Hello ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Saturday!

It’s the first of the month and we have a new SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY, aka SFYTT!

This month is extra special!  Each of the Confetti Crew Design Team members have stamp sets to give away throughout the month.  Details for each giveaway are on their blogs.

Here’s this month sketch…

Here are all the details you need to know…

Before I get to all the wonderful inspiration that the Confetti Crew came up with using this sketch, let’s go over the details…

There will be a new sketch posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 1st of each month.

The sketch link list will be open from the 1st until noon CST on the 29th. The SFYTT button is  posted on the sidebar.  Click on it to be taken to the current SFYTT post and link list.

Reverse Confetti stamps and/or Confetti Cuts are required to win.  This is a way we get to thank our customers for using our stamps.  Anyone is welcome to play, though!

You may enter as many times as you wish.

There will be a winner each month and that person will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Reverse Confetti store and claim the title of ‘Fetti Fave. The winner of SFYTT will be posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 30th of this month.

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Heather Pulvirenti

Party Hats, Posted Note Confetti Cuts, Posted Note Sentiments

Stacey Schafer

Pineapples Aplenty (with coordinating Confetti Cuts), Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts

Kay Miller

Circle Sentiments, Scalloped Circle Confetti Cuts, Love Blooms, (with coordinating Confetti Cuts), Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts, Weather or Dot (& Stripes) Quick Card Panels

Sarah Gough

Heart to Heart (with coordinating Confetti Cuts), Woodgrain Confetti Cuts, Geometric Background Confetti Cuts, Double Edge Wonky Scallop Border Confetti Cuts

And, from our ‘Fetti Friends (guest designers)…

Maureen Merritt

Let’s Celebrate Quick Card Panels, Fancy Word Confetti Cuts, Fancy Word Coordinates, You are a Star Confetti Cuts

Vera Yates

Later Alligator (with coordinating Confetti Cuts)

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Now it’s your turn!

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Howdy ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Friday!

For those of you local to North Texas (or within reasonable driving distance), come see us at the Scrapbook Expo in Grapevine today and tomorrow.  Susan will be doing a make ‘n take there today and I will be doing one tomorrow.  We hope to see you there!

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It’s Friday (woot woot!) and time to take a peek back at what the super fabulous and incredibly talented Confetti Crew has been up to this week…

Laurie Schmidlin

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts

Amy Kolling

Donut You Know, Donut You Know Confetti Cuts

Susan Liles

Be a Barista, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Diagonal Stripes, Class Act Confetti Cuts, Love Note Confetti Cuts

In a Big Way, Whole Lotta Dots, Petals ‘n Posies, Petals ‘n Posies Confetti Cuts, Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts

Sarah Gough

Donut You Know, Donut You Know Confetti Cuts

Amber Hight

Lots to Say, Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, So Stripey, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts

Leigh Penner

All About You, Documented Confetti Cuts

Beautiful Banners, Beautiful Banners Confetti Cuts, Puppy Love, Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts

Lisa Henke

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Double Edge Scallop Border Confetti Cuts

So Very Special, Celebrate Cake, So Stripey, So Many Stars, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts,

Donut You Know, Donut You Know Confetti Cuts

Kathy Martin

Donut You Know Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

Documented Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love Confetti Cuts, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts

Happy Heart Day Quick Card Panels, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts

Jean Manis

Lots to Say, Circle Garland Confetti Cuts

Amy Tsuruta

Donut You Know, Donut You Know Confetti Cuts, Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts

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Hello ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Thursday!

I can’t believe it’s Thursday already…this week is zooming by at light speed.  My calendar is full and so is my heart!  It’s been a great week and I am looking forward to lots of stuff coming up…personally, and with Reverse Confetti.

One of those “things” coming up for Reverse Confetti is a BRAND NEW WEBSITE!  We will going offline this weekend and, if all goes well, when we come back live it will be shiny and new.  Stay tuned!

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Today, it’s time for CONFETTI CAMERA!

