Popping in today with the second sneak peek of our newest collection called Spring Market, coming to the shop on 4/28! Ready to see some more of what’s coming?…
We’ll be holding hands and tip-toeing through the tulips next week while we celebrate our 2nd birthday with these pretty new products, loads of inspiration, and fun prizes! I hope you’ll join us for the fun. 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by today! We are ready to kick off a busy few days here at The Greetery! Today we’re sharing our first peek at our newest collection coming to the shop on Wednesday, April 28, called Spring Market…
Here’s a little peek of some of what’s to come! School is almost out for the year, but we’ll have your crafting abc’s and 123’s covered with these pretty new products…
I can’t wait to share more – I’ll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek and we’ll kick off the full reveals on Monday! Our new Spring Market collection will be available to purchase in the shop beginning at 10am EDT on Wednesday, April 28.
Now for some TGIF fun…Keeway is here with a springy project that will brighten your day right up!
Hello friends! Keeway here to add some bright and happy inspiration to your day! We’re in the
middle of Spring and flowers are slowly blooming all around me. That got me inspired to bring
together a field of colorful flowers.
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I started by die cutting all the variants of daisies with the Oopsie Daisy Die. I already had in
mind to create a slimline sized card, so I used the die cuts to figure out my arrangement across. I
also picked out 5 colors I wanted to stamp the daisies in: blue, purple, pink, orange, and
turquoise. With my arrangement planned out, I then started to stamp the flowers with the Oopsie Daisy set, making sure to vary them so that no same color is next to each other and spread out across the card to good
balance.
I also love, love, love to add dimension to my cards with foam tape. However, these flower
stems are thin and can be quite laborous and difficult to cut your foam tape into super thin strips
to add behind it. You can also opt to layer it with more die cuts, but that is also laborous and talk
about waste of good paper! To solve this issue, I decided to die cut a frame using the Crimped
Slimline Die. I die cut the larger frame out of white card stock and then the smaller frame,
leaving me an open frame to work with that will have provide good support underneath the
stems.
I like to add a touch of ink blending to my projects, and so I did just that for the background.
This was ink blended with Broken China and Tumbled Glass distress oxide inks. I then added
my frame next with foam tape and my stamped daisies thereafter.
The last piece is to add a sentiment, and I wanted to pick something bold that can stand out in
front of this colorful field of daisies. The Greetery has so many options to choose from, but I
ended up decided on using the Birthday Blooms stamp set. I stamped the sentiments in black ink
and used the Birthday Blooms Die to cut out the large ‘birthday’. The ‘happy’ was die cut out with
the fishtail banner from Crimped Slimline Die using partial die cutting technique to shorten the
length of the banner. I added these to the bottom right corner of the card to finish this card.
I really loved how this card turned out and hope you do too!
Thanks for joining me today and I hope you have an incredible weekend!
Hi everyone! We are getting ready to celebrate our second birthday here at The Greetery! Can you believe it’s been two years since we opened our shop and released our first collection? In some ways it feels like we’ve been doing this forever, and in others it feels like we just started yesterday!
In the next couple of days we’ll be sharing some sneak peeks of our newest collection coming to the shop on April 28, called Spring Market…
But before we get into sneak peeks, prizes, and all of that in the coming days, we want to take a moment to say Thank You! Thank you for your support of us here at The Greetery and for making our first two years in business so amazing! The last year especially has been full of all kinds of challenges for all of us, and we thank you for being a bright spot in our lives! Thank you for your orders, for your participation in blog hops and blog comments, instagram and facebook likes and comments, encouraging notes and emails, and everything you do to enable us to keep doing what we love. We are absolutely convinced that we have the very best customers anywhere – and we are thankful for you.
As a token of our thanks, we have put together a rewards program called Greetery Gold…
Beginning today, you have the opportunity to earn points on every purchase that can be redeemed for discounts on future orders. There are some additional ways to earn as well…
Click HERE to read the full rules and details of our rewards program.
Once again, as we look back with thankfulness and forward with excitement – THANK YOU!
Happy Friday everyone! I hope there are crafty plans on your weekend horizon! I think I’ll be camping out in my craft room working on some things we have coming up here at The Greetery! Speaking of which…a little save the date announcement before we get into the terrific TGIF project Heather has for us today.
We hope you’ll join us for some festivities as we release our newest product collection and celebrate our second birthday! The festivities officially begin on Monday, April 26, but we’ll be popping in here on the blog a few times next week with some sneak peeks and a fun announcement. I hope you’ll join us!
Now let’s turn it over to Heather, who’s sharing some beautiful sympathy cards with us today…
Sympathy cards are my least favorite to make, but the ones I need most often. I think this every time I make them, but I also know how necessary they are and how much comfort that they can bring to our friends and loved ones who are experiencing a loss. I created a few cards to have ready when I need them using the beautiful flowers from the Lovely Blossoms set.
