautiful inked hearts. I was able to make two cards out of the inked panel, and I finished the cards with two more sentiments
Slimline cards are also a great way to let your die cuts shine. I made a simple arrangement of hearts that I inked with Distress Oxide inks. I used glue to attach the bottom hearts, and foam squares to attach the top hearts. I finished with one last Hot Stuff Sentiment.
These are just a few ways I like to use dies. As much as I love coloring and painting, my first love is paper. And die-cutting is my absolute favorite.
I hope I was able to pass along a few ideas on how to put your dies to work. That’s all that I have for today. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hi all! Happy Friday! I hope you’re staying warm in your neck of the woods! It’s frigid here, which is the perfect excuse to stay in and get crafty. 🙂
During our last release, I shared a project using our Stationery Box die, turning it into a gift bag…
I didn’t have time to put together a tutorial at the time, but I have that for you today!
This video shows how you can add some side panels to turn our normally flat Stationery Box into a more spacious gift bag. Using the Stationery Box die eliminates having to do a lot of measuring and figuring like you would if you started from scratch and set out to create a gift bag. You just need to cut and score 4 strips of cardstock. I’ll show you all the details in the video below.
You could create these for any occasion – birthdays, Christmas, Valentine’s and more. Just embellish them in any way you’d like! I wrapped the red version with some paper ribbon cut using our Ribbon Maker: Scalloped Hearts die and White Paper Ribbon Rolls. I kept the pink version a little simpler and omitted the paper ribbon, just adding a Heart Arrow diecut and a tag done with the Tear Strip Tags die and matching Tear Strip Tag Valentine stamp set. The front flaps on each were cut with the Falling Hearts die to add the cute heart details backed with metallic cardstock. I think it would also be cute to add a handle, which you could do either by knotting some string through the side panels, or even just by adding a strip of cardstock secured to the sides with brads.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!
Happy Friday! Dana is here with a bright and sunshine-y project that’s sure to brighten your day, even if it’s snowy and dreary in your neck of the woods (like it is here)!
Hi friends! It’s Dana here today and I am excited to be back for a TGIF post! I am sharing a set of cards that were so fun to create and left me dreaming about rainbows and sunshine… definitely something I am looking forward to during these long winter months.
I started my card by creating my card panels with the A2 Arches die set. I taped the arches together (if you haven’t cut your dies apart you can skip this step) and then ran the dies through my die cutting machine seven times to create a variety of colorful frames.
Next, I used the Arched Sentiments set to stamp my sentiments. I stamped the coordinating phrase onto the third smallest frame. Then I stamped and die cut the main sentiment on white cardstock with black ink. Once I was finished, I attached my frames and sentiments to an A2 card base.
To finish my cards, I created a variety of florals with the BotaniCuts Forget-Me-Nots die set. I then attached two or three florals to my card panels for a little added detail.
Thanks so much for joining us for our reveal and hop yesterday! Our new Have a Heart collection will go up in the shop today – 1/17 at 10am ET.
I have one last project to share with you today that I missed photographing along with all the rest, so I thought I’d share it here today. Before I do that, we have a couple of blog hop winners to announce…
We have two winners for our $50 Gift Card Codes. Ladies, please send an email to customerservice@thegreetery.com to claim your prize and we’ll get you your codes asap. Our winners are:
Mary M from Kelly’s blog…
And Jennifer G from Dawn’s blog…
And one last project for you while you wait for the products to hit the shop…
For this one, I used the new Round About Hearts die. It’s so easy to create these rings of pretty hearts. This one uses just two diecuts for the heart wreath. Line up the center rings and voila, a fast and easy focal point.
I added some greenery using our Big Branches Eucalyptus die, and also scattered a few hearts around the design. These are the negative/cut-outs from the Round About Hearts die, so it’s like a bonus! The sentiment is from our new Tear Strip Tags Valentine set, stamped onto the matching Tear Strip Tags die.
If you would like to peruse all of the projects from the team using the products from our new Have a Heart collection, you can visit our January lookbook!
Thanks for joining us as we introduce our first new product collection for 2023! Our Have a Heart collection is filled with lots of love…each and every stamp and die in this collection features a heart in one way or another!
The new products will go up in the shop tomorrow – Tuesday, January 17 at 10am ET.
If you’d like to see the products up close, join Laurie for an Instagram Live this evening at 8pm ET / 7pm CT on our Instagram channel. Check it out if you’d like to see the new products up close. If you aren’t able to join us live, you can watch it any time from our feed.
