Welcome to the reveal of our new collection: Mothers Fathers and Florals!  More designers than ever joined forces to create the best product selection for you this season. One of highlights of this exciting release is the Morning Sun ink cube pack. The inks are hand selected with this season’s most beautiful and trendy colors. (Way to go Shari Carroll!)

Many of you have been asking for coordinating wafer thin dies to cut Nina-Marie Trapani’s popular Some Bunny Special Stamps and Kristina’s “wildly” adorable Wild Cuddly Critters Stamps. Don’t forget Laura Bassen’s Hope Blooms product line. Ask and you shall receive :)  The coordinating dies are now available!

I’m so proud of all of the girls who worked to make this release happen. Kristina Werner collaborated to design a beautiful envelope decorating stamp set called Sending Flowers.  Suzy Plantamura created the perfect assortment of Mothers and Flowers watercolor cards.

What do you think of the exclusive sequin assortments? We’re having a lot of fun customizing them for you!

The daughter of a designer created the So Deer stamps and I can’t even imagine how proud momma is- especially considering this is a Mother’s Day release!  How cool is that!?

We are even bringing back a fan favorite!  Best Mom Ever is the perfect floral stamp for your embossing techniques, layered inking, watercoloring and of course, these stamps are the perfect sentiments.  Rose anyone?

Be sure to check out the designs below, we definitely didn’t forget dad.

Thanks for joining us today in our celebration!  We tried to pull together the most perfect products with the most perfect designers just for you. Please share your thoughts below because YOU are what keeps us inspired to keep designing great products.  PLEASE COME BACK tomorrow for the most delightful blog hop that will inspire you to the MAX!

Have an awesome day!

Hello all! Kristina here. I’m back with another installment of Monthly Mail Art. :)

This time I decided to do a bit of stamping in a light ink (Antique Linen Distress Ink) and do some no-line watercoloring. Because I planned to watercolor, I used a 90 lb. watercolor paper for the envelope. I made the envelope using the We R Memory Keepers 1-2-3 Punch Board and then stamped images from the Some Bunny Special stamp set.

I watercolored the fun scene using Kuretake Zig Gansai Tambi watercolors. The address was written in a black brush script pen from Nuvo and a Pilot Envelope Addressing pen.

To protect the envelope, I buffed some Distress Micro Glaze over the envelope. This seals the painting and protects it from moisture.

I hope you love this month’s envelope! :)

NOTE: Recipients address used with permission. Thanks, Diana!

Supplies

As always, we’re offering a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp!  All YOU need to do is join in with the challenge!

Below are three projects created by the design team, that showcase this weeks theme! You can visit the challenge blog  to get all the details and see the amazing cards and projects that the design team has created this week. If you click on each designers name, you’ll be taken directly to their blog where you’ll get more details about their project! Be sure to give these talented ladies some comments!

Created by Amy Bethke, our Designer In The Spotlight

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Created by Cathie Cowles:

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Created by Lorraine Aquilina aka Lols:

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So now it’s YOUR turn to get out your crayons and inks, stamps and stencils, and join in! Although we do like to see all genres in this challenge we would like to encourage you to explore mixed media. It is a lot of fun and if you have never tried it maybe now is the time to give it a go! You would be surprised at how easy and how much fun it is!

Thanks for looking and for your lovely comments, we do appreciate them!