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TGIF – Attic Ornaments with Dawn + Save the Date!

by Betsy November 5, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Lots of fun updates for you today! Dawn’s here with a couple of amazing projects using our Curio product line-up, plus we have a fun announcement for next week.

Before we get to Dawn’s cute projects, I wanted to give you a heads up that we have a handful of new products coming to the shop next week, focused on tags and toasting the new year! We’ll be having a few days of sneak peeks, and then product reveals on Thursday before the new products hit the shop on Friday, November 12. I’d love for you to join us for the fun as we celebrate the last new product release for the year!

Stock update

Before we get to Dawn’s projects, I also wanted to give a quick stock update. I know many of you are waiting on some dies to be restocked. We were scheduled to have those this week, but our manufacturer is running a bit behind. Our goal is to have those back in stock towards the end of next week. Thank you for your patience!

Now let’s hear from Dawn and her cute TGIF projects!

If you’ve been following along with me at Christmas time for very long, then you may have seen my mini vintage ornament boxes that I love to pull out and decorate with every year! So I was so excited to play with the new Ornament Box goodies, and create some paper versions of my vintage treasures!

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I created two different cards, one a bit more basic and the other I stepped up a bit. For the first, I kept it simple inside the box and just used the same ornament dies and added several of them, as that’s how a lot of the vintage ones came in real life. I used silver card stock, to give them a bit of shine, but kept the ornament colors all the same. I finished it with some sparkly pine branches and gems to serve as berries.

I have to laugh at the stepped up version, because if I ever saw a box of vintage ornaments stuffed this full of beauties, I’d buy it in a heartbeat! LOL! I used sparkly card stock to add lots of shiny details to the ornaments, including the silver toppers which looks so darn cute in real life! I also added the Curio Divider die cut behind all the ornaments, to give a bit of added interest. Pine branches and some popped up details on the actual box front finished things off!

Thanks for joining me today for this week’s TGIF!

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November 5, 2021 14 comments

TGIF – Vintage Winterberry Postcard with Wanda

by Betsy October 29, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Fri-yay! It’s promising to be a gorgeous fall weekend here, but Wanda has me dreaming of Christmas with the beautiful project she’s created for today’s TGIF post! I’m so excited to share this with you…I hope you enjoy! 😊

Hi there, Greetery friends! I’m excited to be up on TGIF this week with you! Like most of you, I fell head over heels with the new Christmas release this month. Today I’m sharing another idea for using the Winterberry Stamps, Stencils and Dies. It is such a beautiful suite of products and it makes my retro loving heart happy. My card was inspired by old postcards and Christmas cards from the 50’s and 60’s so I used lots of glitter and classic Christmas colors.

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My finished card is a horizontal A2 sized card made from red cardstock. I layered woodgrain cardstock and then cream cardstock. I created the background by ink blending shades of yellow Distress Inks. I also stamped over the ink blending with these stamps: Pretty Postmarks and Christmas Time in the Country. I inked the edges of the Postal layer with Distress Ink also.

I used the Winterberry Stamp/Stencil Combo to ink up that pretty floral spray and die cut it out with the matching die. I added lots of glitter! The sentiment is from the Snowflake Soiree Dies set – and I die cut it from silver glitter cardstock. A few pearls were added for dimension and embellishment. I made postage stamps using the smallest ornament from the Curio: Ornaments die set. I thought I needed some vintage postage stamps for this project!

I hope you have a very happy weekend! Happy crafting until we meet again!

SUPPLIES:Winterberry Stamps, Stencils, Dies
Curio Attic Ornaments die
Postal Frames Dies
Pretty Postmarks Stamps and Dies
Christmas Time in the Country Stamps
Snowflake Soiree Dies
Blender Brushes
Unicorn Stickles
Rock Candy Glitter
Red, Cream, Woodgrain, Silver Cardstocks
Pearls
Distress Inks

October 29, 2021 18 comments

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TGIF – Spooky Sweet Candy Pops with Angelica

by Betsy October 22, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Angelica is here with the sweetest, spookiest project to kick off your weekend!

