Can you smell the holiday spice? We've been baking up something pretty exciting and can barely contain our joy!

Save the Date!

September 8th & 9th we'd love for you to join us for our Baking Spirits Bright Virtual Retreat. This holiday extravaganza will definitely get you in the spirit for your holiday making season!

What's Included

• Eight Virtual Holiday Paper Crafting Sessions
• Early Access to a Brand New Ink Color
• Exclusive CPD Product Bundle
• Project Guide Download with Bonus Card Ideas

Check out our talented crew of session instructors…

Don't miss grabbing your spot and limited edition supplies for this fantastic CPD event! Early Bird Ordering opens July 5th for a limited time. Sign up now to join our waitlist and be notified as soon as the retreat goes on sale. More yummy details coming soon!!!

I can't get enough of the Poppin' Wheelies Bundle from our Fair Play Collection, featuring the School's Out Stamp Set and Dies. I've made a bunch of cards with this bundle and even mixed in a few items from the rest of the collection!

If you missed me creating with the new products, be sure to check out our social media channels! Find Catherine Pooler Designs on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram!

I started this card with a bright and playful color combo. I ink blended Cotton Candy on the card layer, then stamped the Poppin' Wheelies Background Stamp in Party Dress. I inked each of the letters in the Yippee Word Die in rainbow colors, choosing our lightest shades of ink from the Party Color Wheel. Download your FREE Color Wheel here!

I added a small strip of paper from the Blue Ribbon Patterned Paper, which tied in the green on the turtle stamp. Yippee!

How sweet is this little hula hooping mouse from the School's Out Stamp Set? With this card, I used the Skyscape Mini Cover Plate to create a focal point. The Blue Ribbon Patterned paper added pops of pattern and detail.

Chalk effect time!! This card was what I envisioned when we created the Recess Stamp Set with the hop scotch stamp. I stamped with white pigment ink on black cardstock to create the sidewalk chalk feel. I colored in a few critters with my CP inks and blender pens over watercolor cardstock. This card is so great for a teacher thank you, before the kids head off on summer break.

Using layers with this bundle has been my jam! I integrated several of my Classic CPD dies like the Nested Stitched Hearts and the Dotted Circle Dies. I added some bling with the WOW! Cotton Candy Sparkles. Coloring the bunny in Cotton Candy made us all giddy and I just had to add the pop of green with the Grass Border Die.

Heading back to this color combo…it's just so summery and sweet!! I grabbed the Playful Pinwheels Cover Plate Die and did some inlaying. I filled some of the empty spots with Cotton Candy Sparkles and speaking of Cotton Candy…I did a pink mouse too! I cut down a tag die to add the sentiment and let the background be the star.

The Poppin' Wheelie's Bundle is so versatile. I can't wait to see what YOU will create with these crafty supplies!

The At the Fair Bundle is part of our Fair Play Collection and features two stamp sets that are ready for all the mix and match action! The sentiments work perfectly for birthday cards and I've had a blast creating cards for my stash.

Are you following us on Social Media? I created all these cards on Facebook, YouTube and our Instagram account.

Using the ferris wheel, from the At the Fair Stamp Set, in Cotton Candy on the background of this card came out super cute! The additional pieces of Blue Ribbon Patterned make this card so festive. I just adore that sheet with the carousel horses!!

The At the Fair Stamp Set has the cutest secondary stamps for adding on the inside (or to the front!) of your card! It's just not fair…you look so young! (Yes, PLEASE send that birthday card to me! lol)

Coloring the cars to the ferris wheel is easy peasy with the extra little stamp. I picked a rainbow of colors from the Blue Ribbon Paper and accented the card with the paper as well. This is color coordination made easy!

Here's another fun card using both the Admit Two and At the Fair Stamp sets together to really set the scene. These papers were made for pattern mixing and this card has all the fair foods you could ever dream of to celebrate someone's birthday.

Mixing in tag dies is so much fun for that extra pop. This card is full of layers and could be a great layout to just change up the papers and main images. Who wouldn't want to “treat” themselves to a card this fun?

