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Happy Friday! Love is definitely in the air here at The Greetery! Wanda is here with a super fun Valentine TGIF, and I’ll be sharing a sneak peek of our Have a Heart collection which will be hitting the shop on Tuesday 1/17 at 10am ET.

First, a sneak peek! Our Have a Heart Collection has…well, a lot of heart! Each and every product incorporates a heart in one way or another. We have lots of fun new dies, plus a few sentiments sets including an addition to one of our/your recent favorites!

I hope you’ll join us on Monday for the full reveal, projects, and a blog hop. Our Have a Heart collection goes live in the shop on Tuesday, 1/17 at 10am ET.

Now let’s hear it from Wanda and her fun TGIF project…

Hi everyone! Wanda here today with your TGIF project! Happy New Year! I hope your 2023 is off to a fun and creative start! Wishing you good things in the coming year. Lots of crafting and joy! It’s only one month until Valentine’s Day so I thought I would make some Valentine projects to share with you today! I do love switching over from holiday crafting to hearts and pink pink pink in these winter months. I used lots of my favorite Greetery supplies with a theme of love!

The Hug in a Mug suite of products was an instant favorite of mine when it was released. For today, I made two Valentine Mugs and a pretty Valentine card to go with them. I started by die cutting the mugs and the saucers from light pink cardstock. I used Distress Oxide ink and blender brushes to gently ink just the bottom of the mugs for an ombre effect. I stamped the edging details, the coffee art details and the sentiments onto the mugs before assembly. I also made a few cookies – because we must have cookies with our coffee, right?

I used the Cake Pops Stand die to make a white scalloped edge ‘doily’ for my mugs. Just a little touch of white with all that color – makes the mugs extra special. As you will remember, the Hug in a Mug dies come with the perfect little dies that make steam…. But I got the idea that I wanted whipped cream, and used the whipped cream dollop die from the Warm and Wonderful Set – I think it looks just right! I added a small paper tab to the back to insert into the opening on the top of the coffee portion. I embellished with hearts, glitter and stripey straws.

To make the Valentine note I used the Crimped Notecard Dies and made a white card. I also layered one more piece of white cardstock. I die cut the pink heart using the Shapely Hearts Dies and used the Bold Numbers in red and silver to make the number 14. I used the small flowers from the Cake Pops Dies set to make deep pink flowers to glue onto the heart. The sentiment is from the Market Basket Sentiments stamp set and I stamped it onto the Cake Pops Banner!

I feel like I’m ready for a girlie Valentine party now! Wouldn’t these be so cute as favors or place holders at a party? I used a lot of Greetery supplies in different ways than you might expect – that’s kind of my thing. I like to use my stamps and dies for more than just their original ways. How do I do this? When I get ready to make a project to share with you I get out ALL my stamps and dies from The Greetery! Seriously, ALL of them! I lay them out and then sift and sort until I have my ideas ready. I find that way I don’t forget about something amazing like those little Cake Pop flowers or those beautiful numbers!!

It’s my pleasure to be on the team with Betsy and the gang and to share with you! I hope I’ve inspired you to think outside the box! Wishing you a happy weekend and sending X’s and O’s your way.

…now bring us some figgy pudding! Our song inspiration for Day 3 is the classic We Wish You a Merry Christmas, with a nod to the delicious (and adorable) treats mentioned in the second verse. I had so much fun designing today’s products for you!

I hope you’ve been enjoying the last few days of projects and reveals. Today is the last day of reveals before all of the new products go up in the shop tomorrow (Friday 10/7) at 10am ET!

Before I get to the product introductions, we have a product showcase video for you! Laurie is not able to join us for an Instagram Live today, but she’s prepared a video in advance. She’ll be showcasing all of the new products, giving you a close-up look at everything. This video will be available to watch any time on our Youtube channel…

Now on to our final product introductions…

Below is a quick look at all of the new products. Click on the links below each product heading for more details and information (sentiments, measurements, etc.), or click HERE to see all of the new products in the shop. (**Please Note: although you can preview the new products in the shop, they will not be available to add to cart or purchase until 10am EDT on Friday, October 7).

Figgy Pudding Box Die, Bow Topper Die, and Holly Topper Embellishments

The Figgy Pudding Box die collection creates an adorable 3D box that looks like the classic holiday treat, figgy pudding. The “frosting” lifts off the base of the box to reveal the perfect place for tucking a few treats. We are also offering a Bow Topper add-on die and some adorable 3-D holly embellishments that are perfect for topping off these sweet treats.

Click HERE for Figgy Pudding Box die info ($40)
Click HERE for Figgy Pudding Bow Topper die info ($8)
Click HERE for Holly Topper Embellishments info ($5)

I put together a video showing how fun and easy these are to put together…

Christmas Pudding Die

This stand-alone die makes an adorable (flat) diecut version of the classic Christmas figgy pudding. The set includes the cake, drippy frosting, holly leaf and berry details, along with a cute bow topper and a plate to place it on. This super sweet die set is perfect for creating holiday cards and tags!

Click HERE for Christmas Pudding die info ($13)

Cooking Up Christmas Stamp + Stencil and Die

Cook up a little something sweet this Christmas! Our Cooking Up Christmas set is a fun take on the illustrated recipe trend. This clever design includes a set of 3 stencils plus a stamp set for adding lots of little details and sentiments. When used as designed, the design fills an A2 card panel. Alternatively, you can use the matching die to cut out the stamped and stenciled images from this set to create your own layouts and designs.

