Hello Friends! I’m excited to be back with The Cat’s Pajamas showing off their New Releases this month! The sets are all about celebrating those joyful moments, and little critters that will make you smile, they definitely make me smile! I think you’ll really enjoy them! There are four new stamps sets, four new dies and a free with purchase die that will all be available tomorrow, May 29th in the TCP Store!
We’ll start it all off with an awesome new set in the Storybook style. It’s called, Live More. I love the dreamy style of these stamps and hey, when you put in a beach scene, I’m sold! It was time to get back to my roots and do a little watercolouring on this one too - to really showcase a dreamy summer sunset. My kids bought me a new set of Gansai Kuretake watercolour pans for Mother’s Day, and I finally got to break them out for this card.
For the background, I really wanted to play off of the sunset clouds and colours in the card design so I pulled out TCP’s Clouds and Balloons CutUps Die to frame up the layers of the card with clouds.
I stamped the sentiment with markers in the colours of the sky using my Misti, and then with my waterbrush, washed it out a bit, let it dry and stamped it again. It gives that soft washed out look I like for a watercolour card. To ground the image and add some accent colour I added a few buttons, and some layers of twine that mimic the colour of the beach sand.
Next up, something VERY Clean and Simple.
TCP’s newest word die is this sweetly scripted Smile. When I saw it I thought that would look really fabulous in a CAS style, which you know is a bit of a reach for me. But, just look at how fun and graphic the pop of black, white and red is! I love how this turned out, even though it took everything in me not to try and accent it more.
I cut out the smile die 3 x and layered it up to give it some depth, layered it on a bit of washi tape, and then added a sweet red felt heart die cut with TCP’s Nested Hearts CutUps Die. It gives the perfect pop of colour.
Sweet, graphic and simple and I bet it does make you smile!
Next up is a very fun masculine design showcasing a very jowly pup...
It’s called Whee! Now isn’t that fun? This pug is jumping for joy with a little help from that balloon! I gave him some colour with Copics and fun layers of plaid patterned paper and TCP’s Big Ticket CutUps Die.
Some sewing anchors the layers, and a wood veneer arrow helps give it some directional movement.
Are you In It To Win It? For a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the store, comment on each of the designer's blogs on a daily basis including mine today. Winners will be announced on The Cat's Pajamas Blog and Facebook page each day. Be sure to stop by again tomorrow for our New Release Blog Hop for another peek!
Here are the fabulous new Products being released that I used today...
