October 2015 Release | Premiere of In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals + Let it Snow + Mini Scenery: Madison + Our Town + In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways + Take a Bow Cutaways + Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings + Scenery: The Peppermint Zone Creative Screenings

To enter our October 2015 Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win In Bloom: Anna's Flora + In Bloom: Elsa's Flora + In Bloom: Renee's Leaves + In a Word Cutaways CLICK HERE 

To enter to win Comfort + Joy  + Mini Scenery: Multigrain+ Cover Model: The Leaf Effect Cutaways+ True Multifaceted Star Cutaways + Scenery: Into the Woods Creative Screenings + Scenery: Multifaceted Creative Screenings + Scenery: The Leaf Effect Creative Screenings  CLICK HERE 

To enter to win In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals + Let it Snow + Mini Scenery: Madison + Our Town + In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways + Take a Bow Cutaways + Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings + Scenery: The Peppermint Zone Creative Screenings...continue reading!

To enter to win Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs + Mini Scenery: Do You See What I See? + Merry & Bright with Evelin T Designs + Essentials: Noelle Cutaways + Scenery: Do You See What I See? Creative Screenings CLICK HERE (goes live at 7:00 a.m. CST on October 30, 2015)

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In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals is a lovely multi-step floral stamp set with a gorgeous graphic leafy wreath.  Not only is this great fun stamping for the holidays, but change up the colors for any occasion or season!

Let it Snow has a few sentiments and a sweet, whimsical snowy background that is perfect with Our Town a set to create sweet holiday scenes whether it be autumn, winter and even Valentine's Day.

Mini Scenery: Madison is an elegant graphic background to add a touch of class to your projects and we have Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings which is the same design blown up for stenciling!

In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways is a stand-alone die set based off the wreath and leaves found in Happy Christmas.  This set of cutaways is drop-dead gorgeous...seriously!

Take a Bow has three (3) different size and variations of bows.  Add them to In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways or any of your projects for instant panache.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

 

In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
4x6 stamp set
Retails for $15.00
Includes thirty-two (32) stamps

 

Let it Snow
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
3x4 stamp set
Retails for $8.00
Includes eight (8) stamps--four (4) sentiments + four (4) images

 

Mini Scenery: Madison
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
3x4 stamp set
Retails for $6.00
Includes one (1) stamp

 

Our Town
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
4x6 stamp set
Retails for $15.00
Includes thirty (30) stamps

 

In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
Wafer Thin Steel Dies
Retails for $28.00
Includes six (6) dies

 

Take a Bow Cutaways
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
Wafer Thin Steel Dies
Retails for $14.00
Includes six (6) dies

Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings 
Stencils
Available for purchase the evening of October 30, 2015
Retail for $4.99
One (1) 6x6 inch stencil

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Keren Baker (our October Leading Lady), and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with the products.

Not only do we have all this awesomeness, but we are gilding the lily by having Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker joining us today as a Special Guest Star!  Kathy is so warm, generous, genuine, sweet and shockingly talented.  We are so thrilled to have showcase her projects today!  Don't forget to play along with her 30 Day Color Challenge going on all this month with plenty of sensational inspiration and giveaways (there may be one from w&w --wink, wink)!

Make sure you visit Kathy's, Keren's and each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

Hello again!  It’s Day 3 and I think I’m still feeling the effects of the marvelous projects from all of our lovely ladies from yesterday’s post.  I’m also loving all of the rainbow projects - rainbow geese, leaf-words, trees and jingle bells.  Gotta love it!  

Today, I have two tags and two cards to share, so let's get started.

Tag 1 - Happy Holidays

For my first tag, I cut the new tag die from our newest Essentials: Noelle set.  It is round at the top and banner cut at the bottom.  Using the adorable flower builder set, In Bloom: Hollie’s Festive Florals,  I stamped the small poinsettia, leaf shapes, small flowers and “berries” to accent this tag in shades of green and crimson, and inked green around the edges of the tag too.  I am loving all of the sentiments from Evelin, and this Happy Holidays sentiment is from Merry & Bright with Evelin T Designs.  Topped with a bow, this tag is ready to add to any gift.

