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TGIF – Coffee & Confections…

by Betsy February 4, 2022

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Join me for a cup of coffee this morning? Maybe a bite or two of something sweet? 🙂 I’m popping in with today’s TGIF project combining one of our newest products with a set that’s been around for awhile. I always love looking through past releases to see what can be mixed and matched with our newest items!

Today I have a couple of notecards that combine our Cozy Cup set with our new Curio: Confections die (we’re expecting a restock batch of these very soon!). Some of the smaller little confections from the set are the perfect size for placing on the saucer from the Cozy Cup set.

I had so much fun “plating” these cute treats (I learned that fancy term from watching my favorite cooking shows 😀 ) I stamped a couple of the Cozy Cups, one with Tea Dye Oxide ink and one with Tattered Rose. I popped up the circle with the latte art using foam tape so that I could kind of tuck the treats underneath just a bit for dimension.

I arranged my cup and treats onto a Cozy Cup Coaster diecut, and also tucked in the little leaf sprig and spoon from Cozy Cup. The Confections are embellished with Candy Crumbles and Strawberry Bits. I also added some tiny white blooms cut with the BotaniCuts: Strawberries die. This one also has a little candy stick from the Sweet Tooth set. The base of my notecards was cut with the Crimped Notecard die.

These little 4×4 notecards are not mailable through the USPS. They’ll have to be hand-delivered, so I took advantage of that fact and embellished the envelopes as well by creating some “seals” using the Curio: Confections die.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope this little project makes your weekend a little bit sweeter!

February 4, 2022 27 comments

TGIF – Basket of Berries with Laurie

by Betsy January 28, 2022

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Laurie is here with a yummy project to brighten your day, using a great mix of older and new products. I always love seeing new and inspiring product combos!

Hi there friends! It’s Laurie here, stopping in with this week’s TGIF. I am sure by now you have seen all the new goodies and maybe even received your orders from last week’s amazing Greetery Release. So you will know just how amazing the Botanicuts: Strawberries Dies are first hand. I just love all the detail created by these dies to give us the most beautiful strawberries.

I created a simple little scene using the Create-A-Crate Dies. After cutting out each piece, I cut the back of the crate off, leaving tabs to glue to a Postal Frames Die cut, which I used for my card front This way it still has a little 3D look to it, but it works great for a card front. I tucked in 2 Just Mason Around Jars inside the crate and stamped the “Fresh Picked” Sentiment on the bottom of the crate from the same stamp set.

After die cutting all the greenery pieces, I added in the strawberry dies to that beautiful stem. Using pop dots, I added it to the front of the crate so those leaves and berries have some dimension. I tucked in a few more around the crate and then added in a tag die, from Sentiment Suite Basics, and a sentiment, from Market Basket Sentiments, and finished it off with a twine bow. With foam tape, I secured my card front to a white card base to complete the card!

I hope you are enjoying these Strawberries as much as I am! Thank you so much for stopping in today. Have a great day!

January 28, 2022 13 comments

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Confections Release Day

by Betsy January 21, 2022

written by Betsy

Happy Friday and happy release day! All of the new products we’ve been showcasing the last few days will be going up in the shop this morning at 10am ET.

First we have a few winners to announce! Ladies, if you find your name/comment in the winner’s list below, please send an email to customerservice@thegreetery.com and we’ll get you your gift card code asap!

Our Day 1 Winners…

Suzie P. from here on The Greetery blog:

Jean from Angelica’s blog:

Our Day 2 Winners…

Heather Gaffney from Dawn’s blog:

Lori Spitzer, also from Dawn’s blog:

Just a few notes about the release…

Collection Bundle

We’ll once again be offering a Confections Bundle for quick shopping.

**Note: The bundle does not include the consumable items – the sprinkle assortments, Nuvo Drops, and puffy paint will need to be purchased separately.