It's always a pleasure to invite Guest Designer, Carly Tee Minner, to create with our products. She is a big fan of CP inks and we love to see what techniques she will try.

Carly wanted to feature the NEW Cotton Candy Ink and grabbed a beautiful color combo to use along with it on her cards. Her ink blending on this emboss resist card features the Poppin' Wheelies Cover Plate Die- Minted, Oh Boy!, Sixteen Candles, Cotton Candy, Coral Cabana and Bellini.

She created these two clean and simple cards with the line art stamps from the School's Out Stamp Set simply stamped in black. Her ink blended bubbles and word die background add the just-right-bright pops of color.

Carly masked and colored the top part of this card with Cotton Candy and then stamped tone-on-tone some of the images from the Recess Stamp Set. She popped on the die cut turtle that she colored in with markers that coordinate with her color combo. Her little black splatters on each card add a fun bit of texture.

We hope you'll try this color combo on your next card- or some of these fun tips and techniques!

Check out the links below for the products used on these cards.

Everyone is loving the Playful Pinwheels Cover Plate that is part of our Fair Play Collection. This cover plate can be used in a variety of ways and is a great background addition to any card.

Erika used the Playful Pinwheel in a traditional way for her card. She just die cut in white over white to add a subtile texture and interest to this sweet card.

Kristie changed up her die cutting “sandwich” and used her cover plate to emboss her card background. I love the quilted look this technique gives the card.

On this one, she used the negative pieces from her die cut piece to create a geometric design on her card. She popped each piece up with a bit of foam tape to give great dimension.

Mellissa got a two-for and I just love her smart use of the extra pieces. She ink blended her card layer before die cutting and used the colored negative pieces to inlay back into a white die cut piece. She just chose a few random spots and colored shapes to put in creating an eye catching look!

Lisa inlaid her whole background with individually inked pieces. Just ink them one by one and glue them back into the open spaces to create a funky and fun look. Now that's what we call play time in your crafty space!

The Fair Play Collection has us feeling nostalgic! Not just because of the cute outdoor play and fair theme remind us of days gone by, but because all the bundles contain perfectly coordinating products that are just like the classic Stamp of Approval Boxes!

And when you buy our bundles…you can save! Check out the “I Want it All” bundle for a great discount!

At the Fair “I Want it All” Bundle

• Cotton Candy Ink Pad
• Cotton Candy Refill
• Cotton Candy Side Label
• Admit Two Stamp Set 
• Admit Two Dies
• At the Fair Stamp Set
• At the Fair Dies
• Fair Layered Word Die
• Playful Pinwheels Cover Plate Die
• Blue Ribbon Patterned Paper
• Chicago Sequin Mix 
• School's Out Stamp Set
• School's Out Dies
• Recess Stamp Set
• Recess Dies
• Yippee Layered Word Die
• Poppin' Wheelies Background Stamp
• Daisy Duke Stencil

When you choose the “I Want it All” Bundle, we've also added in our NEW CPD ink- Cotton Candy with the refill and side labels. So we've got you covered will all the NEW CPD products for your collection.

Here's a quick look at all the amazing cards you can make from this set of products! Imagine all the mixing and matching you're going to do!

See these products in action, along with tons of inspiration in this YouTube Video.

Head to the shop to peruse our new products, or use the links below! Thanks for visiting!

The Poppin' Wheelies Bundle is perfect for card making and scrapbook pages that celebrate memories of the playground and riding bikes through the neighborhood until the lights came on! This bundle has it all for sending friend or teacher cards and will be perfect for kid birthdays, too.

Available in the shop on May 17 at 9am Eastern!

Poppin' Wheelies Bundle

• School's Out Stamp Set
• School's Out Dies
• Recess Stamp Set
• Recess Dies
• Yippee Layered Word Die
• Poppin' Wheelies Background Stamp
• Daisy Duke Stencil

Grab the Poppin' Wheelies Bundle at a discount and have everything you need to make adorable cards for teachers, youngn's and the young at heart!

