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Leaf & Blade Collection Sneak Peek #2

by Betsy September 7, 2021

written by Betsy

Good morning! Just popping in with our second sneak peek for our newest collection, Leaf & Blade, coming to the shop later this week!

Today’s peek features an addition to something we released this summer, plus a fall version of a popular product we released earlier this year as well. Any guesses?

We will be adding 9 new dies, 5 new stamp sets, and 3 new hot foil plates to our product catalog with the release of this new collection. We hope you’ll come join the fun starting tomorrow! The team has been creating some amazing things and I can’t wait to share all the details!

September 7, 2021 31 comments

Leaf & Blade Collection Sneak Peek #1

by Betsy September 6, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Monday! I hope you’re all getting a chance to enjoy the long weekend. As we bid summer farewell, what could be more fitting than a sneak peek of our new autumn collection?

Our Leaf & Blade collection is coming to the shop this Friday, September 10. Here is your first peek of a few of the new things heading your way. This collection is filled with nature-inspired elements from my favorite season…fall, with its glowing golden leaves and amber waves of grain.

I hope you enjoyed today’s peek. I’ll be sharing another peek tomorrow before we dive into the full reveals, project, and videos. I hope you’ll join us for the fun!

September 6, 2021 51 comments

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Nouveau Notes Sneak Peek

by Betsy August 11, 2021

written by Betsy

Good morning and thanks so much for stopping by! I’m popping in this morning with a peek of some new products coming to the shop this Friday!

I’ve been having so much fun creating with the new items from our Nouveau Notes collection…

If you love creating (and giving!) card and note sets, you’ll love these new products. We also have a new-to-us type of product…can you guess what it might be? I’m addicted and can’t wait to see what exciting options this new product type has in store for the future.

Tomorrow we’ll be revealing all of the new products here on the blog and the team and myself will have lots of projects to share! I hope you’ll join us!

Our Nouveau Notes collection will be available to shop beginning at 10am EDT on Friday, August 13.

August 11, 2021 39 comments

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Capturing Summer Sneak Peek #2

by Betsy July 10, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Weekend! Popping in on this Saturday to share one more sneak peek before we kick off the reveals for our new Capturing Summer Collection on Monday.

Today’s peeks are filled with beautiful treasures you might collect while out on a summer nature walk. We even have a new collection of dies that will help you “display” all of your findings. Oh, and we can’t forget about an awesome new addition to our BotaniCuts collection…it’s a summer favorite around here…

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you’ll join us for the fun starting Monday!

July 10, 2021 58 comments

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TGIF – Sentiment Mix-up with Heather + Capturing Summer Sneak Peek #1

by Betsy July 9, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! We have a couple of fun things for you today! Heather is here with a super fun trio of cards using a great product combo. But before we get to that, we have a sneak peek for you!

Next week our newest collection is coming to the shop! This collection is all about the ways we capture summer…from front porch views, to sunset snapshots and fireflies in jars, our Capturing Summer collection includes so many of my favorite things about summer.

I’ll be back tomorrow to share another sneak peek, and then we’ll have full product reveals and projects starting on Monday! The new Capturing Summer collection will go up in the shop on Wednesday, July 14 at 10am EDT.

Now, let’s hear from Heather and her fun projects for today!

I am always inspired by new products and was excited to use the new Opposites Attract Script dies that were released a few weeks ago. As I was pulling products out to create with, the Sentiments Squared stamp set ended up next to the dies on my desk and I knew I had to use these two sets together!

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Many of the script sentiments in the Opposites Attract stamp set coordinate with the larger words in the Sentiments Squared stamp set. I saw the sentiment combinations as a great way to add a few basic card themes to my card stash. The background for the cards are created with the Tartan Builder Diagonal stencil set. Even though the plaid design was designed with creating masculine projects in mind, a change of color makes plaid patterns versatile for a wide range of occasions.

