new stamps!

Today is our winter stamp release! We are releasing some stamps I've been wanting to see for quite some time. We have two new Valentine's Day sets....I love Valentine's Day stuff. Meridith designed a stamp set called Vintage Valentine that has a cupid with wings and some really cool nostalgic images. I like to make cards in the shabby-chic look and this stamp set is perfect for that. Here's a card I made with Vintage Valentine...



Just look at all those layers and corrugated cardstock and buttons and twine and distress ink. Love it.

We have another Valentine's Day set we're releasing today called A Little Love. I designed A Little Love for the little people in our lives...they are the perfect images to use for kids Valentine's. I know my son is really sensitive to what his Valentine's SAY...he is giving them to his schoolmates so he doesn't want them to be too mushy. The sentiments in this set coordinate with the images and they are "punny" and not too squishy. Perfect for kids. Here are two cards I made with the princess and the spaceship...




When my daughter saw the princess Valentine she said "Ooooooooooh, Princess!" So I guess it gets the toddler seal-of-approval. :)




For the spaceship Valentine, I made the sentiment into a flag or a sign that is on a planet. (The planet image was from our Out of This World stamp set.) I used a wooden dowel for the stick on the sign but I think a toothpick would work great too. Both of these cards use the "A Little Love" digital paper pack we are releasing today too. This set is one of our new Sixlets stamp sets...a new product!

I can't even tell you how excited I am about the In the Kitchen stamp set we are releasing. I've been wanting kitchen stamps for a long time...and I've had a lot of people tell me we should make a kitchen stamp set. I can't wait to use the Mix Master image...you know how you can buy the Mix Master in so many different colors? I am going to do an all-pink card with a pink Mix Master for my mother-in-laws birthday, she'll love it. I'll post that later. :) The card below features the toaster and the smilie-faced toast. I love the sentiment that goes with it...it's perfect for a Hello card.




Make sure to go over to our website and see all the new stamps! You can see them all here >> NEW RELEASE.


The rest of January is going to be crazy. Meridith and I are exhibiting in the CHA Craft SuperShow at the end of the month and our booth is going to be twice as big as any booth we've ever had...PLUS we are going to have a make-and-take table there with six different projects. AND we are doing the Splitcoaststampers booth make-and-take too! So we are BUSY. I'm not sure when I'm going to have time to post again...it may be after the show! We will take lots of photos of course. If you are in the Anaheim, CA area, make sure to come to the show on January 22 and 23rd...we'd love to meet you in person! That is what makes these shows so much fun...we LOVE meeting our customers and all the happy stampers and crafters out there. We look forward to it every year. Hope to see some of you in Anaheim!