Restock

We restocked some items last night. If it’s not in stock as of this morning, it will not be restocked in time for the release. We’re expecting a large die shipment sometime late next week, so if there’s a die you’re looking for, chances are it will be included in that shipment. 🙂

Lookbooks

While you wait for the release to go live, have some fun browsing the new lookbooks HERE. The team created so many wonderful things again this release!

I think that’s all for now! Thank you so much for joining us for the fun this week!

January 21, 2022 9 comments

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Confections Collection Day #2

by Betsy January 20, 2022

written by Betsy

Hello and welcome to our second day of product reveals for our first new product release of 2022! I had so much fun creating with today’s goodies, I can’t wait to show you everything! The new products we’re showcasing today will go up in the shop on Friday morning at 10am ET.

Just a note before we dig into the products and projects…Laurie will be showcasing all of the new products in an Instagram Live presentation TODAY. Join her on this morning at 11 am CST/noon EST, if you’d like to check out the new goodies up close.

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Below is a quick look at all of the new products. Click on the links below each product heading for more details and information, or click HERE to see all of the new products in the shop. (**Please Note: although the new products are visible in the shop, they will not be available to purchase until 10am ET on Friday, January 21).

Curio: Confections die

Designed to work with our Curio: Divider & Details and Divider & Details II dies, use these sweet dies to create an assortment of candy confections!

Click HERE for Curio: Confections die details ($32)

BotaniCuts Strawberries die + Strawberry Dippers die

The newest die in our popular BotaniCuts series…luscious strawberries! Use our companion Strawberry Dippers die to create yummy chocolate-covered strawberries!

Click HERE for BotaniCuts Strawberries die details ($16)
Click HERE for Strawberry Dippers die details ($5)

All Kinds of Happy stamp set + All Kinds of Happy die + Shadow die

So much happiness in one set! Our All Kinds of Happy product suite is filled with happiness and versatility. The All Kinds of Happy Shadow die can be used in combination with either the stamp set or the All Kinds of Happy die. Whether you prefer to stamp or to diecut your sentiments, this set has options for you.

Click HERE for All Kinds of Happy stamp set details ($18)
Click HERE for All Kinds of Happy die details ($26)
Click HERE for All Kinds of Happy Shadow die details ($30)

Stamping OR diecutting…choose your favorite way of creating!

Are you ready to see these new products in action? I loved creating with these products! Up first is a Curio: Confections card. I pulled out my Curio: Divider & Details II die and filled it up with these scrumptious Confections. I also tucked in a few chocolate-covered strawberries using the new BotaniCuts Strawberries and matching Dippers die.

So fun to embellish all of these little goodies using Nuvo Drops, puffy paint, and our Candy Crumbles, Strawberry, and Heart Bits. Each of the candy shapes has a coordinating “wrapper” die (except for the two smallest candies in the set) The “wrappers” are the same shape but larger and with a pinked edge, so as to look like the candies are nested inside paper wrappers. I found it worked great to cut them from a light-weight vellum or even tissue paper, and then just bend the edges slightly around the candy for a little dimension. I topped off my box of candy with a Frosted Frames border and a sentiment diecut using our new All Kinds of Happy die and matching Shadow die. I completed the sentiment using a stamp from the Sentiment Suite: Love stamps set.

Up next I had the idea to make some sweet little square notecards using the Curio: Confections along with our Deco Notecard die. I wanted to make these look like fancy bakery boxes filled with treats. They were SO fun to make!

To do this, I diecut the Deco Notecard to use as my base, then used the other dies from the set to create the “box top”. I diecut the decorative square from the Deco Notecard set, then used the smallest die from the set to cut a “window” in the center. I backed the window with a piece of acetate. I adhered four treats to the center of each notecard base, then adhered my window panel over the top with some thick foam dots.

Before adhering it I embellished it just a bit with some strips of paper across the corners and a tiny bow cut with the Speed Tagging Details die to really make them look like little boxes. The tiny tags were cut with the Sentiment Suite: Basics die and stamped with sentiments from the SS: Love and SS: Birthday stamp sets.

