Hi Everyone and welcome to Day 2 of the Stamp of Approval Love Is In the Air Collection Blog Hop! If you arrived here from Melissa’s blog then I hope you’re having lots of fun seeing all of the inspiration for the new SOA Collection. If you arrived here directly then I highly recommend starting at Catherine’s blog first for the full blog-hoppy experience!
If you’re not familiar with Stamp of Approval, you’ll find out a lot about it by checking the info on Catherine’s blog. In a nutshell, it is a quarterly themed collection of stamping products that all co-ordinate and can be used alone or together along with some cardstock or other embellishments to create fantastic cards.
This collection is AMAZING!!! (and I’m not just saying that – when I saw it I literally squealed). The stamps and dies have been revealed this week, and there’s a mystery ink included that you’ll see when you receive your box (it’s GORGEOUS). Stamp of Approval Collections sell out like hotcakes so get on the waiting list in time for release on January 9th! And if that’s not all, the Collection comes with a downloadable Project Guide with tonnes of ideas to inspire you.
I have a few projects to share with you that I made using the new collection and different techniques – it was SO much fun to play with and there are some amazing staples in it that you’ll be reaching for again and again.
Love Is In The Air Balloons – using a letterpress technique
My first project uses the Love Is In The Air stampset and co-ordinating dies, the Sunburst die, Bon Voyage stampset and the Postage Stamp dies. Those postage stamp dies layer and are so versatile.
I created the sun using a letterpress technique. I die cut the Sunburst 4 times from thick cardstock and vellum and adhered them together, with the vellum as the bottom layer. I then inked up the vellum with Catherine Pooler ink in Tiara and ran it through my die cutting machine using an embossing sandwich over white cardstock. This leaves a gorgeous stamped image with a slight debossed look!
The balloons from the stamp set were stamped in Catherine Pooler inks in Mandarin Spice, Tiki Torch, and Bellini. The Bon Voyage sentiment is from the Bon Voyage stamp set, stamped in Tutti Fruiti. I layered up the die cuts on fun foam and foam squares, and embellished with Glossy Accents and Nuvo drops in Orange Marmalade which perfectly co-ordinate with the inks!
Rainbow Love – using inks as watercolors
My next project uses the Love die from the collection and the awesome border stamp from the huge The World Awaits stampset. I cut down a piece of white Catherine Pooler Designs cardstock (amazing for stamping) to A2 size and placed it in my MISTI. I masked off a heart shape in the centre and then used my MISTI to stamp the border in Catherine Pooler Black Jack ink. The MISTI helped me keep the stamps evenly spaced, by moving my cardstock down two squares each time. I then removed the mask and trimmed 1/8th inch off each side and popped it up on a card base with fun foam.
Did you know you can also watercolor with CP inks? You can! And they work amazingly. To create the rainbow love, I smooshed Catherine Pooler inks onto the large Catherine Pooler Designs acrylic block and spritzed with water. The inks I used were Sauna, Flirty Fuchsia, It’s A Girl, Party Dress, Fiesta Blue, Grass Skirt AND THE MYSTERY INK :D. I then painted thin strips along a piece of watercolor cardstock, letting each color blend into the other. I dried it then went back over it again with the same colors. When dry, I die cut it using the Love sentiment and an additional 3 times from white watercolor cardstock. I stacked them together with spray adhesive and adhered to the card. I embellished with a few sparkling clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins. The sentiment is from the Happiness Enclosed stamp set, white heat embossed on grey cardstock.
Ends of the Earth – using ink smooshing
For my final card, I went FULL SMOOSH. I smooshed Catherine Pooler inks in Sweet 16, It’s A Girl and It’s a Boy onto a sheet of acetate and spritzed with water. I then dabbed it onto some white watercolor cardstock, dried it, dabbed it again, dried it. I trimmed it then dry embossed one of the stitched frames from the Postage Stamp dies into the card using my die cutting machine and an embossing sandwich.
I heat embossed the sentiment from The World Awaits stamp set in silver embossing powder over the top. I then stamped the small and TEENY heart from the Love Is In The Air stampset in the same colors and added some sparkling clear sequins to embellish. I popped the panel up onto a white card base using fun foam.
Comment to win the collection!
So now it’s time to carry on the hop. Catherine is giving away a collection each day of the blog hop but you’ve got to comment to win! And if the winner already purchased the collection, they will receive $100 to spend in the store (or on the next SOA release!) The winners are revealed on Catherine’s blog on the 10th January. Good luck!
Your next stop on the Blog Hop is Jennifer Carter. If you get lost along the way, the full list of wonderful hop participants is below.
