New Release Blog Hop!!!

Hello and welcome to The Craft's Meow's mid-month release!!! Today Little Frieda at the Seashore and Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl can come to live and play with YOU!!! We also have three brand new card kits available, so let's get the party started!!!

First up, the winners of Little Frieda at the Seashore randomly drawn from all comments left on three of our designer's blogs when she was showcased on Friday, May 13th:

Deborah Nolan (Julia's Blog)

Crystal Irwin (Grace's Blog)

Anita Rex (Lynn's Blog)

And the winners of Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl randomly drawn from all comments left on three of our designer's blogs when they were showcased yesterday (Saturday, May 14th):

Lisa T (Nina's Blog)

Helen L (Michelle's Blog)

inBar (Linda's Blog)

Congratulations ladies!!! Please email me at thecraftsmeow@gmail.com with your address and I'll get your stamp set right out to you!!!

Next up, a look at the full release!

Little Frieda at the Seashore

$9

Little Frieda & Lulu - My Girl

$9

Happiness is... Card Kit by

Jessica Fick
featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Portrait Collection by Crate Paper
stamp set sold separately
$25

Simply Delightful Card Kit by

Jessica Fick
featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Stella & Rose Gertie collection by
My Mind's Eye
stamp set sold separately
$30

Soiree Card Kit by

Alice Wertz
$15
 featuring patterned paper and embellishments
from the Soiree collection by Pink Paislee
no stamping required!

Pretty cool, huh? Yep, I knew you'd love them! You will have leftovers to make additional cards projects, too! But you'd better hurry and get yours while the gettin's good... there is very limited stock on hand and I can't promise I'll be able to re-stock sold-out kits!


Now, how would you like to win some prizes? All you have to do is visit the all the blogs on the hop, leave comments along the way, and you'll be entered to win one of four fabulous prizes:

1. Little Frieda at the Seashore and Little Frieda & Lulu - Mischief
2. Happiness is... Card Kit
3. Simply Delightful Card Kit
4. Soiree Card Kit

You have until 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 17th to enter!!! If you happen to win a prize that you've already purchased, I will refund your money or you can also keep the prize and have two... perhaps one to share with a friend! I will announce the winners here on the blog on Wednesday May 18th. Good luck!

Now off you go to hop and shop! All the links are here in case there's a break along the way.

Grace Nywening

Nina Brackett

Alice Wertz

Julia Aston

Michelle Bertuzzi

Kim Yu

Linda Lucas

Jessica Fick

Debbie Pamment

Sue Kment

Lynn Miller

Heather Jensen

Enjoy! And thank you so much for your good wishes and patronage. I appreciate it more than you know!

Hugs,

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression...

... or do you?

I hope that old adage isn't true because I'm counting on just the opposite!

Today is a big day for The Craft's Meow!

I've been hinting around that I'd soon be making a BIG announcement, and that day is finally here! I am thrilled, delighted, over the moon, unbelievably excited and blessed beyond words to introduce you to three ladies who are joining my team!

First, beginning May 1st, The Craft's Meow will be offering stamp sets designed by the one and only Nina Brackett!!! Oh yes, you heard that right!!!

I know many of you are already familiar with Nina's beautiful art. She has worked as stamp illustrator/product designer for Layers of Color Art Stamps, Gina K Designs, There She Goes Stamps and Spellbinders, and now she's designing stamps for The Craft's Meow!!!

But wait, that's not all! Also joining The Craft's Meow as paper crafting kit designers (cards, scrapbook page layouts, mini scrapbooks and other delights) are the fabulous Alice Wertz and Sarah Martina Parker!!! Can you believe it? How did I get this lucky? If you're like me, you've pressed your nose to the screen many times admiring these ladies' style and the luscious things they create with paper. Now you (and I) can be like Alice and Sarah! lol

Look for not one but two card kits by Sarah to debut May 1st, and a card kit by Alice to debut on May 15th!!! And for you Little Frieda fans, there will be more of her to love on May 15th as well!!!

You can learn more about these lovely ladies by clicking HERE or on the "stamp & kit designers" tab above! 

Big news like this deserves a big splash, so today also marks the unveiling of a brand new look for The Craft's Meow, courtesy of the incredibly talented Veronica McCollum of VK Design Company!  So if you're reading this through Google Reader or similar, or through email updates, please click into the actual blog and take a look. I think you'll likey very much!

Oh, and while you're here, why not grab our store badge for your blog? You never know when I might be blog surfing and come across my store badge on your blog and award a prize. (*wink*)

You can do this one of two ways... either grab the HTML in the box (be sure you get the entire script... it scrolls down) and paste it into an HTML Gadget in Blogger (or similar for Typad or Wordpress)...or you can right click and save the image and then upload it as a Picture Gadget, linking it to the store (www.thecraftsmeow.com). If the HTML version is a bit too large in your sidebar you can fix that by opening that Gadget box, clicking on Rich Text, and then clicking on the picture. The bounding box will show up so that you can click on the corner and drag in (or out) to re-size the picture.

I'll be back soon with more news, so please stay tuned!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Take a Look at These Beautiful Cards!

My dear friend Alice Wertz... who is both an incredible artist and a beautiful person... has created some wonderful cards using the Emma's Shoppe (I Am a Princess and Just for You) and Portrait Collection (Memories and Friend of Mine) Crate Paper kits. 

You can make all of these and so many more with these kits! Don't forget, today is the last day to get 20% off your entire order!!! Just enter the code AprilShowers at checkout. The sale ends at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, April 5th. Enjoy!