Next up I have several cards using the new BotaniCuts Strawberries and sentiments from the new All Kinds of Happy. I love these strawberries so much! This first card uses the strawberry cluster. This set comes with a guide showing how all the bits and pieces come together to build this cluster. There are also individual tops for the strawberries so you can use the strawberries individually as well, which I’ll show in a bit.

I’m not sure there’s anything more fun than coloring up some luscious berries! I used Oxide inks to sponge color onto my diecuts. For the berries I used Festive Berries with Aged Mahogany, and Crushed Olive is the perfect color for adding that little unripened spot. The leaves were done with Peeled Paint and Pine Needles, then shaded with colored pencils. The background was cut using the Frosted Frames die and the sentiment is a combination of stamps and dies from our All Kinds of Happy stamp set, die, and Shadow die. I love the little flowers in the BotaniCuts Strawberries set – they’re the sweetest finishing touch.

For this one, I used the berries with their individual tops and filled up the largest basket from the Market Baskets die set. So excited about how these work perfectly together!

I created a wood surface for my basket by pulling out my Shiplap Builder die. I added just the leaf portion of the strawberry cluster to the upper left corner and added lots of little white blossoms, also from the BotaniCuts Strawberries set. The sentiment is our new Piped Sentiments: Sweet die with the rest of the sentiment stamped using the new Sweet Tooth set.

For this next one I also incorporated the Strawberry Dippers die to make some of my berries even sweeter. I added even more dimension with some puffy paint and Nuvo Chocolate drops.

The sentiment here is a combo of a few new things…the All Kinds of Happy die and Shadow die, paired with the Piped Sentiments: Sweet die and finished with a stamp from the Sweet Tooth set.

This next card is a type I’m going to need a lot of in the coming months…it is weddings galore in our family this coming year! I decided it would be fun to create a different look by omitting the strawberries and using only the leaf cluster and the small flowers from the BotaniCuts Strawberries set. I love how it turned out!

Instead of attaching the strawberries to the stems, I used clusters of flowers instead. I went for more muted shades of green for the leaves, and soft pinks and white for the tiny flowers. The sentiment was done with the All Kinds of Happy die, Shadow die, and finished with the All Kinds of Happy stamp set for the rest of the sentiment.

That wraps up my projects for today using the new products coming to the shop on Friday! I so hope you enjoyed taking a peek at them.

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…

Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person).
Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ blogs for more entries (linked below – one comment per person, per blog)
Comments close Thursday, January 20 at 11:59pm ET
Winners will be posted at 7am ET on Friday, January 21 here on the blog

The inspiration team has been busy creating with these new products! Hop along to see what they’ve been up to (click HERE if viewing via email)

ANGELICA

DAWN

KELLY

LAURIE

WANDA

January 20, 2022 230 comments

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Confections Collection Day #1

by Betsy January 19, 2022

written by Betsy

Hello and welcome to the first day of product reveals for our first new product release of 2022! Sit back, grab a snack (you’re going to be craving something sweet by the end of this post!), and enjoy everything the team and I have been working on. The new products we’re showcasing today will go up in the shop on Friday morning at 10am ET.

Just a note before we dig into the products and projects…Laurie will be showcasing all of the new products in an Instagram Live presentation tomorrow morning. Join her on Thursday at 11 am CST/noon EST, if you’d like to check out the new goodies up close.

Sweet Tooth stamp set + matching die

Filled with all kinds of sweet treats, you’ll love stamping these cute images in all of your favorite colors. The matching die features a zero border, so you can stack and layer your treats without a white border to distract from the images.

Click HERE for Sweet Tooth stamp set details ($24)
Click HERE for Sweet Tooth die details ($16)

Love & Cookies stamp set + Love & Cookies die

You loved our Bake it Merry stamp and die, now we have more sentiments to match! The Love & Cookies set features two new words in our fun cookie font – “Love” and “Happy” – perfect for Valentine’s, birthdays, and more. The companion tools, etc found in the Bake it Merry die set coordinate perfectly with this set as well. The Love & Cookies die can act as a stand-alone die, or it can be paired with the matching stamp set. The stamp set includes several complementary sentiments.

