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Hello and happy Tuesday! Melissa is here today sharing a gorgeous card using products from our Handiwork collection! Before we get to that, I just wanted to give you a little heads up! We have new holiday products coming to the shop next week. Eep! We’ve been busy behind the scenes getting everything ready!

Our Recollective Holiday collection will be available in the shop on Friday, October 6th. It’s filled with things inspired by my childhood Christmases…most notably the time and traditions spent at my grandmother’s house. She loved Christmas! She looked forward to it and prepared for it all year. So many of the products in our Recollective collection were inspired by her. I’m excited to share it all with you!

I hope you’ll join us for sneak peeks starting in just a few days, and then next week will be filled with product reveals and projects from the team before it all hits the shop on Friday, October 6.

Now let’s check out the beautiful project Melissa is sharing today…

I have a major crush on the tiny scissors from the Handiwork Notionable die collection. I needed a quick Thank You card and knew I wanted to center it around these cute scissors.

I used the gorgeous Rose Tapestry Stencils to create my background and then built my scene over the top. A panel of vellum helps add some subtlety to the background, allowing the focal point to stand out a little from the patterned background. I’ve used a sentiment from the Sew Vintage stamp set and stamped it over the top of a die cut Hoopla Mini Inserts heart. I used a few stamped and diecut images from the Floral Sampler stamp set and matching die around my sentiment to finish it off.

Thanks so much for joining us today! We’ll be back a little later this week to share some sneak peeks of our Recollective Collection!

Welcome to Day 2 of product introductions for our new Handiwork Collection! We’re getting closer to the day when these new products hit the shop! They’ll be available beginning at 10am EDT on Friday, July 28.

Before I get into today’s product intros, just a heads up that Laurie will be hosting an Instagram Live this afternoon. If you’d like to see the products up close, join Laurie today, 7/27 at 4pm ET / 3pm CT on our Instagram channel. If you aren’t able to join us live, you can watch it any time from our feed.

Now for today’s product introductions…

Below is a quick look at the new products being showcased today. 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, July 28).

Sew Vintage Die + stamp set

I’ve always been fascinated by vintage sewing machines – both for their functionality and their beauty! I’m so excited about our new Sew Vintage die, which creates the most adorable vintage sewing machine. The details really put this set over the top (you can actually “thread” the machine!). The coordinating stamp set can be used to add floral and flourish details to the sewing machine, and it also includes a handful of sewing-themed sentiments.

Click HERE for Sew Vintage die info ($24)
Click HERE for Sew Vintage stamp set info ($8)

Notionable Die

Our new Notionable die is filled with sweet old-fashioned sewing notions, including a classic tomato pin cushion and a fancy scissors that actually opens and closes when assembled with a brad. (I think cutting it from gold cardstock is going to be required! 🙂 ). Other items in the set include fancy pins, needle and a spool of thread, a needle card and a thimble.

Click HERE for Notionable die info ($25)

Rose Tapestry Stencil

This new 7-piece layering stencil creates an all-over rose pattern that was inspired by vintage tapestries. Have fun experimenting with all of the different color combos and watching this design come to life, stencil by stencil!

Click HERE for Rose Tapestry stencil info ($18)

Embroidered Background Stamp

We’re introducing a new background, this one features the look of freehand embroidery and is sized to fill an A2 panel.

Click HERE for Embroidered Background stamp info ($16)

Now for some projects to see these new products brought to life!

First up is a card that uses the new Sew Vintage die and matching stamp set. I just had to go the traditional route and create a black and gold machine by heat embossing the details from the Sew Vintage stamp set with gold embossing powder. It’s just a classic! I am excited to also create these in some other non-traditional colors for future projects.

Around the machine I clustered several stamped and diecut images that were done with both the Embroidered Blooms die and the Floral Sampler stamp set and matching die. The sentiment is from the new Sew Vintage stamp set. Things to note on the background – I used the Hoopla Oval Inserts, embossed with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate. Behind that is a kraft panel that was stamped with thew new Embroidered Background stamp using white pigment ink.

Next up is a card that uses the new Notionable die, along with several other new products. One of the fun things about the Notionable die is that it’s perfect for pairing with our Curio Divider and Curio Divider II dies! I used the Curio II die here to create a sort of sewing box themed card. It’s so fun to create all of the pretty details!

In addition to the scissors, pin cushion, thread, thimble, etc from the Notionable set, I also incorporated the tiny oval hoop from the Hoopla Mini set. I added a few little “fabric” scraps that were cut with the Patchwork die and embossed with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate. One of them was cut from a little scrap I had left from another project that was stenciled with the new Rose Tapestry stencil. I also tucked in a few stamped and diecut florals from the Embroidered Blooms and Floral Sampler sets.

The scissors was cut from rose gold mirror cardstock and fastened together onto my card using a tiny brad so that it actually opens and closes, creating a fun interactive element!

While it’s super fun to use alllll of the Notionable elements on a single card, they’re also great to use independently, which is what I did for these next two cards. This first one uses that adorable scissors as a focal point.

I started out with the larger Hoopla Oval and created a hoop to use as my focal point. I attached the scissors in the center with a brad, so again it’s an interactive element. Then I used some Embroidered Blooms diecuts to frame my pretty golden scissors. For the sentiment, I pulled out my Little Labels set to stamp the thank you sentiment. Behind the hoop is a dark green cardstock panel, which I embossed with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate and stamped with the Embroidered Background stamp in a darker shade of green.

The inside of the card is stamped with the “doesn’t cut it” sentiment from the new Stitched Sentiments set, finishing the sentiment from the front of the card. I also stamped a few leaves and flowers from the Floral Sampler set.

This next card uses the cute spool of thread from the Notionable die set. I created four spools in fun colors and layered them over a Hoopla Oval Inserts diecut. I also added a few leaves cut with the Embroidered Blooms die. The sentiment is from the Sew Vintage stamp set.

For the background, I head embossed the new Embroidered Background onto kraft cardstock with white embossing powder. I diecut my embossed panel with the Crimped Frames die.

My next two cards use the new Rose Tapestry stencil set. It’s so fun to see this stencil design come together with each step! Here I used shades of pink and purple for the roses, and blues and greens for the foliage to stencil the design onto a panel that was embossed with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate. Once my panel was stenciled, I diecut it with the Patchwork die to add even more texture and the pinked edge.

For my focal point I used the smaller hoop from the Hoopla Round die. Inside the hoop I put a panel of vellum that was heat embossed with the Embroidered Background using white embossing powder. I love how lacy that looks! For the sentiment I pulled out my Written in Ribbons set and stamped the “happy” in coordinating ink colors and layered it over the vellum hoop. I added the birthday sentiment, also from Written in Ribbons stamped onto a PreText Banners diecut. I added a few diecut leaves around the sentiment, which were cut with the Embroidered Blooms die.

For my last card for the day, I took a stenciled Rose Tapestry panel and framed it with the large round Hoopla die. I added a sentiment using the Stitched Sentiments stamp set and matching die. I embellished the top of the hoop with several Embroidered Blooms diecuts.

For the background, I layered a Woven Cane panel diecut from white cardstock over a creamy card base for a subtle background with lots of texture.

That wraps up my projects today, but keep reading for links to the team blogs and for information on how you could win one of our giveaways for today’s blog hop!

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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