New Stamps and Dies from Impression Obsession

New new new new neeeewwww!  Don't you love new goodies?  I know I do.... especially stamps and dies.  Have I mentioned how much I love stamps and dies?  Oh, I have?  Well, too bad.... I'm mentioning it again!   Check out some of the cool new stamps and dies from Impression Obsession:

Dies:

This set makes 3-dimensional rolled flowers:

 Stamps

Loving the rain background stamp (see the umbrella and cloud dies above?)

 And these cute kid stamps are PERFECT for Florida:

 These are new from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer... we also have the coordinating stencils:

 These stamps have coordinating dies:

So many new ideas, so little time!  I must get crafting!  

Two New Summer Collections from Authentique

Summer is just around the corner and that means it's time for hot new summer designs!!!   As usual, Authentique has knocked the ball right out of the park with their two new summer collections, Pride and Summer (don't you love the awesome summer baseball reference???)

Pride

For me, sometimes I like the red, white, and blue collections and sometimes I don't... but I really like this one.  I love the ruffled medallion paper and I think they did a good job mixing large and small patterns so there are a lot of opportunities for visual variety...  look at these cute samples created by the Authentique design team:

 

Summer

Love, LOVE this collection... love the teals and yellows and the little bicycles... very cute!  Check out these samples from the Authentique design team:

Beautiful, right?  Just right to put us in the mood for summer!  Thank goodness we live in Florida, so there's always plenty of use for summer papers... or at least that's while I'll be telling myself as I load up on these collections for my stash!!!

SMASHERS! YOU MUST READ THIS MESSAGE!!!

Well, OK, I guess I shouldn't make titles in all caps and tell you "you must" do anything... someone will probably get crabby about my lack of on-line decorum.  Oh well... I'm sure I passed the cut-off line for good on-line decorum a long time before this post....

Anyway, the point of all this is if you belong to the Smash club you will not want to miss a surprise, unscheduled club meeting! 

Well, of course, it's scheduled now... it wasn't scheduled when we printed the schedules, so no one really knows about it, which is why there is such urgency in this post!!!

SO, this Sunday, May 19th from 12pm-1:30 Amy is leading our next Smash club.  Again, this meeting is NOT on your printed class schedule.  Smash Club is free, as always, but you must call and sign up so we know how many people are coming.  Here are a few gorgeous pictures from Amy's Smash book to keep you salivating until Sunday: 

Look at what she did with her cover:

So stinking cute, right?  How about this pop-up action:

Ohhh... love the black and white!

And the little ephemera pockets - too cute!

So marking your calendars, give us a call, and come to Smash Club this Sunday, May 19th from 12-1pm.  Got it?  Good!

Got Stencil Girl?

No, not "Got stencil, girl"... Got Stencil Girl, as in an awesome collection of 9x12 stencils by Stencil Girl!  Once again Michelle has simply outdone herself on new product selection... check out some of these gorgeous new stencils:

Gotta love this new line of stencils - beautiful designs and the perfect size for your art journal!