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Destination: Summer – Sneak Peek #2

by Betsy July 14, 2020

written by Betsy

Ready for a second peek at what’s coming to the shop on Friday?

One of the best things about summer…road trips! Even though our road trips might be limited this year, we can still travel in our dreams (and in our paper crafting!)…

This new collection of products is just plain fun…with summery applications as well as everyday uses, these new products will take your stamping to new places! 😊

I hope you’ll join us tomorrow as we kick off the full reveals with tons of projects from the team and myself. They’ve been busy, busy, busy and I can’t wait for you to see all of the beautiful things they’ve created! ❤️

July 14, 2020 41 comments

Destination: Summer Collection – Sneak Peek #1

by Betsy July 13, 2020

written by Betsy

Happy Monday morning! It’s a brand new week and I’m ready for some fun. I’m so excited to start sharing our latest collection with you! Our newest collection is called Destination: Summer and it will go up in the shop on Friday, July 17 at 10am EDT. It’s filled with some of my favorite things about summer.

Are you ready for your first peek?…

Oh, so many bright and summery things to stamp, stencil, and cut! Is there anything in particular that catches your eye? 😊

See you back here tomorrow for another sneak peek!

July 13, 2020 69 comments

All July 2020 TGIF

TGIF – Save the Date!

by Betsy July 10, 2020

written by Betsy

It’s TGIF time! 🎉

We don’t have a TGIF project today, but instead a fun announcement about lots of goings-on for next week!

Next week we’ll be sharing projects and product reveals for a new collection of products we’ll be releasing on Friday, July 17…

Our Destination Summer collection is filled with some of my favorite things about summer…pretty flowers, fresh fruits, and travel adventures!

We’ll kick off the week with a couple of days of sneak peeks, and then we’ll have two days jammed-packed with projects from myself and the team before the new products go up in the shop on Friday, July 17. It’s been a whirlwind around here lately with not nearly enough creative time, so I’m soaking it up this week and having so much fun with these new products. I can’t wait to share!

I hope you’ll join us for the fun! 😊

July 10, 2020 27 comments

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TGIF – Pretty Pinwheels with Kay

by Betsy July 3, 2020

written by Betsy

TGIF! And it’s a good one too…Holiday weekend, woohoo! Whether you’re going out or staying in, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. If you’re sneaking in some crafting time, Kay is here with some weekend inspiration. Looking for a fun way to use those Pinwheels you just ordered? Just wait until you see the gorgeous project Kay has for you today!

Hi there! Kay here, and I have a card to share with you today using the new Pinwheel Party stencils and Pinwheel Party dies, along with some pretty florals from Print Shop Fresh Florals and Top Down Day stamp sets.

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I’ve had a lot of fun playing with the Pinwheel Party stencils and dies. Although this is a birthday card, they are by no means limited to only birthday themed projects. I think they make lovely backgrounds just lightly stenciled onto your cardstock. I love to have a soft background for floral cards or collage type cards.

So for this card, I used the Pinwheel stencils and very lightly stenciled several different pinwheels in different colors and sizes onto the background. I speckled with a tiny bit of the same color inks. I then stenciled some more pinwheels and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I layered these onto the card with foam tape. I stamped and cut out some of the pretty little bunches of flowers from the Top Down Day stamp set and tucked those behind the pinwheels. I also added some of the flowers and greenery from the Print Shop Fresh Florals stamp set.

To finish it up, I stamped the Happy from the Birthday Blooms stamp set, cut it out with the coordinating die and added it to my card with foam tape. The small birthday is also from the Birthday Blooms stamp set. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and added it below the happy with foam tape as well.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today and I hope it will inspire you to play around with the Pinwheel Party stencils in fun and unique ways!
Hugs,
Kay 🙂

Before I go, a bit of a shipping update! We are working our way through the orders from the Fast Favorites sale, but we are asking for a bit of patience as we work through them. We had a larger than usual volume of orders, so it’s going to take us a bit longer to get through them! We’ll be working diligently though, and hope to be nearly finished by Monday or Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

July 3, 2020 13 comments

All Pre-Orders

Pinwheel Party + Birthday Blooms + Balloon Bouquet PRE-ORDER Bundles Now Available

by Betsy July 1, 2020

written by Betsy

Hey everyone! Due to the high demand for the Pinwheel Party Bundle, we have decided to open that up for pre-orders! EDITED to add: Due to demand, we’ve also added a Birthday Blooms stamp + die preorder and Balloon Bouquet Stamp + die bundle! (you can email customer service if you’d like to have either of these added to your order!)

The pre-order period for all bundles will close on July 2 at 11:59pm EDT – the same time our Fast Favorites sale ends. The 15% off sale price will be honored for the pre-order! We expect that the bundles will begin shipping in 3-4 weeks from the closing date of the pre-order period.

Please note that if you order other items along with the bundles, they will not ship until the bundle is available (3-4 weeks). If you would like your other items to ship immediately you should place a separate order for those items.