The cute critters in the School's Out Stamp Set and the perfect playground accessories in the Recess Stamp Set are at the showstoppers in this bundle. The Poppin' Wheelies Background Stamp and Daisy Duke Stencil give you all the “extras” you need for making cards galore!

School's Out for the summer and these woodland buddies are ready for outdoor play! You are going to love coloring in each of these cute critters and creating cards and scrapbook spreads where they are the star!

Use the coordinating Recess Dies to position your images into little scenes- like the skunk using a can telephone with his friend the fox. Tell someone “you bring out the kid in me” and add the hula hooping mouse. The Recess Stamp Set will have you ready to “make time for some fun today”!

Grab the Recess Stamp Set and Die with all the essentials to nostalgic playground games like see-saw and hop scotch. Designed to coordinate with the School's Out Stamp Set and dies- you can create a scene with the critters at play.

The Poppin' Wheelies Bundle has got your backgrounds covered too with the Daisy Duke Stencil and the Poppin' Wheelies Background Stamp. So many ways to mix and match this fun bundle. Make cards that will have your recipients poppin' wheelies of happiness!

StampNation Members get to order on Tuesday, May 16th, beginning at Noon Eastern! Later that day, at 3pm Eastern, members are also invited to join us on an exclusive Live Stream Early Release Party!

Learn more about benefits for SN Members here. We hope you will join us!

Release Week Festivities!

• Facebook Live Stream at Noon on Tuesday, May 16
• Ordering is Open on Wednesday, May 17 at 9am Eastern!
• Youtube Live Stream at Noon on Wednesay
• Facebook Live Stream at Noon on Thursday, May 17

The Fair Play Collection, featuring Cotton Candy Ink, hits the shop on Wednesday, May 17! This post shares the At the Fair Bundle, the products and some projects you can make with them!

Recreate the joys and festivities of a trip to the fair on your next paper project with the At the Fair Bundle. Iconic fair snacks and images, a ferris wheel and numerous festive sentiments are featured in the Admit Two and At the Fair Stamp Sets.

At the Fair Bundle

• Admit Two Stamp Set 
• Admit Two Dies
• At the Fair Stamp Set
• At the Fair Dies
• Fair Layered Word Die
• Playful Pinwheels Cover Plate Die
• Blue Ribbon Patterned Paper
• Chicago Sequin Mix 

Seriously…how adorable are these images? SO MUCH FUN ahead!

Add the Blue Ribbon Patterned Paper, Playful Pinwheel Cover Plate Die and Fair Word die to kick your projects up to first prize! The coordinating Chicago Sequins round out this fantastic bundle- it's just not fair to pass it up!

Admit two…just me and you! The Admit Two Stamp Set and Dies features all the yummy fair classics like cotton candy and soft pretzels. It also has other festive elements like a pinwheel and the first place ribbon which are the makings of a 1st place paper project. This fun multi-step stamp set is ready for abstract layering and can be inked up in so many colors.

The icon of the fair coming to town is the Ferris Wheel. The At the Fair Stamp Set and coordinating dies features a Ferris Wheel stamp with a fill in for each car.

This stamp set doubles as a funny birthday stamp set with sentiments like “it's just not fair you're still younger than me” or “why can't you have cotton candy every day?”. Pair these sentiments with the Fair Layered Word Die for added pizzaz!

Don't forget…StampNation Membership has perks!!

SN Members get to shop the collection a day early and their goodies will ship out first. Why not join now and get in on all the fun? Click here to learn more!

We'll be live every day over the next week at Noon Eastern, sharing the fun of this collection. Hope you'll join us!

Remember the joys of riding bikes until the street lights came on? and annual trips to the State or County Fair? The Fair Play Collection celebrates all of this with fun images and design pieces that you are going to love creating with!

Living in Raleigh, NC, just down the street from the fairgrounds, the State Fair has always been a big deal for our family. Hitting the gate at opening and hobbling out after dark, full of sugar and fried Wisconsin Cheddar, has been a tradition every year. As I create cards for my friends and family, the sights and sounds and smells are coming back!

