Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to our final day of introductions for the Autumn 2024 release! I'm so glad you've all been enjoying our new lineup this week. It has truly been a joy to share everything with you.
The release is tomorrow, Saturday August 24th at Noon EDT so mark your calendars! But in the meantime, I will be going live on Instagram tonight at 8pm EDT to answer any questions you might have about today's introductions.
That said, let's jump in! The first new product on the docket today is an addition to our Harvest Pumpkin family. The Harvest Pumpkin: Jack-O-Lantern Details II Die (retails for $26) is coming your way!
This spooky follow up to the original Jack-O-Lantern Details Die coordinates with the Harvest Pumpkin to transform your pumpkins into grimacing porch goblins. The shaped base plate makes placement a snap, enabling you to create a whole legion of smiling pumpkins in no time at all.
And next up, we have our new Colorful Calavera Die (retails for $32).
The holiday of Dia De Los Muertos is a celebration of lives well lived and remembrance that often includes sugar skull sweets. The Colorful Calavera Die embraces that tradition and offers a variety of ways to decorate your sugar skulls. Use embroidery, layering, and embellishments to create something unique, beautiful, and truly original.
We also have a new Color Story!
This time of year is often marked with black and orange, but the Spooky Season Color Story (retails for $55) aims to break away from routine with a pop of vivid pink and jammy purple. Those accents boost the dynamics of the palette and make it even more unique and versatile. This Color Story includes Inkwell, Marigold, Clementine, Rich Plum, and Cheeky felt.
Now that I've made the introductions, let's see what the Guest Creators have up their sleeves!
The leaf from the original Harvest Pumpkin Die softens Carol's pumpkin a smidge, making his grimace a little less foreboding. I also love that she embellished his eyes with sequins, making them sparkle.
Melody doubled up the marigold to give it a fluffier appearance that I love. Her placement of the embroidery and flower remind me of Frida Kahlo. So good!
These two ladies have done a magnificent job this week and I hope you will pop over to their blogs to give them some love.
I also have some projects that I want to share with you today. Let's go!
I wanted to pair the two Jack-O-Lantern Details dies together in a Halloween garland.
They sort of remind me of the Drama and Comedy masks so often used in theater and that makes my theater-kid-heart chuckle. I cut the letters using the Statement Alphabet Dies from Inkwell and embellished those with a sprinkling of sequins.
I cut the pumpkins from Clementine with Peridot stems. I embellished one pumpkin with the new Jack-O-Lantern Details Die. He got a few clusters of sequins and beads to give him some sparkle and look like the warty bumpy bits you sometimes find on pumpkins. I went with Inkwell for the facial features to tie into the letters in the garland.
I followed the same steps for the other pumpkin. I don't know what it is about the contrast between these two pumpkins, but it gives me such a giggle.
My next project is a set of sugar skull ornaments made with the new Colorful Calavera Die.
I absolutely love this die! I was inspired to create it after Tilly's obsession with the movie Coco a couple of years ago. I did a little research and really fell in love with sugar skulls and the meaning behind the holiday they celebrate. They are such beautifully decorated treats, but the remembrance and sense of tradition is what I find to be truly sweet.
All that said, they're also just really fun to decorate! I used the Spooky Season Color Story (plus Tundra) for all of these. On this one, I used Tundra as the base, Rich Plum for the eyes and nose, and Inkwell for the cheek cutouts. I love how the colorful stitching stands out on this design. I sewed the marigolds onto the eyes and then went to town with beads and sequins.
This Rich Plum sugar skull uses Marigold for the scalloped eye layers, Tundra for the eye/nose cutouts, and Cheeky for the cheek cutouts. And of course, a fair bit of beading. These calaveras really come alive when you start adding embellishments.
The spiderweb pattern on this Inkwell calavera is one of my favorites. The design comes on a shaped base plate with a notch cutout that aligns with the top-center hole to make placement easy.
This Cheeky sugar skull uses Inkwell for the eyes and nose and Tundra for the teeth layer. I also used the sort of teardrop design on the forehead. This design can be used with the teardrop facing up or down.
Here it is on this Inkwell skull facing the other direction. I had a lot of fun embellishing this calavera. There is no end to the places you can add a bead or sequin on these.
I hope you're looking forward to all of the possibilities! These sugar skulls have been so fun to stitch together because everything - stitching, layers, embellishments - is another opportunity to introduce color.
Thank you so much for joining the Guest Creators and me this week. I've had a lot of fun celebrating autumn with you! Just a reminder, the release is tomorrow, Saturday (8/24) at Noon EDT.
I will also be going live on Instagram tonight at 8pm to answer any questions you might have about today's products or the release in general, so be sure to tune in.
In the meantime, it wouldn't be a grand debut without a giveaway! Leave a comment on this blog post letting us know:
Do you carve pumpkins for Halloween?
before 7am EDT on Saturday (8/24) and I will randomly select one winner to receive a $50 credit to our store! The winner will be announced on Saturday (8/24) morning's post at 9am. The winner has 30 days to contact Customer Service (customerservice@poshtadesign.com) and claim their prize. Good luck and we'll see you tomorrow for even more inspiration!
Yes, I usually carve pumpkins with my young children. I love painting pumpkins better though. It lasts so much longer.
I love carving our pumpkins for Halloween but now I might love making roasted and spiced pumpkin seeds more…
We haven’t carved pumpkins in many years, but always used to love to do that. We even won a contest one year and our pumpkin was fed to a polar bear at a local theme park!
I used to enjoy carving pumpkins but haven’t done it for many years. These days I love to decorate with felt pumpkins instead. I just love all your designs!
I haven’t carved a pumpkin for a few years, but I reserve the right to start again at any time! :)