July-August 2020 New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to the July-August 2020 New Product Blog Hop. You should have come from Gina's blog, but if you started here that's no problem. The hop is a circle, so just keep going until you get back to where you started. If you get lost along the way, head to Melinda's blog for a full list of participants.

The first thing that went into my cart when I saw the new catalog was "Joyful Sunflowers." I love sunflowers! And this set is beautiful.

I made three cards with it. Here's the first:

My upline challenged us to use Paprika. I'm not sure why it's not a listed color in the new Timber paper pack because it matches that small stripe in the plaid perfectly. I stamped the flower in Black and colored with alcohol based markers. I stamped the sentiment panel in Mink and the sentiment in Sapphire. I used the coordinating Thin Cut to cut out both the flower and sentiment panel.

For this next card, I used the sentiment panel in a different way.

I stamped in Espresso and Fern inks. Since they aren't archival quality, I used colored pencils on the flowers instead of alcohol markers. I'm in a shaker card kick, so it was fun to "shake it up a bit" with a different cut out other than a circle. I used lots of foam squares to border the shape of the sentiment panel.

For this next card, I went "outside the box" on my colors.

I had created another card which left me with that tiny piece of Candy Apple. Instead of throwing it out, I played with it. I paired it with Ballerina cardstock because I wanted to do something very non-traditional for sunflower images. I think this works.

I thought I was done with this post, but then the new Cricut collections went live so...here are a few more cards:

The picture didn't capture it, but I used the Clear Shimmer Brush on both ice cream cones. It really adds a fun touch. I love that our cardstock is two-toned. I used it to good advantage here (and with the Ballerina cardstock on the last sunflower card) and on the following card.

On these next two, I used this bowling themed stamp set to add decorative elements.

You can see the Clear Shimmer Pen a little better on this card. The diamond border and stamped "this is how we" both come from the bowling set. The woodgrain on the popsicle sticks comes from Joyful Sunflowers because that's what was on my desk, but you could use the bowling set for the woodgrain the same way I used it for the flower petals on this card...

Here's a close up of the flowers so you can see the detail a little better. I used the light side of Smoothie on the main flower which is why the stamped lines show up so well. The orange flower on the far left uses both the light and dark side of Nectarine. I used the same lined image to stamp in Nectarine ink over top of the darker side of the cardstock. It doesn't show up as well. The center of the Smoothie flower shows you what Nectarine ink over top of the lighter side of the cardstock looks like. I used the smallest star image (just to the left of "Let's go Bowling") and stamped it several times, rotating just a bit to create more lines.

I cut the leaves, tag, border, and "Happy" panel from the new Mix-In papers. The "Happy" comes from the Artistry cartridge. The top cluster of flowers included another leaf. I didn't want that, so I just cut it off with my scissors.

The "anniversary," as well as the Happy Birthday on the ice cream cone card above, are from stamp sets in the Core Catalog. I could have used the frame from Strike Up Some Fun for my sentiment. The "happy" from the same set that I used for "anniversary" fits right inside it.

The tags I used on both this card and the Happy Birthday one were released in the May-June catalog. As I'm writing this, the tags are on back order. Hopefully, they will be available soon and (crossing my fingers) maybe show up in the new Core Catalog which will be coming in September.

I bought the bowling set because, in addition to being on a shaker card kick, I'm on a scrapbooking kick for my son and his fiance. As this post goes live, we're at West Point getting ready for the big day. My son and met his future wife met while bowling, so I bought this set to scrapbook a single layout. I'm so glad I found fun new ways to use it.

Now you're off to Krista's blog. Again, be sure to visit all the blogs. I always find tremendous inspiration from these incredibly talented ladies. And with so much new goodness to work with, you're sure to find something that makes you go, "Ahhh!"

Until next time,
Becca