New stamps - Glasgow style

Firstly I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to send in an application to join our Design Team.  When I first launched the call for new Designers, I felt like an anxious hostess at a party, wondering if anyone would turn up.  Well I needn't have worried, we have received far more applications than I anticipated and it's been a real treat seeing all your artwork.

Tomorrow (Friday 31st Jan 2014) is the absolute last day I will accept any more applications, then we have the mammoth task of going through them all carefully.  Everyone who applied should have received an email from me just to acknowledge that I have received the application.  If you have sent me your application and not heard anything, please get in touch.

Now onto today's news - it's end of the month which means we are launching our February stamps!  This month we've taken Charles Rennie Mackintosh as our inspiration and our talented artist, Sue, has once again come up with a beautiful interpretation of that very classic Glasgow style.

We have Mackintosh Windows:

and Mackintosh Beauty:

Naturally there's a money saving multi-buy if you can't choose between them.

And finally, I've put together a little mini set of sentiments using some really lovely Mackintosh inspired fonts.

Click on any of the images above to go to the product on the website.

This card features the lady from Mackintosh Rose, watercoloured with a mix of Distress and Memento markers (scribbled onto an acrylic block and mixed with water).

She is stuck onto an embossed panel then I've added some very subtle shading in the background using a Crafter's Workshop Template called Echoes.


Professor Polymer is busy making the Mackintosh Sentiments as fast as his little fingers will go, but we sold out of our first batch by lunchtime, so we can see this is going to be a very popular set.  Even if we are out of stock, you can still order them, just allow an extra day or two for us to process your order and get them sent.

Watch out as always for the lovely artwork coming up and have a great weekend!

New Winter and Christmas stamps (by Glenda)

We have one final collection of Christmas stamps for you this year, though we do like to make our stamps versatile so you will also find images that you can use for non Christmas occasions too.

Our Stamp of the Month for October is Reindeer Landscape

The reindeer image is great for making quick cards - make a stack of gelli prints or sprayed backgrounds and you can quickly whip up a batch of arty cards.  I had to put it sideways on the stamp sheet to fit it on, but here it is right way up.

Then we have two sets of edges - Christmas Edges:

and Winter Edges:

All of these stamps are on offer at introductory prices from now until the end of October and you can save even more with the Christmas-Winter Edges multi-buy too.

As always, our wonderful Design Team have been playing with these stamps for the last few weeks and I've seen what they've been up to with them - you're in for a treat!

Quick Links:

• Reindeer Landscape
• Christmas Edges
• Winter Edges
• Christmas-Winter Edges multi-buy

New Clear Stamps

I normally reserve Fridays on the Design Team blog to announce new stamps and our Stamp of the Week, but this week it just didn't happen... it's a long story which you can read over on my own blog, glendawaterworth.com.

Meanwhile, click on the image above to get the details of the gorgeous new clear Edges stamps we've just launched.  Here's a little taste of what you can do with them.

I am also late picking a winner for the new spring stamps, so I am going to do that this coming Friday.  And if you were wondering, our Stamp of the Week this week is With Sympathy - more versatile than it sounds, it can also be used for Easter, christenings and confirmations.  I also think the crosses are just elegant design elements in their own right.

I've interrupted the blogging to bring you this post so please scroll down to check out today's other post from Claire featuring the new Landscape Edges.

Absolutely FAB-U-LOUS new stamps!

I'm officially in love with our latest stamp sets, they are bang on trend and scrummylicious to play with.  Firstly we have the ab fab hab set - Haberdashery, an A5 set (approx 15 x 10.5 cm)

then there's the luscious A4 set Lace Fragments (21 x 29 cm)

The picture at the top shows some of my 'Etsy Tags'.  I don't have an Etsy store, but if I did, I would send my hand made wares out into the world with cute little hand made tags on everything.

Here they are in close up:

Just wait til you see the gorgeous creations that the Design Team have come up with - they'll be sharing their creations here and on their own blogs over the next week or two, so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, I'm feeling generous, so I'll be picking two lucky winners from comments left on this post to receive one of the new sets.  Please feel free to mention the giveaway on your own blogs or Facebook.  I will pick winners some time next weekend (that's after Friday 27th April).

Good luck!

New Spring and Easter Stamps

I'm delighted to announce a new batch of stamps.  Firstly we have Easter Traditions which is perfect for those of you who celebrate the true meaning of Easter.  The crosses are beautiful in their own right and I'm sure will be useful for sympathy or confirmation cards.  I actually fancy making some jewellery with the crosses, maybe air dry clay or polymer clay studded with crystals.

