Catherine Pooler Designs / Retro Winter

Welcome to winter!  I have a few more cards to share using the newest collection from Catherine Pooler Designs--Retro Winter!

Shop the new Catherine Pooler Designs Retro Winter HERE! 

The release brought us even more fabulous COLOR from the Catherine Pooler ink collection--Sangria, Pink Champagne, Orange Peel, and Hot Tub.  Pair these new ink colors with the pattern papers.....match made in heaven!  Love the color palette!

Catherine Pooler Designs / Retro Winter Release

A warm welcome to the Retro Winter release from Catherine Pooler Designs!  There are so many new products and the new COLORS of ink!

You can shop for Retro Winter HERE!

I had so much fun with the new colors and totally went wild with stamping and die cutting all the pieces to dress up my snowmen using the new inks......Orange Peel, Pink Champagne, Hot Tub, and Sangria!  

Today's card is CAS and perfect for a winter anniversary or wedding!  

 

My background was created by masking off a circle panel and ink blending the new Hot Tub ink.  Once done, the GeoTrio Stencil was used to make the "snow" in the background using the same Hot Tub ink!  I pieced together my snowman and snowwoman with the accessories.  I added them with foam adhesive along with a heart stamped with Rockin' Red ink.

Remember!  

You can shop for Retro Winter HERE!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello and Welcome!  I am excited to get things started off with the first day of the Advent Calendar Extravaganza!  This is such a fun online event each year hosted by my friend Taheerah and this year is better than ever!  Make sure to visit Taheerah's blog (linked below) for all the event details and for additional links!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

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Today's Advent sponsor is Catherine Pooler Designs.  
I have been lucky to help Catherine with several of her last releases including her ink lines.  IF YOU HAVEN'T checked out her ink yet, YOU MUST!  It's phenomenal!  Click HERE to visit the inks.

I've used the 'Tis the Season stamp set, which will be released soon as it was part of the holiday Stamp of Approval box.  I stamped the poinsettia in Rockin' Red ink and the leaves in Eucalyptus (brand new color!).  The centers and leaves with berries were gold heat embossed.  These were all die cut with the matching dies.  To create my background, I used the tiny snow stamp and larger berry stamp to white heat emboss a white panel.  After embossing, It's a Boy ink from Catherine Pooler was blended over the panel using the emboss resist technique.  To finish, I layered my poinsettias across my panel and added a white heat embossed sentiment on black cardstock with foam adhesive.  

***PRIZES***

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Catherine Pooler Designs so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.

Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

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Because I love Catherine's ink SO much, I thought I'd share the whole color chart that is available!  The colors are so vibrant and stamp beautiful!  Let me say this......I didn't think I needed another ink in my collection until I used these!  

Click HERE to visit the inks.  Trust me you will want them all!  ☺

Catherine Pooler Designs / Paradise Found Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Paradise Found Release Blog Hop for Catherine Pooler Designs!  

This release we are featuring 8 NEW INKS, 3 new stamp sets, 3 new die sets, and the whole Stamp Of Approval collection:  Naturally Inspired!   

Here are the new ink colors:

Peppermint Scrub

Mandarin Spice

Sauna

Green Tea

Eucalyptus

Daydream

Juniper Mist

Royal Treatment

Aren't these names awesome? This is the perfect, rich, sophisticated color collection! They fill so many color holes and they stamp absolutely perfect!  If you have been following Catherine the past week, she has been revealing all the new SPA Collection colors and they are DIVINE! 

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My first card uses one of the new stamp sets and 3 of the new inks. The new Winter Woodland set has several silhouette animals and trees. There are even matching Winter Woodland Dies (but didn't arrive in time for designing)!




I started my card with a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and ink blended Sauna, Royal Treatment, and Juniper Mist for a sunset sky (find all the inks HERE). They blended beautifully!! I added splatters of Heidi Swapp White Color Shine and then stamped my trees to the right in Midnight Ink. I hand trimmed some snowy hills and added Prisma Glitter to the edges. I stamped and hand trimmed the deer and bunny images. Then I arranged them where I wanted them and stamped the antlers in Midnight Ink as well. After all elements were adhered, I stamped the sentiment onto a white banner and added it with foam adhesive.

