Sneak Peek: Have a Cookie with Those Tees...

I've been waiting to give you this first set "Have a Cookie" since MAY! It's one of my most playful and personal sets, I was inspired to draw the images one day while at the Children's Museum here in Austin with playing with my son up in the "Tinkerer's Workshop". My mother loves baking, and cookie making (and eating!) was a constant comfort and source of pleasure and showing love in our household growing up. You will have a blast with all the elements in this set that will allow to create the cookie cards and packaging of your dreams! :) This set has a whole lot of bakin' and decoratin' and cookies to give you your holiday fix, (and I suspect you will see a lot of samples using these themes today) but it's more than that, a cookie set like no other I've ever seen! I chose to share this fun sandwich cookie image (for those of you that like "store-bought!" LOL!) that can be used year-round, with a little masking thrown in!

Stamp your first cookie near the top of your paper, this will be the top of the stack. Cover with a mask of the cookie, re-ink and slide the stamp down about 1/2" from the first and stamp again. Uncover, repeat the process, occasionally moving just left or right of the one above until you have a nice, teetering tower of cookies!

Notice the little space in the cookie top? I've provided several different words to add to the top to customize your cards, you're gonna have SO much fun with this set, I'm just so excited!!! (Card deets: Background is Basic Grey Sugared, cookies are colored with Light Suntan, Burnt Umber and Sepia Copics.The stack and single cookie are cut out and popped up on dimensionals)

ONTO SET #2!!! If you have my "Little Tees", "Just So Sporty" sets from earlier this year or both, even if your stamps are by now well- loved and inked you probably still have yet to ink them ALL up with all the options you have, but I bet you're ready to expand those sets ANYWAY 'cause it's just so darn fun, am I right? Get ready for "Tee Talk": everything I couldn't squeeze into the first two sets plus a whole lot more(alogn with several "requests"!)! No images, just words, you'll find more sports and hobbies to play with, tons of relationship stamps to declare that someone is the "World's Greatest "Grandma" or "Friend", and other fun greetings!

I am so excited about this project I'm sharing today for the peek! Kind of a down-to-earth "fridge poetry set" for the new millennium if you will! ;) The tee and jersey are from my first two sets, the other phrases you see here are just 11 of the 45 you get in the new set! AND, it's only $15.95! A MUST HAVE if you have either "Little Tees" or "Just So Sporty"!

The words are borderless to give you the most flexibility with your layouts, but all the single words in this set will fit in the word window punch! To learn how to make them shorter to fit on your sweats and tees, follow this simple tutorial by Gina K herself! Here I went around each modified punched word with a black marker against the edge to make it pop against my colored shirts. The shirts and background paper are from the Basic Grey Cupcake Pad, and the white CS is Gina K's new Pure Luxury 80lb, stamped with Memento Ink Tuxedo Black. I adhered all my cut outs to magnetic paper and trimmed. Now I have a mix and match set that makes a really fun and playful addition to your desk or to throw on the fridge if you want to let everyone know where you'd really rather be that day! Notice the phrase"It's YOUR day, do what you like!" This is perfect for the inside of your cards when you're letting the recipient know they need to go have some "me-time" on their birthday or other occasion. :)

Last, I had to show you how you can make your magnetic mat reversible if you want to change up the background by adding a different DP to the back, but of course these will all stick to a fridge without the mat. (Be sure to leave a little border of magnet only around the paper rather than covering the whole sheet because it will not want to stick to your fridge if it is completely covered, starts to slide down(notice in the top pics that band of black around the edge? That's not black CS, it's the magnetic mat itself). The T-shirts do cling to the mat through the paper because they aren't as heavy)

I was also thinking it'd be a fun "battle of the sexes" type game: let each shirt represent you and your significant other on the fridge, post your passion of the moment, and see who's kind enough to slide the "it's your day..." magnet over to the other person's side and hold down the fort so the other can get out for a little break, hee hee!!

Are you curious to see more of "Have a Cookie" and "Tee Talk"? You're bound to find a few more images and words and for sure to see some fabulous projects using the sets here:

Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Melanie Muenchinger
Courtney Fowler
Gina K

plus a couple more guest bakers I lined up (wink!): Carolina Buchting and Jessie Rone!

One more day til the release and our party!!!! Can't wait!