Click HERE for Love & Cookies stamp set details ($18)
Click HERE for Love & Cookies die details ($24)

Frosted Frames die

Another great addition to our basic frame dies, this set features a super sweet scalloped outer border, a loopy frame, a frosted rectangle, and some frosted dollop details. Perfect for pairing with all of our other confections!

Click HERE for Frosted Frames die details ($26)

Piped Sentiments: Sweet die

This “sweet” new word die features a beautiful script font that reminds me of fancy icing. This two-piece set includes the word “sweet” and a matching base die. The base die from the set also coordinates with the “sweet” sentiment from the Sweet Tooth stamp set.

Click HERE for Piped Sentiments: Sweet die details ($16)

Sprinkles & Toppings

Everything’s better with sprinkles! We’ll be adding some new clay sprinkle mixes to our line-up, including a strawberry mix, candy crumble mix, and hearts!

We’ll also be stocking some other fun toppings! The white puffy paint makes a great whipped topping, while the Nuvo Drops look just like chocolate sauce. So fun for adding realistic details to your paper confections!

Click HERE for Strawberry Bits details ($4)
Click HERE for Candy Crumble Mix details ($11)
Click HERE for Heart Bits details ($4)
Click HERE for White Tulip Puffy Paint details ($2.50)
Click HERE for Nuvo Vintage Drops – Chocolate Chip details ($5)

Let’s dive into today’s projects, shall we? My first project is my favorite of the day…it’s literally a tower of treats!

For this sugar overload, I piled up a whole bunch of the stamped images from the Sweet Tooth set on a Crimped Slimline base. I had so much fun stamping all of these colorful images, and adding all of the little details using the different toppings that are coming to the shop along with the new stamps and dies! I added a sentiment to the top, done with a combination of the new Piped Sentiments: Sweet die and a stamped sentiment from the Sweet Tooth set, embossed in white. I added a final dose of sugar by splattering with white paint to finish it off.

My next approach to the Sweet Tooth set was a little more refined compared to the binge-worthy card above. 🙂 Here I carefully selected just a few special treats to showcase in style, by placing them on some diecut circle “doilies”. I used a mixed of my Crimped and Nordic Circle dies, then folded them in half.

This provided the perfect place to showcase these cute treats. I added some tiny white flowers (from a die you’ll see more of tomorrow), along with strawberry slices from our Strawberry Bits sprinkle mix. Again the sentiment is a mix of stamped and diecut using the Piped Sentiments: Sweet die and the Sweet Tooth stamp set. The Frosted Frames die is the perfect finishing touch to add some fun around the edges with that cute loopy border. I left it nested inside the outer-most scalloped rectangle.

Next up I used the cute donut image from the Sweet Tooth set. I had so much fun stamping these in all different colors, and adding even more color to the sprinkles using colored pencils. I added different dots and drizzles using the Puffy Paint and Chocolate Nuvo Drops to embellish them even more. I filled my background with my assortment of yummy donuts.

After I had my arrangement all set, I adhered all of my donuts with foam tape for a little extra dimension. Then I topped it off with the outer scalloped frame from the Frosted Frames die. The sentiment was done using the new Love & Cookies die. I sponged some Tea Dye Oxide ink on the base portion, but left my letters white so as not to compete with all of my colorful donuts. The “birthday” sentiment is from the Love & Cookies stamp set.

Next up I have another birthday card using the same “happy” sentiment from the Love & Cookies set. This time I pulled out my Bake it Merry die – the cookie sheet and little tools from that set work perfectly with these new words as well.