- Catherine Pooler
- Chrissie Tobas
- Melissa Miller
- Jenny Colacicco <–YOU ARE HERE
- Jennifer Carter
- Heather North
- Tracie Pond
- Josefine Fouarge
Enjoy your hopping!!
Jenny x
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Beautiful cards from this lovely new SOA! Especially love the brightness of your ‘Bon Voyage’ card.
Such great cards Jenny! I LOVE that letterpress sunburst you did – so clever! And the ink smooshing always gets me – one of my fav techniques. 🙂
Wow, I’m blown away by your cards, they are just so gorgeous!! What great products! I’m a Stamp Nation member.
Oh my, your ink smooshed card is gorgeous. What a great way to display a sentiment. And the yellow and orange combo, wow!!!!! And of course I love your rainbow love! Super cards, Jennifer =)
Stampnation member and I think you did an amazing job with this collection.
I love all of these cards! They are just the right amount of color to go with its contrast. The Ink colors go together perfectly as well!
Beautiful cards. The smooth card is very delicate and lovely. I’m a Stamp Nation member.
Great cards
I love the simplicity of that last card. So simple but so colorful and gorgeous!
Sensational cards and great color combinations!!
The watercolor is gorgeous. I’m guessing a purple for mystery color
Love your cards they are very bright and cheery
These are lovely! And congrats on making Catherine’s team! I”m a SN member and a Stamp Junkie and I’m loving the fact that we get a mystery ink color in this SOA box! I’m guessing the new color is in the pink/purple family as that is the color lots and lots of SN members like!!!
Fantastic designs Jennifer! Your first card is so warm and sunny. I love how you used a whole mix of the oranges. So pretty!
Great cards – can’t wait to get my box!
Oh my goodness! Pink, yellow, orange, peach! I absolutely love your use of colors!
Wow! your first card is gorgeous love the colours just awesome. Really blown away by all your cards they are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this collection is fantastic.
What a fab batch of cards! That orange, peach and yellow is my fav.., what a stunner! Love the colors and that cool sun!
Beautiful cards! I love this collection!
From this SN member love your color combination. Beautiful cards!
Fabulous cards! The bright yellows and oranges gave me life this morning! Absolutely stunning! I’m a stamp junkie and think the new ink color is a pink
Beautiful cards, love the colors
I’m in aaaw. Your cards are so creative! Love the color combinations!!!
I love the how you made the letterpressed sun. It looks amazing on your card. I love all of the cards you have made!!
Oh my gosh . . . love the sunshine look on that first card. The color is fabulous. I think the second one is my favorite. The coloring of that “love” die is to die for. As a StampNation member we get to enjoy all the creativity 24/7 – and looking forward to seeing what all the members do with thee stamps and dies.
Very lovely cards ! Thanks for the chance to win.😊
Love your cards !
Fantastic cards! I am really loving the Bon Voyage card! The colors and the design are delightful!
The bright colors are so wonderful. Makes me happy just looking asst them.
Well! I thought the first card was pretty and the letterpress technique was interesting. Then the next card, I loved the “love” watercoloring. And then! That ink smooshing?! *Swoon* Gorgeous! Glad you are part of the SN DT! Can’t wait to see what you create!
Love how sunny looking your first card is.. Great ideas using the collection.
Great cards! I’ve never done the letterpress embossing, thanks for the details on how to do that! I love how you did the background on the love card too!
Love how you have a certain section
of the card that is the highlight – for
example, the heart covering the lines
of the background.
Great technique.
thanks for sharing.
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Gorgeous cards. In Love yet Again! Love being a StampNation member. I love the Stamp of Approval collections because everything in it works so well together you don’t have to think about it. The cards practically make themselves. I love just how many different ways these products can be used together. Hard to choose a favorite product but I’m leaning really hard in the direction of those postage stamp dies.
Terrilynn
Beautiful cards!
Oh such beautiful cards great jobs,
Shew! These are fabulous!
Love the design and colors on your first card. All of your cards are gorgeous!! Great job…
These cards are fabulous! Can’t wait to play with this collection!
Wow!! Your cards are gorgeous and inspiring. This SOA collection is awesome. I’m a Stamp Nation member.
Beautiful selection of colors!
I love your colorful cards! I’m in Laurel’s Facebook cardmaking group and my guess is Pretty in Pink
“I’m a Stamp Junkie and I think the new color is white or maybe ombre
Love the LOVE card and colours used
Gorgeous cards! Another outstanding SOA! Lots of ways to use this set.
Oh my, that first card with all the beautiful yellow and orange inks, what a good idea!!!!
Great cards. Especially the rainbow love card.
The sentiments for the SOA are so clever.
