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Are you ready for another fun day? I think reveal days are my favorite, how about you? I just love getting to show what we’ve all been working on for months! Today is the second reveal day for our November mini collection called Winter’s Song

All of the products being introduced on the blog this week will be available for purchase in The Shop, beginning at 10am EDT on Friday, November 22.

Let’s meet today’s new products…

Winter Sketches stamps & dies

Winter Sketches is a gorgeous wintery set that’s filled with possibilities! Layer the solid and outline images for a pretty, yet carefree look, or use them independently. The outline can be used alone and colored with your favorite medium, or to create quick and easy backgrounds! The solid images of this set even feature built-in snow for a sparkling-like effect when stamped! When layering the outline over the solid, consider heat embossing the outline with metallic embossing powder for a touch of elegance. You’ll have fun exploring the possibilities of the Winter Sketches set!

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This set comes on a 4″ x 8″ sheet and includes a full-color printed stamping guide.

Approximate sizes:
large assembled branch – 3.5″ x 2.5″
smaller berry cluster – 1.75″ x 1.75″
pine sprig with pinecone – 1.7″ x .8″

Budding Beauties Winter stamps & dies

The Budding Beauties Winter set is made to coordinate perfectly with the Bottled Up stamp set. Fill the bottles with these pretty wintery sprigs. Use them individually, or cluster a few different stems together with the Fit to Be Tied dies to created pretty bouquets. There are also a handful of tiny sentiments to stamp on the label included in the Bottled Up set. Use these pretty stems without the bottles as focal points and more on your winter and holiday projects!

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This set comes on a 4″ x 8″ sheet and includes a full-color printed stamping guide.

Approximate sizes:
assembled mistletoe sprig – 1.75″ x 3.75″
assembled holly sprig – 2″ x 3.5″
pine berry sprig – 2.1″ x 3.75″

BotaniCuts Pine Bough die

The BotaniCuts collection is a series of stand alone dies for cutting various botanical designs. This BotaniCuts Pine Bough set creates a pretty layered pine branch and two sizes of layered pinecones. Keep it simple by cutting them from colored cardstock, or have fun experimenting with your favorite coloring method, such as ink blending, watercolor, markers, and more for dramatic effects!

Approximate size:
assembled branch – 3.6″ x 2.6″
large pinecone – 1.2″ x 1.5″
small pinecone – 1″ x 1.3″

Fit to Be Tied die

If you love it, put a bow on it! The Fit to Be Tied die collection consists of three pretty ways to top it off. The string wrap is great for gathering a few sprigs, the loopy bow adds a delicate touch. The third bow in the set is nice and plump, with an additional detail layer for adding shading and detail. You’ll find yourself reaching for this handy set year round, whether it’s for package toppers, cards, tags, and more!

Approximate size:
twine wrap – .85″ x 1.35″
loopy bow – 3″ x 1.65″
puffy bow – 2″ x 2″

To aid in your list-making and planning, below you will find the prices for today’s products.

• Winter Sketches 4″ x 8″ stamp set – $18
• Winter Sketches die – $16
• Budding Beauties Winter 4″ x 8″ stamp set – $18
• Budding Beauties Winter die – $24
• BotaniCuts Pine Bough die – $24
• Fit to Be Tied die – $16

I have so many projects to share, and just wait until you see what the Inspiration Team has created for you! Before we dive into projects, I put together a video showing how to layer and assemble the BotaniCuts Pine Bough die.

Now for those projects! My first card uses all three of the different sprigs from the Budding Beauties Winter set, paired with the Bottled Up set.

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I still just love stamping these bottles! It’s so fun to see them come to life in different colors. I stamped the Budding Beauties Winter stems in pretty shades of greens and reds. For the background, I embossed the largest frame from the Nordic Frames die to give a pretty impressed design. I also scattered a few snowflakes from the Frosty Corners die into the background. I stamped a couple of the tiny sentiments included in the Budding Beauties Winter set onto the label from the Bottled Up set.

My next card uses the mistletoe image from the Budding Beauties Winter set, this time without the bottles.

