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Friday, August 14, 2015

August 2015 Release Day

It's Release Day! Every thing we've previewed this week is now available for purchase at wplus9.com as well as at many of your favorite retailers. I still have a couple of cards to share with you, so let's get to it.

There are some amazing crafters out there with ingenious ideas. For this pair of cards, I CASEd one of my favorites, Yana Smakula. She's amazing I tell ya.

I recently saw a couple of her cards where she used random solid images to "fill in" lined images and I immediately thought "holy crap, genius!". Quickly followed by, "This would be perfect for Greetings & Salutations stamps and die!"

I paired them up the new Wishing You stamp set and I have to say...daaang Yana, you're awesome! LOL

They were so easy to put together and yeah, they are my new favorite cards from this release. I just stamped out a full sheet in a color palette of Falling For Blue, Pumpkin Spice, Sweet Gelato, Last Leaf, Warm Wool and Black, and trimmed them down to several panels to use on multiple cards.

My other card for today was a spin off from a card I shared on Tuesday. I wanted to use the modern pattern and turn it into a more classic design. I paired it with our Grateful Greetings stamp set and the Gift Card Layers Die and I believe it did the trick.

Replace the sentiment with names and I could totally see these as place cards for Thanksgiving dinner.

I wanted to thank you all once again for your patience this release and for joining us this week and showing your support. I've said it before and I'll say it again...we have the best people in this industry!

30 comments:

  1. Oh my, these cards look amazing, Dawn. Such clever designs.

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  2. Dawn you certainly do give credit where it's due ... love that about you... well and your cards! Now I'm off the shop so I can CASE you and Yana!
    =]

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  3. Such a clever way to add color in a very artsy way!

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  4. LOVING LOVING LOVING this Release and your Cards for today!! CAN'T WAIT to create with my New Products!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

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  5. Your cards are simply stunning and how wonderful that you shared Yana's technique with us! So much inspiration happening today - and all the days - leading to this release! In awe...
    ~carol

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  6. Wonderful ideas ... and like how you made your take on Yana's technique, and such lovely colour combo with the leaves.

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  7. Incredible style, Dawn, very inspiring. I am quite enthusiastic about using these as a starting point for my creative roadblock and to just have fun making cards. Hopefully, I can welcome some of these fantastic stamps in my collection of favorites very soon. Cheers!

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  8. Just amazing and what a great idea!~

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  9. oh em gee! someone, quick! help me pick up my jaw off the floor! me amazing? Dawn, I am constantly inspired by your watercolor videos! I wish (no, I dream) I can one day do what you do! you are an incredible artist!
    thank you so very much for your kind words! hugs!

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  10. You and Yana are two artists to whom I aspire. The cards today are marvelous and the release in total, is wonderful!

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  11. You and Yana are two artists to whom I aspire. The cards today are marvelous and the release in total, is wonderful!

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  12. You and Yana are two artists to whom I aspire. The cards today are marvelous and the release in total, is wonderful!

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  13. Congratulations on another fantastic release, Dawn!

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  14. Both cards are truly lovely, Dawn!! Thank you (and Yana) for so much inspiration in all that you do! Your watercolor videos are magical and Wplus9 will always be one of my most favorite stamp companies! ♡

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  15. i'm so in love with this release. All the examples have me itching to get my hands on the new inks and stamp sets.

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  16. These are really fantastic cards Dawn, you've done an amazing job. I am certain Yana would agree. (I love her work as well!) Thank you for an amazing release. It hard to pic a fav!

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  17. They Are all wonderful, Dawn! I absolutely love the stitched does too. Ha, I did see Yana's ingenious cards too! And thought, they were so cool. Totally great for when you don't have time to color or use involved techniques.
    Thanks, Paulette S.
    craftqueen417 at yahoo
    http://paulettesprettypapercrafts dot wordpress dot com
    Since Google's blogger profile for a blog no longer in their system and the profile is undeletable or editable!!

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  18. You consistently push the envelope to challenge us as crafters! Thank you for all the innovative ideas you teach us!

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  19. Beautiful Cards! Love how you created the bunnies card. All around beautiful images and color combination.

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  20. These cards are amazing and I just love how they are each done!! The first one is such a clever way to add color!! and the second card is just classy as all get out!! So awesome and well done cards!!!

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  21. These cards blow me away, especially the bunny ones! They are so unique! Love the effect. :D

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  22. yes, Yana is so amazing- I love every project from her! But I also love everything you create also! Wish I had all of your stamps- so awesome!

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  23. I LOVE the Wishing You stamp set - and I love what you have done with the bunnies from the set. I purchased this stamp set almost as soon as it came out - and the matching die and sentiment set. I was taken by the simple bunnies. As a blind paper crafter, I am always on the look out for stamp sets that are easy to colour. I did have a go at making a card with the Wishing You as the basis for it, and posted it to my (very young) blog. I went into a lot of detail about the process I went through to create the card, but I am trying to make paper crafting more accessible to blind crafters through tutorials that are aimed at them. Obviously, sighted people can follow too :-) So glad I found this blog, and I'm looking forward to seeing future WPlus9 releases.

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