September Blast From the Past from Taylored Expressions

Good Morning Everyone,

It's time for another Blast from the Past blog hop from Taylored Expressions where every month, all fans and customers of everything Taylored Expressions can hop together using stamps from past releases. This month's release has a special theme: Birth/Day ! yay! I couldn't wait to make a card for the birth-days of two very special new babies who celebrated their very first day on mother earth - both born on September 13th! :) The first card is made especially for a little Ms. Madelyn VanBruggen who arrived cute as can be to our dearest Taylor and her wonderful husband Jon! yay!!!! Welcome little cupcake - you are so loved!!! Please check out this post from Taylor for cute little pics of her darling little girl!

I made this card using one of my all time favorite stamp sets: the Hangin' Out  and paired it with the sentiment from the Welcome Little One stamp set from Taylored Expressions. I love these sweet Authentique papers and tried to keep this card slightly monochromatic pretty in pink for the prettiest little baby girl!

Here is a little close-up of the paper pieced onesie - and the layered dimensionals - of course I had to add a wee circle of liquid pearls around the image panel. The sentiment panel was cut out of some yummy glitter paper (every baby needs a little glitter and bling :)

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Hangin' Out  for the onesie and the sentiment is from Welcome Little One from Taylored Expressions
Papers: Aunthentique Uncommon, Taylored Expressions Buttercream cardstock, Bazzil papers
Inks: RoseRed Memento and Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Baker's Twine, circle nesties, spellbinder's labels, sponger, dimensionals, heart punch, pearls from Want2Scrap

My dear friend from college had her baby boy on September 13th as well (this is my new favorite day!) and I couldn't wait to make her a card of congratulations! She has two little girls who are the same ages as our children and I can't wait for all of us to have a playdate with this new little wonderbean! I used the same Aunthentique papers but went monochromatic blue and used the sketch that was optional with this month's hop for this card.

I wanted to create a little shabby happy card for her little wee man and used the Sentiment from Bringing Home Baby the Carriage from the Welcome Little One from Taylored Expressions. I cut out a set of pennants using the Pennant Border Die and layered it diagonally across the vertical panel. I used the diagonal strips in the sketch to lay down 4 lines of pearls. The baby carriage was glazed slightly with a glaze pen and used a little blue flower to embellish the ribbon trims:

 Here is the inside of the card with the sweet little sentiments from the Baby Cakes stamp set and from the Bringing Home Baby Stamp set from Taylored Expressions:

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Sentiment from Bringing Home Baby, Carriage from the Welcome Little One from Taylored Expressions 

Papers: Aunthentique, Taylored Expressions Buttercream cardstock, Bazzil papers

Inks: RichCocao from Memento and Tuxedo Black

Accessories: silver ribbon from stash, circle nesties, pearls from Want2Scrap, heart punch, Expresso dimensionals, Pennant border die, dimensionals and Sakura Glaze pen.


Welcome darling babies!! Can't wait to meet you in person one day! And I can't wait to see what everyone has created with this month's hop theme!!! YAY!

Thanks so much for stopping in!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)