Without further ado, it’s time to introduce all of the products from our Have a Heart collection…
Below is a quick look at all of the new products. Click on the links below each product heading for more details and information (sentiments, measurements, etc.), or click HERE to see all of the new products in the shop. (**Please Note: although you can preview the new products in the shop, they will not be available to add to cart or purchase until 10am EST on Tuesday, January 17).
You loved the Tear Strip Tags from our November release, and now there are more sentiments to add to your collection! This sentiment stamp coordinates with our previously released Tear Strip Tags die, allowing you to quickly stamp and cut these adorable tags, perfect for wrapping up valentine treats and gifts. They’re also great for cards!
Click HERE for Tear Strip Tags Valentine stamp set info ($7)
We have a new addition to our Round About die series, and this one lets you create layered rings of hearts. The Hot Stuff Sentiments stamp set is a great mini set for Valentines and more. All of the sentiments from this set fit inside the ring of the Round About Hearts die.
Click HERE for Round About Hearts die info ($16)
Click HERE for Hot Stuff Sentiments stamp set info ($7)
Click HERE for Hot Stuff Sentiments die info ($16)
We are adding a couple of new Ribbon Maker dies to our lineup as well as some new paper colors. Both of these new Ribbon Maker dies feature hearts and are perfect for love-themed projects and wraps! The two new paper colors are Pink and Lilac
Click HERE for Ribbon Maker: Heart Strip die info ($11)
Click HERE for Ribbon Maker: Scalloped Hearts die info ($17)
Click HERE for Paper Ribbon Roll info **NOTE: the new colors will be added to this page at the time of the release, 10am on 1/17 ($6)
A fun and easy basic for Valentines, it’s the perfect way to frame a sentiment. The sentiment from our Hot Stuff Sentiments set (showcased above) fit nicely inside this heart-shaped frame. The hot foil version coordinates with the outer frame/base from the die set.
Click HERE for Heart Arrow die info ($18)
Click HERE for Heart Arrow hot foil info ($17)
If you loved our Twinkle Background die, you’ll love this heart version as well with its sweet hearts and pierced details. Perfect for quick backgrounds!
Click HERE for Falling Hearts Background die info ($27)
Our Hearts at Home die collection consists of sweet household items with a bit of heart! These cute stand-alone dies are great for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, and more. They’re sized to be a focal-point on an A2 card, while still allowing plenty of space for a sentiment and other design elements. The matching Hearts at Home Sentiment stamp set is filled with all sorts of puns to go along with the dies.
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Toaster die info ($12)
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Sweater die info ($11)
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Lightbulb die info ($6)
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Clock die info ($12)
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Mug die info ($8)
Click HERE for Hearts at Home Sentiments stamp set info ($16)
Angelica is joining us with a video today where she’s showcasing several new products on a cute wrap!
I have lots of projects to share today…tags, wraps, and cards, so let’s get to it!
First up I have a set of pretty wraps using our previously released Stationery Box die. I’ve reached for this die so many times, it’s a great basic. While it was designed to hold sets of cards, it works great for treats as well! I trimmed it down slightly to create more of a square box to hold a jumbo red velvet cookie. I also created a larger gift bag-style version by adding some wider strips to the sides. I scored these strips so they would fold in and create a tapered gift bag. I will try to put together a video tutorial soon as it’a a great way to wrap up larger treats and get even more use from the Stationery Box!
I embellished my Stationery Box dies by cutting some heart details using the Falling Hearts Background die. I backed these cut-outs with rose gold mirror cardstock (from Cardstock Warehouse) to add some shine. I also added several elements from our new collection…paper ribbon wraps cut using the new Ribbon Maker: Scalloped Hearts die from our White Paper Ribbon Rolls. I also added some of our new Valentine Tear Strip Tags, and a Heart Arrow diecut to the larger bag. I think they turned out so elegant looking, just perfect for the red velvet cookies!
Up next I have an assortment of tags made with several of the new products. I had SO much fun with these! They are basically Valentine versions of several of the tags I created during the holidays using our All Wrapped Up collection, which I loved making.
I used the Round About Hearts die to again create some tags with a bit of crochet around the top of the ring and some wooden beads. I had several questions about the beads I used on the holiday version, so I’ll go ahead and share that here, as I used the same ones. They are from Hobby Lobby’s bead aisle. They are raw wood, so I used my Oxide inks to add a little color to some of them for these Valentine tags. The sentiments I used on these are from our new Hot Stuff Sentiments set (and matching die), which were added to the smaller of the two Crimped Circle Tags and tied to the Round About ring with twine. They are just cute and fun!
I also made some tag/package embellishments using the new Heart Arrow die. I cut this cute die from rose gold cardstock, and layered it with 3 more layers cut from white cardstock to make it a little more sturdy so it could stand on its own as a tag/topper. I again added some crochet detail along the side of the heart using just basic single crochet stitches and white cotton yarn. I finished them off with some beads and twine and added a Tear Strip Tag to one of them.