I added in some diecut cookies, cut with the Bake it Merry die, and also some clay cookies from our Baked Bits sprinkle mix. In the background is a Frosted Frames diecut adhered to a kraft card base. I used the white puffy paint to add some dimensional dots around the scalloped edge.

Next I combined the “love” from the Love & Cookies die with some of the treats from Sweet Tooth. I put them on a black background to really make them pop. The background was once again cut with the Frosted Frames die – the loopy border from pink cardstock, and the inner portion from black.

The fun sentiment is from the Love & Cookies stamp set. I started it on the outside, and finished it on the inside. So fun to embellish these little treats!

Lastly today, I have a sweet valentine card that uses the Love & Cookies die paired with a fun sentiment from the matching stamp set. I used the heart from the “love” die to create a pair of heart cookies to go along perfectly with the sentiment.

I used my Frosted Frames die to create the background, and added in some clay sprinkles from both the Baked Bits and Heart Bits sprinkles.

That concludes my projects using the new products coming to the shop on Friday! I so hope you enjoyed taking a peek at them. We’ll be back tomorrow with a few more product reveals + more projects using the new goodies!

Read on for details…

Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person).
Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ blogs for more entries (linked below – one comment per person, per blog)
Comments close Thursday, January 20 at 11:59pm ET
Winners will be posted at 7am ET on Friday, January 21 here on the blog

The inspiration team has been busy creating with these new products! Hop along to see what they’ve been up to (click HERE if viewing via email)

ANGELICA

DAWN

KELLY

LAURIE

WANDA

January 19, 2022 259 comments

All Sneak Peeks

Confections Collection Sneak Peek #2

by Betsy January 18, 2022

written by Betsy

Happy Tuesday! We’re rolling on through the week, getting ever closer to the release of our latest collection on Friday!

I have one more sneak peek for you today before we start with the full reveals and projects tomorrow.

Today’s peek is just as sweet as yesterday’s…plus a little fruity, and a whole lot of happy!

Thanks for stopping by to check out today’s peek. I hope you’ll join us for the fun tomorrow as we showcase the new Confections collection with projects and product reveals!

January 18, 2022 50 comments

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Confections Collection Sneak Peek #1

by Betsy January 17, 2022

written by Betsy

Happy new week! Just popping in on this Monday morning with a sneak peek of some of the new things coming to the shop later this week!

Our newest collection, called Confections, is filled with sweet paper treats. Here’s a little peek of some of the fun stamps and dies from this delectable collection…

I hope you’ll join us for the rest of the fun this week. I’ll be back tomorrow with another peek!

Our Confections collection will be available in the shop on Friday, January 21 at 10 am EST.

January 17, 2022 45 comments

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TGIF – Save the Date

by Betsy January 14, 2022

written by Betsy

TGIF! I hope you all had a great week! I have a couple of quick projects to share with you, but before I get to that, a little heads up on some new products coming to the shop!

I hope you’ll join us next week as we have a week filled with sneak peeks, reveals, and projects for our first product release of 2022! Our newest collection is called Confections…it’s filled with sweet paper treats, and it’s coming to the shop on Friday, January 21!

Before I go, I thought I’d share a couple of projects with you! If you follow along with us on Instagram, you may have seen my post earlier this week about all of the exciting things going on here recently. Along with celebrating the holidays and having our year-end sale, we moved…both the business and our family, so things have been a little chaotic!

There hasn’t been a lot of creating time here with everything else going on, but this week I finally got a chance to start to settle in my new space and actually get back to creating. Sometimes that’s easier said than done after a bit of time away…you can probably relate! In this case it took me some unpacking just to find the essentials, and everything felt a little out of sorts. When I feel this way, my best bet is always to turn to my scrap bucket. I always keep extra stamped and diecut images left over from other projects. It’s a great place to start if you’re feeling stuck and just need to get the creativity going (or can’t find your supplies…lol!).

