Perfect Paper Crafting and Taylored Expressions Blog Hop!

Good Morning Everyone!!

I am excited to be part of a partnership between Taylored Expressions and Perfect Papercrafting! There is something about crafting tools that I just can't resist - and I especially loved working with the tearing tools that make it super fun and easy to add layers and textures to your card. I used the Perfect Tears 3 Tool Set to tear out my layers - it comes with an amazing refillable water pen - so that the tearing is much easier and softer and gives such a nice finished textured edge. You can see below all the fun kinds of tears that you can add to your crafted project!

I made a couple projects with the tearing tools:

For my first project - I created a little scene using Welcome Home stamp set from Taylored Expressions and the  Perfect Tears 3 Tool Set. I created the mountains with the larger triangular tearing edge and the grass was created using the smaller rounded tearing edge with different patterns of paper:

You can see the awesome texture that these tools give the card - both a soft and yet defined look because of the combination of the tearing with the water pen. I love the fun dimension that these add to the card :

Here is a little peek at how I used the tools to tear out the grass layer - using the smaller rounded egdge, I lined it with water from the water pen and then tore it downwards slowly. I kept doing this for all the layers and then adhered them together to create some soft rolling hills: 

And in the same way, I also did the mountains... I worked on a Perfect Cutting Mat which was perfect for measuring, cutting and tearing:

I made this happy birthday card by tearing different patterned paper with the rounded curve tear and kept the center simple with a sentiment and a felted flower.

Here is a close up of the layers created by the tearing tool - such a great way to incorporate all your fun designer papers into a card:

I absolutely loved being able to create such a nice tear (sometimes when I used to do it by hand - it didn't always have an uniform look) - these tools allow for uniform tears that have both a defined edge and nice textured softness - perfect for layering it up for your next crafted project!!

Please check out Perfect Papercrafting for more information about their wonderful crafting tools

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Please check out Taylored Expressions blog for more craft projects from this awesome partnership!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
hugs,
Sankari :)