The Craft's Meow Store Blog

August 18, 2013

Introducing Choose Hope!!!

Hello, friends! Welcome to Day 2 of our previews of the SIX new stamp sets being released on Wednesday, August 21st here at The Craft's Meow! Yesterday we previewed two of three of the stamp sets designed by Clare Buswell that are releasing this month, Potted Garden and Cottage Garden. Due to wires crossed, we failed to mention that those two sets are Clare's first stamp illustrations for TCM. We are so excited to have Clare designing stamps for us. You are going to love, love, love her style! The girl is on fire! :)

Today we are thrilled to preview for you the first stamp set designed for TCM by Angelica Suarez, called Choose Hope! This one will fill you with inspiration. Take a look at what our designers have created with this fabulous stamp set...

Amy Crockett

Angelica Suarez

Angi Barrs

Karen Baker

I love this set! It's so versatile... dress it up, or keep it simple. Either way, it delivers a powerful message.

We have a set of Choose Hope to give away. All you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment on this post by 8:00 pm Pacific tonight. We'll announce the winner in tomorrow's post. Good luck!

The winner of Potted Garden from all comments left on yesterday's post is...

SANKETI!!!

The winner of Cottage Garden from all comments left on yesterday's post is...

SANDEE!!!

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

Speaking of prizes, I forgot to announce the winner of our Summer Blog Hop card contest. The winner is Marsha D, who submitted this wonderfully summery card, featuring Sending You Sunshine:

Congratulations, Marsha! Please email me so that I can give you your code for a $15 Gift Certificate to spend in the TCM store! Thank you to all who played along!

The fun continues tomorrow when we preview the two newest sets by Nina B Designs debuting on August 21st. They are going to knock your socks off! See you then!

August 17, 2013

Introducing Potted Garden & Cottage Garden!

Hello, stampers! Welcome to the first day of our August release extravaganza! We're releasing SIX new stamp sets for your paper crafting pleasure on Wednesday, August 21st, and the previews start today! If you're a flower lover, you're going to love today's two sets: Potted Garden and Cottage Garden... both are amazingly versatile! Take a look at what our talented designers have created with them...

Edited to add: These are the first two of the three stamp sets designed by Clare Buswell, to debut here at The Craft's Meow! We had a bit of a mix-up last night when the posts went live. Due to crossed wires, there were two versions of today's post prepared, one with that information and one without. Unfortunately, the one without went live. We are VERY excited about Clare's illustrations... just wait until you see the entire sets. Swoon!

Amy Crockett

Clare Buswell

Deborah Nolan

Gayatri Murali

Jennie Harper

Jessica Fick

Jinny Newlin

Karen Baker

Lin Brandyberry

Nina Brackett

Sharri Seffens

Aren't they lovely? :)

I have a set of each Potted Garden and Cottage Garden to give away as prizes. All you have to do for a chance to win one of these sets is leave a comment on this post by 8:00 pm Pacific tonight. I'll draw the winners and announce them in tomorrow's post. Good luck!

I hope you'll join us tomorrow when we preview our next newest stamp set: Choose Hope. (I think you're going to love it!) See you then!

August 14, 2013

Summer Card Challenge!

There's still a bit of time left to play in our Summer card challenge for a chance to win a $15 Gift Certificate to spend in The Craft's Meow store! Link your card by 11:59 pm Eastern tonight on the Summer Blog Hop post, which you'll find by >>clicking here<<. Enjoy!

August 13, 2013

A Gift From Above

Hey, y'all! It's Jinny here to share a sweet card, boasting two goodies from the TCM Store. I'm on a team, in my church, for taking hot, homemade meals to new moms and can never seem to have enough baby cards to send with them. So, I tapped into one of our newest sets, Vintage Baby; paired it with an oldie but a goodie, Sending You Sunshine; and came up with this pretty, little number.

A little ink sponging and spritzing prep the background for lots of layers of color-coordinating, patterned papers, a few of which were machine-stitched and/or separated with foam tape for dimension, as well as the silver-embossed, on a hand-cut, vellum banner, to permit the view of all those yummy patterns, sentiment...

which was flanked by those cute, hand-cut and colored, with pencils and mineral spirits, images.

Some yummy ribbon and trims and, of course, a sweet button and kiss of glitter make this card ready to be packaged with, just as an example ;), a savory pan of chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, homemade guacamole, tortilla chips, and fruit or lettuce salad. Mmmm! I'm making myself hungry.