Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop

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I am sooooooo excited about this blog post because it is about something new and exciting that Taylor has going on - a customer and Taylored Expressions fan blog hop which features stamp sets from Taylored Expressions that were released between 2008-2009. I love each and every set so very much and I can't wait to hop around today to see all of my favorites (did I mention that all the TE stamps are all of my favorites ;) ANDDDDD guess what - we have 53 fellow bloggers and TE fans in our hop today all of whom have created a card using our very much loved TE stamps!

Here is a sketch below for the blog hop, which people can use if they needed a starting off point. I know I always need a starting off point - whether its a color challenge, a sketch challenge, etc. I used this sketch with the awesome "manly man" stamp set: Boys Will Be Boys! I couldn't wait to pull out this stamp set and create a little card for a special man in my life - my own dad and BFF :)))

And can I just mention that I {heart} this stamp set - its always so hard for me to make a man card - and I adore all the images in this stamp set because they make it easy to make a fun "man card" - I think the hardest thing about making this card was deciding which stamp to use - but the tie image kept calling me because it just so reminds me of my dad. One thing that I always loved about going shopping with my dad when I was little, was picking out ties with him - he has such a great taste in ties and I always LOVED looking at the myriad of colors and materials and designs of ties at the store. So it was fun to make this card and paper piece some ties with this stamp set.

I pulled out the ever trusty "go to" "man papers" from Cosmo Cricket Lil' Man collection and I was beyond excited (more like ecstatic when I found matching CC ribbons in the sale rack! Say What!!! Love when that happens! I couldn't understand why my DH wasn't as excited as I was about that find!! Hellooooo, matching CC ribbons!! :)))

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Boys Will Be Boys from Taylored Expressions

Paper: Prism cardstock (Intense Teal), Cosmo Cricket (Lil' Man)

Ink: Memento Ink Bahama Blue

Accessories: Cosmo Cricket Lil' man ribbons (yay!), Spellbinders, Adirondacks Liquid Pearls, Circle punches from CM, white gel pen, dimensionals.

I loved making this card and can't wait to send it to my dad :) I am excited about going tie shopping for him and to get him a special tie for a Father's Day gift :)

I can't WAIT to hop along and check out all the Blast from the Past TE goodness that is in store today!!! All you have to do is to follow the links!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)