With the Fair Play Collection, we introduce Cotton Candy! Our newest addition to our Party Collection of Reds, it is now our lightest pink ink.

With all this Cotton Candy goodness, we had to add some shimmer…introducing Cotton Candy Sparkles from WOW! Embossing Powder! This chunky mix of glitter has light pink undertones and lots of texture to take your Fair Play projects and give them some extra blingtasticness (yep, that's a word!).

Here's a peek of what's to come. Join us every weekday at Noon, Thursday, May 12 through Wednesday, May 17 for product reveals, inspiration and card making.

Creating with this collection will bring back fond memories of the care-free days of summer. It all hits the shop on Wednesday, May 17th!

In case you haven’t heard, we are making some exciting changes to the way we release ink! Here’s a recap:

When we launched Catherine Pooler Inks back in 2016, we started with the Foundations Inks– a set of 4 must-have ink colors to start your collection. Next, we released a set of 8 colors called Life of the Party, then Spring Fling, and so on.

Over the years, we've continued releasing new ink colors in sets of 8, under the larger collections of Party and Spa.

Fast forward 7 years, we now have almost 100 inks in our collection! Can you believe that? We truly appreciate all of your love and support, as we would not be where we are today without you.

As the line has grown, we have developed the CP Color Wheel as a wonderful tool to help crafters with color combos and organization. Since then, our focus has shifted from releasing sets of 8 to releasing colors that round out our Color Wheel, to provide our customers with a wider array of colors that cover all of your inky needs!

We will now release new ink colors solely under the umbrellas of the Party, Spa and Neutral Collections.

As of June 29th, we will discontinue the families of 8 in their existing configurations. All ink colors will continue to be sold in full-sized pads, refills and Minis, with the Minis now being offered individually.

The best part is, beginning this fall, Mini Ink Pads will be available in the shop at the same time as the full-sized pads and refills when we release the ink color! We know that many of our Mini-lovers will be thrilled about this!

While no colors are retiring at this point and you will still be able to purchase all the existing colors, we will no longer be offering them in the bundles of 8 with the discounted pricing. Now is a great time to stock up on the colors you’ve had your eye on while you can get them at the bundle pricing!

SHOP BUNDLES – SHOP MINI INK PADS

If you are building your collection of the boxed sets of CP Minis in the current families of 8, be sure to head over to the shop and get these while you can! Since the announcement, there has been a mad rush and ink has been flying off the shelves.

We are trying our best to keep everything in stock, but we do expect to sell out of some of the boxed sets of CP Minis before the end of June.

Our team is constantly looking for ways to evolve and improve to bring you the best products and service, and we are very excited about this change! If you would like to hear more, watch the announcement on our YouTube LIVE replay.

Part of our Color Made Easy system at Catherine Pooler Designs is coordinating our patterned papers to our ink colors. We pull together color combos to fit in with the theme of each collection and use them on our paper packs!

Arnold's Drive-In is an ode to the 1950's diner. The patterns and prints pull the theme together and the colors make it a classic! Buttercream, It's a Girl, Rockin' Red, Fiesta Blue, Pebble and Midnight Inks will work perfectly with this pack.

When you are ready to stamp with the Feelin' Fizzy Bundle, you can grab the inks that coordinate with the paper and feel confident it will all come together looking like a dream!

For the 1940's inspired Bobby Soxer pack, we went with a more muted color combo of Spa Colors. This one works with Rouge, Matcha, Spruce, Stone Blue, Cover Blue, Buttercream, Hoodie, and Slate. This one has influences from fashions and home decor of the decade.

Don't forget the sequins! Most of our paper packs have custom made Sequin Mixes to coordinate as well! Radio City is a fun compliment to Bobby Soxer Patterned Paper and Milwaukee looks great with Arnold's Drive-In! We've got you covered with the Color Made Easy system!

This funky geometric cover plate die will have you singing a little doo wop ditty! The Doo Wop Cover Plate Die features a rotating pattern of half circles and shapes that bring the retro vibes.