Fall is in full swing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We have been visiting pumpkin farms almost daily… in our rain boots of course. The neighborhood is decorated for Halloween, and I thought it would be fun to put together some really cute Halloween treats for my daughter’s gymnastics class. The first thing that came to mind was Candy Pops, and a lollipop idea Betsy shared a while back. So, my daughter and I took a trip to Micheals to pick out paper straws and twine, then I sat down and got to work.

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The Candy Pops Circle Die comes with 5 dies, which I used to cut all my card stock. Starting with black card stock, I die-cut the front Candy Pop, and used the included circle to die-cut the window. I picked a sentiment from Candy Pops Sentiments stamp set, and stamped and white heat-embossed it three times around the window. I also die-cut the backs of the Candy Pops, this time using Tear Away Circle Die in replace of the circle die. The Tear Away circle will make it easy for the little girls to get to their candy.

My next step was getting the Circle Bubbles ready. I added 1/8th inch Scor Tape around the front and back of the bubbles’ edges, and took the top adhesive backing off. I attached the front Candy Pop, then flipped the bubble over, and filled it with M&Ms. I took the rest of the adhesive backing off, and attached the back Candy Pop.

I picked coordinating glitter paper to match the M&Ms, and die-cut them with the accessory dies. I attached them to the Candy Pops, then trimmed one of the wrapper edges off. To attach the straws, I used mini glue dots, making sure I attached them to the straws in a straight line. I adhered the straws to the backs of the Candy Pops, and finished with black and white twine bows.

I know the girls are going to squeal when they see them. Vera sure did when she saw them. (And she was happy to get a handful of M&Ms! lol) The moms are going to love them, too. Who knows… maybe I can get our small group of moms into paper crafting~!

Such a cute project from Angelica! Before I sign off, I just wanted to share some special news from one of our Inspiration Team members! I know many of you are like me…fans of Dawn McVey’s beautiful, colorful work. Dawn is launching a new venture next week and we couldn’t be more excited for her! I have loved watching her artistic journey, and very soon you’ll be able to purchase some of Dawn’s artwork to brighten your space! You can find out more HERE, sign up for her newsletter, and be entered in a fun giveaway. 😊

October 22, 2021 9 comments

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TGIF – Winterberry + Macrame Holiday Card & Tags with Dawn

by Betsy October 15, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy TGIF! It’s time for some gorgeous inspiration from Dawn. I’m always a fan of her gorgeous product and color combos and her projects today are classic Dawn!

Dawn created a gorgeous card and a mix of holiday tags using some of the items from our latest release (Abundant Joy, Opposites Attract Holiday, and Winterberry Bouquet), paired with some older items like our Speed Tagging die and Macrame builder dies.

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For her gorgeous card, she created the background using the Macrame Borders & Tassels die, along with the Macrame Openwork Base die. She topped it off with our new Abundant Joy die, and tucked in some Winterberry Bouquet sprigs and Pine Wisp diecuts. The script sentiment is from our Opposites Attract Holiday stamp set.

Her tags use the same fun mix of products. The bases were cut with the Speed Tagging die and the Crimped Circles die.

She added lots of Winterberry Bouquet, Pine Wisp, and Botanicuts Pine Bough sprigs. The “noel” and “joy” are from our Opposites Attract Holiday set. Such pretty Christmasy colors!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hoped Dawn’s pretty projects inspired you to get a head start on your holiday tag making!

October 15, 2021 3 comments

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TGIF – Holiday Box Top Berries with Norine

by Betsy October 8, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday, friends! It’s been a totally fun week, but I have to admit, I’m ready for the weekend! We’ll be working hard here today to get as many of the release orders out the door as we can! One thing to note…Monday is a postal holiday. We’ll work hard to get as many out as we can Friday and Saturday AM, and then *hopefully* we’ll be able to get the remainder out on Tuesday when the mail picks up again after the Monday holiday! We know waiting isn’t fun! 😊

Anyway! Norine is here today to round out our week with the most gorgeous project using some of the goodies from the new release. Bonus! 🙂

Hello Greetery friends! Welcome back to another TGIF post! I have one more project to share from the Christmas Time release that hit the store yesterday!

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I made this card, using the Ornament Box Top Vertical stamp and die along with the Winterberry stamps and dies and the Pine Wisp dies. Actually, there’s also a few sprigs of greenery from other Greetery sets that I had stashed in my leftovers bag from other projects. I had the card put together and finished (I thought) but it just didn’t seem full enough and the L.O. bag was within reach, so that’s what I turned to!

