Get ready to Deck the Halls this coming holiday season with NEW INK! We are releasing these two new colors just in time for the holidays, along with our newest collection: Jolly Holiday.

Seriously…This gorgeous dark, cranberry color! I am BEYOND EXCITED to be announcing two new ink colors❤️💚 It has been a long, long time since we've been able to release new inks and we cannot wait for you to get your hands on these and start creating with them!

Meet Cranberry Fizz, your new best friend for the holidays!

The fun holiday shapes are a sneak peek of one of the stamp sets in our new holiday collection.

Deck the Halls is the perfect evergreen shade and it is joining our Party Collection greens.

This color works beautifully with Mint to Be and Mardi Gras. It coordinates so well with contrasting colors like Cranberry Fizz or Rockin' Red, and works like magic with analogous colors like Mint to Be or Lime Rickey.

New inks and the Jolly Holiday collection hit the shop on Wednesday, September 16th.

Don't forget… StampNation members will get to shop a day early! Learn more about membership benefits here.

Today we revealed the theme of our 2020 Holiday Collection Live on Facebook! Catch the replay here.

The stamps and dies in the Jolly Holiday Collection include classic icons with our CP whimsical twist.  You'll be dreaming of Santa's workshop and singing Christmas Carols while creating with our Whoville inspired Christmas Trees and other fun holiday products.

Holiday card making will be All Wrapped Up with this fun collection of stamps, dies, paper and sequins. 

Next week, we'll reveal all the new products coming for the holidays and share tons of great project ideas using them. We hope you'll join us on Facebook and YouTube!

Reveal Schedule:

• Sunday, 4pm Eastern on YouTube
• Monday, Noon Eastern on Facebook
• Tuesday, Noon Eastern on Facebook

All products available in the shop on September 16 at 9am Eastern.

StampNation Member Perks:

StampNation Members have some fun benefits with this release! Join us on Tuesday, September 15 for the festivities.

• 11:30 am Eastern – Live Stream Product Reveal on StampNation Community Facebook Page
• Noon Eastern – early ordering opens and members' orders are the first to ship!
• 7pm Eastern – Jolly Holiday PJ Parties! Members and the Brand Ambassadors will be creating together LIVE on our first ever Zoom Party!

Not a member yet? Your VIP status will bring you so much crafting joy, start your membership now!

Our Stitched Hearts Dies are a must have in your craft stash! These hearts are the perfect shape, have fun stitching around the edges and range from size of teensy to larger than a card front. Use them as full cut outs, or cut a smaller heart out of a larger heart for a frame.

For the first card, I scribbled on Watercolor Cardstock with Watercolor Pencils, then added water to blend the colors together. Add heart cut outs on the background, a small bit of Black Tie Gala black and white patterned paper along the edge and a simple die cut sentiment.

The A to Z Background Stamp is great for a subtle or a vibrant background! Here, I ink blended a rainbow of colors over it before stamping. Then I created a shaker element with a black heart frame and Crater Lake Sequins.

White Embossing with an ink blended background is always a favorite of mine!

First, ink over the Radiant Heart Stencil with Embossing Ink, then cover with White Embossing Powder, then ink blend til your heart's content! Add a sentiment embossed in white on black and you've got a stunner.

Find these projects created on this Facebook Live Stream.

We'll be live most days for the next week with our new Holiday Collection hitting the shop on September 16. Any guesses as to our theme? We'll reveal it live on Friday, September 11 on Facebook at Noon Eastern. See you then!

Ink blending with the Round and Oval Balloon Stencils produces pretty gorgeous results! but don't stop there, try Creative Mediums with them as well!

Do you have a favorite?

Try ink blending with Sponge Daubers over the Balloon Stencils. Catherine Pooler Inks are translucent, so when you overlap the balloons, you get a blend between the colors which is the look you'll get with real balloons!

Finish off the stenciled balloon piece with a stamped or die cut sentiment.

Add a layer behind the technique piece, add die cut bows and a few sequins for more interest.

Try a bunch of balloons and add a highlight with a Posca Pen.

Apply Nuvo Embellishment Mousse with a Nuvo Stencil Brush for the highlight.

Try covering the entire balloon with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse for a Mylar Balloon look!

Stenciling on Stickles Glitter Gel is a fun look that reminds me of the balloons that have confetti inside.

For this card, I stamped one of the Party Fan images and embossed it with Wanderlust Embossing Glitter which created a subtle and pretty background.

Create a colorful background with the Party Fans Stamps in different colors!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are inspired to create some fun cards with the Round and Oval Balloon Stencils!

This weekend, our beloved StampNation Members will be treated to a FREE Shipping code! woot! Members, find the code in your inbox on Friday morning!

Members get all sorts of perks including our Community Facebook Page, Early Ordering of our large releases and special Online Classes! The next one is Foil and Flock with Chrissie Tobas! We're excited and whether you're into foiling and flocking or now, you're sure to be inspired by this class.

You'll also have access to all the classes we've ever done over at StampNation, too! (that's almost 10 years worth, my friends!)

Join now and get access to all the great perks of membership!

Learn more about membership perks here.

Did you get a chance to check out the Blog Hop this past weekend? A few of our Brand Ambassadors teamed up with our friends at Colorado Craft Company and made some stunning Fall themed cards featuring some brand new stamps from 3C.

Thank you to all of you who showed the bloggers love and commented on their cards. We hope you found a lot of inspiration and enjoyed seeing the CPD & 3C products mixed and matched!

We are giving away a $30 Gift Card to a lucky commenter. That commenter is Crystal LeShae Evans*!! The winner of the Colorado Craft Company $30 Gift Card is Jenna Kutcher!! Congrats to both of you!!!

*Please email [email protected] to redeem your prize!