In this weekly segment, one of the Confetti Crew designers will have the camera on both themselves, as a designer, and on their Reverse Confetti creations. For this round, you’ll get a dose of Reverse Confetti inspiration from cards completed inside and out from each of our designers. A couple of things to note:

1) This segment will not “air” if there is a different post scheduled for that day, such as Sketch for You to Try on the 1st of each month or on a hop or sneak peek day.

2) Each designer will follow the same “theme” until we have featured every Confetti Crew Design Team Member (then it’s a new round with new questions/theme). To see previous Confetti Camera post, simply click on “Confetti Camera” under the categories link on our sidebar.

The spotlight is on the incredibly sweet and talented, LEIGH PENNER, today…

Today I have a Valentine’s Day card to share.

I decided to make a window card using some of the new January Release products.

To start, I folded a piece of white cardstock in half.

I die cut some Pink Paislee striped cardstock with the Documented Confetti Cuts journaling card die and some red cardstock using the rectangle die from Class Act Confetti Cuts.

I die cut the largest heart from Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts from the red cardstock diecut and adhered it to the striped die cut. Then, I ran it through my die cutting machine again with the same heart die, to die cut the heart from the striped journaling card.

I adhered these to my white card base and with the card open, I, once again, ran it through with the large heart die. This created the window on my card and made sure the negative spaces from the hearts were all lined up.

I created a banner by trimming a strip of black cardstock to 1″x 6″ and die cutting the ends using just the bottom of the smaller tag from Tag Me Confetti Cuts.

I stamped the sentiment (from Puppy Love) in VersaMark and heat embossed it in white.

I scored the fold lines and adhered it to my card.

For the inside of my card, I diecut and stamped the boy puppy from Puppy Love (using the coordinating Puppy Love Confetti Cuts) and adhered him to my card, making sure he could be seen from the front through the window.

I paper-pieced his little bow tie and stamped the sentiment (also from Puppy Love).

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Hello and TGIF, ‘Fetti Fans!

I am definitely looking forward to this weekend!  The weather is supposed to be beautiful and I am excited to spend some quality time outside with the littles and my hubby.  I think I’ve convinced them to help me wash/clean out my car.  We’ll see if they are anywhere to be found when it comes time for that, though!

It’s a super special weekend at Reverse Confetti, too!  Sunday is our (monthly) blog hop and I promise you do not want to miss it!

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Time to take a peek back at what the Confetti Crew has been up to this week!

Heather Pulvirenti

Heart To Heart, Heart To Heart Confetti Cuts, Love Note Confetti Cuts, Office Edges Confetti Cuts

Lisa Henke

Roundabout Additions, So Many Stars, Pretty Panels: Triangles Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Oh My Stars Confetti Cuts

Here We Go, Here We Go Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Oh My Stars Confetti Cuts, So Stripey, So Many Stars, Celebrate Cake

Laurie Schmidlin

Heart To Heart, Heart To Heart Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Big Chevron Confetti Cuts

Jean Manis

Sugary Sweet Sentiments, Doin’ The Wave Confetti Cuts

Amber Hight

Heart To Heart, Heart To Heart Confetti Cuts, Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts

Love Blooms

Stacey Schafer

Heart To Heart, Heart To Heart Confetti Cuts, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Straight Stripes, Envie Wrap Confetti Cuts

Leigh Penner

Crushin’, Whole Lotta Hearts, Circle Garland Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts, Whole Lotta Hearts, Lots to Say

Amy Sheffer

I Like You, Pretty Panels: Straight Stripes Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts

Amy Tsuruta

Puppy Love, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts, Heart To Heart Confetti Cuts

Sarah Gough

Happy Heart Day Quick Card Panels, I Like You, Documented Confetti Cuts, Arrow Confetti Cuts, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts

Amy Kolling

Puppy Love, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts, Tag Me Confetti Cuts

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Greetings ‘Fetti Fans!

Today we have another wonderful edition of CONFETTI CAMERA to share with you.  Before we get to that, I want to remind you that Sunday we are having our monthly creative hop (remember, 8 is great!).  This hop is going to be extra sweet and filled with so much Confetti Creativity!