Next I have a set of super quick and easy little note cards, inspired by that good old valentine classic…conversation hearts! I pulled out colored cardstock in all the colors that reminded me of these little candy hearts and diecut notecard bases using the base die from the Heart Arrow set. To do this, just fold your cardstock before diecutting it, positioning the top of the heart so that the blade of the die is above the fold and it won’t cut through. Voila! Shaped notecards!
I added a heart arrow diecut to each, cut from white cardstock, and sentiments from the Hot Stuff Sentiments set. I needed a cute way to wrap them up along with some 4″ square envelopes, so I again pulled out my Stationery Box die. I cut down the box to make it a little shorter so my heart notecards would fill the box. To add some detail to the flap of the box, I diecut it with the new Falling Hearts Background die. I cut little scraps of my colored cardstock using this die as well so I could pop some colored hearts back into the cut-outs. I finished by wrapping my box with twine and adding a Valentine Tear Strip Tag.
I had so much fun playing with the new Heart Arrow die – so many possibilities! I went with a more elegant look here and cut it from rose gold cardstock and paired it with a pretty floral bouquet over a tone-on-tone background. It reminds me of a fancy vintage box of chocolates! I love creating tone-on-tone backgrounds by layering two slightly different shades of cardstock. It’s simple, adds lots of texture, yet doesn’t distract from the other elements on your card. My heart background here was created with the new Ribbon Maker: Heart Strip die.
My flower bouquet was made from a mix of dies…Big Branches Ruscus, some bits of Big Branches: Baby’s Breath, blooms from BotaniCuts Hollyhocks, and tiny accents from Winter Medley. The sentiment is again from the new Hot Stuff Sentiments.
This next card uses our new Heart Arrow, but this time our Hot Foil version. Here I foiled it twice on the front of my card, then used the Heart Arrow die to cut a mask so I could sponge some ink inside the hearts. I added a few little hearts that were leftovers from cutting the Falling Hearts Background and Round About Heart dies. The sentiment is from Hot Stuff Sentiments.
The new Falling Hearts Background die is another great basic! Here I diecut it from copy paper to use as a stencil to sponge some ink and add some color to the front of my card base. I then diecut the Falling Hearts Background again, this time from a panel of white cardstock, and layered it over my stenciled hearts using foam dots to add some dimension. This was a quick and easy card to put together!
Next I have several cards using the new dies and sentiment stamps from our Hearts at Home series. These are just so fun and light-hearted, filling a void in our line-up of valentine/love-themed things.
First up, a couple of cards using the Hearts at Home: Sweater. It’s just so sweet! This first card made me think of the floor in my daughter’s closet. 🙂 I scattered several sweaters and hangers along the bottom edge of my card. These were folded (unlike the ones on the floor of my daughter’s closet ) by just scoring and folding.
I hung one of the cute sweaters the hanger from the set on a piece of twine strung between two tiny brads. The tiny hanger might be my favorite part of this set! I cut a whole bunch of them from gold and silver mirror cardstock just because they were so cute all piled up in a little dish. I embellished my sweaters with white pen details and hearts – the larger knit heart from the set, and the tiny hearts are leftovers from the hangers.
My next pair of cards again uses the Hearts at Home: Sweater, with a more typical Valentine color scheme. I created some gingham backgrounds using our Patchwork die – so easy, just choose two shades of cardstock plus white and piece them together to form the gingham. I’ll be sharing a video on Instagram soon of the process I used to make these backgrounds.
Next I used a few of the Hearts at Home dies – the Toaster and the Mugs to create this cute scene. Behind my cluster of breakfast goodies is a Cozy Cup Coaster diecut. The background was done by cutting the Falling Hearts Background from a panel of white cardstock, and layering it over a red card base. The “his” and “hers” on the mugs are separate dies so you can choose whether to use them or not, making these cute little mugs versatile for lots of other occasions as well. And the little toaster? Ack! the little slices of toast slip in the slots, and are just the cutest. There are hearts or pats of butter to add to your toast. The sentiment is from the Hearts at Home Sentiments set
Next up is the adorable Hearts at Home Clock. I paired it with the “I’m yours for all time” sentiment from the Hearts at Home Sentiments set. I created a shaker using the clock die, and filled it with glitter.