Click HERE for Cooking Up Christmas Stamp + Stencil info ($25)
Click HERE for Cooking Up Christmas die info ($25)

Angelica is here with a video showing this cute set in action!

StencilScapes Winter stencil and Frosty Pines die

This layered stencil set is designed to create a detailed winter scene! You’ll love watching the sweet scene come to life as you stencil each of the six steps included in this multi-stencil set. If you’d like to add some dimension to your scene, our Frosty Pines die is designed to coordinate with this stencil set, allowing you to add some dimensional diecut trees to your scene.

Click HERE for StencilScapes Winter stencil info ($16)
Click HERE for Frosty Pines die info ($25)

Angelica is joining us with another great video showcasing the new StencilScapes Winter stencils and Frosty Pines die…

I’m so very excited to show you some projects using today’s product introductions!

First things first, let’s start with the snacks! 🙂 I had SO much fun making these sweet little Figgy Pudding boxes. You all know by now my obsession with foodie-related crafts. I can’t help it! Just so fun to add all of the little details and goodies.

These boxes are fun and easy to put together, and the frosting lids just lift on and off for easy treat filling and giving. The toppings I used here include the coordinating Bow Topper die, Candy Crumbles, the Holly Toppers, glitter, and Nuvo drops for the chocolate and strawberry sauces. Our previously released Cake Pops Stand die is the perfect complement to these sweet little cakes. I love it when an older product can be combined with something new and fresh! I also layered some Crimped Circle diecuts under the cakes.

I thought the holiday version was fun, but I might have had even more fun putting together some everyday versions! Strawberry Shortcake anyone? Takes me back to my childhood. 🙂

I had fun digging through previously release products to see what I could find for toppings. I used BotaniCuts Strawberries die and the Lemon Blossom stamp set. The little blueberry cluster is actually the holly berries included in the Figgy Pudding die…just change up the color and instant blueberries!

I couldn’t leave our card makers out in the cold without any figgy pudding, so I also created a flat version of this classic Christmas treat. Our Christmas Pudding die is a stand alone die that creates an adorable focal point.

I paired it with our Piped Sentiments: Sweet die to create this arch-shaped card. The card base was cut with the largest A2 Arches die. I stenciled a smaller arch using the new A2 Arches Stencil. The remainder of the sentiment was stamped with the “Christmas Blessings” sentiment from the Sentiment Suite: Christmas set. I added some small greenery sprigs and flowers using the new Winter Medley die.

The Christmas Pudding die makes adorable tags as well, just cut the base of the cake on the fold to create these little enclosure tags. Quick and easy and so adorable! The to/from on the inside was stamped with our Tag Team Duo Labels stamps set.

If you’re hungry for even more sweet treats, we have our Cooking Up Christmas set! This one is so fun to play with as well! The stencils make it fun to create an all-over one layer card, but combining the stamp + stencil set with the matching dies gives you all sorts of design options.

For this first card of the pair, I used the stamp + stencil set as it was designed, filling my whole card front. It’s fun to add some little details like colored pencil shading, glitter, etc.

The little sentiments and details take a bit of time to stamp, but they can be set up in your MISTI all together, so if you’d want to create multiples it would go really quickly once it’s all set up to go! Angelica showed this in the video she shared above.

Combining the Cooking Up Christmas Stamp + Stencil set with the matching die opens up all kinds of design possibilities! Here I paired some of the elements from Cooking Up Christmas (candy cane, spoon, cookies) with the new Christmas Pudding die. The Mistletoe Arches is the perfect frame for all of these goodies! Inside the frame I stenciled an arch using the A2 Arches Stencil, and the sentiment is from Cooking Up Christmas.

After all these sweets, I think we could use some fresh air! Next I have a few projects using the new StencilScapes Winter stencil set and Frosty Pines die. These scenes are so fun to stencil. Playing with different color combos can produce such different looks! First up is an arched card done in classic Christmasy colors.

I stenciled my scene onto an A2 panel, then diecut it with two different sized arches from the A2 Arches set. I used the largest to cut the majority of the scene as well as an arched card base to attach it to. I also cut a smaller arch out of the center of the scene. I popped the outer arch up with some foam tape, then added the Frosty Pines trees on both sides of the arched cut-out, adhering those with foam tape also. I also added a couple of the tiny bunny diecuts from the Frosty Pines set and popped them up over the stenciled bunnies in the scene. I added a few pine sprigs cut with the Winter Medley die, and added a “Merry Christmas” sentiment using the Arched Holiday Sentiments set. I also added some stickles for a little shine and some white ink splatters for snow.

My next scene again uses the StencilScapes Winter stencil set. This time I stenciled the scene with soft pastels…pinks, purples, blues, and mauves. I even made the trees in the background purple!

When my stenciling was finished, I added some glitter to some of the images. I layered some Frosty Pines diecuts using foam tape, done in soft minty greens. The sentiment I used here is from the previously released Written in Ribbons set. I also added a Drifting diecut along the bottom edge.

The Frosty Pines die is great for layering over the StencilScapes Winter scene, but it’s great on its own as well. Here I layered two sets of trees on a Twinkle Background.

I inked them up in shades of green, and added glitter and splatters. The snowy parts of the trees were done by snipping apart a second tree (left white) and layered over the base. Angelica showed this technique in her video as well.

I can hardly believe it, but I think we’ve come to the end of the product intros and projects, at least for me! But good news…the team is here with tons more inspiration. And we have some giveaways, of course!

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 team is here for a hop, and we also have a special guest! Latisha Yoast is joining us as a guest today and I think you’ll love her bright and beautiful projects!