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The Greetery – You’re SO cool!

Hi there creative and crafty friends! It’s June and it’s Summer! In fact, TODAY is the first official day of Summer! It’s my turn today on The Greetery Blog too! What is the best thing about Summer? It might be ice cream! For today I made a fun and sweet ice cream cone card in pink and white, with some cute little strawberries too! This card might inspire me to go sit outside and enjoy the beautiful weather, and a cone! Strawberry of course!

My finished card is a white A2 card base, layered with stripes, vellum and a pretty scallop. My card features the What’s the Scoop Stamp Set and the Honeycomb Ice Cream dies. They work perfectly together. I started by die cutting out all my pieces to make the cone and the strawberries. I used a color palette of brown and pink, which I have always liked!! Seems kind of vintage too… I put the strawberries together and also the ice cream cone. I used Distress Inks to gently shade each of the pieces.

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I stamped the sentiment in brown and pink to match my cone. I used the Curio Confections Dies to make the circles for the sentiment. I added little heart embellishments and some chunky glitter. You could make this card in any color combination and I think it’s perfect for a birthday card!

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That’s it for my project for today. Wishing you good times and lots of ice cream too. I hope you have a wonderful and creative day. It’s my pleasure to share with you, and I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! Happy Summer!

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June 20, 2025
The Greetery – Bunnies & Bows Collection for Spring 2025 – New Release!

Hi crafty and creative Greetery loving friends! I hope this week is treating you good! Spring is definitely arriving! We are supposed to be at 80 degrees by this weekend! Whoa! Flowers are flowering and trees are treeing. It’s a magical time of year. And now it’s time to get ready for my favorite holiday – Easter! A time of renewal and faith. I really love this time of year and all that it signifies.

Today is VERY VERY exciting because it’s the reveal and showcase day for the new Spring 2025 Greetery release! YEAAAAAHHHHH! The new release is called Bunnies and Bows (love)! There are stamps, and dies and stencils with a pretty, feminine touch. Creative and sweet and of course – things for Easter too! It’s really lovely and I know you’re going to love it as much as I do. The design team (and some awesome guests) will be sharing ALL of our projects today, and showing you all the new products. Just one day of features – then the new release will go live TOMORROW at 10am EST! (So you don’t have to wait too long -yay for that!)

I have four projects to share today – can’t wait to show you! All the prize information, details, and design team links are at the bottom of my post. Lots of pictures for you today, friends! And All of them are EASTER! I’m so excited!

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My first project for today is a set of tags I made using the brand new Honeycomb additions – a Bunny and a Chick! You guys – these are SO cute! I made two tags – one with each of the new honeycomb sets! I also used the Tag Team dies and the new Honeycomb Spring stamps. I adhered this pretty patterned paper onto white thick cardstock and then die cut them out. I added a small scallop across the bottom by layering white paper and using scallop scissors! SO CUTE! I die cut out all the pieces and assembled them with the poofy honeycombs. I used twine and some buttons from my stash for the top of the tags. I also added a few pearls. I stamped the sentiments onto some small stitched circles. I can’t wait to tie these on some treats!!

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Next up is a pretty in blue Easter card. This card uses the brand new Spring Crest stamps and dies and the brand new Easter Refrain products. I used lots of my other favorite Greetery supplies. My finished card is an A2 kraft card base, layered in gingham and then a cream panel. The feature is that beautiful floral border and the new crest. I started by stamping the flowers and leaves and die cutting out the floral part. I stamped the sentiment in the same blue color to match the flowers and added the word “Easter” over the top. I added vellum Ruscus flowers and a wooden cross. A few blue pearls complete the look. I think that by using cream instead of vivid white the card has a softer feel. And I always love blue!

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My next card is pretty-in-purple! This card features the brand new Bunny Tales stamps and dies along with some other Greetery favs!! My finished card is a cream A2 card base. I layered purple floral paper and purple cardstock, vellum, then another cream postage panel. I started this card by stamping and die cutting the floral frame and the bunnies. I gently colored the bunnies with Copics and added their little pom pom tails. I stamped the sentiment in light purple to match…. I die cut out that gorgeous Fit To Be Tied bow and splattered on some gold paint for good measure. I affixed the floral frame with foam squares and added the bow at the bottom. With a different sentiment I also think this would be a wonderful baby card – in pink or blue!!

