Friday, September 7, 2012

Taylored Expressions: Spotlight Hop!




  • At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 4th Birthday and you’re invited to our Birthday Bash!
  • All of the new products are NOW available for purchase. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department.
  • Lots of inspiration from the Baker's Dozen - just follow the link list at the end of this post.
  • Check out the Current Specials to find out how you can earn a FREE Belated Birthday A la Carte Stamp or a FREE You Take the Cake Full-size Stamp Set.   Birthday Bash Specials will award you FREE stamps with purchases over $50 and over $150.


Hi Everyone,
Yesterday we celebrated the 4th birthday of Taylored Expressions with a huge release and today, we are having a Spotlight Hop showcasing all the fun creations with all the stamps and dies released! For today's project I made a set of cards using the awesome new die: Dial In Style! This die is so awesome - it assembles together to create a phone (remember those phones where you actually had to dial and you dreaded having a number with lots of zeros because it took so long to dial it! lol!) It's so much fun to assemble these phones :) I cut out 4 different phones in 4 different colors and then also cut up 4 phones in white card stock. I then cut out the ends of the phone in white card stock and adhered them to the different color phones and then switched the colors of the die pad around of the different die cuts. I used the different sentiments from the Let's Chat stamp set on the bottom of each card:
It was so much fun mixing and matching the different die cuts to create these different phones. On the end of each phone I added some sparkly glitter and then opped up the phones with some dimensioanls.  And added a little glitter to the little dial buttons and then added some coordinating ribbon and a button in the middle with some twine:

Here is the second set of coordinating cards. It was fun finding coordinating ribbon and buttons in my scrap stash. I added just some paper flags in coordinating card stock on the bottom of each card and then rounded the corners:

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Let's Chat stamp set by Taylored Expressions 
Paper: Cardstock in different colors
Inks: Memento Inks: Bahama Blue, Bamboo Green, Ladybug Red, Rose Red
Accessories: ribbon, twine, buttons from stash, corner chomper, glitter, dimensionals, glaze, silver stickles, Dial In Style die from Taylored Expressions

I am so excited to see all the creations by all of these amazing designers on today's spotlight hop!! Please hop along with me and check out these gorgeous projects:


Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Taylored Expressions: September RELEASE DAY!!



  • At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 4th Birthday and you’re invited to our Birthday Bash!
  • All of the new products are NOW available for purchase. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department.
  • Lots of inspiration from the Baker's Dozen - just follow the link list at the end of this post.
  • Check out the Current Specials to find out how you can earn a FREE Belated Birthday A la Carte Stamp or a FREE You Take the Cake Full-size Stamp Set.   Birthday Bash Specials will award you FREE stamps with purchases over $50 and over $150.

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to RELEASE day over at Taylored Expressions - where all the dies and stamps and Project Pantry that you have been seeing this week are now available! YAY! 
But before you head out shopping, the design team has lined up some more samples and today I am showing a project made with the Up a Tree stamp set which is illustrated by Doug Applegate for the Apple Doodle Ink collection for TE. I love this treehouse - and this set comes with treehouse accessories including a hammock, birdhouse, line of clothes and tire swing. I used the tire swing with my tree house - I have always loved a good tire swing - brings back so many summer memories! I paper pieced my tree and then added added the color portion of the rest of the tree over my paper piecing and then used the same scrap paper for the grass. 
Card Ingredients:Paper - Choice Buttercream card stock,Scrap pieces of paper and DP from MME Stamps: Up a Tree stamp set from Taylored ExpressionsInks: Memento Tuxedo Black and Bahama BlueAccessories: corner chomper, pearls, dimensionals, EK success scallop punch, MS star punch, Cloud Border die, sponger and red satin ribbon.

The clouds were sponged with Cloud Border die and I kept it a simple design by just stamping the sentiment on the bottom and adding some ribbon on top. I LOVE this sentiment - it is so perfect! Having a good friend beside you both in your sunshine and when dark clouds hide the sun is so important and I feel so lucky to have so many sweet and true friendships. 

