honey jar

It’s TGIF – The Greetery Inspiration Friday! Laurie is here with a sweet thinking of you card, which is giving me warm, summery vibes on this bitterly cold Friday. It’s looking like spring in my craft room, though…lots of spring things going on here, with new products coming to the shop in just a few short weeks. We have a lot to share in the coming days, so stay tuned! 🙂

Hi crafty friends! It’s Laurie here, stopping in with this week’s TGIF. I don’t know about you but I am SO ready for spring. It is super cold here in Kansas so I definitely channeled in a little spring to today’s card. If you follow my blog, you know I the clean and simple stamper of the group. I love simple backgrounds with a focal point that pops!

One of my favorite things to do is to collect stamped images and save them for future projects. When I am feeling low on mojo, I will grab a few stamp sets and then stamp and die cut all the images. I keep those images in an envelope in the back of the stamp set. That way when I need to make a card, I can grab images that have already been stamped and ready to go! This is also a great recipe for a quick and easy card! I used several stamp sets in today’s card but had all those fun little die cuts ready to build my springy little scene.

To create this card, I stamped the honeycomb images from the Buzz-Worthy Sentiment Stamp Set in a light brown ink. Next, I found the honey pot and wand from the Honey Jar Stamp Set. Using foam squares, I added them to the card front. Next, I grabbed some flowers from the Container Garden Stamp Set and those gorgeous green leaves from the Lemon Blossom Stamp Set. I finished off the card with a sentiment from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You die cut with the Tear Strip Tag Die. It was fun to have all those details ready to go!

I hope this gives you some inspiration to save up those stamped images and create your own quick and simple cards! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hello and thank you for stopping by! Welcome to the first day of product reveals for our newest collection coming to the shop in a few days! It’s called Sweet & Sunny and it’s filled with…you guessed it, sweet and summery things!

The new products being showcased today will go up in the shop on Wednesday, June 29 at 10am EDT.

Just a note before we dig into the products and projects…Laurie will be showcasing all of the new products in an Instagram Live on Tuesday, June 28 at 11am CDT, 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 you can preview the new products in the shop, you will not be able to add them to cart or purchase until 10am EDT on Wednesday, June 29)

Honey Bees die + Honeycomb Corners die

Click HERE for Honey Bees die info ($14)
Click HERE for Honeycomb Corners die info ($8)

Buzz-Worthy Sentiments stamp set + die

Click HERE for Buzz-Worthy Sentiments stamp set info ($16)
Click HERE for Buzz-Worthy Sentiments die info ($11)

Honey Jar stamp set + die

Click HERE for Honey Jar stamp set info ($16)
Click HERE for Honey Jar die info ($13)

Buzzy Bits clay mix

Click HERE for Buzzy Bits info ($4)

Honeysuckle Stems stamp set + die

Click HERE for Honeysuckle Stems stamp set info ($25)
Click HERE for Honeysuckle Stems die info ($25)

Now that you’ve gotten a preview of today’s new product introductions, let’s get to some projects so you can see them in action.

My first pair of projects using the new Honey Bees and Honey Jars. I wanted to created something a little more elegant, so I started with a dark navy cardstock, and added all of the elements in warm honey, golds, and soft pink tones.

My first card is on a slimline base and uses our Crimped Slimline die for the background and uses the Honeycomb Corners die to cut some subtle details in the upper corners. I backed it with the same color cardstock – this allows for some texture, but doesn’t distract from my focal point. I built my focal point using the new Honey Jar set and the two smaller bees from the new Honey Bees die set. I added lots of wildflower looking elements around my jar, with a mix of dies…BotaniCuts Bluebells, Inside & Out Berry Branch die, and tiny flowers from BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix.

The honey dipper is also from the new Honey Jar set. I stamped it and added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Orange Marmalade…it makes the perfect honey! (We tried to stock this for you in the shop, but unfortunately we were not able to get our hands on any.) I also scattered in a few tiny honeycombs from the new Buzzy Bits mix. The sentiment is from the new Buzz-Worthy Sentiments set, and I heat embossed them with gold.

The companion card is a standard A2 card and uses the largest bee from the new Honey Bees die set for a focal point. I put that pretty bee inside a pair of diecut Halfsies Ovals. Inside the oval I hot foiled a branch from the Fall Foliage set using gold foil, and layered the largest Honey Bee over the top.

The wildflowers around the bee were done using the same dies mentioned above, and again the sentiments here are from the new Buzz-Worthy Sentiments set, heat embossed with gold.

My next card again uses the new Honey Bees die. This time I used the two larger bees on an A2 card. For the background, I started with some rustic white cardstock and stamped the sketchy floral image from the Sketchbook Roses set in a gold-tone ink. I diecut the Honeycomb Corners die from a scrap of cardstock and used to to create some hexagon outlines using a black pen. I then diecut a few of these with the single hexagon die included in the set, and also added some shimmery gold watercolor to a few of them, just for a fun and interesting mix.