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My second card uses the new Plaid Background Stamp and the new ink, Peppermint Scrub. To stamp the plaid, I barely tapped my ink pad to the stamp to cover the surface and then laid my piece of white cardstock over and rubbed. Beautiful plaid!!! I created my sentiment using the Simply the Best stamp set and Best Die. I can't wait to create more plaids in other colors!!

Here's the fabulous line-up for today's blog hop filled with even more inspiration!

Catherine Pooler

Melissa Miller

Jennifer Carter

Justine Hovey

Amy Kolling ♥♥

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Ingrid Blackburn

Catherine Pooler / Stamp of Approval Box Release

I am so excited to let you know that the Stamp of Approval Box: Winterhaven is now available for purchase from Catherine Pooler.  Remember to grab those add-on products to round out the collection!

I've used Here We Come A-Caroling along with the add-on dies for this set.  I stamped the star cluster with Versamark and white heat embossed.  I added a few white dots heat embossed as well.  I added the Santa and reindeer image onto a white die cut circle that has the Winterhaven house/tree dies added in black silhouettes.  My sentiment was stamped with Versamark and white heat embossed over the music score stamp.

Thanks for spending a part of your day with me!

Catherine Pooler Designs / Winterhaven Stamp of Approval Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 2 of the Winterhaven Stamp of Approval Blog Hop!  I'm excited to share some projects today featuring this fabulous collection.

The Winterhaven SOA Collection from Catherine Pooler has you covered from Christmas cards to hostess gifts, handmade goodies, treat bags, ornaments, gift tags, thank you notes after the gift giving, New Year’s Eve and even a couple elements that will work for Valentine’s Day!  All this in ONE BOX!

If you are new to the Stamp of Approval Collection, Click here to learn more about them but here's a little about them:

How does ordering work?

Our Stamp of Approval Collections are while supplies last and when they are sold out, they are sold out.  (You will be able to purchase the items individually later in our shop.)

Monday, October 9 at 9 pm eastern:  PJ Party Release for StampNation Members. We’ll share some fun and open ordering early for you guys.  Members click here for the registration link!

Tuesday, October 10 at 9 am eastern:  WAIT LIST members will receive their link to purchase the collection.  Our last two collections sold out just to the wait list, so make sure your name is on it so you don’t miss out!

Tuesday, October 10 at 6 pm eastern: if the collection isn’t sold out yet, general ordering will open.

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My first card uses Tis the Season.  I stamped the poinsettias in Rockin Red and Icing on the Cake using the rock 'n roll technique.  The leaves were all embossed with Princess Gold embossing powder.  My sentiment was stamped onto a strip of white cardstock and layered with vellum and added to my panel with foam ahesive.  For some bling, I added some gold sequins in various sizes.

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My second card uses the Wreath of Joy die set.  I die cut the wreath and "dipped" it in watered down Lime Rickey and Grass Skirt Catherine Pooler inks.  I love love this look!

The Joy word die was die cut with red cardstock and along with the background, was spritzed with Gold Color Shine by Heidi Swapp.  My wreath was layered onto tri-level square panels.  This leaves the card fairly flat for mailing!

WIN the Stamp of Approval Counting Blessings Collection

THREE commenters will be chosen at random from all the comments on all the blogs (one each day). The more blogs you comment on, the better your chance in winning!

Entries close on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11th at 9AM EST and will be announced on the Catherine Pooler blog later that day.

If you have already purchased a box, you will receive a $100 gift certificate towards your next purchase.

Catherine Pooler blog

Jen

Amy---me!

llina

Lisa

Ingrid

Chrissie

Kimberly

Catherine Pooler Designs / CAS(E) this Sketch!

Hello and Welcome!  I am sharing a card made with a brand new stamp set from Lydia Evans for Catherine Pooler Designs called Tilly's Garden.  

With this floral stamp set, I could literally create tons of different backgrounds using all the stamps from this set!  I've stamped all my blooms using Catherine Pooler Dye Inks in Tiara, Tiki Torch, Bellini (MY FAVORITE COLOR!), Orange Twist, Sweet Sixteen, Flirty Fuchsia, It's a Girl, Party Dress, Garden Party, Rockin' Red, and Midnight.  I added the new Hello Die done in black cardstock to the bottom edge of my floral panel.  Everything was adhered to a notecard that was stamped with the chevron border from Yay! Stripes.  