Wonderful collection of colorful cards!
I’m a stamp Junkie new color ? Desert sand, love the cards. Yellow my favorite color!!
Love your Bon Voyage card. Love this whole collection.!
I love the fresh color combo you used on your first card.
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Love all of the cards you made.
Ohhh I can’t wait to get my hands on this box!!
Pretty cards! Love your color combos!
Your cards are an inspiration. Beautiful!
Such fun designs, love them all.
stunning cards – love the creativity behind them:)
Oh my gosh Jenny, these are amazing! I am really drawn to that first one and I typically don’t use those colors much but I think that may just have to change. And thanks for sharing how you made the sunburst – I’ll have to give that a try.
Really love the cards. Love the colors on the first one. Thanks for sharing.
I especially loved the last card. So pretty.
My favorite of your cards is the first because of the colors – they look awesome together. The other two are terrific too.
A gorgeous set of cards, Jenny! Love that you’ve used different inking techniques to create them. I had recently seen the letterpress technique (I think Jennifer McGuire showed it?) but have yet to try it myself. It works great with the fab sunburst die.
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I am a Stamp Junkie and a member of CardMaking Tips,Techniques and chats! I love your delightful and colorful card, Jenny! Love CPD products!
Love the colors in the first card. It just feels like sunshine which is something we really need a lot of here in NJ right now. So cold! The love card is just perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Your cards are so fun. I am especially loving how you used the border stamp repeatedly to make a background. I think those border stamps are my favorite from the whole collection!
I like your smoosh technique.
I love all your cards. The paperpress sun & rainbow love cards were great. But then I came to the last one and was blown away. I love the final results of your smooshing technique.
I love your cards. I really love them! Can’t wait to make something similar!
Thank you for sharing that debossing technique and I thought this was my fav card till I continue to scroll down and saw the ink smooshed card. I just love ink smooshing.
Love the colors you chose for your first card – they coordinated perfectly! Love how you colored the Love die cutout – beautiful! And I liked seeing the techniques you used on the third card. All three are magnificent! Thanks for your time and creativity! 🙂
I really love all three of your cards. I’m especially drawn to your use of color in each one—especially your smooshing technique!
I love your color combinations! Such pretty cards 🙂
Love your heart card!!! Great designs for the collection!
Your cards are so beautiful. I really like the Love with the masked heart and the borders. Great ideas! Thanks for the inspiration.
Great cards!
My favorite is the repeated border stamp one.
Love the thinking out of the “box”.
I love your sunshine and balloon Bon Voyage card, it is so happy, the way it feels when you are going on a trip or some kind of adventure. The background on your love card is a great way to use the border stamp, that I would not have thought of on my own.The SMOOSH, on your third card is such a beautiful blend of the two colors, It’s a Girl and It’s a Boy. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Everything is so sweet and pretty, I really love the soft tone!
Absolutely Ahhhhh-mazing cards!!!!! Love love love all 3. I also love picking up the mystery colors in these blogs.. Makes for a fun treasure hunt..
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Beautiful cards! I love the bright colors on the first one.
Thanks for sharing such beautiful cards. I love the orange idea!! I am a SN member!!
Your cards are amazing.
I did not know you could watercolor with these inks!!! Bon voyage…so cute…
Gorgeous cards, Jenny! I LOVE the letterpressed sunburst! So awesome!!!
Your 1st card has my longing for summer and all things bright and sunny!
Jenny thank you for sharing your talents! I love being a Stamp Nation member! Such great inspiration! Your letterpress technique makes me want to run in and try it. I’ve done it with embossing folders but not vellum… hmmm! LOL!
Great cards, I love the bright & cheeriness of you sunburst card, the bold pop of color on your love card & the softness of you last card. Great job.
The watercolor card came out nice. I love it
I love the bright & cheeriness of you sunburst card, the bold pop of color on your love card & the softness of you last card. Great job.
Lovely ideas and great cards, thanks for sharing.
Amazing cards. Love all of the cards and the inks you used.
I seriously love your cards! The third one I’m especially fond of – so pretty. Love this collection.
Love all of your designs. The variety of styles and colors really showcase this collection. This collection has blown me away. It’s a just have. TFS
Beautiful cards. I love the scripty Bon Voyage font. What a great collection. Thank you for sharing.
Some wonderful cards and techniques showcased here, Jenny.
I love your tricks for dry-embossing and letter-pressing the dies in this collection. And your simple but beautiful water-coloured world card. I’m going to have fun following your blog! Thanks for the inspiration.
Terrific cards! I especially like the color combos you used on the Bon Voyage card
Wow fabulous cards! Really like the first one.