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My final card for today features the brand new Bitty Botanicals stamps and the new Diamond Ribbon Stencils. This suite is SO lovely!! My finished card is a white A2 card base. I layered the Patchwork background die and then my panel. I wanted the flowers to shine, so I kept the rest of the card simple – a vellum oval and then a white oval with the beautiful sentiment on top. This card is clean and fresh! Those bitty botanicals are really pretty!! The sentiment was stamped and die cut from the matching die. This card could also be used for other occasions besides Easter.

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That’s it for today – and for the reveals of this awesome new Bunnies and Bows release! Ready for Spring and Easter time! Thanks for stopping by to share with me today! It’s my pleasure to introduce the new release. Enjoy and happy crafting! XOXO

Giveaway Information: The Greetery is giving away TWO $50 gift certificates, the comment deadline is Friday 3/21 at 6:00am EST (comments from team blogs entered into giveaway). Winners announced on The Greetery blog on Thursday, 3/21 at 9am EST (an hour before the new products go live) GOOD LUCK!!

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DESIGN TEAM & GUESTS – LINKS FOR THE NEW RELEASE:

Angelica Conrad

Dana Kirby

Dawn McVey

Kelly Lunceford

Laura Bassen

Laurie Willison

Leanne West

Melissa Phillips

Wanda Guess

March 20, 2025
Cute Snowman Banner just in time for Christmas!

Hi creative and crafty friends! Today is my turn up on The Greetery Blog! And, as usual, I'm posting my project here too! I hope you're doing great and having fun getting ready for the Christmas this week! I love to decorate my home for Christmas and make lots of pretty crafty things to put around… For my project today I created a cheerful and happy snowman banner using the brand new Honeycomb Snowman dies and the Snowflakes #2 dies. This project brought a smile to my face the whole time I was making it, and now it's hanging up in our dining room! Do you enjoy making home decor items too?! This is a Winter themed project, so I'm going to leave it up through January probably. When I decorate the house for the holidays I use all kinds of colors and themes. Then, once Christmas is over, I take down the obviously red/green/Christmas decorations, but I leave the snowmen, snowflakes, and Winter decorations up for the month of January. It just makes the holidays last a little longer during the foggy January days….

To make my snowman banner, I started by die cutting out all the pieces to make four snowmen from the new Honeycomb Snowman Die set. I assembled the snowmen and then added those most adorable snow white honeycombs! I die cut out five silver glitter paper snowflakes to put in between the snowmen on my banner. I used a long length of twine – around six feet – and used my hot glue gun to glue the snowflakes and snowmen onto the twine. It was really a fun and easy project and I love how it came out. I used bright colors for their ear muffs.

A few of my little finishing touches include – Copic marker shading on the die cut pieces of the snowmen, White gel pen accents, and bits of Diamond Glitter to give them a bit of shine! This would be a great group project or one to do with the kids too. The goal is to have F-U-N!

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Love their little round honeycomb tummies!!

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Here is a photo of my banner hanging up in our dining room!! We've already been enjoying it!

That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! Wishing you a wonderful week and all the magic of Christmas…. It's my pleasure to share with you all year. Blessings to you and your families. I look forward to sharing with you again soon – in the new year!! In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda

December 23, 2024
The Greetery – Award Winning Love Card!

Hi everyone! How are you my creative and crafty friends?! It's my turn up on The Greetery Blog today to share a project with you! And of course I'm sharing my project with you here too! Yay! I am always so excited and happy to share with you. Hope you're doing great! I am still so in love with the new Greetery release and I decided to make another project featuring some of the new items. I was inspired by the awesome Award Winning dies and really wanted to make a more vintage/masculine project using them. It's always fun to see how using a different color palette or style can change the look of our favorite stamps and dies… Happy Friday and Happy Weekend! Let's get started!

My finished card is an A2 cream card base. I covered it in diamond harlequin paper and then layered the Postage Die in cream. The star of the card is the Award Winning Dies! I used the XOXO from the Just My Type Dies to make the center of the award stand out. This patterned paper is from a (very) old paper pad in my stash. Feel free to see this as a message to use all your hoarded stash! LOL! This card has a really vintagey masculine vibe – totally different than my other card using these dies. Love it!