Layered under the bees are some greenery sprigs that were cut using our Curio: Summer die set. The sentiment is from the new Buzz-Worthy Sentiments set. I adhered my finished Crimped Frame onto a kraft cardstock base and added some gold splatters to finish it off.

Next I used the Honey Bees to make a sweet baby card. I watercolored a panel of watercolor paper and diecut the Honeycomb Corners from all four corners of my panel once it was dry. I also diecut the large bee from watercolor paper and watercolored it as well. I added two layers of wings – one cut from watercolor paper and one cut from vellum for a soft effect.

I wanted to create a floral design around my bee, so I pulled out the tiny flower sprigs from our AlphaBuds Bold Floral Details set. I also used some of the tiny flower diecut from our BotaniCuts Strawberries set. Once again, the sentiment I used is from the Buzz-Worthy set.

My next couple of cards use the new Honey Jar. I love all of the different occasion possibilities with this set. For a get well card, I paired it with our BotaniCuts Lavender and our Lemon Blossom set. It’s the perfect combo for sending some well-wishes!

For this card, I started with a watercolor panel cut with our Crimped Frame die and added a bit of loose blue watercolor to make a backdrop for my cluster of elements. I created a surface for my honey jar by adding a “wood” strip cut using our Curio: Cover die. I also added a Cozy Cup Coaster die. The honey dipper on this card was done with the Honey Jar dies – you can choose to stamp the honey dipper, or assemble it with the diecuts, which is what I did here. I again added some Nuvo Drops for the honey. This time I used the optional fabric topper on my jar, along with the twine bow, all from the Honey Jar set.

I thought the honey jar would also make a cute container for some pretty blooms! To create a bouquet in the jar, I started with some greenery sprigs cut using our Boxwood Heart Details die. The sprigs are a great size and have lots of branches in different directions, perfect for building the base of my bouquet. The larger bright-colored flowers were done with a new BotaniCuts set you’ll be seeing more of tomorrow! The small white flowers were cut with the BotaniCuts Strawberries die.

I added my bouquet to a black cardbase which was stamped with one of the script sentiments from our Pretty Postmarks set, just to add a little more interest to the background. The sentiment is done with the new Buzz-Worthy Sentiments set. I added some small stamped bees, which are from the Honey Jar set.

My next three cards use our new Honeysuckle Stems set. I love these big and bold flowers…so fun to stamp in the summeriest colors! For this first one, I had some stamped bees leftover and thought they were perfect with the honeysuckle as well. I stuck to a monochromatic color scheme of yellows and greens for a fresh, summery look.

I started this card with a white card base and positioned a whole bunch of honeysuckle stems around the outer edge of the card front so that they pretty much filled my card. I filled in between the flowers with tiny white diecut flower clusters cut with our BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix die, and lots of cute little stamped bees from the Honey Jar set. The sentiment I used here is a combination of the large script “happy” from our All Kinds of Happy stamp set, and the “bee” from the new Buzz-Worthy set. Such a cheery card with all the yellow and those cute bees!

Next I took a whole bouquet of the Honeysuckle Stems and gathered them up with our It’s a Wrap Posy Pocket die. This bouquet just screams summer to me! I stamped the honeysuckle in all kinds of colors…reds, pinks, orange, and fuchsia. This is a great set to experiment with blending different ink colors onto your images while stamping. I like to use sponge daubers to ink up the stamps (I have a video showing this technique here).

For the background, I started with a panel of white cardstock and stamped it using our Seed Catalog Background and white ink. It’s the perfect backdrop for this bright bouquet — just enough to make it interesting, but not compete with the pretty blooms. The sentiment is from our Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You set stamped onto a tiny tag from our Sentiment Suite Basics die. I also added a few tiny bees from our new Buzzy Bits mix.

I spent some time just stamping away these pretty Honeysuckle Stems, so I had a whole pile of them to work with! I used more of them on this card. I created a big, beautiful honeysuckle bouquet onto a panel that was cut with our new Honeycomb Corners die. I stuck to white on white for the background so these pretty blooms could really shine.

Over top of my bouquet I layered a sentiment from the Buzz-Worthy set, and also diecut bees from the new Honey Bees die set. The sentiment makes for a perfect thank you card.

I hope you enjoyed my projects today…I loved creating with these new goodies! There’s just something about summery stamps and all the bright colors that makes me want to just keep creating!

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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And there’s more! You’re in for a real treat today as you hop around to the Inspiration Team blogs…they have created some amazing things and I can’t wait for you to check them out…