Blast From the Past Blog Hop #5 from Taylored Expressions

Hi Everyone,.

Every month Taylor hosts a Taylored Expressions Customer Blog Hop - its such a great way to give all your Taylored Expressions stamps lots of love and at the same time, hop around and get wowed with everyone's TE creations!!!  This month's theme was to create Christmas/Holiday cards using any of the Taylored Expressions that weren't recently released. I couldn't wait to play along - I put some holiday music on and started stamping away! I used the sweetest stamp set called : Holiday Wonder and using the BFTP #5 sketch, I created this card using the papers from the Snow Day Project Pantry kit (I love the colors of this Snow Day Project Pantry - they make creating holiday cards merry & bright! :)))

I cut out a rectangle piece of with my nesties and then sponged one corner with some Summer Sky ink and then stamped the tree a few times on the bottom of the rectangle. After coloring the trees in, I cut out a few more trees and then popped them up on dimensionals, stamped Santa and his reindeer from the Holiday Wonder stamp set and then added some snow with some liquid pearls. The sentiment is stamped and then punched out with a circle punch and added it under the image panel.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Taylored Expressions: Snow White Cardstock and Snow Day Project Pantry

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento: Summer Sky, Tuxedo Black and Rose Bud

Accessories: dimensionals, liquid pearls, copics, sponge dauber, glitter, stickles, circle punch and brads from stash

I had so much fun creating this card and I can't wait to see what everyone has created for today's hop!!! Taylor is also giving away a PRIZE, where one random hopper will receive a FREE Taylored Expressions stamp set of choice and she will also be choosing another creation to be featured in the upcoming TE newsletter!!!! Stay tuned to Taylor's blog for more details of the next hop, but in the meantime, come on and hop with me!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Happy Merry Christmas!

Hope you are all cozy and tucked away with your loved ones on this Christmas day! We are with spending time with family and are enjoying a White Christmas as the snow still falls and the piles up outside! Perfect for hot cocoa and sugar cookies ;) and to build snowmen later!

Here is a Christmas card with one of my fave sets: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions - I was inspired by all the snow we were having and decided for a white on white kind of card with some glitter (can't go wrong with glitter :) Can you see all the snow falling outside?

Here is a closer peek at the snowflakes both big and small and the litter one the curtains....

I love this stamp of Santa and the reindeers (and btw - our kids were totally excited when they saw that the plate of cookies that they left out for Santa last night was empty - and just had crumbs on it.... and then they saw all the stockings hung on the chimney with care and were amazed that Santa brought them what they really wanted: Legos and a Cinderella cup :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Choice Buttercream cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Ladybug and Tuxedo black Memento

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: snowflake punch from Martha, pearls from Kaiser, stickles, ribbon from stash, corner rounder/chomper and copics.

I hope that you are all enjoying time with family and loved ones! Wishing you all joy and love!!

Thanks so much for visiting!!!

Big hugs to all!!!

Merry Christmas!

Sankari :)

Holiday Monday - The Magic of Christmas

Good Morning Everyone,

It's Monday and that means its time for another holiday Monday card from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog. This week, Maria is our hostess with an awesome sketch challenge. I used the newly released Holiday Wonder Set from Taylored Expressions .

Card Ingredients:

Paper: My Mind's Eye Colorful Christmas

Ink: Memento lilac, cottage ivy, expresso

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: crystal stickles, oval punches from Marvy, bling, rest from stash

I am so psyched to add another holiday card to my stash. I am so psyched to be part of the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long group - because its given me a chance to create a card through the year - and now I can't believe that this year is coming to a close... wow! how quickly time flies!! We would love for you to play along with the challenge this week - you can stop by the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog for more details and also check out the wonderful smasy creations!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog this morning! Big Hugs!

Sankari :)

ReLEASE DAY -at Taylored Expressions!!!!!!! and Happy World Card Making Day!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

I am SO excited that it is release day over at Taylored Expressions and today the Baker's Dozen and I are bringing you a whole lot of yumminess from sneak peeks to all the ways that Taylored Expressions is celebrating World Card Making Day !!! So first things first - how about some sneak peeks? Today we are showing sneak peeks from the last of three stamp sets that Taylor is releasing today called: Holiday Wonder - and I seriously LOVE this set (I know I say that about every set - but seriously - this stamp set is SO cute!!!). I ADORE all the sweet images in this set and it coordinates perfectly with the Christmas Key Ingredients cardstock and DP and embellies that Taylor has put together!

This first card uses the seriously awesome designer paper from the Christmas Key Ingredients - and I LOVE LOVE LOVE pink for Christmas and holiday cards - somehow - its just so sweet and jolly all at the same time! I cut out the wave part of the designer paper as kind of hill and then stamped these super cute trees, copically colored them, and then popped with foam tape from Taylored Expressions. And my fave part was stamping the snowflakes in Brilliance silver. I ADORE the glittery ribbon and snowflake chipboard (which is smooched with Smooch :) and then blinged up :) - seriously the Christmas Key Ingredients and Very Merry Christmas Bundle that Taylor has is amazing-ly FILLED with amazing holiday YUMMINESS!!! (seriously so yummy - that i HAVE to write in CAPS!!! lol!)

Card Ingredients Details:

Paper: Christmas Key Ingredients

Ink: Rose Red from SU! and Brilliance silver

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Everything is from Taylored Expressions: snowflake chipboard, smooch, corner chomper, foam tape, adhesive and of course my favorite: liquid pearls (white opal).

This second card is from the same set and I seriously LOVE this sweet house in the stamp set - it is so sweet and so fun to color. I wanted to create a little holiday scene and so stamped everything in the card and then cut everything out and moved it around to create a little scene. The background paper is a sheeny and opalescent paper that kind of shimmers and I stamped this super cute Santa and the Reindeer flying over the house and then blinged up Santa's path :)

Card Ingredients Details:

Paper: Making Memories, white cardstock from stash

Ink: Bahama Blue from Memento

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: copics, foam tape/adhesive from Taylored Expressions, wave cutter from Creative Memories, glitter from Martha, snowflake chipboard from Taylored Expression

SALE SALE SALE!!!!

So to get your holiday cardmaking off, all of the 2008 Christmas stamp sets (Season's Sweetings and Home Sweet Home stamp sets) are 25% off from now today through October 5th!! Here is one of my cards made with the Home Sweet Home stamp set that I made earlier this year - it is seriously one of my favorite holiday cards:

I love this gingerbread house! And while the sale is going on and you are checking it out - be sure to check out the What's the Deal section over at the Taylored Expressions store because there are alot of items that are 15-20% on sale!!!!! And everyone who places an order today ONLY, will get a free card kit download!!!!

AND to celebrate World Card Making Day, even more! Head on over to Taylor's blog for a free digi-stamp!!!! for the backs of all your holiday cards! This is a file that when you print out on your card - will automatically appear on the back of your cards! Or if you would like - you can always punch it out and dress it up...

Also check out the Stamp a Sweet Impression Blog! Because there is an AWESOME challenge and prize that is there (like - a Taylored Expression stamp set of your choice!!!!) so hurry and check it out because the deadline to enter is Sunday night!

And lastly check out all the yummy cardmaking genius from the lovely ladies on the Baker's Dozen for the peeks from the Holiday Wonder stamp sets! They leave me in wonder! :)

Charmaine Ikach

Denise Marzec

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Laurie Schmidlin

Sharon Harnist

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you so much for visiting me today!!!! Hope your weekend is filled with magic and wonder!!!! Happy World Card Making Day!

Hugs!

Sankari :)