April Bloom Box

What is a Bloom Box?

It's a monthly box of gorgeousness that is delivered right to your door!  Each month you receive an exclusive stamp set, pre cut elements, coordinating embellishments and step by step instructions to create four beautiful cards.  Just add your own ink and some basic tools and you are ready to go!  

You have the option of a 6 month subscription or you can order each month a la carte (at a higher price, while stocks last)  

See below to watch Kim Kesti,our Creative Director, work with Aprils beautiful set.  

To subscribe, or for more details on the program, click HERE 

Splish, Splash, Sparkle!

April's promotion features one of my favorite FSJ products - our silks!  It also features the splashes and they are great too, but I LOVE the silks.  It's rare that I make a card that doesn't feature them, because they are the PERFECT finishing touch.  My cards look nekkid without them now.  It started innocently enough ... "what are these silks" I pondered as I looked through my catalog as a brand new coach.  Let's order one and see.  So I did - I picked Dark Roast and it remains one of my favorites.  
They are so cute and so inexpensive, I just added a couple here and there, and FSJ added a few more colors and (be still my sparkle loving heart) then, in last years Holiday catalog, SPARKLE SILK!!  Oh lordy... that escalated fast, and almost immediately sold out.  People hoarded.  Lack of sparkle silk was a real thing, it's that good. 
Black Licorice, Whip Cream and Beach Ball are the latest additions.  I wasn't convinced of the need for a black silk when Dark Roast is such a dark brown but I was WRONG.  You can absolutely tell the difference and there is absolutely a need for both of them.   

 See my pretties?  I love them all but my favorites are front and center and if you need any suggestions where to start your collection, those are the ones I'd suggest.  And here is one of the first cards I ever made using silks.  That's Dark Roast  and Gold Silk - the total of my collection at the time using Hey Honey (SS-0356) which was one of the sets in my Coach starter kit.  

Celebrating Life's Moments

Ironic that the new catalog should be called "Celebrating Life's Moment's" when I missed the excitement of launch day, stuck in bed with a sinus infection.  Not much to celebrate there TBH.

This new catalog is fabulous!  I know everyone always says that about new catalogs but since I saw the preview copy and used some of the sets during FSJ live, I've been excited for everyone else to see it too.  Anyone who ordered over $50 in during the last quarter should have received their copy in the mail and I hope you love it as much as I do.  There is a link to the online copy on the right hand side of the blog, but if you would like a paper copy in your hands, please let me know.

This is the card we made during FSJ live - we used the shaving cream method for the background, which is an old technique which was very new to me.  Messy, but fun.  I loved the way it came out and I love this set.  It's called Small Things (SS-0572) and it's my featured set of the month.  Look out for more examples of how to use this versatile set.  Look closely and you will see it also features our Silver Silk which is part of the Splish, Splash, Sparkle  April promotion.  Look out for a whole separate post on why I love our silks so much :)