Hey, Friends! Welcome back for Day 2 of new product introductions at The Greetery!
Hold on to your hats....today's new products are adorable ones! Would you just look at that little bus!!! I mean, come on! So firstly, let's talk about the mini bus treat container!
So here's the deal.....this little bus is, of course, perfect for Christmas treats! You'll see the other girls dressing it up with garlands and more, for Christmas! But I wanted you to see a sweet little Valentine option as well. You can use this little cutie all year long, so I dressed mine up with flowers and hearts for Valentines Day. Fill it with some sweet treats and you're all set, with the cutest Valentines around!
I used the Happy Hippie Van dies to cut out all the pieces to build the little bus, and then I used the coordinating stencil set to color the bus, by blending red and pink inks with my blender brushes. GAH! A pink and red ombre bus!!! How fun is that?! I'd drive this baby! Haha!
I put little puffy heart stickers on the front for the hood ornament and on the back where the license plate goes. So fun!
Here's what she looks like when you open up the back end. Definitely big enough to hold Hershey Kisses or some other tasty little Valentine treat! And of course, like I said before, you can literally use this year-round for all sorts of different occasions!
{Valentine Van treat box supplies -- click on thumbnails}
Next up, is of course, what could be a coordinating card, except that I made mine a Christmas card. These colors are so fun for Christmas!
I used the new Christmas Care-A-Van stamps and dies, to cut out and stamp the van, the tree, and the garlands and bows. So fun to stamp the little van in whatever color combo you can dream up!
I used the Frosty Flakes stencils, to add the snowflakes to the white panel, and cut out those layers with the Crimped Frame dies. Then, I used the largest die from that set, to emboss the frame into the card base!
PRO TIP: Don't forget that you can dry emboss with your dies, too! Using them in multiple ways like I did here to create the look of a double mat, gives you lots more bang for your crafty buck!
To add the ornaments to the tree, I dotted it with a fine-tipped glue pen and then dipped it in a puddle of glitter, to pick up glitter on all the dots of glue.
For the sentiment, I blended ink on one of the tags from the Sentiment Suite Basics die set, again in an ombre fashion, and then stamped a sentiment from Christmas Care-A-Van.
{You Are Loved at Christmas supplies}
The two look so cute together, that you could totally swap out the Christmas card for a Valentine card and give the two as a set....or swap out the Valentine van for a pink and red Christmas treat van just like on the card....either way, they're darling as a set and what a fun way to give a cute little matching gift and card!
That's it for me today, but you know there's gonna be a ridiculous amount of cuteness for you to soak up today, at the Greetery Blog and when you bop around to visit the gals on the team!
>>Dawn McVey (You're here!)
Thanks so much for being here today! I'm gonna give you fair warning right now, that my post for tomorrow is pretty huge! It's my favorite day of the release, so I hope you'll pop back in and join me! So excited to show you everything I've made!
See you then!
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