This card was made by embossing the large cross with clear powder, then adding Distress Stains and lots of water.  I've found it's one of those 'leave it alone' techniques - the more you mess with it, the more blended the colours become.  You need to know when to stop and wait patiently for it to dry.

I will be doing a giveaway next Friday and picking three winners from all the comments left during the week - who knows, it might be your lucky day!

Then we have two gorgeous floral sets, Elegant Spring Flowers and Elegant Crocus, both with a hint of Art Nouveau.  These are great for colouring in and the script background stamps are perfect with Versamark and chalks or Perfect Pearls.

There is a multi-buy deal on the two Spring Flower sets as well - don't forget to log in first to see your best price, these are all on special offer for Guild members.

Here is a card made with the Elegant Spring Florals.

The sentiment is from Birthday Swirls which is one of our 'Last Chance' stamps that I've been asked to keep by lots of people.  It's a rather useful little A6 sized set - do you think we should keep this one in the range?  Leave a comment below and let me know what you think.

Stay tuned for more gorgeous artwork coming soon from the rest of the team.

Artistic Expressions - a blog giveaway

We have launched a new set of stamps today called Artistic Expressions.  This makes a great partner to Artistic Affirmations and contains some really big words which work really well as the focal point for a card as well as being great for scrapbooking and mixed media pieces.  There are some lovely heartfelt sentiments too.

It's a full size A4 sheet and if you would like to win this set of stamps, please leave a comment and I'll pick a winner next Tuesday.

Check back for DT artwork coming along soon.

Delightful New Spring Florals

I'm so excited to announce our new stamps for January.  Three beautiful and very useable floral sets.  I managed to get in some playtime with these over the Christmas holiday and found myself reaching for the inktense pencils and copic markers quite a bit.

The Rose Tree

Fragrant Honeysuckle

  

Wisteria Lane

Watch out for these cards and more appearing on the blog here or over on my own, glendawaterworth.com.  The DT have done some wonderful cards too - stay tuned for lots of sunny warm Springtime inspiration!

Springtime Stamps

I know, I know, Christmas isn't even here and we're already releasing stamps with a definite springtime theme.

Well I wanted to get these on the website before our Christmas break, so here they are, two new A5 stamp sets:

Pretty Birdcage

Honey Bee

Main image coloured with prismacolour pencils

The team have come up with some really lovely ideas for these stamps and over the Christmas break we'll be scheduling some posts featuring their gorgeous artwork.

In the meantime I have one of each set to give away so leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning.  I'll pick winners in a week (Wednesday 21st December) so I can get the prizes sent out before Christmas.

PS - if you think these stamps would make an ideal addition to your Christmas stocking, check out this article on my blog about the Amazon Universal Wish List button - it's such a neat idea!

Echoes of Italy and Woodland Dreams

The girls are ahead of me here - I've been without a working computer at home for over a week and I had real problems with Blogger too, but the computer is back and things seem to be working fine now.

So, October's new stamps are two new A4 sets packed with beautiful images. 

Echoes of Italy has been in the pipeline a long time and I'm sure the images will seem familar to anyone who has visited Tuscany, though they could equally be from Provence or other rural mediterranean areas.

Woodland Dreams is a much more stylised and decorative interpretation of trees and woodland and makes really striking contemporary cards.  The simple shapes are easy to mask out, so lots of potential for using them with interesting background techniques.

The girls will be adding more of their artwork to the blog over the next week or two, so do keep coming back for more eye candy!

Yummy Scrummy Christmas Stamps

OK, I know you  have all been waiting to see these, so here are the latest Chocolate Baroque Christmas stamp sets.

Firstly we have Fat Robin - a full A4 sheet of gorgeousness.

Then we have three A5 sets which are all so incredibly versatile and usable.

Stained Glass Christmas

Christmas Cheer

Peace on Earth

The girls have all come up with some stunning artwork to illustrate the possibilities of this set and we have a series of blog posts scheduled over the next few days, so do check back or subscribe to our blog feed so you don't miss out.

I am doing a blog candy giveaway, but I've decided to do it over on my own blog for a change - it's been a while since I did that, so pop over to glendawaterworth.com and check out some of my Christmas makes with these delicious new stamps.

And please check back on Sunday - I have a new Design Team member to introduce to you all!