I started by stamping the vertical Ornament Box Top onto Neenah Solar White cardstock, and trimming the sides slightly smaller than A2. While the stamp was set up in the MISTI, I stamped a few more, for some other just-in-case situation, including one with red ink.

Next, I stamped the base layers of the large Winterberry clusters then added the detail layers with stamps. I also deepened some of the shaded areas with some Copic markers, then I die cut the whole berry cluster. I die cut the three smallest wisps in the Pine Wisp set from heavy weight white cardstock then colored them with Copic markers as I’m not as adept at ink blending color onto the wispy pine needles without bending and mashing them.

To give the pine wisps a frosty, freezey appearance, I smeared some embossing paste onto my craft mat, added liquid glue to it and smooshed them together until it was the consistency that would easily stick to the wisps when brushed on with a palette knife. Then I poured clear glass glitter over the paste and set them aside to dry and harden. The liquid glue added to the paste makes it softer and more malleable and helps it stick to paper, and then once the adhesive dries, it gives the paste a more translucent quality which which helps the glass glitter/snow remain the focus!

I adhered the Ornament Box Top panel to a folded card base, then using the coordinating dies for the Box Top stamp, I die cut the Merry and Bright banner at the top, and the 100% guarantee badge at the bottom from the red stamped panel. I die-cut extra layers for each of those shapes and stacked and adhered them together before gluing them to the card base, right on top of the original images. Then I assembled the Winterberry bouquet along the side, lining up the straight cut edge with the stamped design and adding in the Pine Wisps and a few small leftover stamped leaf die cuts in my stash. I used strong liquid adhesive to adhere the cluster to the card front, because that gave me a quick minute to tug and tuck until I was satisfied.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you got some inspiration for your own paper crafting projects!

October 8, 2021 22 comments

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TGIF – Wreath Mash-up + Save the Date!

by Betsy September 24, 2021

written by Betsy

It’s Friday! Always the most awesome day of the week here on The Greetery blog. 😊 I’m here with this week’s TGIF project, and also a fun announcement!

First, our announcement…Save the Date! I hope you’ll join us starting next Thursday! We’ll kick off this year’s holiday release with some sneak peeks and then 3 big days of projects and reveals before this year’s holiday collection goes up in the shop on Thursday, October 7. So excited to show you all the new things we have in store!

Now for a little TGIF project to inspire you as we head into the weekend…

For last week’s TGIF feature, I pulled out the Heart Leaf Posy Pocket and Boxwood Heart Details dies we released earlier this year. This got me thinking about how fun it would be to combine the Boxwood Heart with our newest wreath – Rustic Wreath for a little wreath making mash-up. 😊 These two product suites are very similar in concept, and they work well together to give you even more wreath-building options!

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I created two wreaths, one heart-shaped using our Boxwood Heart Base and Details dies, and one round using our Rustic Wreath Base and Twigs dies. I used the basic construction for each of these to create the wreaths as directed. Then I mixed in bits and pieces from the opposite collection into each. For the heart wreath I snipped apart the Rustic Twigs and tucked in little bits and branches. I also pulled out my Curio: Autumn Findings die to add a few acorns, and tucked in a few “berry” sprigs which are actually cut using the BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die.

For the round wreath, I snipped apart the Boxwood Heart Details branches and tucked them in among the twigs. I didn’t add anything else to this one as it felt nice and full all on its own. All of the elements for both wreaths were cut from white cardstock and then sponged with warm shades of Oxide Inks.

For the backgrounds, I wanted to keep it simple, but also add some drama! I used a panel of black cardstock, splattered with some metallic inks. The sentiments are also metallic to carry through with the look…the “autumn” was hot-foiled using our Let’s Have a Word: Autumn hot foil plate, and the “hello” was stamped with our Opposites Attract set and heat embossed with gold powder.

I had so much fun pairing up these two different product suites! I hope it inspired you to build some wreaths of your own!

