Add The Trims!

Hello, dear Fresh Squeezed friends! It's Virginia here!  Today is my LAST design team post here (wahhh...).  It's hard to believe that I started last July and it's time to say goodbye! Time sure flies when you are having fun!

For today's project, I made a Mother's Day card using Mother Knows Best.  Even though Mother's Day is still far away, you can always change the sentiment to suit the occasion!

With the right pattern paper and trims, this homespun card was really easy and fun to create.  I colored the yarns in copics and wrapped it with twine. The "valance" was created with some lace.  I also added some splatter in the background to give the design some interest.  I hope you like it!

Mother Knows Best

This post concludes my term here.  I want to thank Ryann and Shannon for trusting and giving me this amazing opportunity to play with Fresh Squeezed Stamps.  It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the fabulous FSS! I will definitely miss blogging here!  Your support and encouragement mean a lot to me!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!  
-Virginia

Hand-stitched with Love!

Happy Monday, Fresh Squeezed friends! It's Virginia here!  As Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I thought it would be perfect to share a card that I made for a special someone.

The design is really simple.  I chose the handwritten heart from When Hearts Collide and did some stitching.  Can't sew or no sewing machine?  No problem! The easiest way to do this type of stitching is to pierce the holes with a paper-piercer first - a thumbtack will also work!  Then you can hand-stitch the holes. 

You can incorporate any colors to your design.  I chose red to accentuate the design. Hand-stitching is ideal for adding interest and textures to a simple design.  It's well worth the effort, don't you think?!

When Hearts Collide

Hope you get inspired and try some hand-stitching if you haven't already. Thanks for stopping by!  -Virginia

Spring Cleaning - Day 2

Welcome back to our Spring Cleaning Extravaganza!  Today we've got another clean sweep with fabulous creations by our very awesome design team.  Aren't they the best?! Yeah, we think so, too!  They've done an outstanding job featuring some of the best of Fresh Squeezed Stamps, so let's get to it!

But wait, before you get too excited, we want to let you know that we've got another giveaway!  There are several ways to enter, and all the details are just below...

First up is Katie Gehring's card that squeezes in all the beautiful colors of our unofficial namesake set, Sublime Citrus!  You've gotta love the overlapping slices in this blocked homage to sunny places (and perhaps some juicy beverages!)

Next up to bat is Stacey Schafer with Say Anything!  She's used the cool border stamped in gold and the sentiment especially for an awesome coach.  The neutral tones in her patterned paper, along with a little splatter, make this card a home run!

Lesley Croghan's fresh take on Weather Through reminds me a bit of Mary Poppins' flying umbrellas -- makes me smile just thinking about it!  Colorful paper piecing and an eye catching addition to her sentiment really make this card - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Kim Singdahlsen mixes two parts sparkliness with one part fun sentiment to give us a Fresh Squeezed mock-tail! Using the Sublime Citrus set, lots of glitter, and a dash of Background Check, Kim's card is definitely shaken, not stirred!

Virginia Lu uses faux stitching to give us a handmade beauty using the Weather Through set.  Her umbrella is preciously paper pieced and reminds us that April showers bring May flowers!

Sarah Gough knitted one and purled two with this awesome card using Mother Knows Best! The ball of yarn is perfectly colored and everything about this card says women and crafts just go together!  Love the layout and die-cut pieces...any grandma would be thrilled to get this card!

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We're doing some spring cleaning in our online store beginning next week, so watch out for some great savings on featured sets! We'll discount different sets each week, beginning February 10...

Spring Cleaning - Day 1

Surprise! Today we've got our newest stamp set, Close Your Ears: Deer for sale in our online store! Grab 'em while they last -- it's going to be the new "little black dress" of your stamp collection.

Close Your Ears: Deer

Forget about those winter storms and start planning for warmer weather by joining Fresh Squeezed Stamps in some SPRING CLEANING!! Our design team has pulled out some of the most loved Fresh Squeezed Stamps sets, polished up the ol' ink pads, and are ready to show off some brand new cards using some old favorites.

Today we're GIVING AWAY one of these favorites -- there are several ways to enter today's giveaway, and all the details are just below...


Sarah Gough has stitched up a comfy, cozy card using our Friendly Folk set, which has lots of rustic, primitive images and a real homey feel. The wooden button and twine are the perfect finishing touches, too!

Virginia Lu's looking toward spring with a garden full of fresh veggies and colorful watering cans! These spectacular watercolored cans, along with all the other fun images and sentiments, are from our Mother Knows Best set.

Kim Singdahlsen dusted off the favorite, Weather Through, a set packed with lots of meteorological images (ooh, big word!) and great sentiments you won't find anywhere else. Kim's made a standout card with her poppin' color scheme and clean style. Love the sequin raindrops, no doubt from a cloud with a silver lining!

