June Intro: Sneak Peek Day 1

Welcome to the sneak peeks for our June 15th release! This collection features refreshing summer cocktails, vibrant hibiscus blooms, fun shaker dies, fabulous flamingos, and much more. This release includes four stamp sets, three coordinating dies, eleven standalone dies, five stencils, and four embellishments.

Today we’ll be taking a look at four of the new standalone die sets: Flamingo Holder, Summer Holder Additions, Summer Cocktails, and Summer Drink Shaker.

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Hi friends, it’s Christina here! Are you ready for a tropical getaway? It’s Day 1 of sneak peeks to the release on June 15th that’s full of balmy, sun-kissed stamps, dies, and stencils perfect for summertime crafting. Today we are introducing some of the new dies, including the Flamingo Holder and the Summer Holder Additions, plus the Summer Cocktails and Summer Drink Shaker. So stick around; the team has some dazzling inspiration projects to share with you!

To showcase the new dies, I created three island-inspired cards, all with a similar tropical color palette. To get the brightly colored tropical vibe, I chose seafoam, avocado, and emerald greens and complemented them with yellow, orange, and pink. I brought all these colors together in my first card and made the fabulous Flamingo Holder my focal point. Before assembling the flamingo, I added shading to the die-cut pieces with ink and a small blending brush, and then after assembling, I added an Onyx Pearl for the eye. While the Summer Holder Additions set has all the fun summery things perfect for any of the critters in the “Holder” collection, I chose to use the small flower that’s included and created a floral lei for my flamingo, accenting it with leaves from a new mix called Summer Blooms. 

To create an island paradise for my flamingo, I reached for the new Layered Tropical Leaves Stencil and the Tropical Leaves die set. I layered a Pinking Rectangle die-cut from acetate on top of the stenciled background panel to soften it a bit and then tucked a variety of tropical leaves behind the flamingo before attaching everything with either liquid glue or foam squares. I finished this card design with a heat-embossed sentiment created by combining two new stamp sets, Happy Summer and Happy Hibiscus, and a few more Onyx Pearls for embellishment.

My next card shares a glimpse of what you might find if you peek through those tropical leaves in my first card—Summer Cocktails sipped from coconuts! The Summer Cocktails die set gives you a variety of options for creating fun fruity drinks, but I chose to double up on the coconut drinks and nestled them in a frame of Tropical Leaves for a lush tropical feel.

I used the new Sunburst Pierced Plate die-cut from Seaside cardstock as the background and tucked a few seashells and small flowers from the Summer Holder Additions set into the leaves that frame the scene. I added straws and colorful fruit picks to the coconut cocktails before finishing things up with a sentiment that, like my first card, I created by combining two new stamp sets. I used a sentiment from the Summer Banner Greetings with a pierced banner from the Banner Greetings 3 die set and the word “Cheers” from Summer Sips, a fun summer drink stamp set.

The last card I’m sharing with you today is a shaker card featuring the new Summer Drink Shaker. I stuck with the same tropical-inspired color palette I used for my first two cards, using a yellow, orange, and pink ink blend for the summer drink shaker and a seafoam checkerboard background I created by stenciling the new Watercolor Stripes horizontally and then vertically onto a white cardstock panel. 

To create the shaker element, I used foam tape to pop up the stenciled checkerboard panel onto a seafoam cardstock base, created a well around the acetate shaker window, and filled it with 4mm Clear Droplets and 8mm Sparkling Clear Sequins. I used white cardstock to frame the drink shaker and then added some fun fruity drink accessories, including a straw, a drink umbrella, and of course, fresh fruit. I wanted my citrus slices to have a white pith, so I combined the smaller citrus slice from the Summer Cocktails set with the larger one included with the Summer Drink Shaker. I added a beautiful ink-blended Hibiscus Flower for more of a tropical island vibe along with a few clay hibiscus flower embellishments from the new Summer Blooms clay mix. I finished up this card design by combining the new Large Summer Shadow die with a sentiment strip from the Happy Summer stamp set.

Keep scrolling for more balmy, sun-kissed inspo from the team!

Thank you so much for checking out the sneak peek inspiration I created for the upcoming June 15th release. Come back tomorrow for more sneak peeks!