February New Release Hop Day 1!

Helloooooo there!!! Welcome to Day 1 of our February New Release Hop!!

I'm so very excited to bring you these products! Let's get right to it!

First up is this duo of super cool bunny stamps and dies we're calling Bunny Buddies. You will receive two 2x3 stamp sets and 2 coordinating dies making this bundle a great value! These guys are too hip to hop and so fun to color! They're perfect for any recipient, of course, but were designed with kids in mind and intended to give off a hipster vibe!

Our Quilted Stitched So Sunny Die is a must have for those of you who LOVE this line of dies in our store.  This die creates some seriously awesome texture on card fronts and more. The pattern is delicate but intricate and is a true show stopper! We design these dies so that the finished metal die is exactly and A2 size. So, pre-cut your card base, then line this die up to the front side and with one pass through your machine you'll have a gorgeous, stitched pattern! This one's perfect for Spring, don't you think?

We're so excited to bring you this Cat Treats stamp set! This set was illustrated especially for our Lil' Inker friends and I hope you love it. Aren't these the sweetest images? You'll love that these cats can represent so many different card-giving occasions. Check out the cat friends taking a selfie, coffee cat and party cat! Each image has some purrrfect greetings (lol) that you'll love using!!

Below are the coordinating Cat Treats Dies to our Cat Treats Stamps. We of course had to give you a die set to purrrfectly (had to, LOL) cut out these adorable images!

Our Color Blocking Die is something really super-unique that we think you'll love experimenting with. It's a die designed with interesting card layouts in mind all while using a trendy and fashionable color-blocking design most easily. Precut an A2 card base in one color or many. Line up this die across your card front and cut and then use the pieces to create a colorful and interesting layout. Have a look at our graphic here so you can see what this die will do for your card fronts and don't forget to visit the project gallery on our website to see how awesome this die can be.

RUSTIC SPRING!!!!! Certainly a Spring follow up to our popular Rustic Christmas Dies and Stamps. This time, we're featuring a sweet bunny, bicycle with basket and sweet row of houses are our main images. There are small images in the set that you can add to the basket of the bike which is super fun and of course we've included a tree, some grass and flowers - all the images of spring. We kept the sentiments simple, but lovely as well as purposeful.

Our coordinating Rustic Spring Die Set really brings the stamps to life especially in the bunny's case. We've included some extra cuts around her arms so that when die cut the bunny can hold one of three images; the carrot, flower bouquet or long flower with leaves. Cool, right?! I love love love these sweet images!

Here is our new Brush Script Spring Word Dies. We've given you a trio of word dies that say Spring, Easter and Blessed in a fantastic script font. They are beautiful and easy to use. They can be used alone or cleverly paired with other stamps in your collection to create a phrase or full greeting. A must have!

Wooooot!!!!! I don't know about you but I loooved our Warm Welcome suit of stamps and dies and I really wanted to do a follow up to play with and I created Sweet Celebration! The stamp set includes a wreath done in a heart shape and the sentiments of the set focus around the word celebrate. The flowers are easy and fun to stamps and many are two steps so you'll love building colors and making these flowers your own.

Of course we've given you a coordinating Die set which features the heart wreath as a die as well as a wavy banner to splay across the front of the wreath. All of the sentiments in the stamp set stamp to fit on this wavy banner which can also be used in its own very nicely.

We've also created a Celebrate Word Die because sometimes you just have to die cut a word for a project. Am I right?! :)

I hope you love the Sweet Celebration suite of products. They're so pretty AND can be used for many different occasions including Christmas by using the Celebrate the Season phrase and some festive colored flowers. Lots of possibilities here.

What do you think?? Awesome stuff? Excited????

ME TOO!!!!!!!!

Would you like to see some projects today? Here are the projects I made with Bunny Buddies and also with Cat Treats and there is an appearance by our new Color Blocking Die in there too! Let's look!

Here's a quick little something I made with the hipster bunny in the Bunny Buddies Die & Stamp Bundle. I did some very fast water coloring with my Zigs on watercolor paper and added a sentiment which I heat embossed and snipped out with scissors. I like this sweet image SO MUCH and I love how quick and easy it was to color. My background was created with a plain green card base and the I used my Color Blocking Die to cut out a panel for layering made of thin balsa wood. I thought the wood was a great touch for this more masculine card. The embellie at the top right was made with a leaf from our Spring Flowers Die Set topped off with a button. 

The card above was also super quick and simple to make. This is a mini card at approximately 2.25 x 3-ish. I'll have to get you the exact. But I thought it was perfect as a small gift card. I started by stamping and coloring with Zigs on watercolor paper and then I used this cool bunny's coordinating die to snip him out. I quickly and easily layered him on some orange neon and aqua papers which I actually really love together! I used the happy birthday sentiment and used the word "Brah". I think this is more of a colloquialism for the work "Bro". It happens to be how my hubby refers to my son when he's talking to him and being silly. It's a perfect card to slip into my son's birthday gifts. He's going to be 9, NINE in just a couple of weeks. Where does the time go???? MY BABY!!! I digress....LOL!!!

I hope I get more time to play with this AWESOME AWESOME stamp set called Cat Treats!! OMGSH I am obsessed with the adorable cat images in this set!! Here I used the coffee cat to create a sweet little card. This cat holding the coffee cup is...well....amazing!! I'm actually working with a new illustrator and I wrote to her and told her, among other things, that I wanted a cat holding a coffee cup and she just NAILED IT!!!!!!!! The little saying on kitty's cup is a separate stamp - just fyi -  and I really like that option!!! I paired this with the sentiment coffee is my catnip which I thought was cute and funny! Also making an appearance here is our Silly Stitched Dies which I used to create that awesome border around my card base.

What do you think???? I hope you're loving everything!! I'm really proud of all of the stamps and dies we're bringing you with this release. I hope they make you squeal with delight! HA!!!

Would you like a chance to win THIS ENTIRE RELEASE?????????

We're giving away this entire release to one lucky winner and this one is a DOOZY to win because it's a prize value of almost $170!!!!!!! All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave comments for our Design Team members along you way as you hop today! Yup, that's it!! Just make sure you leave them by Sunday 2/26/2017 11:30 PM EST.

Ready to get hopping? Here is a list of everyone participating today:

Laura Pryor/LID Store Blog <<----You are here

Amy Kolling

Angel Rivera

Chrissy Larson

Heather Hoffman

Jen Carter

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Karen Baker

Lisa Henke

Sarah Jay

Stephanie Gold

I'm so lucky to work with these incredibly talented ladies. You know what's most impressive about their skills? They are all so consistent!!!! I honestly don't even know how they do it! But I'm thrilled that they do, LOL!!! Thank you ladies for all of your consistently awesome and beautiful work!!!!

That will do it for me today. I'll be back tomorrow with another post and more projects. 

Don't forget to head to our website for a closer look at everything you love!

Thank you so much for your support and encouraging feedback!

Lots of love,