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CONFETTI CAMERA time!

In this weekly segment, one of the Confetti Crew designers will have the camera on both themselves, as a designer, and on their Reverse Confetti creations. For this round, you’ll get a dose of Reverse Confetti inspiration from cards completed inside and out from each of our designers. A couple of things to note:

1) This segment will not “air” if there is a different post scheduled for that day, such as Sketch for You to Try on the 1st of each month or on a hop or sneak peek day.

2) Each designer will follow the same “theme” until we have featured every Confetti Crew Design Team Member (then it’s a new round with new questions/theme). To see previous Confetti Camera post, simply click on “Confetti Camera” under the categories link on our sidebar.

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Up on Confetti Camera today is the super sweet, fun and talented STACEY SCHAFER…

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Hey there, ‘Fetti Fans!  Stacey here with my take on the “Inside Out” Confetti Camera segment!

Reverse Confetti has the most versatile and user friendly Confetti Cuts and Stamps.

On the front of my card today, I layered up one of those LIMITED EDITION Happy Heart Day Quick Card Panels and some yummy papers cut with Envie Wrap, Circles ‘n Scallops and Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts.  The heart was stamped first with the Heart to Heart stamp set in a coordinating red ink and a few confetti hearts and stars were glued on to add to the movement and shine of the card.

 For the inside of the card, I used similar paper patterns with slightly different Confetti Cuts to show you just how well previously released and newly released Reverse Confetti products go together.

Here I used the Circles ‘n Scallops and Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts again with a simply stamped red Heart to Heart heart, but added the Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts and a sweet sentiment from previously released Crushin’ stamp set.  Delightful!

I hope you are inspired to combine your previously released and newly released Reverse Confetti goodies and create your own “Inside Out” card!

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Howdy ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Sunday!

Yes, I’m blogging on a Sunday.  That means that something fun and exciting is happening over here!  It’s time for a new SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY!

Here’s this month’s sketch…

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Here are all the details you need to know…

Before I get to all the wonderful inspiration that the Confetti Crew came up with using this sketch, let’s go over the details…

There will be a new sketch posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 1st of each month.

The sketch link list will be open from the 1st until noon CST on the 27th. The SFYTT button is  posted on the sidebar.  Click on it to be taken to the current SFYTT post and link list.

Reverse Confetti stamps and/or Confetti Cuts are required to win.  This is a way we get to thank our customers for using our stamps.  Anyone is welcome to play, though!

You may enter as many times as you wish.

There will be a winner each month and that person will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Reverse Confetti store and claim the title of ‘Fetti Fave. The winner of SFYTT will be posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 28th of this month.

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Here’s my take on the sketch using DONUT YOU KNOW and DONUT YOU KNOW Confetti Cuts on the focal panel…

In addition to the DONUT YOU KNOW stamps and Confetti Cuts dies, I also used the DOUBLE EDGE SCALLOP BORDER Confetti Cuts die along the left side of the red chevron panel and the flag ended banner from the TAG ME Confetti Cuts die set on the two flag ended banners hanging from the top.

Detail shot of the card, along with the icing and sprinkles…

To get the glazed looked on the icing, I used Ranger Enamel Accents and then added glass glitter and sprinkles (cut from the DONUT YOU KNOW Confetti Cuts dies).

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Of course, the Confetti Crew has some wonderful inspiration using this sketch, too!

Leigh Penner

Lots to Say, Oh My Stars Confetti Cuts

Kathy Martin

Give Thanks Label Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

Susan Liles

Class Act, Class Act Confetti Cuts, Love Note Confetti Cuts, Whole Lotta Hearts, Lighthearted Letters, Tag Me Confetti Cuts

Tara Godfrey

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Tag Me Confetti Cuts

Our January & February ‘Fetti Friend, Wendy Sue Anderson

Heart to Heart, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts, Happy Heart Day Quick Card Panels

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Now it’s your turn! Show us your SFYTT!