Tag 2 - Joy

For my second tag, I chose this cute tag from Essentials: Audrey Cutaways, and found that the scallops from the new Mini Scenery: Madison stamp matched up very nicely and made a fun background.  I stamped it in silver, and then added some wink of stella between the double lines.  It is subtle, but looks great in real life.  Stamping and embossing Joy in red (also from Merry & Bright with Evelin T Designs) was a simple and elegant choice to complete this tag.  

Card 1 - Merry Wreath

This card just kept evolving.  It started as a sketch, and after some input from Walter and Davis, it went from red accents to gold and green.  The background panel was created from the Mini Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings using Studio Calico Mr Huey’s sprays in Opaque White and Shine.  The wreath layers from bottom to top are: solid wreath cut from vellum with green copic marker colored on back, detail wreath cut from white cardstock inked in gold pigment and then embossed gold (looks so awesome on that cut out ), and one more detail wreath cut in white.  These are layered together with the pattern slightly offset, glued with Glossy Accents, and then the leaves are gently lifted for dimension.  

I decided to try a bow from the Take A Bow Cutaways cut from vellum, and I think I really like it. Something different, right?  I cut one of the tails in half so I could have them hang below the bow, rather than lay flat behind.  The In A Word: Merry Cutaway sentiment was the perfect way to finish this off - cut from green glitter tape on white cardstock.  Me -> Happy Place!

Card 2 - O Holy Night

I am pretty excited about this card because I tried a few things that were out of my comfort zone.  I used the Our Town Digital Files to create the snow slope foreground.  These files are free with purchase of the Our Town stamp set from October 30th - November 13th.  Using my die cutting software, I created a snow slope and placed the house and tree files overlapping the slope and merged the shapes together.  Once cut out, it provided the perfect layout for the card, and all I needed to do was stamp the house and trees.  Although it is very subtle, I used the KISS technique where I inked up the house in grey, and then pressed in on the Mini Scenery: Multigrain wood grain stamp to give the house some texture.  I really like how that turned out.  The trees also have a little hint of Wink of Stella so they can glisten under the night sky.

About this sky - I was super excited when I came up with this idea. I used distress inks to create the blue of the night sky, and then dried the ink very well with my heat tool.  Using some Platinum pigment ink, I sponged over the Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone Creative Screening to create the burst effect for the Christmas Star embossed in silver (also in the Our Town stamp set). This shade of ink was perfect to give a nice shimmer but still allow the blue to show through.  I could see using this same stencil to create a windy day and then add some snow.  The sentiment “O holy night” is from the Let It Snow set, also embossed in silver.  As an alternative, I almost stamped it “silent night” on the outside, and “holy night” on the inside.  

I love the concept of this card, but I’m just not that good at stamping on the pre-cut paper.  I don’t know if it is my glasses, or what, but I can’t get my images centered on the cut outs.  I think I just need to invest in a MISTI, right???  Hee Hee Hee  

Get ready - It’s time to check out our Special Guest Star, Kathy Racoosin, and Keren and our TALENTed ladies of w&w.

Special Guest Star, Kathy Racoosin

CLICK HERE to see more from Kathy.

October Leading Lady, Keren Baker

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Keren.

The Talent

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Gayatri.

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather P.

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Joni.  

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly.

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Vanessa.

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Lydia.

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals + Let it Snow + Mini Scenery: Madison + Our Town + In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways + Take a Bow Cutaways + Scenery: Madison Creative Screenings + Scenery: The Peppermint Zone Creative Screenings.of your own by 11:59 p.m. (central standard time) October 30, 2015.  One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our October 2015 Release will be announced by November 2, 2015.

To enter our October 2015 Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.