You never get a second chance to make a good first impression...

... or do you?

I hope that old adage isn't true because I'm counting on just the opposite!

Today is a big day for The Craft's Meow!

I've been hinting around that I'd soon be making a BIG announcement, and that day is finally here! I am thrilled, delighted, over the moon, unbelievably excited and blessed beyond words to introduce you to three ladies who are joining my team!

First, beginning May 1st, The Craft's Meow will be offering stamp sets designed by the one and only Nina Brackett!!! Oh yes, you heard that right!!!

I know many of you are already familiar with Nina's beautiful art. She has worked as stamp illustrator/product designer for Layers of Color Art Stamps, Gina K Designs, There She Goes Stamps and Spellbinders, and now she's designing stamps for The Craft's Meow!!!

But wait, that's not all! Also joining The Craft's Meow as paper crafting kit designers (cards, scrapbook page layouts, mini scrapbooks and other delights) are the fabulous Alice Wertz and Sarah Martina Parker!!! Can you believe it? How did I get this lucky? If you're like me, you've pressed your nose to the screen many times admiring these ladies' style and the luscious things they create with paper. Now you (and I) can be like Alice and Sarah! lol

Look for not one but two card kits by Sarah to debut May 1st, and a card kit by Alice to debut on May 15th!!! And for you Little Frieda fans, there will be more of her to love on May 15th as well!!!

You can learn more about these lovely ladies by clicking HERE or on the "stamp & kit designers" tab above! 

Big news like this deserves a big splash, so today also marks the unveiling of a brand new look for The Craft's Meow, courtesy of the incredibly talented Veronica McCollum of VK Design Company!  So if you're reading this through Google Reader or similar, or through email updates, please click into the actual blog and take a look. I think you'll likey very much!

Oh, and while you're here, why not grab our store badge for your blog? You never know when I might be blog surfing and come across my store badge on your blog and award a prize. (*wink*)

You can do this one of two ways... either grab the HTML in the box (be sure you get the entire script... it scrolls down) and paste it into an HTML Gadget in Blogger (or similar for Typad or Wordpress)...or you can right click and save the image and then upload it as a Picture Gadget, linking it to the store (www.thecraftsmeow.com). If the HTML version is a bit too large in your sidebar you can fix that by opening that Gadget box, clicking on Rich Text, and then clicking on the picture. The bounding box will show up so that you can click on the corner and drag in (or out) to re-size the picture.

I'll be back soon with more news, so please stay tuned!!! Thanks for stopping by!