Release Week Day 1: Introducing Ikat

 Hello!  Welcome to Avery Elle's August Release Week.  Over the next 5 days we will be featuring projects made by our AMAZING design team and showcasing our latest release.  We have 4 new stamp sets and 4 new colors of heavy card stock and grosgrain ribbon that will be available for purchase in our store, www.averyelle.com, on August 14th.  Don't forget to check the bottom of this post for our latest giveaway to celebrate the festivities.  Let's get started.

Today we are featuring a new 4" x 6" clear photopolymer stamp set called Ikat that will retail for $15.  The Missoni styled strip measures:  1" from tip to tip x 5.5"; The center strip measures:  7/8" x 5.5"; The Ikat strip on the right measures: 1 1/8" x 5.5"

 

Be sure to check out what the following members of our design team have done with this fabulous set on their blogs below. 

Chunyuan Wu
Heather Campbell
JJ Bolton 

I have had this set in my head for months after seeing all of the beautiful Ikat motifs popping up in home decor and am so excited that the time is finally here to introduce it!

My inspiration for this first card is a button that I found in my stash.  I pulled the dark brown, orange and taupe colors from the button and set off to create the card.  I stamped the Thank You sentiment (from another set that will be released later this week) onto vellum and heat embossed it.  After adding my new favorite button threaded with twine, I was really happy with the result.  I have trouble making masculine cards at times, but this set made it so easy for me.  Love that!  The card base is one of our new card stock colors called Fizz....isn't it so perfect for fall??  

I wanted to show you how you can create different looks with the same Ikat pattern that I used in the previous card.  In this card I stamped it onto Lemon Grass Card Stock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  I took out one of my trusty Sharpies (Don't tell anyone, but I don't own any Copics....I know I know!!!) and colored in the center of the image in a navy blue.  I think that there are SO many different color combinations that will be able to be made this way and I am eager to try them out.  I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment (from another set we will be featuring later this week), embossed it, and wrapped the Ikat panel with some jute twine to complete the look.  This Ikat background stamp has a long rectangle as it's base.  It really does make it easy to line up with the top and bottom of a 4.25" x 5.5" card.  I love anything that makes my stamping cleaner and more precise!

I have to say that I saved my personal favorite card from today for last.  Even though this Ikat stamp set is fairly modern and bold, you can create soft looks as well.  I stamped the Missoni styled strip on a diagonal onto Sea Glass Card Stock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder (yes my heat gun got a workout this release!).  I stamped the For You sentiment (from a set to be introduced later this week) directly onto the card base using navy ink.  I tied the matching Sea Glass Grosgrain ribbon bow at an angle (with some tape to help it stay in place) to finish off the card. This was one of those cards that took no time to make - bonus!!

In honor of our Release Week, we will be giving away a $25 gift certificate to our store.  

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Please comment to let us know about each entry.  We will be running this contest through Monday, August 13th at 10pm EST for all of our Release Week posts.  The winner will be announced on Monday, August 13th by 11pm EST.  All products will be available for purchase at 12am EST on Tuesday, August 14th.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!  See you tomorrow!