September 24, 2021 26 comments

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TGIF – Autumn Posy Pockets

by Betsy September 17, 2021

written by Betsy

Good morning and happy TGIF! I’m taking a turn for this week’s TGIF project, and it was inspired by you! Whenever I help pick and pack orders in the warehouse, I get inspired by some of the product combos you, our customers, come up with. When shipping orders from our latest release, there were a few orders that had what I thought was an awesome combo…some new items from our Leaf & Blade collection along with the Heart Leaf Posy Pocket dies we released earlier this year. What a fun combo! I couldn’t wait to pull mine out and give it a try.

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I created these in the same way I created the more springy version from earlier this year, which you can find in THIS post (if you’d like to see a video, you can find that HERE). For this autumn version, I filled them up with BotaniCuts Wheat and leafy sprigs cut with the Boxwood Heart Details die. I sponged the Posy Pockets in shades of autumn using Oxide inks…Rusty Hinge, Seedless Preserves, Wild Honey, Aged Mahogany, and a bit of Peeled Paint. I also added some paint splatters and a little bit of shading to the veins using colored pencils.

The inside uses the matching Shapely Hearts die to create a liner. I stamped on this with an image from the Fall Foliage set. The sentiment (the first part stamped on the outside of the heart, and finished on the inside) is from the Autumn Sketches set.

This was such a fun project to put together, and they’ll make great little cards to send out once it’s feeling a little more autumn-y here (it’s still so hot!!). Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have a wonderful (and crafty) weekend!

September 17, 2021 16 comments

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TGIF – Leaf & Blade Release Day + Thanksgiving Tags with Heather

by Betsy September 10, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! It’s always an extra fun Friday when new products land in the shop! Out latest collection, Leaf & Blade will go up in the shop this morning at 10am ET!

Heather is here today as well with a fun bonus TGIF project using several items from the new release, but before we get to that, a couple of things…

First of all, we have our winners to announce! We have 4 winners, two from each blog day. Ladies, send an email to customerservice @ thegreetery.com and we’ll get your gift card codes to you ASAP. (Prizes must be claimed by 9/17/21).

Day 1 winners…

First up is Carol from Norine’s blog (I love Norine’s ginkgo watering can project too!! 😊):

Our second Day 1 winner is Danni Reid from Heather’s blog:

Day 2 winners…

Our first Day 2 winner is Robin in TN from Heather’s blog:

Our second Day 2 winner is Rhonda from here on The Greetery blog:

And now just a couple of release notes before the new items go live in the shop. Everything will be accessible from the homepage as usual. Our new Leaf & Blade collection consists of 17 items. All of the items will be available as a full bundle collection for quick and easy shopping. The bundle will be on the homepage, here is a direct link as well (note that you won’t be able to add it to your cart until after 10am ET. 😊): Leaf & Blade Complete Collection

The September Lookbooks are all ready for your viewing pleasure! Click HERE to check them out.

Thank you so much for joining us for the fun this week for the launch of our newest collection! Now let’s wrap up the week with a gorgeous project from Heather!

I really enjoyed creating with the new from the Leaf & Blade Autumn Collection that I kept going for the project I am sharing today and paired some of the new products with a fewer older ones. Autumn is one of my favorite seasons and I love the rich colors associated with the season. I incorporated darker tones in my project and played with adding color to darker colors of cardstock. After creating all of the different elements, I put everything together to create Thanksgiving tags for my family that I plan on using on our table settings.

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For the tag bases, I used a dark green cardstock and stenciled the Berry Branch stencil onto it first with a layer of white ink and then color on top of that. Adding a white ink layer first gives a place for the dye inks to sit on and brightens them up as opposed to stamping directly on the cardstock and the ink soaking and blending right in. You can use this technique with stenciling and also for stamping like I did for the leaves from the new Fall Foliage stamp set. I stamped the images with white ink on kraft cardstock and then stamped the images again in color over the top.

I bundled the different leaves with wheat stalks created with the BotaniCuts Wheat die collection and layered them onto the tags next to the names. The letters to make the names are cut out using the Slim Alphabet dies cut out from gold foil cardstock. The gold color goes beautifully with the fall color palette that I used on the rest of the tag and adds to the rich look. A bit of twine added to the end of the tag will be perfect to tie the tags onto a napkin or other table decor that I decide to use for our Thanksgiving dinner. Tags like these would be wonderful to add to a gift for a loved one or dinner host/hostess.