Jenny, your cards are AMAZING and GORGEOUS showcasing the new stamps, dies, and inks.
I adore them all. Great designs on each of them.
Thank you for the inspiration and an opportunity to win one of the SOA box.
Lovely cards! Can’t wait to get my hands on this SOA
Love your cards, Jenny! The Bob Voyage card is fantastic~
Stamp Nation Member. Thank you for showing how versatile CP inks can be! Beautiful cards!
I love all the cards. The monochromatic look of the balloons is wonderful. I also love the watercoloured puece. Thank you for this inspiration.
Love the color combinations!
Sailing into the sun… Takes me away. Lovely, happy cards.
love these cards, so beautiful!
Jenny,
Your cards are all amazing. I like the Love is in the Air one the most. So bright and sunny. I am so excited for this collection.
What a great mix of inspiration in these three cards! Just love them all!!
As a SN member, I am not familiar with your name. But, congrats for joining the team. I love all your cards with this new SOA box.
Beautiful cards. Great stamps and dies.
Beautiful thanks for sharing
Love your color combinations! Love all of your cards. Thank you for sharing.
I am a StampNation member and I just love your cards, especially the water colour one you made, so pretty.
Your cards are so fun and cute. I love them!
Love the colors you used. Great for a change.
Great cards. The Bon Voyage card is fabulous!!!
Great cards! The hot air balloon card is so bright and fun and the others have wonderful use of color. I’m a Stamp Junkie and I’m loving this new SOA box!
Sammibug aka Samantha Houp aka Sammi
Fun cards! I can’t wait to try the smooshing technique – that love is gorgeous!
I loved all your cards. I think my favorite was the rainbow love. I loved the masking and how the love popped. SN member.
I love all of these’ stamps dies, inks and embellishments! The color of Nuvo drops matches your CP ink so well.
Just have to say BEAUTIFUL cards! Love the sunburst card & the border stamp cards. Your work is fantastic 🌞🙃☀️
Jenny, your cards are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Your cards are so pretty. Love the way you have used color and watercolor.
Great cards. Love the new border stamps and the love is in the air card is so bright and cheerful.
I am a StampNation member and I just love this new SOA. My favourite though would be the postage stamp die. I am also excited about the new ink colour being released to add the the full collection I got for Christmas. I just love your colour choices for the rainbow effect on the love die.
Oh my! That rainbow love! So pretty! And the orange balloons… so pretty! Can’t wait for Monday night for Stamp Nation on party! I’m also a Stamp Junkie:)
A smoosh of a rainbow of colors….LOVE
I really like these cards. I am a Stamp Nation member.
Lovely, from SN member
Love all the various techniques you used on these cards. They are all stunning! Thanks for sharing.
I’m a StampNation Member and I have to say I love your cards. The beautiful bright colors of your first card, and the watercolor love and then the soft subtle look of your last card! I’m really loving the postage die and love die. Can’t wait to play with all of these myself. Thanks for the Wonderful Inspiration!
BEAUTIFUL! Thank you fora sharing your techniques
I am a new Stamp Nation member and am loving what I see in this release!!
I love the smooshing card the best. The softness is lovely!
I am a Stamp Nation member. Lovely cards. My favourite is Bon Voyage- These colours really stand out for me.
I am so going to have to try the smooshing technique! I love the looks of that card! New SN member, and I;m learning so much!
I really like your cards. I’m not sure if I like the Bon Voyage card or the Love You to the End of the World I like better.
Such gorgeous cards! I love the letterpress sun and that you can eatercolour with the inkpads too.
OMG! What awesome cards you made. Great job they are so adorable.
Great cards! Can’t wait to play with these sets.
Very cool cards. So fun and creative. Really love them!
Wow, so beautiful. Such inspiration. Love your cards.
Love the softness of your cards, such a different look. Really showcases the collection’s versatility. I’m really hoping the mystery ink is a navy!
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I think I’m hooked these cards are so pretty. I love the bright colors, and how well these inks goes with this SOA.
Such pretty cards. Love the rainbow love design!
I love seeing all the ways you use the stamps and in such a variety of colors.
I love all of the cards, but the rainbow card is my favorite! So much inspiration, I can’t wait for the release!
Love your cards Jenny and especially the way you’ve used the Postage Stamp & Love dies. I can’t wait to get my hands on them. Thanks for the inspiration and I hope you have an awesome week.
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I love the cards but the choice of color combinations were fabulous! Very soft but yet striking!
These cards are beautiful. So simple but so awesome. Love them.
Jenny, your cards are full of color and so many different techniques. Love the Bon Voyage card stamps and the Sunburst die with the bright orange and yellow colors. The Love from the die in multi colors really pops with that boarder stamped background.
