Holiday Preview, Day 2: Action Santa

Good day to you! Before I get too carried away with today’s sneak peek for our Holiday 2016 clear stamps, I want to say THANK YOU for your kind and supportive words about my post yesterday. Reading your notes got me a little teary-eyed. OK, maybe a lot teary-eyed. Thanks for being awesome!!! And the cards we shared yesterday were really something special, weren’t they? I think you’ll love working with the Simple Joys set, and we barely scratched the surface with the images that come with it — so you’ll have to come back ’round on Friday to see it all! (Please? We’d love to show you.)

Today, we are totally switching gears. In one case, I mean this literally! For our next set features Santa at his most energetic. Do you realize how many interests Santa Claus has? I mean, on top of handcrafting toys, running a workshop of busy elves, commandeering a team of reindeer, and orchestrating the dispersion of gifts throughout the world in a single night — he also loves to dabble in hobbies. What a Renaissance man:

Check him out, dude! Rocking the drums. Cycling through the streets. And oh, do you realize that he’s a gourmet chef on top of it all? Back in the DAY, greeting card companies seemed to be trying to outdo one another with the hobbies they would sign Santa up for. Vintage cards supply so many wacky ideas, and you just don’t seem to find them like this anymore in the stamping world. All of these jaunty themes are so whimsical and surprising to me, and just plain cute!

So friends, my new set, Action Santa, is racing in to show off some of the exciting hobbies that Santa enjoys — along with ZOOMING as fast as he can to get those presents to where they need to go. It’s like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles up in here!

Our Action Santa set features Santa cruising in an old-school scooter as he races through the snowdrifts to bring good tidings on the double. A second large image features the jolly jingler mid-air as a stylish skier catching major air. Accents create a snowflake-sprinkled mountain scene, plus lots of coordinating “action-packed” sentiments.

Action Santa will be available in the store on October 21.

If you are up for seeing some of the coolest ideas you can imagine, come check out what the Bloom Brigade has done with this new clear stamp set. It doesn’t get much better than this!!!

Allison Cope

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Julie Koerber

Katie Sims

Tosha Leyendekker

For those of you who are fans of Power Poppy’s nature sets, or if you just love Christmas, you’ll want to stop back here on Tuesday, because we have only just gotten started around here. Have a great one!