**There is a sneaky peek at one of the new blocks that will be available in the store too!

I also used the newest sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch! where I am this week's guest as a past winner!  Here's the sketch for this week!  Thanks Chrissy for having me back!

Lil' Inker Designs / September Release Day 1

 

BOO!  We are starting off Day 1 of the Lil' Inker Designs September Release!  This release is FULL of amazing dies and stamps for Halloween and Fall.......are you ready?  Guess what??  The whole new release is now available and can be found HERE!!!  

I am starting the release off with a few cards using some of the new Halloween goodies! 

 The first set called You've Been Booed is a 4x4 stamp set (with dies) with bold solid letters and fun sentiments.  I've used all Catherine Pooler Inks as they are just AMAZING for coverage.  (If you want to purchase Catherine Pooler Inks, use the link on my sidebar!)  

I started with a black panel to which I die cut the Ghost Shaker Die into and added white ghosts with foam adhesive.  I love that the Ghost Shaker Die does the dual stitching!  A small supporting sentiment was white heat embossed at the bottom of my black trimmed panel.  I stamped and die cut my 'BOO' letters and added them with foam adhesive.  My black panel was added to a top folding notecard along with a strip of black white pattern paper.

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My next card uses the FaBOOlous stamp set to make my Ghost Shaker Die "girly" by adding those fabulous eyelashes!  And that sentiment?  Love!  I layered 2 ghosts, added them to a purple cardstock panel, and stamped the tiny stars in black. 

 I then added my ghost panel to a piece of pattern paper from the Ombre Chevron Paper Pad from Lil' Inker Designs that was die cut with the Stitched Mats: Rectangles.

Now for the fun part!  There is a HUGE giveaway for one lucky commenter......the ENTIRE release!!!

LID Blog

Amy Kolling

Chrissy Larson

Heather Hoffman

Jennifer Carter

Jessica Frost Ballas

Karen Baker

Lisa Henke

Sarah Jay

Lil' Inker Designs Store-----go SHOP!

Catherine Pooler Designs / Counting Blessings Stamp of Approval Hop

Welcome to Day 1 of the Stamp of Approval Counting Blessings Blog Hop!  I am thrilled to get to create with one of Catherine's boxes again.  This collection is just fabulous and perfect for the fall!

If this is your first time hearing about Stamp of Approval, this is an exclusive collection designed especially for this particular box. The stamps and dies in the Stamp of Approval Collections are brand new on the market and won’t be released for individual sale for several months. Want a chance to win one of these boxes?  Be sure to comment on every participating post on all three days of the blog hop!

For my first card, I used some of the gorgeous inks from Catherine Pooler.  These inks are the bomb.......They are a premium dye ink with loads of color and perfect coverage with the first stamp!

I started my card by stamping a panel of white cardstock with the large oak leaf from Leaf Motifs in Rockin' Red, Tutti Fruiti, Tiki Torch, Something Borrowed, and Icing on the Cake.  This panel was trimmed and matted with a dark brown cardstock.  My sentiment uses the Thankful Word Die and small words from Autumn Blessings layered over a wide strip of vellum.

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My second card uses the new Bloomin' Bouquet that's in the new SOA Counting Blessings.  Such a gorgeous floral set!  

I've stamped my blooms in fallish colors using Pixie Dust, Flirty Fuchsia, Orange Twist, Tutti Fruitti, and Tiki Torch for all the blooms.  For the leaves, I used both Grass Skirt and Lime Rickey inks all from Catherine Pooler.  

My florals were layered onto a tag from a new die set in the SOA collection.  The tag was sponged with Tiki Torch ink using the new GeoTrio Stencil.  My tag was layered using foam adhesive onto a white notecard that was scored vertical every 1/4".  To finish, several sparkling clear confetti were added!

Prizes:

One winner will be chosen at random from each day's comments and announced on AUGUST 17th on Catherine’s blog. The winners will win their box and if they already bought it, they will be issued a Gift Certificate worth $100 towards a future purchase.

Catherine Pooler

Jennifer Carter

Melissa Miller

 Heather North

Maureen Merritt

Amy Kolling--->me!

Be sure to get on the Wait List for a first chance to purchase this amazing collection as these collections sell out quickly!  Not only do you get a box FULL of amazing stamps and dies, but you’ll get a downloadable PDF Project Guide with tons of projects and tutorials!  Don't forget release day is August 16, 6pm EST!!