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The pretty sprigs from this set are perfect for pairing with the Fit to Be Tied dies to create pretty clusters and bouquets. Here I hung two mistletoe sprigs and topped them off with the loopy bow from the Fit to Be Tied set. I also included one of the tags from the new Speed Tagging Christmas Prints paper collection. I loved how the embossing on the last card turned out withe the Nordic Frames, so I did that again, this time using the two larger frames. I also included the outline portion of the Inside & Out Berry Branch die in the background for even more texture. I love how dimensional this card feels with the embossing and tone-on-tone diecut, but it’s still fairly flat and mailable.

My next card uses the new Winter Sketches set and is probably one of my favorite cards ever. I just love how this one turned out and it was really fairly easy!

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I used just the outline image of the large branch from the set and heat embossed it with gold power onto black watercolor paper. Yes! Black watercolor paper. Did you know there is such a thing? I was alerted to this fact not that long ago (thanks to Heather Nichols!). To add color to the gold embossed designs I used Prima Metallic Accents watercolors. I also added a few pops of white and lots of white splatters using white acrylic ink. I cut down the panel of black watercolor paper using the largest Nordic Frames die, and also heat embossed the sentiment from the Pine Blossom set. Would you like to see a Make & Tell Tuesday demo on this card? I will try and put one together very soon!

My next card also comes close to my top favorites ever and it uses the new BotaniCuts Pine Bough die.

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When I designed these dies I could not wait to try creating them in glittering layers of white. We have some glittered white pinecones that we put out every year that slip over a string of lights. They are so pretty, and they’re one of my favorite holiday decorations…there’s just something about glittery white pinecones! I added some subtle color to the pine needles and branch by sponging some ink. I also added some details and shading to the pinecones themselves using colored pencils. This card is so textured with the Inside & Out Berry Branch and Nordic Frames layered under the pine branch! The sentiment is from the Tree Trimmings set.

Next up is a dreamy winter scene pairing the BotaniCuts Pine Bough with Winter Sketches. I love shades of cool blues and greens for winter projects.

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I pulled out my Frosty Flakes stencil and my trusty watercolor technique I shared in a video a few weeks back to create this background. The Nordic Frame pattern around the edges makes it even prettier! The cluster in the center is done with The large branch and smaller berry cluster from the Winter Sketches set. Like I mentioned in the description of this set, there is a snowy effect built into the illustration of these branches and berries, and they almost seem to sparkle on their own. I once again used a white pinecone and pine needle sprig from BotantiCuts Pine Bough, and tied it all up with the twine from the Fit to Be Tied die set. A sentiment from Pine Blossom is the perfect finishing touch…the little details on the first letters of the sentiments in that set are just the perfect little touch to tie it all together!

I love the white pinecones, but I couldn’t do this post for today without including some traditional colored pine cones as well! The BotaniCuts Pine Bough die is great for holiday and winter cards, but also great for more masculine cards throughout the year.

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I used both sizes of the pinecones along with a couple branches to create this card. I also tucked in a few sprigs from the Inside & Out Berry Branch die. The background was done by stamping the outline images from the Winter Sketches set onto the medium Nordic Frames rectangle. The sentiment is from Sentiment Suite: Thank You.

My final card for our Winter’s Song showcase combines Budding Beauties Winter, Inside & Out Berry Branch, and a pretty Speed Tagging Christmas Prints tag.

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I stamped two of the pine berry sprigs from the Budding Beauties Winter set and tucked them into a pocket created with the Halfsies Diamond die, along with a Speed Tagging Christmas Print tag and some Inside & Out Berry Branch leaves. The background was sponged with ink, and I also added some stenciled leaves using the Berry Branch stencil. The white acrylic ink splatters add a touch of snowy fun to the background as well.

That wraps up my projects for today, but there is still so much more! 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 $50 gift card! Read on for details…

• Comment here on the blog for one entry (one comment per person). What caught your eye today, and gets you excited to get creating?
• Comment on our Inspiration Team Members’ blogs for more entries (one comment per person, per blog)
• Comments close at Midnight EST on Thursday, November 21
• Winners will be posted at 7am EST on Friday, November 22 here on the blog

You are in for such a treat! It’s time to see what our amazing Inspiration Team has to share with you today!
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Thank you so much for visiting and participating in our excitement over our new Winter’s Song collection! We’ll be back tomorrow with gift certificate winners + a few fun surprises before everything goes live in the shop at 10am EST!