Hello everyone! Thank you for joining our design team and guest artists in the blog hop for our first release in 2022!

All new products are now available in our store here!

Hop List

Waffle Flower Blog <-- You're Here!
Galina Filippenko 
Laura Bassen 
JJ Bolton 
Cathy Zielske 
Arjita Singh 
Channin Pelletier 
Dilay Nacar
Jeanne Jachna 
Rachel Arribas

Intro Posts

We've been introducing our new products on the blog.

Click on the links below to learn more!

Foiling with Waffle Flower Hot Foil Plates

Hello everyone! Nina here!

We've been busy behind the scenes for many months and we’re so happy that we can finally share these new foil plates with you!

Due to unexpected delays, the foil plates are arriving late. You can pre-order them now and we should be able to start shipping this Friday 1/28/2022. Pre-order will be closed once the coming shipment is sold-out.

I may have made my new favorite card of all time using this release!

My inspiration for the background came from this awesome gallery wall designed by Gill & Lagodich:

The mix of textures and hues is just amazing! I hope you can tell the semblance in the background of my card?

I created a video to share how I created the background using the new Triple Line Diamond Foil Plate and the coordinating Two-step Diamond Stencil! The foil I used on this card is called Speckled Aura that is included in our Glimmer Foil Favorites Pack!

[Video] Love/Anniversary Card using new Foil Plates

The gorgeous peonies are from the new Elegant Flowers Stamp Set and colored with the Layering Stencil! 

The stencil set includes 4 layers for each flower and 2 layers for each leaf. Line-up is easy because the guide lines are build-in! Check out my video below to see them in action! I also included some DT projects in the video, don't forget to check out the details during this hop!

[Video] Elegant Flowers Stamp, Die, and Stencil

Hot foiling is addicting! The Glimmer machine does take a while to heat up. I usually just trim the foil and paper for the next run while waiting. After each section, I ended up with a whole stack of backgrounds and sentiments to use later. If you wonder what happened to the blue triple line diamond background piece, I used it on another card! It just adds the perfect amount of shine to a card!

We have many tutorial videos coming to our YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, but I will share one more today to show how I made these two cards using a MISTI technique that has been my favorite ever since I saw our design team member Galina used it in a video.

[Video] MISTI Sandwiching Technique for Coloring

Basically you will sandwich your coloring in tween two layers of stamped outlines for a crisp finish. With stamps that provide just enough amount of details, such as the Violet and Primrose set used here, coloring is made easy!

I taped the whole set to the MISTI but you can use this technique for individual stamps too. Just remember not to remove the stamp from the MISTI until you are done with the top layer of Versafine ink stamping!

Live with Susan Bates

In case you haven't heard, we've launched a new product line for the love of cross-stitching and cardmaking! StitchableCards offers bi-monthly project kits, based on our popular Stitchables Die Collection, and with adorable patterns designed by Susan Bates!

Susan and I are going live tomorrow, 1/26/2022! Come meet Susan and watch us unbox our first kit: A Rose is a Rose! These kits are now available for 1-time purchases if you want to give it a try first!

To join on YouTube: Stitchable Cards YouTube Channel

To join on Facebook: StitchableCards.com Facebook Group

Giveaways

For today’s hop, we are giving away $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on this blog and along the hop by 11:59pm EST on Monday January 31, 2022 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts in this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower Blog on 2/2/2022.

There are more giveaways to enter on our Instagram including 1 winner to receive the entire release! Follow us at @waffleflowercrafts so you don’t miss out!

Specials

From now till Thursday January 27th, 2022, all orders placed at waffleflower.com will receive a mysterious gift, no code required.

For those of you who are new to us, we have a Last Chance section that lists many goodies for 25% off until they are gone! This would be a great place to start your collection!