Buffalo Stamps & Stuff: What's New and Mona's back!

One down and two more to go! Hopefully, you all had a nice chocolate filled Valentine's Day. I think I got a tuna fish sandwich...Moving on, we have St. Patrick's Day and Easter coming up quickly in March. To that end we have lots of new products for your cards and paper projects. First up is Sharon's share from Wednesday. She reviewed her Wednesday project on Saturday so that's where I'm going to start. Honey Bee, along with several other companies are starting to combine their embossing folders with coordinating dies. This first has a lovely floral pattern with a space you can put the heart die cut that comes with it, You can use the folder in at least three ways, alone, cut out the heart and use that separate and use the background after the heart is cut out,

The other embossing folder with matching die we have is this Swiss dot pattern at the top with a scallop die for the pattern at the bottom.

Sharon's helpful hint is to do your die cutting first and then do your embossing. If you do it the other way around the process of doing the die cutting last flattens your embossed image.

Next up is more Honey Bee, Anew great script sayings collection with matching dies.

Love this one of a pair of love birds. Honey Bee gives you a colored guide for the assembly of the lovely layers and coloring cues.

There are also two new paper pads.

Concord & 9th is up next with this floral die set.

It's hard to tell but under the white paper is a large embossing die that leaves an impression. It's hard to see the impression but it's there.

Here you can see the large die a little bit better.

There's a new turnabout stamp with a mid-century modern vibe. We may try and get Mona in to demo how to use these turnabout stamps because they are really fun and it's been a while.

We also have a new phrase die with matching shadows.

A new alphabet set, caps and lower case.

We're back to Honey Bee, frame sets. Sharon made several samples.

Another Lovely Layers die, Flower Urn.

This one is kind of cool. you have a background piece and smaller, layered flower pieces that you can add on top of the base die.

It didn't photograph as well as I'd like but Sharon's sample has the the flower pieces highlighted with inking and popped up because that's what she does!

Another fave of Sharon's is this rubber stamp from Honey Bee.

Vintage is the theme for this release. This is a vintage inspired mail box. The door opens for you to put your message in or use as a pocket.

A postcard die.

Another fave of Sharon's, this stamp and mini scene stamp set that's perfect for a postcard.

This set is reminiscent of MFT's Blueprint sets from several years ago.

Sharon used the paper pad to the right (first mini sample on the pad) along with a Memory Box word set for the sample.

More vintage paper collections.

These Honey Bee gems go really well with this vintage paper.

From the vintage to the other end of the spectrum - Doodlebug! First up are two birthday card kits from Doodlebug.

And of course, new Doodlepops!

These are such fun to do!

Easter paper from Doodlebug

New Easter dies from Doodlebug.

Mona joined us on Saturday and showed two die sets from Pretty Pink Posh. The first makes a container very similar to the style of container that McDonald's French fries come in. Mona has decorate it for St. Patrick's Day with a lucky leprechaun from Waffle Flower. Mona moved the glass mat and effectively cut off the bottom of the area she was working on. My next few photos were the best I could get from her presentation. Besides the treat box, Pretty Pink Posh has a gift card holder that looks like a two tier cake. You can see the die in the photo directly below. Sorry for the partial pictures.

Mona's recomendation or a great die for your basic needs.

Lastly, Mona loves this stencil. ad small stamps like the Shamrock from this Pretty Pink Posh set (or any small stamp) and you have an instant background.