It's all about some sunshine we're hoping for to melt the cold and bring on springtime! Lesley Croghan gets us in the mood with her sweet and cheerful card using Sublime Citrus. If you like puns as much as we do, this is a must-have set!

Katie Gehring's inspired ingenuity brings us a great new take on the Weather Through set! She's heat embossed the moon and stars and added die-cut clouds for texture. Love the sprinkle of sequins and the little pennant. Did we mention the sentiments in this set are unique?! Out of the box, folks, think outside that box!

Stacey Schafer's card is a HOOT, and just the prettiest little thing ever!  She's used our Hootie Who? set, which is full of lots of fun owls and great sentiments.  Love the doilies and tiny hearts, plus that black floral and striped patterned paper and punny sentiment round out this adorable card.

 

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New Release - Close Your Ears: Deer

It's a little bit cheeky, and a lot a bit fun!  We've got a new mini set that we think you're going to want to add to your collection right away!

Close Your Ears: Deer is the first in our series of edgy, chuckle-out-loud stamps that are meant to make you do a double-take and then grin from ear to ear!  This 2 x 4 mini set features a studly stag and two hilarious sentiments perfect for say, a belated birthday or compliment of any kind!

Close Your Ears: Deer

The design team did an outstanding job creating unique and quite different cards with this set.  This mini is great for a foundation, allowing you to add lots of bits and bobs from some of our other fabulous stamp sets.  Check these out...

Katie Gehring's card is crisp and clean, gender neutral, and downright adorable! Forget that ol' singing Billy Bass plaque (remember those?!), Katie's got her own Donny Deer to make her smile!

Katie Gehring 

Virginia Lu's taken a mod interpretation of this gold lamé rack and multi-hued stag -- always fashion forward, we say!  Sparkly gold sequins round out this ensemble, along with a wooden runway created with our Background Check stamp set.  Strike a pose!

Virginia Lu

Stacey Schafer's made a fabulous masculine card using some trendy elements like gold ink and vellum!  She's also used a border and sentiment from our set called Say Anything. Love the stitching and rustic twine/button combo!

Stacey Schafer

Lesley Croghan really mixed it up with this birthday card for her mom!  Fabulous colors and patterns, and a fun use of sentiments from Take A Number and When Hearts Collide, give this card lots of pizzaz!

Lesley Croghan

Sarah Gough made great use of coordinating patterned paper on her card.  Love the Happy Birthday speech bubble from On Trend 2013.  Everything's perfectly mounted, too!  Pardon the pun...

Sarah Gough

Kim Singdahlsen put her expert skills to use with this woodsy, masculine version.  That woodgrain embossed background is perfect with the flecked cream card stock -- clean, simple and just the right touch of color for *pop*!

Kim Singdahlsen

And finally, we want to share a fabulous card by our January guest designer, Emily Leiphart! She sent this over to us today just for this special release.  Love the cool aqua ink, the stamped off sentiment and the glittery bow...how schnazzy is that?!

Emily Leiphart

Close Your Ears: Deer will be available for purchase in our online store tomorrow - Wednesday, February 5!

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Customize Your Own Sentiment!

Hello, dear Fresh Squeezed friends! It's Virginia here with your Monday FSS post! I want to share a birthday card that I created for my daughter's friend who was turning 25! Now 25 is really a very special age for a young lady!

First I gathered my supplies: Take a Number clear stamp set, pattern paper, yellow clear button, gold strings, ready-made banners and some washi tape.

All I had to do was stamp and emboss the sentiment in gold.  Clear stamps are perfect for that.  As long as you line up the stamps, you can create this sentiment in two easy steps!

Take a Number

With Take a Number, you can create ANY sentiment that suits the occasion!  I was told that the birthday girl loved this card to pieces.  :)  Thanks for stopping by!  -Virginia

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Heart Happy

Happy Monday, Fresh Squeezed friends!  It's Virginia here!  I absolutely love the sentiment "you make my heart happy" from When Hearts Collide.  It prompted me to create this happy card.  I combined all my favorite things for card making - gold embossing, water coloring, paint splatter, gold strings and sequins!

I started out embossing the heart in white and used a water color pen and applied distress inks. I also gold-embossed the edges of the water-color paper and flicked some paint to make the splatters.  The gold strings and sequin are the final touches! I used only one image from this set...can you imagine the possibilities from the entire set?

When Hearts Collide

What are your favorite things on your cards?  Have you tried to combine them? Give it a try if you haven't already!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  -Virginia

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You're 1 of a Kind!

Dear Fresh Squeezed friends! It's Virginia here with Monday's post. Today's card is a fun one that will make any receiver smile!