One of the things I like to do is pull out things from the same color family. For this card, I pulled out an assortment of blue things…a Blooming Branch with blue blossoms, a scrap of Mimosa Musings, and a blue berry sprig done with Winterberry Bouquet. I also found this pretty background in my scraps, which was done by stamping the Fond of Foliage background stamp onto a panel of textured watercolor paper.

I arranged all of my blue items inside a Crimped Frames diecut, and topped it off with a hot foiled Opposites Attract sentiment. I love finding all of these treasures, and putting things together that I might not have envisioned using together if it weren’t for my scrap bin.

For my next card, I pulled out an assortment of pink and green things…a Layered Leaves branch, a Pampas Grass stem, and a Winterberry Bouquet berry sprig.

I once again reached for a hot foiled Opposites Attract sentiment, and also pulled out this hot foiled Deco Triangles background. Just a quick and easy card, courtesy of my scrap bin.

Thanks so much for joining me today! What might you find in your scrap bin to inspire you?

January 14, 2022 19 comments

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TGIF – Cozy Winter Card with Kelly

by Betsy January 7, 2022

written by Betsy

After a little break for the holidays, TGIF is back and Kelly is here today to bring us some gorgeous winter inspiration! Her beautiful project makes me want to curl up under a cozy blanket, grab some hot cocoa, and get crafty. Sounds like a weekend plan to me! 🙂

Hello friends! It’s Kelly here and it’s my turn for this week’s TGIF! I’m the type of person who enjoys
“celebrating the season” no matter what it may be! I love the beauty of winter; freshly fallen snow
glittering in the sunlight, cozy blankets and cups of hot cocoa, flickering candles to brighten the evenings
and so much more! While it’s fun to pull out our neglected floral sets right after Christmas, I think it’s
just as fun to use snowflakes and such to create winter cards as well!

To begin today’s card, I die cut some pinecones and pine boughs using the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die
set. I die cut everything from Rustic White cardstock and then inked the pine boughs using Iced Spruce
Distress Oxide ink and then a brighter green from a random finger dauber (sorry for that unspecific
detail) LOL! I didn’t saturate the pine boughs so they would have some white areas to pick up the light.
For the pinecones, I left them white with just a touch of Weathered Wood Distress Oxide ink and some
colored pencil details. Betsy made a fabulous video when these pinecone dies were first released
explaining how to make them look like this. I did add the ink around the edges, which is a little bit
different than hers, but that video is very helpful for this look.

I set the assembled branches and pinecones aside and got to work on the background. I die cut a piece
of Kraft cardstock using the Square Dance die and added some Ground Espresso ink using the Square
Dance stencils. Once that was done, I adhered it to a top-folding A2 Rustic White card base. I added a
panel of watercolor paper that was die cut with the middle size in the Nordic Frame die collection. I
adhered the branches and pinecones using foam squares for dimension and then added some white
paint splatter to create the snowy look.

The snowflakes are adhered using liquid glue and are die cut from the same Rustic White cardstock die
cut using the Frosty Corners dies. I die cut the “Hello” word using the Written in Ribbons die set and
stamped it using Brushed Corduroy and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide inks with the Written in Ribbons
stamp set. I love the dimension that this two-step stamped image gives the card! The Written in Ribbons
stamp set has a nice collection of companion sentiments to finish off the phrase you have planned to
use, but for this card, I decided to use the Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You stamp set to accent the
“hello” portion. This particular card is headed to someone who is going through Chemo right now, so I
wanted the extra depth of the “thinking of you” sentiment.

Once it was stamped, I die cut it using the Sentiment Suite Basics die collection and then tucked it under
the bottom wisp of the H in “hello”. The finishing touch is a sprinkling of chunky glitter to really enhance
the snowy, winter vibe I was going for! Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you’ll take some
crafty time to capture some of the things you love about winter, too!

BotaniCuts Pine Bough die
Sentiment Suite Basics die
Square Dance die
Square Dance stencils
Nordic Frame die
Frosty Corners dies
Written in Ribbons stamp set
Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You stamp set