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I choose a soft lavender ink color for the blossoms and instead of layering lots of different ink colors together, I used a white pigment ink to add the lighter lavender layer. Layering white ink over a color will give you a tint of the ink color underneath and give your image a whole different look than layering darker ink colors. I used the same lavender ink that I began with for the shading detail layer. The result is a soft and pretty pastel bloom that is perfect for the calm and comforting feeling that I was going for on this card. You will also notice that I used white pigment ink to add the details on the leaves.
The lavender blooms are added onto a kraft cardstock background that I stenciled using the Berry Branch Stencil with modeling paste. Using a paste instead of ink adds a lovely textured effect to the background. I added the paste just to the middle of the background and while the paste was still wet, I sprinkled a bit of white glitter onto it to add a touch of sparkle.
The ‘with sympathy’ sentiment is from the Caring Cross Stamp + Stencil set and it is stamped onto the larger notched banner from the Crimped Slimline die collection using a dark brown ink. This card size is called Mini Slim and it measures 3.5″ x 6″, a bit shorter than the popular Slimline size.
I am a big proponent of creating more than one card while your supplies are out on your craft desk. As I created the elements for my card, I did enough to create four cards. Now, when I need a sympathy card, I have these pretty floral cards ready to send a heartfelt message of love and comfort.
Thank you for joining me today!
TGIF! Wanda is here today and if you thought you had spring fever, Wanda’s taking it one step further and making us long for summer with her gorgeous project…
Hello and Welcome to TGIF here at The Greetery! Wanda here today sharing some of my favorite things! I live in California and last week we had a high temperature of 86 degrees! Well, that got me to thinking about Summer, and pina coladas, so I created a Summer card to share with you today. Never too early to plan ahead for the season, and work with some of my favorite themes… I am always inspired by vintage postcards, and I absolutely love vintage Hawaiiana too. Well, combine those two things with lots of wonderful stamps and dies from The Greetery and you have today’s card! A tropical postcard card!
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I started by die cutting several of the small stamps dies from the Pretty Postmarks Dies, one of the larger stamp pieces and the circular postmark piece. I used watercolor paper for all the pieces of this card except the card base. The card base is made from Woodgrain Cardstock from my stash in A2 size. I also die cut several palm dies from watercolor paper. Once I had my elements all die cut, I had fun water coloring with Distress inks and the awesome Destination stamp sets.
I chose the elements that made me think of summer: Palm Trees, flowers, and that cute woody wagon with the surfboard. I stamped with Distress Inks and then used a water brush to ‘paint’ over the stamped images to look like water coloring. I also splattered everything with brown ink to look vintage. I edged all the pieces with light brown ink. For the base layer, I die cut the large Postal Die from watercolor paper and brushed on some blue ink mixed with a lot of water.
For the palm leaves I also used Distress inks and a water brush. Such an easy technique that gives great results! Everything is attached to the card using foam squares for added dimension. For the sentiment, I used the Pretext Dies and stamps from the Lemon Blossom stamp set to write out ‘happy summer’ on two different tabs.
To finish off I will wish you Aloha! I hope I’ve inspired you to look at your stamps in a new way and try something different. Thank you for spending some time with me here on The Greetery Blog today. Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends.
Happy Friday! It’s TGIF time and Kay is here with a gorgeous project!
Hello all! I hope you have had a wonderful week so far. I have a card to share with you today using some pretty Spring products from The Greetery! I love mixing and matching stamp sets and dies from different releases. It’s always fun to see what you can come up with using some of the older stamp sets with new things!
Today I’m using the pretty heart wreath from the Love is stamp set, the Love is die, Printshop Floral Frame stamp set, Printshop Floral Frame dies, Put a Bow on it stamps, Put a Bow on it dies, Robin & Wren stamps, Robin & Wren dies and Cotton Comforts stamp set.
For the background, I blended some Broken China and Mowed Lawn distress inks and then speckled with Vintage Photo mixed with water. I stamped all of the beautiful images and cut them out with the coordinating dies.
I added the wreath first with foam tape and then the bow. I tucked the flowers in behind the bow using liquid adhesive. I then added the sentiment and the sweet little wren with foam tape. The sentiment is from the Cotton Comforts stamp set. I used a die from the Sentiment Suite dies to cut it out.
I hope you have enjoyed my card today! Have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,
Kay 🙂
Happy Friday, friends! I’m up for today’s TGIF project – it’s something I’ve had in mind for a bit, and was excited to find some time this week to put the idea into action! I’ve been loving the BotaniCuts Wildflower die from our latest release, and I thought it would be fun to combine it with our Square Dance die (which makes a great lattice background!) to grow a cute springy garden. While it’s been pretty nice here, we are still a ways off from having real flowers growing, so the paper version will have to do for now.
I set to work creating this spring scene by starting off with the BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die. I used the same technique as in THIS introductory video for the die — sponging with ink and adding details with colored pencils and pens. When I was finished coloring, I assembled the little blossoms onto the stems. I then had a whole garden of wildflowers to arrange on my lattice background.
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I decided it would be fun to create a card base that allowed the lattice to peek-a-boo to the inside of the card, so I pulled out my Nordic Frames die and diecut it from the front of my card base. This left just a narrow border around the edges. Since you are using the negative portion of the diecut, any die that’s slightly smaller than your card base will work – the design or pattern of it doesn’t really matter, you just need it to create a window. I sponged some Tumbled Glass Oxide ink to the top portion of the card base – both on that outer frame/card front and on the inside of the card, since it shows through the window.