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Hey, hey ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Friday (and Super Bowl weekend).

Do you have fun plans for the game?  I have to admit, we’re going to be duds and just hang out at home.  I’m more interested in the commercials than the teams playing this year.  I guess that’s just about every year though, but sometimes cheering occurs in between the commercials, too.  My (8 year old) daughter is excited to see Katy Perry perform at half-time.  I’m crossing my fingers for no wardrobe malfunctions, etc!

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It’s Friday, so you know what that means…

Let’s take a peek back at what the Confetti Crew has been up to this week!

Heather Pulvirenti

Love Blooms, Puppy Love (hearts)

Leigh Penner

Fabulous Flamingo, In a Big Way

Amber Hight

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Big Chevron Confetti Cuts

Kathy Martin

Quick Card Panels: Happy Heart Day, Pretty Panels: Big Chevron, Pretty Panels: Heart Love, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

Pretty Panels: Big Chevron Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love Confetti Cuts, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

Jean Manis

Sugary Sweet Sentiments

Lisa Henke

Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, Tagged Totes Confetti Cuts

Susan Liles

Here’s the Story, Arrow Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love, Pretty Panels: Straight Stripes, Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts

Amy Sheffer

(she’s also up on Confetti Camera this week!)

Tag Me Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

Amy Tsuruta

Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts, Love Blooms, Love Blooms Confetti Cuts, All About You

Square Tag Confetti Cuts, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts, Petals ‘n Posies (sentiment)

Stacey Schafer

Quick Card Panels: Happy Heart Day, Circle Garland Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Triangles Confetti Cuts, Crushin’

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Hey there, ‘Fetti Fans and Happy Thursday!

My, oh my, this week is flying by.  I’ve spent a lot of time in the office this week doing the normal stuff…packing orders, fielding emails, putting together product graphics and info for upcoming releases (so much good stuff coming up!) and, to my delight, CREATING!  It’s nice to get a little ahead so that I have time to do that!  I’ll be sharing my projects that I have been working on over the next couple of weeks.  Today, it’s time for…

In this weekly segment, one of the Confetti Crew designers will have the camera on both themselves, as a designer, and on their Reverse Confetti creations. For this round, you’ll get a dose of Reverse Confetti inspiration from cards completed inside and out from each of our designers. A couple of things to note:

1) This segment will not “air” if there is a different post scheduled for that day, such as Sketch for You to Try on the 1st of each month or on a hop or sneak peek day.

2) Each designer will follow the same “theme” until we have featured every Confetti Crew Design Team Member (then it’s a new round with new questions/theme). To see previous Confetti Camera post, simply click on “Confetti Camera” under the categories link on our sidebar.

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On camera today is AMY SHEFFER.  She’s wildly talented and I am happy to call her friend, as well!

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Happy Thursday, ‘Fetti fans, it’s Amy here today, with a sweet floral and hearts card featuring some of the new January release goodies. I’m loving our Inside & Out theme! I imagine it’s kind of a let-down for a recipient to open a beautifully hand-crafted card, only to find a plain ol’ card base inside! And yet, I don’t decorate the insides nearly often enough. I’m hoping today’s card is the beginning of a new habit!

I absolutely adore the hand-written look of the sentiments in LOVE BLOOMS — so charming! I stamped my sentiment onto a TAG ME Confetti Cuts die-cut, then added lots of different hearts (die cut with the HEART TO HEART and PUPPY LOVE Confetti Cuts sets) as well as an ARROW Confetti Cuts die-cut. The large rounded rectangle from DOCUMENTED is a great background layer for TAG ME tags.

For the inside, I carried over the basic elements and theme of the outside: colors, hearts, and love. The hearts are stamped with images from HEART TO HEART and die-cut with the coordinating HEART TO HEART Confetti Cuts. The word “LOVE” is also from the HEART TO HEART stamp set. I arranged everything along the bottom, leaving plenty of room for a written message.

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Hey, hey ‘Fetti Fans!