Please hop along with me to all of these amazing ladies blogs to see their projects with all the new TE goodies!! 
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Taylored Expressions September Birthday Bash - Day 3







  • At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 4th Birthday and you’re invited to our Birthday Bash!
  • All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 6th at 8am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department.
  • Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday and the party continues with spotlights Thursday and Friday - lots of inspiration!
  • Check the Current Specials on Thursday morning to find out how you can earn a FREE Belated Birthday A la Carte stamp or a FREE You Take the Cake full-size stamp set. Birthday Bash Specials will award you FREE stamps with purchases over $50 and over $150.
  • 2 WAYS TO WIN!
1. You Take the Cake Contest  Go to Taylor's blog to get all the details on how you can win two stamp sets of your choice by guessing which illustrator contributed each image in our You Take the Cake Sampler Set.
2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST. Leave comments during the party for a chance to win one of the gift certificates we’ll be giving away!
Hi Everyone,
We are getting a jump on Halloween at Taylored Expressions today! All of the design team are showing samples using the new Halloween stamps and dies and the Tricks & Treasts Project Pantry that will be released tomorrow! I love this Project Pantry - such cute papers and colors - and the ribbons are so fabulous!! I had so much fun creating a little pumpkin from all of the different design papers in the kit. I cut out some tiny tags from the papers and added it to the tags created using the new Totally Tags Halloween stamp set :) 

 I stamped the Trick or Treat sentiment with some Tangelo ink and Grape Jelly Ink (and popped out the the purple "or" onto the orange sentiment. I cut out the scalloped circle using the scalloped tag die from the Totally Tags (set of 3) dies from Taylored Expressions. The "happy halloween" sentiment was stamped from the Totally Tags stamp set onto the orange card stock with some Grape Jelly ink that I then hung from the pumpkin:

 This is such a lovely Project Pantry - I love the combination of purples and greens and oranges - and the DP is so much fun! I cut out some strips of paper from the DP and attached them at either end with some brads before fanning out the strips into a circular pumpkin shape.The leaves are hand drawn and I cut some thin strips of green card stock that I curled into some mini vines. I attached the Happy Halloween tag onto the center with the ribbon. I LOVE this little project - check out all the DP and ingredients in the Tricks and Treat Project Pantry:
 Please hop around and check out all the gorgeous creations that the DT are previewing today!


And don't forget to stop by the Taylored Expressions fan page tonight for lots of chances to win these amazing stamp set!!
Thank you for stopping by today and please stop by tomorrow for release day fun!!

Big hugs,
Sankari :)
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September Verve Diva Inspiration Hop


Hi Everyone!
On the fifth of every month, we have a Verve Diva Inspiration Blog Hop where we showcase a project with one of our favorite Verve stamps :) Now this is very hard to do because all of them are in my favorites :) but this month I knew I wanted to do a thank you card and one of my favorite thank you sets is the Amazing Wishes stamp set - I love the sentiments and especially love this sweet little thank you sentiment in a mini tag. I stamped the tag and then threaded a ribbon through it and attached it to the Classy Label Die:


 I stamped the large flower in the Amazing Wishes stamp set onto some DP and then added some Prima flowers on top of them - that I then bunched together on the side of the sentiment. I added some pearls to the punched borders and then rounded the corners and then added a little butterfly to the corner :) I loved making this card and can't wait to see what lovely creations all of these amazing designers have come up with for today's hop:
1. Betty8. Amber
2. Jen d.9. Amy
3. Jen T.10. Andrea
4. Julee11. Janelle
5. Sankari12. Maureen
6. Sony13. Teresa
7. Susan14. Tosha

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Taylored Expressions September Birthday Bash - Day 2




  • At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 4th Birthday and you’re invited to our Birthday Bash!
  • All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 6th at 8am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department.
  • Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday and the party continues with spotlights Thursday and Friday - lots of inspiration!
  • Check the Current Specials on Thursday morning to find out how you can earn a FREE Belated Birthday A la Carte stamp or a FREE You Take the Cake full-size stamp set. Birthday Bash Specials will award you FREE stamps with purchases over $50 and over $150.
  • 2 WAYS TO WIN!
1. You Take the Cake Contest  Go to Taylor's blog to get all the details on how you can win two stamp sets of your choice by guessing which illustrator contributed each image in our You Take the Cake Sampler Set.
2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST. Leave comments during the party for a chance to win one of the gift certificates we’ll be giving away!