This one layer card is simple but it sure has a big impact. I started out with stamping the main penguin image. Then I stamped and cut out another using a thin piece of paper. I used it as a mask and stamped the rest of  the penguins. 

At the end, it's the final touch that makes a card a WOW! I created the bow using the Ribbon Bow Punch with two small bows (just trim off the bottom part). Add a sequin, done! And....oh, don't forget to add a bit of Glossy Accents on the beaks to give them a little shine!

Take a Number                                Arctic Friends

Thanks for stopping by!

January Release Week Day 2 - When Hearts Collide

The shape of a heart is the iconic symbol of love and our brand new set is absolutely filled with hearts (and love)!

When Hearts Collide is a collection of the shapeliest hearts around!  They're as diverse as any group of creative folks -- wiry, solid, sexy, preppy -- to describe just a few.  Mix and match these lovely images and come up with a plethora of designs to express your love.  Add an arrow and sentiment and you've got yourself a heartwarming Valentine.

When Hearts Collide

Stacey Schafer's card is a surprise package of loveliness, filled with all the hearts and good stuff this new set has to offer!  One of the sentiments becomes a banner, and take a peek at what's under the vellum...hearts of every shape and size!  Love the "tails" of the stitching, along with the pretty twine, that give this card a touch of whimsy.

Stacey Schafer

Kim Singdahlsen featured the super fun "wiry" heart in her card.  We just love the shiny enamel hearts that perfectly coordinate, and her taupe and gold base create a fabulous stage for these four beauties!

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan put this fun new set to good use!  She's featured a simple color palette with lots of *pop*, throwing in a dash of coordinating patterned paper for the belly band around the gift box.  All the fun layers are simply delightful!!

Lesley Croghan

Sarah Gough's picture perfect valentine is SO pretty!  All the feminine touches - doily, stitching, gold ink, and sequins - will make Cupid proud!

Sarah Gough

Katie Gehring took the name of our set to heart when she created this one!  A rainbow of hearts collide in this fun, fresh card perfect for anyone on your Valentine's Day list.  Her expert masking brings in dimension, almost as if these hearts are posing for a portrait!

Katie Gehring

Virginia Lu's card is wired for love!  Check out the background of plaid hearts, too!  And in the end, the heart says it all...

Virginia Lu

All stamps previewed during Release Week will be available for purchase in our online store beginning this Friday, January 10th!

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January Release Week Day 1 - Love Signs

Welcome to Day 1 of our release week!  Fresh Squeezed Stamps has the loveliest clear stamp sets of the season and all signs point to Cupid!

Love Signs makes short work of telling someone how much you care!  Get a conversation started about how your love measures up, or be a kid again carving it up with a smoochable chant!  So many fun ways to express how happy being in love can feel.

Love Signs

Lesley Croghan starts off the parade of sweetness with a fun gift set that includes an adorable gift card and candy-filled packets, all dolled up with the cutest tags.  Can't you see these at your next Bunco party or even your kids' classroom?  Endless possibilities here, folks!

Lesley Croghan

Virginia Lu's modern twist on an old-time favorite will brighten anyone's day!  We love the graphic, multicolor background and the hand embossed "frame".  Looks like something hanging in a MoMA gallery, eh?!

Virginia Lu

Katie Gehring's take on the chalkboard effect is spot on!  Literally, she's created a lovely little chalkboard straight out of the School of Love...eek, aren't those tiny "chalks" so cute? Did you notice the chalk tray made from Background Check? The paper doily and enamel dots are the perfect touches!

Katie Gehring

Stacey Schafer's style really shines in this Valentine's Day card that's just smitten with detail!  Love Signs really measures up -- in so many ways.  She's easily mixed and matched the fun images for that special someone.

Stacey Schafer

Kim Singdahlsen's taken a crisp, clean approach to her card and thrown in a border from Background Check to create the graph paper edge.  The black and white, with bold splashes of color, really set this card apart.  It's simple science, people, you're sure to love this new set!!

Kim Singdahlsen

Sarah Gough sees the writing on the wall -- it's true love!  She expertly combines her paper pieced "bliss" banner stamp with the banner on her patterned paper.  The heart checked box, with just the right touch of bling, add a feminine touch to this pretty, yet rustic, card.

Sarah Gough

All stamps previewed during Release Week will be available for purchase in our online store beginning this Friday, January 10th!

Use the Rafflecopter widget below for a chance to win a Love Signs stamp set!  One winner will be announced on our blog this Friday, January 10th!  *Please note that winners have seven (7) days to contact us, otherwise prizes are returned to the prize bucket for another giveaway. You can find our complete contest/giveaways policy HERE.

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