I started this card by die cutting all the pieces of the award using patterned papers and cardstocks. I generously inked up all the pieces with Antique Linen Distress Ink to make it all look aged and vintage. In between the bottom two layers of the award, I created a rosette layer by folding strips of paper in an accordion fashion. Then I glued all the layers together to make my award. In this photo you can see all the layers and pieces!

I die cut the XOXO using silver and black cardstocks and attached it to the award using foam dots. I added a mirrored heart Tim Holtz charm also. Finally I added a couple silver streamers die cut from the Honeycomb Balloons die set. I like the little pops of metallic in with all those rich colors….

I used my fingers to gently turn up the bottoms of the ribbons….More dimension!

It is always nice to have some masculine cards on hand for the guys in our lives! My husband loves the vintage look, so he will most likely be the recipient of this card for our anniversary this year. That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XOXO

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May 24, 2024
Pinkfresh Studio June 2020 New Release Blog Hop – fun with hexagons!

Hey guys! How is your week going? There's a lot happening here on my blog this week, and it's all gooooood! Did you see my post on Tuesday for SCT Magazine? I loved that post! And today and tomorrow, two more posts! Yep, I've been busy. I hope you are doing great and getting in crafty time and relaxing time.

Today's post is all about a big fabulous blog hop to launch the Pinkfresh Studio June 2020 Product Release! YIPPPEEEE! At the bottom of this post, you can read about prizes, and shipping specials, and see the links to the blogs for today. I'm always so excited to participate in a beautiful new release from our friends at Pinkfresh Studio!! Their products are so pretty and nice to create with. I made two cards today using the same product suite: Hexagons! Yes, hexagons are back on trend, and I LOVE it!

First up is a country quilt feeling card I made using the Simply Hexagons Die and the Pop Out Hexagons stamp set with matching dies. Such a creative and fun product collection! My finished card is an A2 card base from Kraft cardstock.

The theme of my card was making a patchwork quilt. I have a quilt on my couch at home in these pretty colors…pinks and dusty blues and greens… So it inspired my card. I used bits of patterned paper for some hexagons, and embossed some of the hexagons… Love how fun this turned out.

This hexagons stamp set comes with small sentiments that fit inside the hexagons. It also has these tiny floral clusters with matching dies. It's really all so fabulous. I die cut the hexagons die from kraft cardstock and glued it to the front of the card. Then I used that as a 'frame' for all my different elements.

Here's how the Simply Hexagons Die cuts out – a perfect A2 size!!! Cuts like a dream.

I used the hugs die cut to add a bit of a darker element for contrast. I used white paint to splatter over the card. I heat embossed parts of it too, with white embossing powder…. Oh, and added a few hearts and enamel dots for good measure!

These diagonal strips are one of the small stamps that come with the Pop Out Hexagons stamp set.

For visual interest, some of the hexagons are popped up with foam circles, and some are glued flat to the card. That's one of my fav techniques – building up elements with foam tapes.

Put on your sunglasses for this next card! I used the same supplies as the card above – but made this one into a beehive honeycomb shaker card! Full of warm golden tones and pretty crystals!! This finished card is also an A2 card base. I used Distress Inks and blended them to look like a beehive. Felt like some good vibes to me!

This card took a little bit of construction… I inked my paper, splattered it, blended it, etc. THEN, I used the Simply Hexagons Die to cut it out. Then, I made it into a shaker card… But only three of the hexagons are shakers. The rest are flat inside the outlines of the hexagon frame. I used acetate over those three hexagons and used the gorgeous Pinkfresh Studio Crystals to fill them.

The card needed some black or another dark color to contrast all that yellow so I made my focal point a circle with a sentiment inside! I inked the edges of the circle and also stamped some of the small florals onto that circle.

This product right here is LIFE CHANGING!! I just got these a couple weeks ago and wowza. 1/8 inch strips of foam tape!!!! Perfect for shaker cards and long pieces to attach together!!! I used these strips along all the frames of my hexagons to mount it above and to make the shaker card portions.

Here is my ink blended background before I jazzed it up with water, ink, and splatters!! Such a sunny and pretty color combination. I'm really into yellow right now for summer projects. I use Bristol Cardstock for a nice even blend.

OOOOH. It's getting good now!

And here it is cut out with that beautiful die! YUM.

Good vibes to you!! Here is a close up of my focal point. I use the Phrase Builder dies A LOT – and love how they have outlines (in vellum) dies too. See the pretty yellow crystals?? Yeah, I spilled them. But what a pretty mess!

