New Release Blog Hop!!!

Hello and welcome to The Craft's Meow's mid-month release!!! Today Little Frieda at the Seashore and Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl can come to live and play with YOU!!! We also have three brand new card kits available, so let's get the party started!!!

First up, the winners of Little Frieda at the Seashore randomly drawn from all comments left on three of our designer's blogs when she was showcased on Friday, May 13th:

Deborah Nolan (Julia's Blog)

Crystal Irwin (Grace's Blog)

Anita Rex (Lynn's Blog)

And the winners of Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl randomly drawn from all comments left on three of our designer's blogs when they were showcased yesterday (Saturday, May 14th):

Lisa T (Nina's Blog)

Helen L (Michelle's Blog)

inBar (Linda's Blog)

Congratulations ladies!!! Please email me at thecraftsmeow@gmail.com with your address and I'll get your stamp set right out to you!!!

Next up, a look at the full release!

Little Frieda at the Seashore

$9

Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl

$9

Happiness is... Card Kit by

Jessica Fick
featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Portrait Collection by Crate Paper
stamp set sold separately
$25

Simply Delightful Card Kit by

Jessica Fick
featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Stella & Rose Gertie collection by
My Mind's Eye
stamp set sold separately
$30

Soiree Card Kit by

Alice Wertz
$15
 featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Soiree collection by Pink Paislee
no stamping required!

Pretty cool, huh? Yep, I knew you'd love them! You will have leftovers to make additional cards projects, too! But you'd better hurry and get yours while the gettin's good... there is very limited stock on hand and I can't promise I'll be able to re-stock sold-out kits!


Now, how would you like to win some prizes? All you have to do is visit the all the blogs on the hop, leave comments along the way, and you'll be entered to win one of four fabulous prizes:

1. Little Frieda at the Seashore and Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief
2. Happiness is... Card Kit
3. Simply Delightful Card Kit
4. Soiree Card Kit

You have until 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 17th to enter!!! If you happen to win a prize that you've already purchased, I will refund your money or you can also keep the prize and have two... perhaps one to share with a friend! I will announce the winners here on the blog on Wednesday May 18th. Good luck!

Now off you go to hop and shop! All the links are here in case there's a break along the way.

Grace Nywening

Nina Brackett

Alice Wertz

Julia Aston

Michelle Bertuzzi

Kim Yu

Linda Lucas

Jessica Fick

Debbie Pamment

Sue Kment

Lynn Miller

Heather Jensen

Enjoy! And thank you so much for your good wishes and patronage. I appreciate it more than you know!

Hugs,

Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl

So, what did you think of Little Frieda by the Seashore? I don't know about you, but I'm going to find a straw hat and walk on the shore lots this summer. Come join me!


Today we are showcasing Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl. I can't resist this image. Lulu is looking on as Little Frieda finishes dressing for a party. (*giggle*) Mirror Mirror on the wall, YOU Little Frieda are the fairest one of all!

Please visit my designers' blogs to see the full cards and My Girl in all her glory!

Debbie Pamment

Jessica Fick

Kim Yu

Lynn Miller

Nina Brackett

Michelle Bertuzzi

And Friends of the Craft's Meow:

Julia Aston

Linda Lucas

Sue Kment

And my card:

Be sure to leave a comment on all of the designers' blogs so that you'll have more chances of winning Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl for yourself! Three of you will be selected randomly from three of the design team blogs to win this stamp set! You have until tonight at 10:00 pm Pacific to make the rounds for this and yesterday's candy opportunity (please scroll down). The winners will be announced in tomorrow's blog hop post.

You might also want to pop over to Ivana's blog ... she's also got a bit of blog candy going that you just might be interested in (*wink*).

Please be sure to join us tomorrow for the new release blog hop! We will also be releasing not one, not two, but three new card kits! Two by the fabulous Jessica Fick and one by the fabulous Alice Wertz. Yesterday I showed sneak peeks of Jessica's two kits. Today I'm showing you a peek of Alice's kit.You will love this one, too!!!

And that's not all! We are proudly sponsoring Card Patterns Sketch Challenge this week!!! Be sure to play for yet another chance to win a fabulous prize of both new Little Frieda stamps!!!

Enjoy!

Little Frieda at the Seashore

Hooray! It's time to introduce you to one of the two Little Frieda stamp sets that will be released on Sunday, May 15th... Little Frieda at the Seashore. Little Frieda is walking barefoot in the sand, and comes with a wee birdie and three greetings. Have a look at what some of my design team (and Friends of TCM) have created with this new stamp set! Just click the links to see the entire cards...I think you will LOVE them!

Debbie Pamment

Jessica Fick

Lynn Miller

Michelle Bertuzzi

Nina Brackett

And Friends of the Craft's Meow:

Grace Nywening

Julia Aston

Linda Lucas

Sue Kment

And my card:

I've paired Little Frieda at the Seashore with patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Turquoise Lush collection. I LOVE this color. It shouts "summer" to me. I embossed a piece of kraft cardstock with my Tim Holtz Texture Fades Rays embossing folder and added a Melody Ross button to emulate the sun.

The Craft's Meow is PROUD to sponsor the Lily Pad Cards challenge this week, which is to use embossing (wet and/or dry) on your card/project. Be sure to come join us... just CLICK HERE to visit the Lily Pad Card blog to see all the amazing cards created by the design team AND check out the prize up for grabs. I hope you likey. (*smile*) I think you will!