Hi Everyone,

There is a huge par-tay over at Taylored Expressions celebrating 4 awesome years of creativity! Today the party continues with more sneak peeks from the design team who will be showing samples from lots of new dies and stamps! For my project today, I used the newest World A La Carte stamp set: It's a Party to create a little giftset. I altered a small hinged tin - that is perfect for tucking a giftcard into :). I love that these Word A La Carte are the perfect size for both the tin and an A2 card! I also used the smaller die from the Pinwheel Parade and decorated the outside and inside of the tin using the GiftCard Die :
 I used the papers from the Lost and Found Rosy collection from MME to decorate both projects and added just a wee bit of liquid pearls around the word image:
 When you open up the tin, I added some chocolates inside (and can add a gift card too) and used the super cute little elephant from the Elephants Forget Belated Birthday A La Carte stamp set on the inside and used the sentiment from the new Party Monsters stamp set - I love this font!
 
I had so much fun creating a coordinating giftset with these stamps! I love these cute Word A La Carte stamp sets and I can't wait to see everyone's projects today with all the new stamps and dies! Please hop around and check out all the amazing creations from these wonderful ladies:
 Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Please come by tomorrow for more sneak peeks!!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)






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Monday, September 3, 2012

Taylored Expressions September Birthday Bash - Day 1




  • At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 4th Birthday and you’re invited to our Birthday Bash!
  • All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 6th at 8am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department.
  • Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday and the party continues with spotlights Thursday and Friday - lots of inspiration!
  • Check the Current Specials on Thursday morning to find out how you can earn a FREE Belated Birthday A la Carte stamp or a FREE You Take the Cake full-size stamp set. Birthday Bash Specials will award you FREE stamps with purchases over $50 and over $150.
  • 2 WAYS TO WIN!
1. You Take the Cake Contest  Go to Taylor's blog {CLICK HERE} to get all the details on how you can win two stamp sets of your choice by guessing which illustrator contributed each image in our You Take the Cake Sampler Set.
2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST. Leave comments during the party for a chance to win one of the gift certificates we’ll be giving away!
Hi Everyone!!

 There is SOOO much to show off this month over at Taylored Expressions! Taylored Expressions is celebrating its birthday and to celebrate - there are 17 new stamp sets and 7 new dies and 5 days of inspiration peeks on all of our blogs!! Its definitely the biggest release yet!

 I am so excited to celebrate TE's birthday today because its also my birthday :) I LOVE September and there are so many birthdays and already I have missed a few - and TE has sooo many cute Belated Birthday A La Carte stamps for which is perfect if you are like me and constantly forgetting and trying to keep up with everyone's birthdays :) We are adding more cute little animals stamps to the Belated Birthday stamp sets - and I used the previously released Ducks in A Row stamp set to create this card today:
I loved stamping these cute little ducks in a row (and will I ever get my ducks in order? I hope so :) I also had a lot of fun decorating the little duckie inside :)
Here is a close up of the little duckie holding a ballon using the Make A Wish Balloon Dies (set of 3) to which I added some twine and then "tucked" under her wing :)
I love all of these cute little Belated Birthday A La Cartes - check them all out here:
All customers will be able to get one of the above FREE with a $50 purchase through Monday September 10th!! How awesome is that!!

For my second Project today, I am so excited to show peeks from this new stamp set: You Take The Cake which is our first ever stamp set that showcases the designs of all of our illustrators!! This set will not be available for purchase until after the October release - but of now,it will be FREE with any purchase of $150 or more! This is a total must have birthday set that combines all the super cute sweetness of TE from all the different designers! I LOVE all the sweet cakes and cupcakes and sweet images and the fonts and sentiments are so perfect! 

I made a set of 7 birthday cards featuring the simple cake stand with that delicious looking cake! I added sentiments on 3 cards and kept 4 cards blank:

I used the new Curly Border Die to decorate the bottom border of the 4 blank sentiment cards - I tried to keep the design a bit more CAS ish so that it was easy to mass produce them - I love the look of a simple Kraft CAS card and the My Mind's Eye Kraft Funday 6x6 design paper :
I love the new Curly Border die - it makes such a festive look - and I love how detailed it cuts the paper:
I also created a set of 3 cards with the sentiment: You Take the Cake: I kept the design the same but just added the sentiment at the bottom:


Here is another angle of the cards:

 Here is a picture of all three of the sentiment cards - I love how it turned out:
Check out Taylor's Blog to see all the contest details about how you can get two stamp sets FREE of your choice by entering a contest to guess which designer contributed which images - and hop around to all the designer's blogs to see more images from this awesome stamp set!!!


Thank you so much for stopping by!!!
Please hop on over tomorrow for more of the birthday bash celebration!!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

PS: Here are the dies that I used in my project today including the new to be released Curly Border Die:



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