Thank you so much for coming by my blog today! If you're new – welcome! I hope I see you again! Thanks for participating in our Blog Hop to launch this awesome new Pinkfresh Studio Release!! Please head over to the Pinkfresh Studio Blog to see more inspiration and all the links to everyone's blogs for today!

PRIZE ALERT!!!! Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog, IG feed & YouTube channel… So be sure to check out all the Pinkfresh social media channels!! On each blog today we will be giving away a $25 gift card on each post!! Yes, all of them! The winners will be picked from all the comments. Lea will pull the winners & post them on June 19, 2020 on the Pinkfresh GIVEAWAY PAGE. You must check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks.

Pinkfresh Studio is offering a FREEBIE DIE with $25+ purchase – this will load automatically into your cart! Also: Pinkfresh Studio is offering FREE US or discounted international shipping on all orders $50+ from June 12th to June 18th!!

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June 12, 2020
Free to Fly – Beautiful Bee!

Hi there my creative and crafty friends! Spring has sprung and we sprang forward, and here it is Monday again! We had a giant rain storm on Saturday and I spent all day in the studio. I LOVE the rain!! Makes everything so fresh and pretty. Do you know that we went the entire month of February with ZERO rain here in Sacramento? That is very odd. I was happy to see that water comin' from the sky!! I am participating in the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge so my creativity is flowing! Are you joining in?? You can participate on Facebook, or Instagram or any other sharing site. Basically Kathy Rac is challenging us to color every day for 30 days! I'm in! I also challenge myself during this time. I have a basket in my craft room with new to me stamps that haven't been inked yet. So I try to use things from that basket. Also, I try to push myself creatively to go outside my comfort zone and try new things. Today's card was born from these ideas: a new stamp and a new way of coloring with my Polychromos…. I'm super happy with the results and ready to share!!

This finished card is a 5.25 inch square made from cream cardstock. The patterned paper completely covers the front of the card. I also used cream cardstock for the top layer and the wings. Makes it a bit softer than bright white cardstock, and I wanted this card to have a vintage feel to it. This bee stamp is GORGEOUS!!!! (Supplies listed at the bottom of my post)

Here's a close up of the wings… This was the new technique I tried! Wings! I am usually 'afraid' to blend all these different colors together…but I did it! Yay. And I got the result I wanted – the look of translucence and shimmer!! I blended blues, purples and even green onto the wings. Then I coated them with Glimmer Gel. OOH LA LA.

The bee was stamped onto a cream cardstock square. I used my MISTI for a crisp impression since this is a big mama stamp. I used the accompanying stamps to stamp some honeycombs in pretty yellow ink around the bee. The wings are separate stamps. I stamped the wings onto cream cardstock and cut them out with small scissors.

I generously inked around the edges of the paper with distress inks and a big sponge dauber. I also splattered vintage photo distress ink onto the panel… I added clear yellow Nuvo drops to look like honey. Everything was colored with my favorite Polychromos Pencils.The sentiment is a word sticker from the Tim Holtz Collections.

Here are the wings on my work desk….

And here is the bee = before any inking and distressing. I looooooove how the contrast emerges once you start inking around the edges.

Getting closer….

AHHHHH. That's the buzz!!! I added yellow Stickles to the bee body, and also some white highlights.

To put the wings on the card, I used a small knife to cut slits in the paper. Then I put the wings into the slits, and attached them with foam circles to pop up off the paper. I added a small black layer of cardstock around that top layer to make it stand out from the background paper.

Here's a top down view….Love those Nuvo drops! SO yummy.

While I was taking pictures…I decided to go out in the front yard and get some camellias off our tree! They are in full bloom right now! I set up a little vignette to stage the flowers…and had fun taking pictures. Doing my photography a little different is another way I challenge myself during the coloring challenge. Try to step up my game instead of doing the same thing each time. My friend who owns an antique store gave me these old books on Valentine's Day and I am going to love taking pictures with them!! They're the perfect small size.

That's it for today! Thanks for buzzing by my hive today! Hope you have a great week, everyone. See you soon! XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies I used for today's card. (Affiliate Links Used). CLICK HERE to see more stamps from Pink Ink Designs – they are SO cool. I need more! (I really want the Old Salt one next!)

March 9, 2020