The Greetery {Let's Make Memories} Holiday Collection Day 4

Well friends, it's the 4th and final day of The Greetery's Holiday Release Countdown! Today is jam packed with awesomeness that is a fitting finale for this beautiful Holiday Release!! As for all of you, I'm sure you're chomping at the bit until you can place your orders and get started on your own creations! LOL! Everything will be available for purchase TOMORROW at 10 am ET! What's on your wish list? My wish list includes extra time to use these products! Ha ha! In the meantime, make sure you head to The Greetery Blog as well as the other designers' blogs to see what they've come up with!

Kay Miller

Laurie Willison

Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols

Keeway Tsao

Angelica Conrad

Wanda Guess

Lizzie Jones

The thing I love about Betsy is that she thinks of things that we all want/wish that the industry had! She has fulfilled my design/creative desires for YEARS and this new "Candy Pops" collection is no exception! I had so much fun putting these together and the sky is the limit! The "Candy Pops Sentiments" stamp set is chock full of sentiments to make these dies pertinent year round! I can't wait; my cute son got to have lunch with the Mayor yesterday and he brought home a cute goody bag that was printed with the funnest Halloween candies! It was the perfect inspiration to make some Halloween "Candy Pops", so stay tuned for those as well! 

Betsy has made so many of these new products versatile for different seasons and occasions, but I just couldn't stray from the Holiday frame of mind! These peppermint striped candy pops are so much fun to make! I made two of the circles and one of the rectangles. There is an optional "Tear Away Circle Die" and "Tear Away Rectangle Die" that will come in handy for removing the treat/gift that you put inside the bubbles! I'm so excited for this feature. I remember that MaryBeth Lopez did something similar with her Potbellies from last year and I thought it was GENIUS! 

These are able to accommodate a deep circle bubble or a shallow circle bubble, depending on what you plan on filling them with; same with the rectangles. The rectangle bubbles are deep enough to hold some lip balm,which I am 100 percent sure I will be doing! I didn't actually fill mine with anything but just faked it by tying them up with the twine on the ends. I want to wait until the Christmas candy comes out in stores to make sure I get them filled with what I want! Although, knowing the current retail trends, it probably IS already in stores! LOL! I do my grocery shopping online, so I wouldn't know! I guess I better actually step inside the store! Ha ha!

You will need to die cut two of each shape if you plan on using them as stand-alone gifts as I have used today. If you plan on attaching them to a card, you would only need to die cut one! These would make amazing tags as well, either filled up or just as a shaped tag! 

I used the "Candy Pops Peppermint Addition" to all of these treats, which are so much fun! If you use two together, it really creates a lot of visual interest and movement; they look just like the real thing! The coarse glitter sprinkled on the holly and the ends of the "wrappers" add just the right touch of sugary, holiday sweetness!

The sentiments are heat embossed around the outside of the two peppermint discs using white embossing powder. I stamped the "just for you" sentiment on one of the Sentiment Suite Basics Die and tucked it under the holly! 

My final project for today and for the release uses a GENIUS collection of products that is called Tagging Collection: Speed Tagging-This includes the Speed Tagging die and the Speed Tagging Rubber stamp, and the Speed Tagging Christmas sentiments stamp set/coordinating dies! 

This collection of products makes it possible to stamp multiple tags, die cut them all and voila, you're ready to add the sentiments and any added embellishments!

I removed the foam mat from my MISTI, since this stamp is a rubber cling mount, and stamped the tags in both green and red. Once they were stamped, I used the amazing die cut to die cut them in one pass of the die cut machine! Betsy has included some clever marks to line everything up to die cut these easily!

I used the Speed Tagging Christmas sentiments stamp set to quickly add these beautiful sentiments.

The finishing touches are the berries, sprigs, bells, etc., and of course some glitter to make these really sparkle! I had a leftover church and tree from all of my mass producing, so I added them to a few tags as well. The Tree didn't match the rest of the collection, so it didn't get photographed! LOL! I had so much fun working on these tags and they came together really quickly, or should I say "Speedy"? LOL! Thanks so much for joining me this week and for leaving all of your sweet, sweet comments! You know how to make a girl's day! Thank you, thank you! I hope you've enjoyed this countdown as much as I have! Thanks for fluttering by!