I then went to work arranging my wildflower stems on the Square Dance lattice diecut, tucking the stems into the squares, and layering them to create a full garden. Once I was happy with it and the flowers were all adhered, I secured my lattice panel over my card base (the one I just cut the window from). The lattice just gets adhered to that narrow frame around the edges. To give the inside of the card a cleaner appearance and cover my flower stems, I cut a second lattice and adhered it to the inside of the card, back-to-back against my front lattice piece.
To finish it off, I decided my garden needed some grass, so I used the Drifting die to cut the gentle slope and pretty scroll detail along the bottom. This die was designed to be snow drifts, but sponge it with some green ink and it makes for pretty rolling hills, too! Finally, I added a sentiment which was done with the Let’s Have a Word: Spring die and a “happy” from the PreText Sentiments stamp set, stamped onto a matching PreText Banners diecut.
Thanks so much for joining me today – I hope you enjoyed this fun project and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Happy TGIF! I hope your week was great and hopefully you’ve had some spring sunshine in your neck of the woods! Winter was back here to remind us that it’s not spring just yet. But Norine’s helping us out today by sharing a birthday card that feels like a breath of fresh spring air!
Hello Greetery friends, Norine back with you today with a quick card that is pretty simple but still has big impact!
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I started by using the Brick Layer die in two different positions to die cut a design on an A2 sized card panel. Rather than popping out all the die cut pieces, I covered the back with adhesive to keep them in place.
Next, I reached again for the Print Shop Floral Frame stamp set from the recent release and stamped a few more leaf clusters as well as a flower/leaf design. I die cut the stamped images and set them aside momentarily.
Then I ink blended with the Banner and Bough Stencil to create the banner. It is from last year’s Holiday Season release and has Christmas themed greetings that fit the banner but I didn’t let that stop me from making a birthday card today!
I selected one of the “Happy Birthday” greetings in the Sentiment Suite: Birthday stamp set and cut it in half. Then, via the magic that is a MISTI stamping tool, I was able to manipulate the stamps to curve and fit on the banner exactly as I wanted. I stamped with Versafine Onyx black ink and heat set with clear embossing ink.
I used some Glad Press ’n’ Seal to keep my arrangement together once I’d fiddled and futzed, then added liquid glue to the back and adhered it to the card front as a single unit. I trimmed the card panel slightly smaller than A2 size and matted it with some patterned paper in my stash. To finish the card off, I added a few matching enamel dots.
Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely weekend!
Happy TGIF! I hope your week was great and that maybe crafty plans are on your horizon for the weekend! Laurie is here with some super quick and cute Easter inspiration!
The latest Spring Fever Release has me ready for Spring! How about you? It’s warming up here in Kansas and I am starting to plan a little garden. I don’t actually have a green thumb…but I try! One thing I am going to try my hand at this year is carrots. I love carrots and I am excited to see what happens. For now, I am going to stick with paper carrots. The new Bontanicuts Carrot Dies are so cute and add the most fun detail to a springy card!
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To create this super quick and easy card, I stamped the Windowpane Plaid Background Stamp on some coral cardstock. I popped this layer up on a white card base with fun foam. Next, I die cut one of the Crimped Circle dies. I wanted to add a simple sentiment so I grabbed the Put a Bow on It Stamp set and used the Happy Easter. Now I know its curved to fit on the bow, but I thought it gave a fun whimsical look to the card.
After die cutting the carrots, I blended in a little ink for shading and then added brown pencil to the detail lines just to add a little extra detail. I popped in their tops and added in the Fit to Be Tied Bow. To finish off the card, I added in some clear drops. Super simple!
If you joined me for the Greetery Live on Tuesday, you know we talked about the Crimped Circles and how they work great for a plate (which I didn’t originally intend for this card but it works great!) That brings on so many more great ways to use these dies!
I hope you have enjoyed today’s simple project! Hope you have a great day!
Good morning and happy release day! All of the new items we’ve been showcasing this week will go up in the shop at 10am ET this morning!
We have a few winners to announce!
Day 1 is Donna from Wanda’s blog…
Day 2 is Arlene from Kay’s blog…
Ladies, send us an email to customerservice@thegreetery.com and we’ll get your gift card codes to you asap!
Price Change: Please note that we had a pricing error on the BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die. In the introductory post we had that die’s price listed as $31, when it should have been $27. It has been corrected on the introductory blog post and in the shop.
We will one again have a complete collection bundle available for easy one-click add-to-cart of all the new items. This 18-piece collection contains all of the products we’ve introduced over the last two days.
Spring Fever Complete Collection Bundle price – $340.00
If you’re looking for a little something to do while you wait to shop, the new March lookbooks are ready to go! All of the Inspiration Team’s beautiful projects in one place. The lookbooks have been added to the A-Z index as well.
I think that wraps things up – thank you so much for joining in the fun this week!