Love the watercolour effect, such pretty cards
Love your cards! Love what you did with the sunburst
Totally amazing cards. Just love the watercoloured smooshed one.
I like all the cards, but especially like the vibrant yellows and oranges on the Bon Voyage card.
My hippy roots love the rainbow love!
Great cards! Love your color combinations.
Wow each card is different from the others but all so great! I love the hot air ballon and the love die!!! Wonderful job on these cards!
All three of your cards are so creative! I love the bright yellows and oranges in the hot air balloons and the texture of the postage stamp die and the stitched layer. The third card with the smooshing of the colors and the pastel marble look make a delightful card.
Absolutely stunning designs. Gorgeous cards.
Stunning cards. My favorite is the ends of the earth.
All of your cards are great, especially Bon Voyage!
These are fab. I love the colour combos you use. The oranges and yellows are stunning and the rainbow love with the grey is fab.
Oh I love the whimsy of the “I’ll love you….earth” card!
I love, !ove, love your balloon card – it is so bright and cheerful.
I love your cards, especially the first balloon one! Fabulous!! Thanks for sharing with us on the fun SOA blog hop.
Great job on Smooshing the Unicorn! It came out great! I am loving the second card “Love”, also!
Awesome cards cannot wait to get this SOA box!
You “had” me at letterpress technique, and then knocked me over with the watercolored love 💕!
Your card are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Can I get a smoosh smoosh!!! Your “Ends of the Earth” card is my favorite… Love the organic flow of smooshing.
Your cards are fabulous. I love the ink smooching.
Such cheerful cards. Love the bon voyage card!
What fun cards. Love the orange and yellow…so happy!
I love the variety of cards!
LOVE all your cards. Thank you for showcasing all these techniques. Masking of the heart shape is really nice. The smooshing is great as well.
Beautiful cards, love the debossed sun on the bright and sunny Bob Voyage Card, and the graphic background you made with the border stamp is perfect for the rainbow Love, just stunning. Love the sentiment for the ink smooshed background too!
I love all the different techniques you used to create your cards They all turned out so beautiful. I’ve never tried letterpress but I love how it looks.
Fabulous cards! I love the bright yellow colors with your first card! Your rainbow Love card with the heart is stunning. I love your smooshing card with the sentiment. Perfect pair!!
I can’t decide which it the most beautiful, the rainbow “love” card or the “to the ends of the earth” card.
I can’t decide which I love more, the rainbow love card or the one with the silver text. Beautiful!
Awesome cards!! Especially love your Bon Voyage card!!
Love your creative approach! Thanks for sharing your talent!
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Love all three cards! The Nuevo drops really add to the card! Also love the paint splatter look of the last one!
Love the bright yellow and orange on the first card, and that font is fabulous. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor! That last card with the ink smooshing is beautiful! I love how you have used the postage stamp die to emboss that gorgeous border!! Your cards are fabulous. Thanks for sharing your design ideas with us. Can’t wait to CaSE your cards when I get my hands on this SOA collection! 🙂
Lovin the border stamps and the new stamp blocks coming out
Gorgeous cards!!!
Such Beautiful cards and happy Colors you chose. Love them specially the smooshed ink one!
All your cards are so different and so pretty! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome cards! I especially love your verigated LOVE card!
Gosh I could not pick a favorite out of your cards because each is beautiful, colorful and creative. I did place my order for the new set and you have peaked my interest in the new color. Those that are not members of Stamp Nation what are you waiting for? There is only one word that can describe the tutorials, instructors and supplies and if you remember the movie Mary Poppins then you will know exactly what it is. In case you do not recall here it is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Gorgeous cards. I adore the rainbow of color on love.
Lovely cards. I like how the SOA releases their product all coordinated and this plans so you aren’t stumped.. such a great idea.
Mmm, so many delicious stamps and techniques! But I think my favorite is that beautiful watercolored love against the grey and white background. That just looks so classy. Thanks for sharing your great ideas with us!
Very nice cards, waiting to play with these sets.
Super cute – love the colors.
I really love what you did with this SOA. I wish I could see the sun up close to see the detail of how you ink/embossed it on there. Very cool! And I love how you watercolored the ‘love’ script. Turned out beautifully! Thanks so much for sharing your ideas and inspiration! I would love to have this set.
I love your style! That first card is so bright and cheery!
Lovely cards!! I like the orange/yellow colors on the first one, the rainbow love sentiment is so pretty on the second one, and your third card with the splotch of color is so cool!!
Spectacular cards! Great designs – I love the colours you used in all of them!
Inspiring story there. What occurred after? Thanks!