Ready for September? After a spring and summer out of school and in quarantine, life has looked different. Our To-Do Lists have been small and our appointment calendars have been almost non-existent.

Even through all of that, you may find Bullet Journaling a welcome escape and a creative outlet. Now with September on the horizon, I find my schedule is getting a bit more full. We're finding a new normal and I'm jumping back into bullet journaling!

The theme for our new bullet journaling stamp set for September is Set Sail. This dreamy stamp set includes a build-able sailboat, clouds and stars to fill your bullet journal spreads. With sentiments like “Chase your dreams”, you'll be encouraged and uplifted each time you open your Canvo.

Create quick weekly spreads and to do lists with the Weekly Eight Stencil, then decorate with images from the Set Sail Stamp Set.

Create a month at a glance spread with our Full and Half Calendar Stencils! The Full Calendar has enough boxes to create the full month on one page. The Half Calendar Stencil will create a whole month using two facing pages of your bullet journal.

Subscribe by the last day of August and your October themed Canvo Bullet Journal subscription products will ship to you at the beginning of September! We can't wait to share the next theme! Learn more about Club Canvo Here.

Today we are teaming up with some friends over at Colorado Craft Company for a Fall themed Blog Hop. A few of our Brand Ambassadors and their Creatives are playing with some beautiful new stamp sets from 3C; Ruby Slippers and the Lovely Legs Autumn Seasons Girl. They also had some great CP goodies to add to the mix!

The Paradise Found Inks are perfect for Fall themed cards. Whether you have the full sized pads or grab the New Minis, you will enjoy mixing and matching this color combo for the season. Our Fall Pick-n-Mix Paper and Mystic Sequins feature Mandarin Spice and Daydream as well as other Spa Ink colors.

So jump right in and hop along to see all of the different creations made and don't forget to comment as you go! Both of our companies will be pulling a random commenter from the hop and giving them a $30 Gift Card for our shop! You will have until Monday, August 31 to comment to win. I will announce the gift card winner for the CP shop back here on my blog on September 1st! Enjoy!

Blog Hop List:

Angelica Conrad
Erin Thompson
Bibi Cameron
Karen Baker
Emily Midgett
Verity Biddlecombe
Jennifer Kotas
Daniel West
Melissa Andrew
Amber Rain Davis
Nanette Tracy
Mansi Bhatia
Jo Herbert
Adrienne Kennedy

Our Brand New Slimline Dies and Stencils are in the shop now! Purchase your favorites, or grab the Slimline Bundle for all sorts of Slimline fun!

• Essentials Slimline Die
• Sunray Slimline Die
• Rainbow Slimline Die
• Leopard Slimline Stencil
• Faceted Slimline Stencil

I had a blast making these cards on Facebook Live this week using our new Rainbow Slimline Die. Die cut your cardstock, ink blend or direct to paper with your ink pads to create the bands of color, then inlay them back in the die cut layer.

Add some extra fun by stamping or adding Nuvo Drops on the bands!

I used the fabulous shapes from the Fearless Pursuit Stamp Set to create pattern and texture on the rainbow bands. You'll find this stamp set on sale for the next couple of days!

You can also use the rainbow bands on a traditional size card!

These new products can be found in our shop! Links below…

SHIPPING UPDATE: In our Raleigh office, we are continuing to do our best to ship orders within a few days of receipt. During releases and promotional periods, it make take up to 5 business days for your order to ship from our office. 

All orders are picked and shipped in the order they are received. If your package is over 1 pound, it will automatically ship Priority. If your order is under 1 pound, you may also choose Priority Shipping. 

Due to the current issues with the US postal service, we have seen delays in shipping and often it taking longer than two days for your Priority package to arrive. Unfortunately, this part of the shipping process is out of our hands. We are taking every measure we can to ensure the process is expedited efficiently from our end and ask for your patience and understanding if you encounter delay. 

Thank you for your continued support of our small business!

For 2020, all of our Canvo Monthly Themed Stamp Sets included an image that is perfect for a weekly Habit Tracker.

The Set Sail Stamp Set, now available in the shop, includes an adorable jar of stars to color in as you meet your weekly goals. Allison Cope created this darling rainbow colored tracker page with the jars of stars as well as the cloud bullets from the same stamp set. She's all set to track exercise, movies, devotions and water intake for the next month!

This tracker page by Nanette uses one of the box stamps embellished with hanging stars for a darling tracker page!

The final tracker is for the whole month and uses our Circle Tracker and Banners Stencil. I love the colors and the pineapple stamped in the middle!

Every month, our Club Canvo Subscribers get shipped a themed 4 x 6 stamp set to create gorgeous spreads along with a 6 x 9 Stencil and a 3 x 4 Month Stamp Set perfect for stretching your own creativity on the pages of your bullet journal.

Subscribe by 8/31 to get our October Themed Set…any guesses as to what we have up our sleeves?

If you're not ready to say good-bye to summer yet, these fabulous products just hit the shop!

• Summer Lovin' Stamps and Dies
• Aloha Dies
• Good Times Bits and Borders

These products were shipped to our Club Sursee subscribers in July, so they've had plenty of time to create gorgeous summer themed cards like these! They also got their products at a discount!

Learn more about the subscription here and get in before our September goodies ship out. I know you are going to FALL hard for what's coming next!

Kelly created a gorgeous background with bright, vibrant colors. How about this color scheme?

Victoria Calvin used lots of the die cut images to adorn her tropical cards!

I love how Sarah swiped her ink pad gently across the coconut shell stamp to get a realistic looking coconut shell!

If you missed the video where I created this card and several others, check out this YouTube video!

Grab these products in the shop and share your creations on social media with us! We can't wait to see what you'll make!