Click HERE to reserve your Pinwheel Party bundle, HERE to reserve your Birthday Blooms bundle, or HERE for Balloon Bouquet!

*Note – these bundles are not limited edition – we will also be restocking the items from these bundles as usual, but we wanted to give more of you an opportunity to snatch them up at the sale price! 😊

July 1, 2020 2 comments

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15% Off Fast Favorites + a Special Make & Tell Tuesday Guest

by Betsy June 30, 2020

written by Betsy

Happy Tuesday! Lots of fun news today. First of all, we just did a major restock in the shop! Nearly all products are now available. I mentioned a few weeks ago that we would have a fun surprise to go along with the restock…

Fast Favorites! Some of our hottest products are 15% off! These products include several of our most popular dies that many of you have been trying to get your hands on, but have been selling out quickly once they’re restocked. Several of the new products from our anniversary release that sold out within the first few hours are also included in the sale, giving you a second chance to snag those at the sale price. We stocked up on these fast-moving favorites, and we’re offering them at 15%. (Ends July 2 at 11:59pm EDT – while supplies last, no rainchecks)

Click the image above or HERE to shop the sale!

A note about product bundles…all of the items from the Pinwheel Party bundle are included in the sale, so that bundle is of course 15% off. The Complete Confetti Collection bundle includes some regular and some sale items, so the pricing of that bundle has been adjusted to reflect those items in the bundle that are included in the 15% off sale.

And now for some fun news! We have a special Make & Tell Tuesday guest! Jennifer McGuire will be spoiling you today with tons of projects and a video! Due to some technical difficulties she’ll be sharing her video a bit later today. I’ll come back here and add the link once it’s up, but in the meantime, here’s a little peek! **Edited to add: Jennifer’s video is up and ready for your viewing pleasure! Her projects are amazing! 😍

June 30, 2020 25 comments

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TGIF – Vintage Pinwheels & Postmarks with Wanda

by Betsy June 19, 2020

written by Betsy

I hope you’re ready for a beautiful summer Friday! We have some inspiration for you today as we head into the weekend. Hopefully you’ll be able to sneak in some creative time! Wanda’s beautiful project is going to make you want to pull out those postmarks and pinwheels…

Hello and Welcome to TGIF here at The Greetery! Wanda here, sharing a vintage inspired card for this Summer Friday! I like a good vintage project, and getting my hands inky! One of the many things I love about The Greetery stamps and dies is that they can be adapted to any crafting, card-making style. Everything is so creative and flexible to make your style shine. The stamps I used for this project could be used just as easily is bright bold tones, or soft pastels, or warmer hues… Today I’m using one of my favorite products from the last release: The Pinwheel Party Dies and Stencils. I wanted to use them again with a retro look… I combined them with lots of previously released goodies and Distress Inks. Thanks for joining me today!

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My finished card is an A2 sized card base in dark brown paper. I started by creating a cool, old paper looking background. I used watercolor paper, a water brush, and brown and blue Distress Inks. I kept layering the inks until I got a nice, worn paper look. Then I used stamps from the Pretty Postmarks Stamp set (the beautiful text and the circular postmark) and stamped them over the background. I sprayed the stamping with water to make it soften. I love text stamps!

For the tag, I used the Speed Tagging Die Set and die cut the scalloped tag from watercolor paper. I used Distress Inks and the Oopsie Daisy stamp set to stamp the two daisy flowers onto the tag. I used a water brush to soften the edges of the stamping to mimic water coloring. I splattered inks over the flowers and also added a bit more of the text….

I die cut pinwheels using the Pinwheel Party Dies – some from watercolor paper, and some from text paper. I used the matching Pinwheel Party Stencils to add blue and brown stripes. Then the pinwheels were inked around the edges with a sponge dauber…

I stamped and die cut a pretty postage stamp to add to my collage. The sentiment was die cut from the awesome Sentiment Starters word dies set. My finishing touches are a bit of twine and a few gold enamel dots. The main elements were attached to the card using foam tape.

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. XO

Don’t you just love seeing how this beautiful project came together? So many details to delve into!

Before I go, just a quick update. We’re getting shipping notices on restocks! We’re expecting most out of stock items to be back in stock by the end of next week. Last week I mentioned we had something fun planned…don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten. Stay tuned!

Have a wonderful weekend!

June 19, 2020 16 comments

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TGIF – Blooming Balloon Bouquets with Dawn

by Betsy June 12, 2020

written by Betsy

It’s finally Friday! Which means it’s time for some inspiration as we head into the weekend. Do you have crafty plans? If you’re looking for a little inspiration, Dawn’s here with some pretty ideas for using Balloon Bouquet…

“I had so much fun creating with Balloon Bouquet for the last release, that I was excited to show you a few other things you can do with the balloons, to style them in different ways!

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The one I’m most excited about though, is using the BIG flower stamps for the large balloon, on all three sizes of balloons! Who doesn’t love floral balloons of all sizes?!! Just stamp the images for the large balloon on a smaller balloon die cut with the Big Balloons die just as you would the big balloon. Easy peasy! The flowers just go off the edges of the balloon, which makes it look like the floral pattern continues all the way around the balloon!