September 10, 2021 16 comments

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TGIF – Backgrounds that Shine with Kelly

by Betsy September 3, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy TGIF! It’s always a super-great TGIF when it’s a holiday weekend. Woot! I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and get to squeeze out just a little bit more summer! If your long weekend plans involve some stamping time, Kelly is here with some beautiful inspiration to get you going!

Welcome to this week’s TGIF! It’s Kelly here sharing two floral cards with you today using a few favorites from the latest release! I have so much fun creating hot foiled backgrounds, but I wanted to try giving them even more depth by doing some background stamping first! The open geometric pattern of the Deco Triangles Hot Foil Plate is the perfect choice to add a hint of pattern to the background.

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I didn’t want the background to look too busy, so I opted for tone-on-tone stamping using the Fond of Foliage background stamp. I chose to use Aqua and Yellow for today’s card in both the stamping and paper choices for a soft and elegant look. Once the stamping was done, I used the Deco Triangles Hot Foil Plate to add the gold details. I trimmed each panel to 4 by 5 ¼ inches and layered them onto A2 card bases using foam squares for dimension.

For the flowers, I used the new Floral Delicacy stamp and die set. I am particularly fond of this new floral set because of the large size and the beautiful arrangement. It’s easy to create striking cards with ease using both the large cluster as well as the smaller stems that you can tuck here and there, like I’ve done today! I chose to use the Aqua and Sage shades for the leaves and yellow for the flowers, with a few in Blush for some contrast! I really love how these flowers turned out and they complement the stamped/foiled backgrounds so nicely

I recently sent most of my thank you, hello, and thinking of you cards to a hospital, so my stash was needing some refreshing. I chose to create one “hello” card, and one “congrats” card for an upcoming wedding! The sentiments from the new Everyday Labels stamp set are the perfect choice!

I also added one of the frames from the Deco Frames Dies to help “ground” the florals and sentiment. In the end, I covered up more of the pretty backgrounds than I had originally intended, but I really like how these cards turned out regardless! I can’t wait to try this same background technique using even more stamps/stencils!

I finished these two cards off by adding some glitter to the flowers and foliage and stamping some of the beautiful new Nouveau Notes A2 envelopes with coordinating sentiments. Thanks for joining me today and I hope you get a chance to create some backgrounds like this soon!

September 3, 2021 20 comments

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TGIF – Potted Blooms with Wanda + Save the Date!

by Betsy August 27, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Yay! It’s the first weekend of the school year around here, and that always feels a little exciting! Happy to be back in a routine during the week, and fun goings-on for the weekend. Got crafty plans? Wanda is here with the most amazing project to get you feeling inspired — but first, a little save the date announcement! We’ll be releasing a beautiful collection of autumn-inspired products very soon. We hope you’ll join us the week of Sept 6-10 as we showcase our latest collection called Leaf & Blade.

Now let’s see what Wanda has for us on this beautiful Friday!

Hi everyone! I’m delighted to be here today sharing on The Greetery Blog! Happy Friday! It’s the end of Summer now and time to transition from Summer crafting to Autumn crafting (yay!)…. Fresh florals will soon become warm leaves and pumpkins on my crafting table…. But, I wanted to take this opportunity to share one last fresh bouquet with you. I had the idea for this card since the Pretty Pot Die Set was released. I was hoping that the Container Garden floral spray would fit into the pot. Well, it turns out it works perfectly!

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My finished card is a white A2 card base. I layered pretty yellow cardstock and vellum to create my card. I stamped the Container Garden floral in fresh colors and die cut it out with the matching die. I added some accents and lowlights using Copic Markers, and then used a white gel pen for accents.

I die cut out the Pretty Pot Dies from Kraft cardstock. I used Rusty Hinge Distress ink and a sponge dauber to add depth of color onto the pot. I also splattered on some brown ink and white paint.

To make the background I used my MISTI and the Windowpane Plaid background stamp with yellow ink. So fresh and pretty! The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder onto a black banner. Everything is attached to the card using foam tape. This would be the perfect card for lots of different occasions and you can make it in any color palette.

Thanks for spending some time with me today! Have a great weekend, and happy crafting!

August 27, 2021 14 comments