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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.

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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).

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!

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.

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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)

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January 19, 2022 259 comments

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Christmas Time Collection Day 3

by Betsy October 6, 2021

written by Betsy

It’s our third and final day of product reveals and projects before our Christmas Time collection goes up in the shop tomorrow! We just have a handful of products to introduce today and a quick blog hop by a few of the Inspiration Team members to wrap up the fun!

Below is a quick look at today’s new product introductions. 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 available for you to peruse in the shop, they will not be available to purchase until 10am EDT on Thursday, October 7).

Bake Someone Happy die + stamp set

Sweet as can be, this little treat box oven is sure to get the creative juices cooking! The matching stamp set allows you to add even more details to the ovens, and also includes several baking-themed sentiments.

Click HERE for Bake Someone Happy die details ($40)
Click HERE for Bake Someone Happy stamp set details ($15)

Bake it Merry stamp set + die

Bake yourself a merry little Christmas! Our Bake it Merry set features some of the same elements as our Bake Someone Happy set, but on a much larger scale, perfect for cards, tags, and more. The cookie sheet is sized to accommodate a gift card!

Click HERE for Bake it Merry stamp set details ($15)
Click HERE for Bake it Merry die details ($26)

Baked Bits clay sprinkles

Tiny baked treats, sweet as can be, to cook up some paper crafted goodies! Our Baked Bits clay sprinkles include cookies, candy canes, donuts, and the tiniest gingerbread men! They look adorable paired with the tiny cookies from the Bake it Merry and Bake Someone Happy sets, and come packaged in a 1 oz tin. (please note these are not edible and should be used with care with small children)

Click HERE for Baked Bits details ($5.50)

Before we get into the projects, I have a video for you. This video shows how the Bake Someone Happy oven goes together, and I also do a side-by-side comparison of the two sets we’re showcasing today. These sets have similar elements, but in a much different scale, so I thought it might be helpful for you to be able to see them side-by-side.

Now for some sweet projects. 🙂 I cooked up a whole craft room full of these cute little ovens. I’d much prefer cooking up things in my craft room than the kitchen, so my ovens are filled with chocolates. 🙂

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The video linked above details how these go together. I just had fun embellishing them with all of the little details from the dies and stamps! Of course I had to make them in all the retro colors. I think these will be going on our Christmas eve table this year!

They definitely don’t need to be just for Christmas! They would be sweet for Valentine’s day, birthdays and more.

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Here I dressed up my pink oven with the bitty cookie sheet filled with diecut cookies and clay sprinkle donuts. I tucked some tiny pink-frosted cookies inside, and stamped the “hey sweets” sentiment from the Bake Someone Happy stamp set onto the cookie sheet.

Next up, I made some modifications to the Bake Someone Happy diecuts so I could create some cute tags to tie on cookie bundles.

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To do this, I trimmed down the Bake Someone Happy diecuts to use just parts of them – the oven front (the portion with the door cut-out) and the oven back (the part with the curved top). When diecutting, I used small pieces of cardstock, placed under just the areas of the die that I wanted to use so I didn’t have so much waste. I then just used my paper trimmer to trim these small pieces on the scored lines so I was left with two pieces like this:

I layered these two pieces together, but before assembling them, I backed the over door window with a scrap of white cardstock so I would have a place to stamp a sentiment. I also put a piece of white cardstock on the back (round-top) layer so I could stamp a to/from sentiment inside the oven door flap. You could omit that step and just stamp right on the colored cardstock if you’d like. I added details to my tags using the Bake Someone Happy stamp set and silver embossing powder. The oven door handle was diecut using the Bake Someone Happy die and metallic silver cardstock.

Next I have a few projects using the new Bake it Merry set. I LOVE this set – it’s simple and fun. I am a sucker for all kinds of miniature, fake foodie things! They’re just too cute and fun to embellish.

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For my card here I used the cookie sheet from Bake it Merry, cut from silver cardstock. There is an inner and outer cut for the cookie sheet so you can stack a few pieces cut with both the inner and outer over a solid cookie sheet to create some realistic depth. I filled it up with little cookies, also cut with the Bake it Merry die. The real kicker is that cute “bake” word! There is a solid backing, which I inked with Tea Dye Oxide ink to look like a cookie, then layered two sets of the letters over the top. For the bottom layer I didn’t punch out the detail diecuts, I left them intact so they would show through the top layer (which I did punch out the details). I inked them in alternating colors so I had white under red, and red under white. The little spatula? So cute when cut from silver cardstock. I added a black handle by diecutting it from black as well, and just snipping off the handle portion to layer over the top of the silver. It always seems like cookies are right at home with gingham, so I created a gingham background using our Square Dance die and stencils.

You might remember we also had some cookies as part of last year’s holiday release – the Hug in a Mug Sweet Treats die. These little cookies are still a favorite and I thought they would be really cute with this year’s items as well! I pulled them out to create a fun background for my next card.

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I diecut and assembled ten of the Hug in a Mug Sweet Treats cookies and covered the outer edges of my card front. I didn’t fill the center because I knew I was going to cover it with my cookie sheet. I layered the Bake it Merry cookie sheet over the top, once again cut from silver cardstock. I added my sentiment which was done with a combo of Bake it Merry stamp and dies. The little cookies, rolling pin, and spatula are also from that set. Lots of sugary glitter on this one and I just love how it turned out, and it was so fun to make. There’s something about cute cookies that just makes me smile.

Next I created some gift card/money holders using the Bake it Merry set. I’m always on the lookout for fun ways to give gift cards or cash at the holidays, so when I was designing the Bake it Merry cookie sheet, I knew I wanted to size it to be able to hold a gift card.

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I diecut two of the solid cookie sheet layers and adhered them together back-to-back with some narrow double-sided tape around three of the sides, leaving the top edge open so I could slip in my cash or gift card. The front of the cookie sheet was embellished with a sentiment from Bake it Merry using both the stamps and dies. I included this punny sentiment in the set just for this purpose!

One other fun detail to note is that I attached the oven mitt to the gift card so that it acts as a little tab you can use to pull out the gift card. 🙂

Goodness, so much fun! I hope you enjoyed my projects today!

Read on for details…

Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person).
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Comments close Wednesday, October 6 at 11:59pm EDT
Winners will be posted (on release day) at 7am EDT on Thursday, October 7, here on the blog

A few of our inspiration team members are joining us today for a bonus blog hop! Hop along to see what they’ve created using today’s product introductions (click HERE if viewing via email)

LAURIE

WANDA

KELLY

NORINE

October 6, 2021 310 comments