You can do several other things, as well! I’ve got examples of all of these here, but besides stamping all of the elements on the balloons, as they were designed, you can also leave the flowers white, stamp the flowers and leave the leaves white or you can even ombre your balloons! So many options with this versatile set!”

Thanks for sharing these cheery balloons, Dawn! I hope her project has inspired you to get inky this weekend and squeeze in some crafting time. Have a great weekend!

June 12, 2020 12 comments

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Pinwheel Party with Angelica

by Betsy June 5, 2020

written by Betsy

Happy TGIF! Angelica is here with some projects that will definitely brighten your weekend! I also have a stock update after her fun projects, so be sure to check that out.

Hi friends. I’m excited to be sharing two cards, using the new Pinwheel Party collection. I am a bit obsessed with the Pinwheel Party Stencils, and couldn’t resist working with them again.

I started off by making the pinwheels. I die-cut several colors of card stock with the three pinwheel dies in the Pinwheel Party Die Collection. The die cuts line up perfectly with the single pinwheel stencils. I found it easiest to put the die cut pinwheel back into it’s negative, and tape the matching stencil over it. I blended coordinating Distress Oxide inks with finger daubers over the stencil.

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When it came to decorating, I kept the layouts similar. I stamped the star cluster from Pinwheel Party Stamp Set in a rainbow circle, and added a single stamped star in random spots. I trimmed the panels with the Crimped Frame Die.

The Let’s Party! die is from Pinwheel Party Die Collection. I die-cut the words twice, glued them together, and attached them to the coordinating shadow. I attached it to the card with thin foam squares.

The second card got a heat-embossed sentiment. I picked a sentiment from Pinwheel Party to white heat-emboss onto black card stock. I used a Sentiment Suite Basics die to die-cut the sentiment.

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I added matching die-cut circles to the middle of each pinwheel. I used the small pinwheel circle die in the die collection to die-cut colored card stock. Once I attached the pinwheels to their cards, I finished them off with faux pearls.

Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope I have helped with Pinwheel Party inspiration!

I’m loving Angelica’s rainbow-bright cards, and they’re making me want to pull out my Pinwheel set again. They are so much fun to make!

Before I go, I just wanted to give a bit of an update. First of all, thank you SO MUCH for your overwhelming response to our anniversary sale and celebration! Wow, you blew us away. All release orders have shipped – the last of them went out yesterday. Many of you have already received your orders and I love seeing your posts on Instagram! We know that several of our new items, and a few elusive older items, went really quickly on Friday. We’ve had a lot of time while packing orders to brainstorm ways to make it up to you. We have an idea, so stay tuned a bit later this month! We expect to have all out of stock items back by the end of the month.

Once again, thank you! Have a great weekend. 😊

June 5, 2020 12 comments

All May 2020 Release Day Sales Updates

Confetti Collection Release Day!

by Betsy May 29, 2020

written by Betsy

It’s here! Today’s the day that all of the new products we’ve been showcasing this week go up in the shop! They will be available at 10am EDT.

I have quite a few notes for today…

First of all, please enjoy 15% off your order all weekend as our thanks to you for making our first year so awesome! The discount goes into effect at 10am EDT when the new products go live and ends at 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, May 31. No code needed, the discount will automatically be applied to your cart.

Winners!

First we have some winners from the blog hops! Ladies, send an email to Customer Service and we’ll get your gift certificates to you right away…

Cindy H from Angelica’s blog and DMcKeivey from Kelly Lunceford’s blog were the winners from Day #1

Winners from Day #2 were Krist from Angelica’s blog & Maureen Hampshire from Heather’s blog!

Restock

We will be doing a major restock to the shop this morning! We have nearly every product that’s currently out of stock to add to the shop, with the exception of just a few things. Due to the sale and the expected volume of orders, we suggest shopping early for the best selection. But please keep in mind that the discount does not start until 10am EDT and will not be applied to orders placed before then.

International orders

We have reinstated ordering from all of the international destinations that we shipped to previously before taking a pause with the Covid situation. Please use your own discretion when placing international orders. Keep in mind that shipping times are very long right now due to the Covid situation. We are seeing deliveries take 6-8 weeks at minimum for international orders other than Canada, which is running pretty well. So if you’re ordering with a deadline of some sort, just keep that in mind!

Bundles

We will have three different bundles available for the new products. When the new products go live you will find these on the home page at the top of the product section under the heading “quick shop bundles”. The three bundles are as follows:

The Confetti Complete Collection – 17pc collection that includes ALL of the new items:

Price: $267.00

Cake Pops 6 Piece Bundle:

Price: $86.00

Pinwheel Party 3pc Bundle:

Price: $48

Lookbooks

The new Lookbooks are live and ready for you to enjoy! I just love seeing all of the Inspiration Team projects in one place. They, along with our guests, created so many beautiful projects!

I think that’s a wrap! Thank you so much for an amazing week…and an amazing first YEAR!

May 29, 2020 27 comments