With all my heart

Shona is here today with a darling card that features our Heart Board Fri-Dies and Cupid's Arrows stamps!

Here's what Shona said about her design process:

"Using Heart Board Fri-dies and Cupids Arrows stamp set. I watercoloured some cardstock and then die-cut the hearts. I inlaid the larger hearts into the card front and then raised each smaller heart by adding extra die-cuts underneath so that stepped up to the smaller one."

The big brown truck has arrived and I've got huge giant boxes of stamps to unpack and get in the store! And guess what else?? I can stop stalking my mailman because he brought a pretty big box full of fun dies that you've been waiting to be restocked! It's gonna be a busy day and I'll get it all sorted and loaded in the store as quickly as I can! I LOVE these kinds of days :)

A farewell

It's Tuesday. 

If you've known me for any length of time, you know how much I dislike goodbyes.

 Goodbyes are final, goodbyes feel horrible, so we don't do goodbyes here.

We say farewell because it just feels much more open ended. :)

Today we say farewell to Girl Friday Piali. 

I've known this day was coming for a bit, but it feels like the time passed too quickly. 

I have loved having her on the team, and I know you have loved seeing her awesome creations.

She is super talented and I wish her the absolute best as she takes some time to enjoy summer vacation with her littles, and contemplates what might be next on her crafty agenda :)

Let's take a peek at a few of my favorites from Piali...

Heart Note Fri-Die and Love Notes

Heart Board Fri-Dies and Cupid's Arrows

Tech Talk and Houndstooth

Amazeballs

Mums the Word

Wonderful Words and Out Loud

This last one is extra super special.

It made Piali a cover girl!!

Oh gosh, I am going to miss her!

She has a couple of CAS-ual giveaways on her blog,

so be sure to stop by her blog and wish her well.

Maybe we can talk her into coming back one day :)

February 19

Happy Wednesday!

What do paint chips and embossing have in common?

Something absolutely incredible when Girl Friday Virginia gets her hands on them!!

Take a looksie at what she created using 

Heart Board Fri-Dies and Cupid's Arrows...

I just think this is so much fun!

I love the details of the scattered sequins and 

the loopy gold thread on the heart. 

Just fabulous!

Virginia has some designer tips and tricks to share too!

Special features: 

1. Use various shades of paint chips for the arrow die cut.

1. Use part of the stamp to emboss. 

2. When gold-embossing, the image was embossed the 2nd time right after the first (the image was still hot). This will achieve a thicker and richer image.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

January 26

Happy Sunday!!

It's the last day of the weekend and I hope you're doing something fun :)

Girl Friday Piali has some eye candy for you today!

Check this out...

How adorable is that texty heart???

She stamped the text from Out Loud on pretty colors, then used our Heart Board Fri-Die to cut out all those delicious layers. Totally love this!

Both are in stock in the store right now :)

What does Spooky, Wonderful Words and Cupids Arrows have in common???

This card!!

I love that awesome sentiment stamped over the funky heart.

And tat super cool circle border is just plain awesome!

Don't you just love it when a holiday themed stamp can be used all year long???

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

January 18

Happy Saturday!!

I hope you are getting to do something fun today.

If you're lucky enough to stay home and enjoy some crafty time,

I've got some yummy stuff to feed your mojo from Girl Friday Angie!

First up is this cutie patootie that she created to play along with our 

COLOR BLOCK Challenge at CAS-ual Fridays...

A little pattern paper,

(love that she used 2 strips of the same pattern layered over each other)

a fun wood element,

and our arrow die from Heart Board Fri-Dies dressed up with a sentiment from 

Cupid's Arrows.

I love this super lots!!! 

Check out what she did with our Heart Board Fri-Dies set.

I love how she used just 1 of the hearts. 

It's such a fun die set since it cuts so many heart shapes in one pass.

You'll find lots of great ways to use them :)

The sentiment arrow has such a great position as it shoots across the heart.

I do want to point out the sentiment inside the heart.

 Angie got creative and distressed her letter stickers a bit using our 

swoosh from Breathe and white ink.

What a great idea that you can use on any bold sentiment!!

Last but not least,

wait til you see this!

OMG!

How much do you love those glittery Heart Note Fri-Dies?

And do you love them even more inside the pattern paper Heart Board Fri-Dies hearts?

Swoooon!!!!

The music bars from Love Notes as a background is awesome.

I want this!!!

We still have the Heart Note and Heart Board Fri-Dies in stock.

Cupid's Arrows and Love Notes is currently sold out but will be back in stock in a couple weeks.

However, if you need them sooner, you can still find them at lots of our amazing retailers!

Be sure to click that tab at the top of our blog to click on the link to your favorite stores.

If your favorite store isn't on that page,

shoot me an email at info@cas-ualfridaysstamps.com

and I'll see what I can do :)

January Sneak Peek Week Day 3

It's the last day of our 

January Sneak Peek Week!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing the new product in action

these past couple of days,

but we do still more fun in store for you today!

All the new stamps and Fri-Dies will be available 

at midnight eastern tonight!!

Introducing...

Cupid's Arrows and Heart Board Fri-Die

4 x 6 $15.00

This awesome heart cuts 4 funky open hearts and 1 small solid heart all at once!

So, the 2 die set really cuts 6 shapes!

$15.00

Look good?

Just wait!

The Girl Fridays will make your jaw drop!

From Girl Friday Lynn...

From Girl Friday Kelly...

From Girl Friday Jingle...

From Girl Friday Virginia...

From Girl Friday Piali...

From Girl Friday Sylvia...

From Girl Friday Dana...

And from Girl Friday Angie...

Are you speechless?

Chin hurt from hitting your keyboard?

I know...me too.

It's the hazard of working with purple chin designers!!

I know you are Fri-Die-ing to get your hands on these babies,

but you don't have too much longer to wait!

Midnight eastern on the 9th (how many minutes from now is that???)

They will be in the store :)

Now, we are doing our Sneak Peek Week prize a different way this month to change things up a bit...

Be sure to leave a comment on each of our Sneak Peek Posts this week.

1 lucky winner from just 1 of the days

will receive...

the entire release!!

on January 9th, I'll do a random.org draw to choose the day, then another to choose the winner from the comments on that day's post.

Thank you so much for hanging out with this week,

I hope you'll remember to follow us on 

Pinterest

to see lots of our inspiration organized by stamp and Fri-Die set

See ya in a few hours!!!