I layered that adorable clock over a background that was embossed with the new Falling Hearts Background die. I did have to go over some areas with a stylus after embossing, as some of the connectors in the backing of the die show when embossing with it, but they smoothed out pretty easily. I kept the design simple, just adding a few sprigs of greenery from the Winter Medley die. The sentiment was stamped onto a PreText Banners diecut (all but one of the sentiments from the Hearts at Home Sentiments set fit on the PreText Banners).
Last, but not least, is a fun shaker card using the new Hearts at Home Lightbulb die. I had this card envisioned since I first designed the die, and couldn’t wait to put it together. It worked out just like I had hoped! I diecut the bulb three times from a panel I created with our Shiplap Builder die. I backed this diecut panel with a sheet of acetate. Tip: Before you attach the acetate to your diecut panel, use a pencil to mark the bulb areas on your card base so you know where to sponge the ink and add the filaments. It will be much easier to do it first, ask me how I know. 🙂
To create the shaker, I just outlined the front of my card base with foam tape all around the outer edges to seal in my sequins. Before attaching my front panel, I sponged some ink into the lightbulb areas and also added the filaments, which were cut from gold metallic cardstock. I filled my shaker with some fun gold sequins from my stash. The sentiment is again from the Hearts at Home Sentiments set, heat embossed with copper embossing powder on black cardstock. I also added some copper embossing powder to my bulb bases to distress them a bit. I finished it with some black strips of cardstock to “hang” my bulbs, and small bows which were cut with the Sketched Wildflower Bouquet die.
That concludes my projects for today, but if you’re ready for more, keep scrolling to see more from the team…
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 prize! We’ll be giving away TWO $50 gift cards for today’s blog hop.
Read on for details…
Happy Friday! Love is definitely in the air here at The Greetery! Wanda is here with a super fun Valentine TGIF, and I’ll be sharing a sneak peek of our Have a Heart collection which will be hitting the shop on Tuesday 1/17 at 10am ET.
First, a sneak peek! Our Have a Heart Collection has…well, a lot of heart! Each and every product incorporates a heart in one way or another. We have lots of fun new dies, plus a few sentiments sets including an addition to one of our/your recent favorites!
I hope you’ll join us on Monday for the full reveal, projects, and a blog hop. Our Have a Heart collection goes live in the shop on Tuesday, 1/17 at 10am ET.
Now let’s hear it from Wanda and her fun TGIF project…
Hi everyone! Wanda here today with your TGIF project! Happy New Year! I hope your 2023 is off to a fun and creative start! Wishing you good things in the coming year. Lots of crafting and joy! It’s only one month until Valentine’s Day so I thought I would make some Valentine projects to share with you today! I do love switching over from holiday crafting to hearts and pink pink pink in these winter months. I used lots of my favorite Greetery supplies with a theme of love!
The Hug in a Mug suite of products was an instant favorite of mine when it was released. For today, I made two Valentine Mugs and a pretty Valentine card to go with them. I started by die cutting the mugs and the saucers from light pink cardstock. I used Distress Oxide ink and blender brushes to gently ink just the bottom of the mugs for an ombre effect. I stamped the edging details, the coffee art details and the sentiments onto the mugs before assembly. I also made a few cookies – because we must have cookies with our coffee, right?
I used the Cake Pops Stand die to make a white scalloped edge ‘doily’ for my mugs. Just a little touch of white with all that color – makes the mugs extra special. As you will remember, the Hug in a Mug dies come with the perfect little dies that make steam…. But I got the idea that I wanted whipped cream, and used the whipped cream dollop die from the Warm and Wonderful Set – I think it looks just right! I added a small paper tab to the back to insert into the opening on the top of the coffee portion. I embellished with hearts, glitter and stripey straws.
To make the Valentine note I used the Crimped Notecard Dies and made a white card. I also layered one more piece of white cardstock. I die cut the pink heart using the Shapely Hearts Dies and used the Bold Numbers in red and silver to make the number 14. I used the small flowers from the Cake Pops Dies set to make deep pink flowers to glue onto the heart. The sentiment is from the Market Basket Sentiments stamp set and I stamped it onto the Cake Pops Banner!
I feel like I’m ready for a girlie Valentine party now! Wouldn’t these be so cute as favors or place holders at a party? I used a lot of Greetery supplies in different ways than you might expect – that’s kind of my thing. I like to use my stamps and dies for more than just their original ways. How do I do this? When I get ready to make a project to share with you I get out ALL my stamps and dies from The Greetery! Seriously, ALL of them! I lay them out and then sift and sort until I have my ideas ready. I find that way I don’t forget about something amazing like those little Cake Pop flowers or those beautiful numbers!!
It’s my pleasure to be on the team with Betsy and the gang and to share with you! I hope I’ve inspired you to think outside the box! Wishing you a happy weekend and sending X’s and O’s your way.
