Inspired by Pinterest

Hi everyone!  Lin here today with a card I made inspired by something I saw on Pinterest.  Before I stamped and made cards, I was a quilter, and so when I saw this adorable tea towel at Nana Company, it brought back those memories.  The quilt pattern is called Grandmother's Flower Garden.

So I pulled out several TCM stamp sets and made this card today:

I used papers from Simple Stories Vintage Bliss, some dotty grosgrain ribbon, a flower button,  and these stamp sets:

Thanks Bee to Thee

Lark Additions

Hope Blooms

I hope I've inspired you to use bits and pieces of your TCM stamps to make your own designs.  Thanks for visiting!

Wishing You Happiness

Hello friends!  Lin here with a card for you today.  

I used the beautiful flower image from Beautiful Spring, stamped and masked it in the background using tattered rose distress ink.  I stamped it and some leaves again on a scrap of cardstock in black, watercolored them using tattered rose and shabby shutters and peeled paint distress inks, cut them out and popped them above my panel.  The sentiment is from the Lark Additions set.

Here's wishing you a great day!  Hope to see you back here tomorrow for a sweet card from Nina!

Wishing you Happiness

Good morning!

Jessica here, popping in to share a card with you today that uses the beautiful Happy as a Lark and Beautiful Hymns stamp sets from The Craft's Meow. I adore the woodgrain background and that leaf sprig from both of the sets and had so much fun playing with them from January's release.
  

I decided to make a love themed card to add to my 'wedding/anniversary' card collection using this lovely sentiment (love the font of the sentiments from these coordinating stamp sets!) from the free with $50 purchase, Lark Additions.  It seems like those are another card theme I need quite a bit too!

As you can see, I used a couple of my favorite twines on it too - Flax and Gold Shimmer... two great neutrals that I can't get enough of on my card projects lately!

Have a wonderful day that is filled with happiness for you and your loved ones!

Jessica

A Couple of Simple Cards

Good morning! Ivana here today with a couple of cards to share.  I usually don't do very many simple designs on my cards, but lately, I have been drawn to the clean look, so I have been trying  a little more to keep my cards as simple as possible, and I find stamping is just the trick for this. It adds a lot of interest, without adding too much bulk or too many fussy layers to the card. 

So, here are two of the most recent "simple" cards I've created with lovely TCM stamps!

I absolutely love colors inspired by Springtime, so I wanted to make a card that used all of these happy, cheery colors. 

I also wanted to make a little crafty invitation using the beautiful Crafty Shelf stamps. 

For the top of the card, I layered a felt scalloped heart, with a scalloped circle die & miniature die-cut heart. I added some punched paper leaves and liquid pearls to finish the embellishment.

I stamped three hearts using the Lark Additions stamp set, and stamped the sentiment using the Crafty Shelf set. 

Peeking just under the middle heart, is a doily border, and the soft yellow and pink papers finish off the base of the card. 

I stamped and cut out another wood-grain heart, and layered a pink heart on top to finish off the bottom of the card.

For this card, I decided to do a bit of stamping on the cardstock to dress it up, and then I added a couple of layers of patterned paper.

For the top of the card, I embellished a simple white heart border with some liquid pearls, and added a stamped and die-cut button. 

The center flower is a die-cut, which I inked, and then added a button & liquid pearls to. 

The borders and the sentiments are both from the Beautiful Hymns stamp set. 

I love how fun stamping can be and how it can dress up simple cards! 

Hope you'll give it a try!

Thanks for joining me today, 

*Ivana*

January New Release Blog Hop!!!

Hello, friends! We're so glad you're here to celebrate with us the release of FIVE new stamp sets at The Craft's Meow! We've been previewing them for you over the past four days, and now it's time to finally see them in their entirety. Behold!

Beautiful Hymns

by Nina B Designs

6 x 4

$15

Happy As A Lark

by Karen Baker

6 x 4

$15

Crafty Shelf

by Nina B Designs

4 x 4

$10

Lark Additions

by Karen Baker

4 x 4

Free Gift With $50 Purchase!!!

Many Thanks

by Kaitlyn Ord Long

6 x 4

$15

Last month's free gift with purchase, Stitched Sentiments Two, is now available for purchase!

For another peek at these stamp sets in action, we have a blog hop to inspire and delight you! For a chance to win all five new stamp sets, make the rounds on the hop and leave a comment on each blog. One lucky person will be drawn from all comments left on one of the blogs... which one is a secret...so the more blogs you comment on, the better your chances of winning! Don't worry, there's plenty of time to hop. The competition runs until 9:00 pm Pacific on Wednesday, January 23rd. We'll announce the winner here on the blog the next day. Good luck!

The winner of Many Thanks from all comments left on yesterday's post is...

Dorina D!!!

Congratulations, Dorina! Please email your mailing address to me at thecraftsmeow@gmail.com and I'll mail your prize right out to you!

Now for the hop! Each blog  will link to the next, but we've provided the complete link list in case there's a break along the way:

Gayatri Murali

Ivana Camdzic

Jean Martin

Jennifer Cuthbertson

Jennifer Ingle - Guest Designer

Jen del Muro

Jessica Fick

Julie Ranae Murray

Karen Baker

Lin Brandyberry

Lindsay Amrhein

Nina Brackett

Sharri Seffens

Veronica Zalis

When you're done hopping, we invite you to take a peek at the store. It's recently had a bit of a facelift and some improvements to functionality. Navigation should be easier. We hope you like it. :) 

Stay tuned for more exciting things coming up here at The Craft's Meow! Our second birthday is in March and we plan to celebrate in style!!!

Enjoy the hop!

Introducing Happy As a Lark and Lark Additions!

Hello, friends! Thanks for stopping by for Day 3 of our previews of the FIVE new stamp sets premiering on Monday, January 21st here at The Craft's Meow! You'll be so glad you did! Today we're showcasing the two newest stamp sets by Karen Baker, Happy as a Lark and Lark Additions! I absolutely adore the uniqueness of these two sets! That bark is killer! With the variety of sentiments, you're sure to have a card ready for just about any occasion.

Better yet... Lark Additions will be the free gift with any $50 purchase starting on Monday!!!

Take a look at the GORGEOUS cards created by our fabulous design team featuring these two sets...

Gayatri Murali

Ivana Camdzic

Jean Martin

Jennifer Cuthbertson

Jennifer Ingle - Guest Designer

Jessica Fick

Julie Ranae Murray

Karen Baker

Lin Brandyberry

Lindsay Amrhein

Nina Brackett

Sharri Seffens

Veronica Zalis

Did I mention these cards are gorgeous??? :)

We've got a set of Happy as a Lark and a set of Lark Additions for one lucky winner! All you have to do for a chance to win these two sets is leave a comment on this post by 9:00 pm Pacific tonight. We'll announce the winner in tomorrow's post. Good luck!  

The winner of Crafty Shelf from all comments left on yesterday's post is...

Lisa Petralla!!!

Congratulations, Lisa! Please email your address to me at thecraftsmeow@gmail.com, and I'll mail your prize to you right after the release. Enjoy!

Tomorrow is our final day of previews before the release on Monday. I hope you'll join us! We finish with a bang! 

Have a wonderful day,