What day is it?  WEDNESDAY IN THE WORKS day! *wink*

What is WEDNESDAY IN THE WORKS?

It’s not really about one thing in particular, but rather “the works” of a stamped card or project.  A variety of topics will be covered in this segment… from color combos to shaped cards to inspiration pieces to mixing and matching stamps and/or papers…and everything in between.  Today, my focus is on… WATERCOLORS. Watercoloring on cards and other paper crafting project has seen a surge in popularity and I don’t think it’s going away anytime soon!

Yesterday, I showed you a card that I had used a die cut piece of paper that I had watercolored.  The ombre coloring added visual interest and the watercolor paper added just a touch of texture.

Today, I created a background using watercolors…

Can I tell you something?…I love this card.  It is so far from what I had originally envisioned and it may be one of my favorites that I have ever made.  Gotta love it when that happens!

To create this watercolor background, I colored from bottom to top.  I had to add a little water (and a touch or two of paint) along the way to get the fade that I desired.  It’s not quite what I would consider ombre, but I do like the faded effect that it has.  After it was dry, I saturated my paintbrush in the color that I used to watercolor and I flicked it a couple of times over the paper to get the splatters that you see…and the ones that you don’t.

What do I mean by that?

Well, the negative heart was really an “opportunity to embellish.”  There was a huge splatter there and I just didn’t like how it looked or how my layers looked on that side of the card.  Seeing that I was out of watercolor paper, I had to make something work.  So, I cut it out with the heart and it actually created a great piece of the focal element.

From there, I layered the other pieces of the focal element.  The two flag ended pieces are cut from the flag ended banner in TAG ME.  The sentiment is from the January release set, Heart to Heart, and the heart dies are from the coordinating HEART TO HEART Confetti Cuts die set.

As a finishing touch, and to tie in the gold paper, I added gold sequins.

One more detail shot…

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LOVE TO LOVE YOU CARD

Stamps: Heart to Heart

Confetti Cuts: Heart to Heart, Tag Me

Ink: SU! Dye Ink

Cardstock: White, Watercolor Paper, Gold

Patterned Paper: Lawn Fawn

Other: Sequins, Dimensional Adhesive, Watercolor Paints

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Howdy there, ‘Fetti Fans!

It’s Friday, which means two things:

1. Our newsletter went out this morning…with a brand new exclusive “inspiration station” section.  If you aren’t signed up for our weekly/release newsletter, you can do so HERE.  Our newsletter also contains information about inventory updates, product spotlights and the occasional sale!

2. It’s time for…

I love jam-packing a post with the weekly creations from the Confetti Crew!  Here’s what they have been up to this week…

Amy Sheffer

Happy Heart Day Quick Card Panels (limited edition), Crushin’, Here’s the Story, Documented Confetti Cuts

Amber Hight

Puppy Love, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts, Pretty Panels: Heart Love Confetti Cuts

Lisa Henke

Puppy Love, Puppy Love Confetti Cuts, Documented Confetti Cuts, Whole Lotta Hearts

Laurie Schmidlin

Beautiful Banners, Beautiful Banners Confetti Cuts, Petals ‘n Posies, Petals ‘n Posies Confetti Cuts

Jean Manis

Crushin’, Pretty Panels: Straight Stripes Confetti Cuts, Arrow Confetti Cuts, Office Edges Confetti Cuts, Love Note Confetti Cuts

Love Note Confetti Cuts, Tagged Tote Confetti Cuts, Sugary Sweet Sentiments

Leigh Penner

Beautiful Banners, Love Blooms, All About You, Circles ‘n Scallop Confetti Cuts

Amy Tsuruta

(different take on the same challenge as Leigh’s card directly above)

Love Blooms, Dream in Color, Whole Lotta Dots

Kathy Martin

Love Blooms, Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts, Give Thanks Label Confetti Cuts

Tagged Tote Confetti Cuts, Square Tag Confetti Cuts, Donut You Know Confetti Cuts, Sugary Sweet Sentiments

Amy Kolling

Heart to Heart, Heart to Heart Confetti Cuts

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