Four New Stamp Sets (and a giveaway!)

We are so pleased to share 4 new stamp sets with you!  Watch for new samples from the Creative Team all week.  AND we have a giveaway with this post!  See the bottom of the post for details on how to participate. 

Mini Banner Greetings & Mini Banner Alpha.  These two new sets will become a must-have for your card making.  Perfectly sized for cards, they make great titles for scrapbook layouts too.  Designed by Judi Andersen.

Mini Banner Greetings 4"x6" Stamp Set

Mini Banner Alpha 3"x4" stamp set

Sample by Kelly Schirmer

Baby Clothesline & Baby Greetings.  You will love how cute these little baby clothes look when you attach them to ribbon or twine with the stamped clothespins!  Perfect for any baby shower or congratulations card.  Designed by Peggy Jo Ackley. 

Baby Clothesline 4"x6" Stamp Set

Baby Greetings 3"x4" Stamp Set

Sample by Linda Beeson

Watch for more fun samples this week on the blog! 

WANT TO WIN TWO OF THE NEW STAMP SETS?  We all love to share inspiration. I like to read and collect books that have beautiful photos of projects with instructions on techniques and how-to's.  Do you have a favorite crafting book that you go back to often for inspiration?  Comment in this post with the author and title of your favorite craft/art/inspirational book that has influenced your crafting style.  We'll draw a few names on Sunday 7/11 and the winners will receive either the two mini banner sets, or the two new baby sets.  

One of my favorite new books is by our new stamp designer, Peggy Jo Ackley.  50 Nifty Collage Cards is full of amazing images that will inspire your crafting.  Peggy provides very detailed instructions that are really helpful.  Her use of vintage images and ephemera in her cards is just beautiful. 

OK, now it's your turn!  What's your favorite crafting book?  We'll collect a listing of all the books and put up a new "crafting reference" section at our website! 

Comments

[school_dubl]

Happy New Year! Happiness and success in 2011.

[Dennis Mullins Sr.]

These are awesome stamps!I love making greeting cards, these stamps would add to my other clear stamp sets. I only have a few baby stamps. Thank you for this give away.

[Laci Mattingley]

A is for Apron

[Ricki Duke]

Thanks for the chance to win. My all time fav is, Wishes by Jeanette Lynton.

[Brittney A]

The best book ever is: The Book of Us: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Relationships by Angie Pederson. It goes beyond scrapbooking a couple, but many relationships!

[Claudia F.]

My favorite book isn't really a published book, it's a notebook that I've pasted cut out photos for inspiration in crafting. I cut up magazines,print off of the internet or where ever I find inspiration and then put them in my book.
Claudia F.
scfranson at chibardun.net

[Cam]

I am so excited about the new banner stamp sets! I refer mostly to Card A Day and PaperCraft publications. I like checking out these comments for more references to check out.

[jackie]

my favourite crafting book is martha stewarts encyclopaedia of crafts, it has inspired me to take crafting to an all new level

[Jessica S.]

These new stamps a great. Thanks for the chance to win one. I really like Becky Higgins Sketches book.

[Ellie]

I have stopped been stopped in my tracks... anything baby I have to have and these stamps have filled my head w/some many ideas OH I am in LOVE! Amazing oh... Just beautiful.. Did I mention I love it?

[Wendy Orme]

I use Paper Crafts & Creating Keepsakes magazines more often than any crafting books. LOVE the new stamp sets!

[Janet Sisk]

Wow, the stamp sets are awesome! Would love to win some. My favorite stamping books are "Originals" and "Wishes" by Close to my Heart. They are both full of sketches with samples for each one. Great for jumpstarting your cards.

[Silvia P.]

my favorite is Becky Higgins sketches. Her books are great for inspiration on layouts.
I love the baby stamps. the cloths pins are sooooo cute.
Silvia P.

[Jennifer N.]

Anything by Ali Edwards or Becky Higgins. I love the baby clothes stamps. Hope I win :)

[Sarah Lou]

I dont really have a favourite book, I tend to trawl the library and borrow everything i can get my hands on, I just had a book called Pretty little things : collage jewelry, trinkets, keepsakes by Sally Jean Alexander, I got a lot out of that

[kaci]

I like to use catalogs like PaperSource for inspiration - best part: They're free!

[~amy~]

I'm lovin' your new stamps...especially the banners!!!!

I tend to go to magazines like Papercrafts or Cards...

[Kris Pare]

I love Fanciful Paper by Sandra Everston. I am in love with the new stamps especially the baby clothesline! So sweet.

[Deb Neerman]

Yikes, I don't really have a favorite crafting book! I do subscribe to several craft magazines ... the most inspiring one of these is Paper Crafts magazine.

I also get a ton of inspiration from stamping blogdom!

BTW, I love your new stamps and would love to add them to my collection!

[LeAnne]

Very cute stamps! Since I am having a new granddaughter very soon, they would come in handy!!! I really don't have any book to which I refer....I do peruse many blogs and of course, my SU catalog! :D

[starla Teasley]

These new stamps are so cute and make me want to get back into playing with paper. I like Mary Engelbreit's craft books. You get a little of everything, great pictures, quotes and sayings, and great crafts.

[Veronica]

I love the cute banner letters! My favorite crafting book? Wow...I don't know if I can whittle it down to one! I love Crispin Glover's altered book, the Rat Catcher, so I'll say that. :)

[Holly Saveur]

Love the new stamps!
I am a book person but for scrap cards I think I prefere to read blogs.
My favourite book because of all its stamping techniques step by step is
Art Specially For You...
from Geralda Jansen and Marianne Peters.

[Jan Scholl]

I have a lot of older magazines that I drag out and peruse but I love one in particular Vamp Stamp News. This magazine is done up by one big time super woman and there is so much info, that I can't get myself to divest myself of them. I would love to bind them by years, simply so I can easily contain them on one shelf.

[JoAnn Burnham]

These are adorable. I sure would love to win the banner set. I have a lot of books I like to get inspiration from, but one of my favorites is Scrapbook Page Maps by Becky Flack.