The stenciled plaid designs are done in monochromatic color themes, using light and dark ink colors along with white ink on each one. The larger words from the Sentiments Squared stamp set are stamped using the same light and dark ink colors to match the different plaid backgrounds. You can play around with your favorite colors, choose a color to coordinate with a theme, use the card recipient’s favorite color, and more for the cards that you make!

This card trio makes a great addition to my card stash and it would also be wonderful to package together to give as a gift. Take a peek at the sentiment combinations and pattern options in your own crafty collection to put a trio of cards like this together – or even add the sets I used on my cards to your collection to expand the possibilities to what you can create!

July 9, 2021 28 comments

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Project Share + Save the Date!

by Betsy July 6, 2021

written by Betsy

I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend! I’m just popping in with a few things on this Tuesday…

First of all, a heads up that we have new products coming to the shop next week! We’ll share some sneak peeks a little later this week and then our latest collection, called Capturing Summer, will go up in the shop on Wednesday, July 14.

I hope you’ll join us for the fun!

Next I just have a couple of recent projects to share. These were posted on Instagram recently, but I know some of our readers aren’t on Instagram, so I thought I’d post them here as well.

This first card uses our Destination series of products to create a fun summery card.

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I used our Bold Alphabet die to spell out “summer”, inking the letters in a rainbow of colors, and also adding some details with a white pen. The Crimped Slimline is the perfect base for this summery scene. I used the Destination Round Map die to cut two map sections, allowing each to hang off the edges of the Crimped base.

My second card uses our Reflections set in a bit of a different way! I wanted to create a summery scene, so I pulled out the house from the Harvest Home set and nestled it on the riverbank, along with some tiny flowers.

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I used the Reflections stamp set and matching die to create two rows of trees, layering them to create the impression of a river using the water from the Reflections set. I added some shading and detailing to the trees using colored pencils. The tiny flowers were stamped onto the riverbanks using a couple of the tiny stamps from the AlphaBuds Bold Floral Details set. I sponged some ink onto the background to create blue sky and sun rays. The rays were creating by sponging over the edge of a scrap of paper, moving, and repeating until I had my corner filled with golden rays. The sentiment here is from the Simple Things set – I thought it was the perfect sentiment for this scene!

Thanks for stopping by on this Tuesday! We’ll be back on Friday with a TGIF and some sneak peeks! Can’t wait! 😊

July 6, 2021 17 comments

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TGIF – Lemon Happiness & Man Made Sneak Peek

by Betsy May 21, 2021

written by Betsy

TGIF! We have some fun things going on today! First of all, a sneak peek of a new collection coming to the shop next week Tuesday (May 25th) called Man Made. It’s a fun assortment of masculine products for Father’s Day and all year round. I can’t wait to show you more on Monday, but for now, here’s a peek!

Next, Dawn is here for a super fun TGIF that will definitely brighten your day!

“So, it’s true that inspiration really can be found anywhere, and can strike in an instant! I was watching Joanna Gaines Instagram Stories the other day, where she was sharing the new summer install at their Magnolia store, and I LOVED the wall display she shared. I snapped a quick screen shot, and then used that as the inspiration for this first card! Head to my blog to see the inspiration photo, but it was an easy card to get started with, because I got to pull out the beloved Lemon Blossom stamp set.

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After that, I set out to figure out how to recreate Magnolia’s fun tiled wall. Can you figure out what stamps I used to create this vintage-tile-look background?

Once I got to creating with these sweet lemons and blossoms, of course I couldn’t quit. So, I whipped up a pair of cards using a bright, fun color combo, too.

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Often times, it just takes one spark of creativity to really get you going and then, the projects can really start to flow out of that!”

May 21, 2021 24 comments

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Spring Market Sneak Peek #2…

by Betsy April 24, 2021

written by Betsy

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. 🙂

April 24, 2021 80 comments

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TGIF – Spring Daisies with Keeway + Spring Market Sneak Peek #1

by Betsy April 23, 2021

written by Betsy

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!