We are also releasing on Sunday, not one but TWO fabulous kits designed by the one and only Jessica Fick! Oh yes, my friends, Jess has pulled out all the stops on these kits, one of which features the recently released Happiness is... stamp set by Nina B Designs for The Craft's Meow and another which features the also recently released Simply Delightful stamp set by Nina B Designs for The Craft's Meow. You will LOVE these kits... but hurry... they are limited edition and will no doubt go quickly!

Be sure to leave a comment on all of the design team blogs so that you'll have more chances of winning Little Frieda at the Seashore for yourself! Three of you will be selected randomly from three of the design team blogs to win! You have until tonight at 10:00 pm Pacific tomorrow night to make the rounds. The winner will be announced in the new release blog hop post on Sunday.

You might also want to pop over to Ivana's blog ... she's also got a bit of blog candy going that you just might be interested in (*wink*). 

Enjoy!

P.S. Due to the extended Blogger outage, some of the design team posts may not yet be live. Please check back later. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

How About Another a Little Peek...

... of a new Little Frieda coming soon to The Craft's Meow? I wonder what she's doing? Can you guess?

How About a Little Peek...

... of Little Frieda, doing something I love to do. How about you? What could it be?

Let's Play!

Hi All! Happy Saturday! I'm popping in to let you all know that The Craft's Meow is sponsoring this week's sketch challenge at Card Patterns! The prize up for grabs is a set of all three of the current Little Frieda stamps!!! I hope you'll play along!

Here's the sketch created by our very own Nina Brackett!

Check out this gorgeous card Nina created featuring Little Frieda's Daisy!

And here's a quick one I colored up featuring Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief. I used colors similar to the ones Veronica used to color the TCM blog and store banners. :)

Be sure to stop by the Card Patterns blog to see all the wonderful cards created by their fabulous Design Team!

Oh, and don't forget... for every 100 Fans on our Facebook Page by April 30th, I'll be giving away a set of the FOUR stamp sets designed by Nina that are being released on May 1st! Just click on the Facebook Badge to the right or HERE to get to our Facebook page!

Thanks so much! Have a great day!!!!

More Little Frieda Sweetness

I just had to share with you a couple more Little Frieda cards created by very special Friends of The Craft's Meow...Cindy Haffner and Danni Bindel!

from Danni featuring

Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief

from Cindy featuring

Little Frieda's Daisy

Aren't they wonderful! I just love seeing Little Frieda come to life with each person's own very special touch. It makes me happy happy happy! Thanks Danni and Cindy!

Have you grabbed your Little Frieda stamps yet? No? Then what are you waiting for? Everything in the store is on sale through Tuesday for 20% off!!! Just enter the code AprilShowers at checkout. Enjoy!!!

I'm off to see the Wizard...

Hello everyone! Happy Saturday!!! I'm excited because I'm off to see the Wizard today. Actually, I'm off to see the stage play Wicked for the second time. I LOVE this play!!! Best of all, I'm taking my youngest boy Avery and this will be his very first live theater experience. I remember my Aunt Patty taking me to see live theater when I was about age 11... I wore a red dress and a faux leopard coat. Boy did I ever think I looked chic and stylish, especially in that coat!  LOL!!! Good memories.

Speaking of Aunt Patty, who is the beloved sister of my mom Frieda, I'm in such a good mood that I've got a very special offer for you. From now through Tuesday, March 29th, if you purchase all three Little Friedas (Little Frieda's Daisy, Little Frieda's Flowers and Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief) you can take 20% off your purchase of those three stamps! Just enter the code 3LittleFriedas at checkout.

To inspire you, take a look at these two lovelies created by my dear friends Kris Breach and Nina Brackett:

Kris

Nina

Now off I go to get ready for the theater! Before I go, though, I'm going to tantalize you with a little teaser. Something exciting this way comes! And there's a hint in this post. Bwaaahaaahaaaa!!!

Have a wonderful day my friends!

Let's have a look at Little Frieda again, shall we?

Whew! What an exciting week I've had! I'm especially excited because the shipping thing... although still not perfected (every company I've talked to claims it's the other's issue...ha!), I'm thrilled to say that the postage is coming out just fine! I've been a few cents short in a couple of cases, and refunded a couple for overpayment when I was able to condense into less expensive packaging, but so far so good! It's just a matter of making sure you use the scroll bar during check-out to choose the most realistic postage for what you're purchasing.

FYI, the average shipping within the US is running around $2 to $3, and International for less than $10. That isn't too bad, is it?

Since I have a chance to draw breath and think today (lol), I thought I'd share with you a few of the cards made by some of my Friends of The Craft's Meow. These were featured on their individual blogs on Monday (you can find the links HERE), but just in case you missed them...

Here are just a few featuring Little Frieda's Daisy

And here are a couple featuring Little Frieda's Flowers

And we can't forget Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief

I've saved a few for later. (*wink*)

Thanks so much for sticking with me, folks! I thought after announcing the prize, I might see a huge exodus from my mailing list and followers, but the numbers keep growing! I have some exciting news to share with you soon... along with more kits and stamps... so please stay tuned! One thing I can tell you is that some very exciting designers are going to be making... ta da...card kits for you so that you can be them for a day! LOL Personally, I can't wait because I LOVE these ladies' artistic flair and I personally want to be them!

Have a wonderful day!