We've had our last snow (I think). Easter is behind us. The solar eclipse has come and gone. March Madness is over. They're playing baseball and hockey is ending. So, it must be spring! I'm still wearing a turtleneck and an oversized sweatshirt but we keep the house pretty cool all the time. Sharon got power back at the store and was able to successfully do her Saturday morning review of new products and I'm ready to get back to doing my blog post every week. Mona did a FB live on Friday and I'll end with that because you have got to see what she does with Elizabeth Craft's new box die and tropical dies.
For now we're starting with Indigo Blue. We have new stencils, a great paint brush set and laser chipboard pieces.
We also have several new 6X6 paper packs, Steampunk Heaven, Abstract and Love Letters. These papers are not quite 80 lb weight. That makes them great for collage and accent papers but maybe not strong enough to use as the base (without reinforcement) for your cards.
We also have these gorgeous new colors in their Luscious pigment powders, Either Sharon or Charlene will be doing a demo of these in he near future.
Sharon shared this mixed media journal cover done with Indigo Blue products. She'll be making a class in the near future along these lines.
Stamps from their Alice in Wonderland collection, the Cheshire Cat, Alice and the White Rabbit.
Sharon also did a quick review of the Sizzix dies out of the vault.
We also have Collections 58, 59 and 60 of Tim's Mini Stencils.
One Mr. Rabbit is left and he can be used at times other than Easter.
New rubber stamp collections.
Paper Roses, an Australian company has these very colorful gnome, insect and floral papers. These are two sided papers. I'll note where the backs start.
We also have this cut-apart page that can be used to make easy cards.
From here on are the backsides of the above papers. The colors are simply striking.
Let's keep going with Waffle Flower's Postage Stamp Die. We have this back in stock along with stencils from Waffle Flower you can use with this.
Sharon wanted to demonstrate the coloring block stencil but pulled the wrong one by mistake. Creative person she is, she used post-its to mask off the areas around one square. She then used her brushes and two colors of ink and another Waffle Flower stencil to create the image below.
Here's a great sample of this postage stamp die done by Heidi. She used Lawn Fawn animal images.
We also have this word die set
Two 'Bloom' inspired stamp sets.
Floral Die set
Next up is Concord & 9th for all those 'Swifties' out there. They've created a Friendship bracelet die and stamp set.
They also have this blossom set.
A cool set for teens and or boys. This is a denim jacket that you can customize.
A variety sentiment set with words and shadows.
Next is 49 & Market. My photos came out reversed on this one so the 12 X 12 paper collection is at the end of this series of photos. I believe this is the Ochre collection.
Sharon loves the acetates in each collection and wanted to answer the question of how she adheres acetate pieces so you don't see the adhesive through the acetate. One method is to hide the smallest amount of adhesive you need behind the darkest part of the acetate image.
As you can see from this packet, that might be hard to do. Sharon has another method, Sticky Specs.
Sticky Specs is a sheet of tiny dots of adhesive. You place the acetate or paper image on the yellow sticky side of the sheet, press gently and when you lift your image it will have these tiny adhesive dots attached to your image. You can then place your image where you want with the sticky side down.
Sharon also ordered one page of the collection. This one can be cut apart and used on card fronts.
Here are all the add-ons for the Ochre and the Kraft Garden collections.
49 & Market has been releasing these matching fabric pouches with each collection. Here are the pouches for these collections.
Lastly, this is the Big Picture Album Kit.
Now, how cute is this! Mona has done it again! This is a new box die by Elizabeth Craft Designs. It goes together slightly differently from other box dies. It is also bigger than other box dies.
The floral dies Mona used.
They also have a sloth die and a chameleon die.
This is the basic box die.
You can see the size difference in the two boxes.
Finally, the tree frog.
That's it for now. We'll be back next week. Here's my funny for the post. If you know, you know.
Have a good week everyone stay crafty and Stay Safe.
I tuned in at 9:30 am on Saturday for Sharon's Saturday morning Facebook Live and found the store was experiencing the eclipse early!
Notice how dark it is in the store and how Sharon is sitting up in the front of the store? Turns out the early eclipse was NO ELECTRICITY in the store. Mark was the videographer until the National Grid truck rolled up to the door.
As soon as that truck pulled up Sharon was alone for the rest of the FB live. It turns out that the new tenants a couple of doors down were installing security cameras and the electrician drilled through the back wall of store right into the electrical wire that fed Buffalo Stamps and Stuff! It also set off a small fire and is not repairable until Tuesday! At that time NatGrid will be back with a commercial electrician (who hopefully knows what he's doing...) and the store will get power back.
Not only were we without electricity but the phones and the register were down. Luckily, we have very nice neighbors who let us piggyback on to their electric so we did have lights but that was about it. It took Sharon a good part of the day to get the phone switched over to her cell so we could actually get phone calls.
Unfortunately, for the some of us in western NY being able to watch the eclipse was a bust. My husband and I joined about a hundred other Williamsville residents at one of our local parks that had a nice large rolling hill. We camped out with everyone else with our lawn chairs and eclipse glasses and prayed the clouds would clear, We had about five minutes of full sun about a half hour before totality but when totality occurred it was completely covered by clouds. We did experience full night in the middle of the day which was cool but I guess we'll just have to watch the news tonight to see the eclipse itself.
Back to our regularly scheduled program. Mona made up a basket of new product for Sharon to showcase which helped out a great deal. We're starting with the latest release from My Favorite Things, but first we have one of Tim's sharp dressed bunny left in the store. He's not just for Easter anymore1
Next for all you gnome fans out there we have these cute set of gnomes with butterflies, flowers and a dragonfly, They are paired with a die set.
Sharon talked about these before. MFT is bringing out of the vault their series of basic nested shapes, scallop and stitched nets dies. You need to double check when purchasing these in any of the shapes they come in, circle, square, rectangle, etc. This first set will cut out a solid circle in the different sizes you see and they will have a scalloped and stitched border.
The set BEHIND this first set is a FRAME set. Look carefully and you can see a cut line below the stitching. This die set will give you 4 different sizes of scalloped and stitch FRAMES.
This is the square FRAME set. you can clearly see the solid cut line below the stitching on each die. All of these nested die sets are coming out again. The price point on these are a little bit higher because they are made in the US, but they are sturdy, long lasting dies.
We also have this set of common phrases in a not to big, but not too small size.
We love this set of phrases in this more modern script and plain fonts.
Next up are new color of Stickles. The red would make a great Christmas accent.
A few odds and ends, this glue pen from EK Success.
We have this "LOVE YOU" die that Sharon used during a previous Facebook live.
We got this back in from AALL & Create.
A new and improved Crop-A-Dile!
You can see all the different shapes it cuts out.
Next up are several of our card class that are coming up. First is Graphic 45.
Hexagon cards.
Birthday cake cards.
Sympathy cards.
Charlene's watercolor class.
Intro to stencils. there will be a Stencil 2 class coming.
A little inspiration for spring, tulips - my favorite.
This is a kit from Indigo Blue. You get all that follows.
The magazine is your idea book for using all the parts of the kit.
My last mention of the eclipse. I'm so over it!
That's it for me for this week. Hopefully Sharon has full power back on Tuesday. Until then take care, get crafty and above all stay safe.