This die will be fun just layered white on white or cut down as an accent strip. Let's take a look at some other fun ways our Card Makers have used this die for a show stopping look!

Melissa got a a two-for-one by ink blending over a card panel with her cut Doo Wop Die. She ended up with one beautiful stenciled layer and one gorgeous blended die. So fun!

Lisa also used the Cover Plate Die as a stencil. This one has lots of open space for creating a cool accent corner in any color.

Ashlee used the direct-to-paper method to ink up her paper in Pebble Ink and then die cut. She created her own custom Gray Card stock. With some ink blending on the panel behind, this card looks fantastic. Adding a cover plate really jazzes any project!

Many of us around the CPD Clubhouse have dads and grandads that grew up in the 40's and 50's, so the Soda POP Collection was created to celebrate our Pops! We love music and retro images and the nostalgia of the trends and fashions of years gone by. This collection was designed with those decades in mind and with ideas that will perfect for masculine cards, father's day, anniversaries and even a just because “love you” card.

From the soda pop and bubble stamps of Feelin' Fizzy, the shoes in Sock Hop and the music icons in Music to My Ears- this collection will bring you all the joys of doing the twist to some good old fashioned rock-n-roll! This one's for all the Pops…you're the tops!

Our Gray Ink Colors started out simple with Twilight and Black Jack offerings but now they cover a range of shades and undertones. Pick up our three NEW Grays now in Pebble, Hoodie and Slate. We've got you covered when looking for that “just right” shade of gray!

And don't forget…for a limited time, when you have at least $75 in your cart, you can add the Retro Love Word Die and get it free as a gift with purchase with code RETROLOVE. Shop now and get yours!!

Put on your dancing shoes because the Sock Hop Bundle will have you doing a happy jig! The star of the show is the Sock Hop Stamps and Dies featuring shoes through the decades. This bundle is nostalgic and sweet, paired with the Bobby Soxer Patterned Paper and coordinating Radio City Sequins.  

Sock Hop Bundle

• Sock Hop Stamp Set
• Sock Hop Dies
• Bobby Soxer Patterned Paper
• Radio City Sequin Mix

This bundle works wonderfully for clean and simple card designs. A strip of patterned paper, sentiment and a couple of stamped images and you are good to go!

The Bobby Soxer Patterned Paper pack gives you an instant color combo, making it easy to decide what colors to stamp your shoes. Lisa personalized a few of her cards using the Block Alphabet Dies- a classic CP product.

Even though this collection is all about POP, there's plenty of options for Mom too with the Sock Hop Stamp Set! This one will work great for so many occasions.

Today is Early Ordering Day for StampNation Members! The SN Perks bring added value to membership. If you haven't joined yet, now is a great time to get in for a quarter and join us for the upcoming Exclusive Class in May!

Music lovers will love the Music to My Ears Bundle. It starts with the Music to My Ears Stamp Set and coordinating dies. Add in the On Staff Background Stamp and the Aged to Perfection Sentiments and you have lots of options to mix and match cards for birthday, anniversary and more!

Music to My Ears Bundle

• Music to My Ears Stamp Set
• Music to My Ears Dies
• Aged to Perfection Sentiments Stamp Set 
• On Staff Background Stamp

Amanda embossed glittery Disco Ball Embossing Powder over a light colored ink blended background with the On Staff Background Stamp. I love this subtle effect.

This card had a similar technique but simply stamps in black. This is a bolder statement and she went brighter with the ink colors. This card is rainbow-rific!

You can color in the images in the Music to My Ears Stamp Set in endless ways! This card is rockin' and rollin'!

The bold sentiments in the stamp set and Retro Love Word Die (freebie alert below!) pair perfectly with the On Staff Background Stamp for quick and easy cards!

This bundle also features the Aged to Perfection Sentiments Stamp Set that is oh-so-cute for birthdays, anniversaries and funny friendship cards!

Don't forget! Grab your FREE Retro Love Word Die along with your order of $75 or more. Just add it to your cart and then add the code RETROLOVE at checkout to get it for free, while supplies last. Promo starts release day, April 19th!