Playing with The Greetery's Calico Collection

 

Well hi, crafty friends. Did you get any of the Greetery's latest release?

I had to play with some of my order immediately, and chose The Stencil Shapes

Autumn to play with first.

For this card, I followed Lori's tutorial on You Tube, and didn't stray far from her 

brilliant and careful instruction. I liked this, but wanted to do more. 

So I did.

I went bolder with my colors, and cut the panel with the Patchwork die. Love all the 

stencils, and the result is a gorgeous design with a panel for my sentiment.

Honestly, Betsy's brilliant!

Lastly is the Botanicuts Apple dies, with the Bushel Basket. Once again, followed 

the great instructions from Lori, and added a stenciled panel from Printshop Calico

stamp and stencils, cut with Cozy Cup Coaster die. 

The EF is an oldie from Cuttlebug. 

I left this card without a sentiment, so I could use it later. 

Hope to do more soon. Love this release!

Card Set for Alisa

 

Hi there! 

Do you have your own fan club? Have to say, (totally puffed up), I do.

My family thinks I'm so talented. Not even going to tell them it's the 

stamp companies, and all you brilliant inspirers that should get credit.

My daughter asked for some general cards, (she apparently ran out of the 32,000 I've

already given her!), and I was thrilled to have an excuse to play with my Greetery's 

new Wild Elegance. 

Now here comes the warning: this is a long post. Feel free to scroll quickly. Or, if 

you like details, take your time, look around, and please comment. Oh, I love those

comments!

Alisa is a worship pastor at her husband's church, and the women's pastor as well.

She keeps in touch with the flock with calls, cards and plans all their retreats.

(Did I mention cards?) I LOVE that my cards go to women who love God. 

The 4 cards I did for her are from the Greetery's newest release, Wild Elegance. 

If you pushed that button for the full release, you received stamps, stencils, dies, 

and a whole lot of inspiration from the Greetery's Look Book.

This bouquet, for instance comes with an outline stamp and stencils for coloring. 

One card uses the stencils, the other copics and pencils.

I paired Lovely Silhouettes with the rubber stamp Elegant Arches for these cards.

I did some fun stenciled envelopes for the cards as well. (Thanks Kelly Lunceford

for the reminder).

Hope you weren't too bored, and maybe got some ideas to do a card set of your own.

And I'll bet you've also got your own fan club... we all deserve it!

Have a great weekend. 

Birthday Bottles

Hi there, and Happy September! 

I'm playing with the Greetery's newest, Bottled Up, Cotton Comfort and

Halfsies dies.

The 3 step bottle stamps look amazingly real when completed.

Cotton comfort is actually 5 steps with the cotton balls.

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is from Lemon Blossom.

When it came to step 4's stamping of the cotton balls, I sponge inked with 

Altenew's Iceburg.

It's been a busy summer, with family and some travel. Very nice to stay home

(nice and quiet now) and craft with a large pile of yet to be inked stamps!

Hope you're days are a bit cooler. I've already seen pumpkins in the market!

Happy crafting!

Brown Paper Packages

Make It Monday this week, features Lexi Daly, 

showing us how to use our stamps to create wrapping paper.

Lexi's video is full of pointers, such as lining stamps up, and 

she provides 3 templates on her blog. (Thank you, Lexi!)

Our house goes natural vintage at Christmas time.

All red and green, lots of things I collected when my nest was full.

5 children became 10, as they all married, 

and along with them, we are now blessed with 11 grandchildren, 

ages 2 to 22.

5 girls and 6 boys, (the 2 littlest with me the last 4 days!)

Christmas is always at our home, as it is centrally located between

the homes of the family. It's the happiest, busiest, wildest time of the year!

Besides Christmas we celebrate the birthdays of 3 family members!

Finally found time to play along with Lexi.

Nichole's blog is full of wonderful inspiration by all of you!

Here's how I created my papers:

Main stamps are from Two Feet Deep.

I had to look up Heather's card for reference, as I've never worn 

snowshoes! I used 2 of Lexi's templates for my papers.

I added a snowflake strip with a snowflake from Snowflake Medley.

Word paper also from Two Feet Deep.

Tag is doubled, Tag Sale #4, with 'To & From': Pom Pom Pals.

Hope you get a chance to play along, 

I love seeing what all my blogging friends create!

Make It Monday #266: That's a Wrap