Good Morning Everyone,
Well - today is the day Taylor is releasing 5 new stamp sets over at
Taylored Expressions.
I am so excited to show you a peek of two of those sets, one called: Beach Bum and the next called Faith and Hope. I love these sets - its hard to not to ink up all the images because they are all so awesome :)
Beach Bum Stamp Set
This set that Taylor is releasing is the perfect summer set - seriously awesome! And she has a whole set of
Beach Bum Key Ingredients to go with it! (The Key Ingredients include, cardstock, coordinating design paper, awesome brads, matching ribbons - there are a ton of product in each Key Ingredient set - so that you can make a ton of cards from one coordinating set!)
Okay - I had a BALL making this card - I was totally giggling the whole time making it -- LOL because it is all about a cupcake dreaming that he is a surfer... hahaha! It was so much fun to use these adorable stamps!! And a
cuppie surfing!!! Are You kidding me!! LOVE IT!! I couldn't decide which one to use (a cuppie sunbathing or a cuppie surfing) so I decided to combine it and use the sentiment "
California Dreamin" and suddenly, i have that song stuck in my head! :)
All of cuppie's "bathing trunks" (lol!) are paper pieced, as is his surfboard with papers from the
Beach Bum Key Ingredients. I cut up the waves that surfer cuppie is going through and popped it on dimensionals for a more "wave tunnel" look - and then painted on some liquid pearls for a more wave foamy look. The waves on the beach are from tearing the cardstock like waves and then layering them and then covering it with liquid pearl foam :). I am SO ready for summer after working with this set! After the winter we have had here, I am ready for some summer heat!!
Faith and HopeThis stamp set called
Faith and Hope is the first stamp set in a brand new collection of stamps sets from
Taylored Expressions called:
Lasting Impressions. I love these beautiful sentiments in this set - and they are perfect for bringing some sunshine to the lives of those around us - whether people are going through a hard time - or - whether they just need an upliftment of the spirit. I had a wonderful experience using these stamps to create some projects for my family and friends.
1. A Scrapbook page for my FatherAs soon as I saw one of the sentiments in this awesome stamp set was a quote for Tagore - I got kind of emotional. Rabindranath Tagore is one of India's most famous poets. The Indian National Anthem was composed by him and in 1913 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his visionary works of poetry. My father used to quote to me the very sentiment that is on this awesome new stamp set by Tagore ever since I was a little girl (
Faith is the bird that sings when when the dawn is still dark). And so I wanted to make something for him... so I decided to make a little scrapbook page that I am excited to give him when he visits us in a couple of weeks! This is a 6x6 page that fits perfectly in the
calendar stand that is available at
Taylored Expressions - I love making a page and then immediately displaying it in the house :)
This photo is a photo of the hands of my two children and myself in the middle. It was actually an accident of a photo because I was trying to take a picture to see whose fingers they have, my husband's or mine (lol!) and it ended up being more shadowy - but I kinda of liked it. I knew right away that I wanted to use this photo for my dad's scrapbook page.
It reminded me of reaching for the light and through any dark period in your life - knowing that the dawn is approaching. 
I used the paper from the
Prudence collection from
Taylored Expressions. I also used the
Branching Out Stamp set from TE and the
Branching Out Coordiantes set. I LOVE this stamp set - and it was just so perfect to use it with this quote. This sentiment still guides me - it has guided me through some uncertain times in my life and it brings me hope when things are rough and unsettled.
I feel this quote in my heart. And it was so healing to create this page with this sentiment for my father - he is my rock, my teacher and my best friend.
2. Faith can Move MountainsI loved this sentiment: Faith can move Mountains - it just shows the power of what is possible with faith - and I immediately had a vision of a quiet moutain scape.
I tore some different brown papers to create a mountain and scalloped some green papers from my scrap stash for some flowing waves of grass. I ran the cardstock through my Spellbinders tags and stamped and sponged and liquid pearled the sentiment tag and finished it with some coppery shimmery ribbon. I love how this card ended up coming out - it's always so nice when cards come together easily :)
3. Miracles:I love this sentiment: "Out of difficulties grow miracles" - it is such a wonderful and versatile sentiment that can be used with so many images and for so many different occaisions. I wanted to keep it clean and simple - so I kept most of it white. I used the flowers from Taylor's
Fresh Flower's Stamp set. I colored it in with my prismas and added a touch of bling.
I used my
Spellbinders tag and then sponged and added some
fruit punch organdy ribbon to both ends. I love how simple it was and it is a great card to have in your card supply to send someone who needs a little cheering up!
4. Graduation Present: Bag with Uplifting SentimentsAll of these sentiments in this set are just simply beautiful and uplifting. I wanted to make a little something for our cousin's neice who is graduating from highschool next weekend - a little bag of sentiments of faith and hope that she can pull out anytime. As she begins her new journey to college - this is just a simple little bag of sentiments to cheer her up on days when she is feeling uncertain of the future.
This bag is a template from a K & Company set and I added some of the flowers from the Fresh Flowers stamp set along with the different
ribbons from
Taylored Expressions. 
I stamped the sentiments from this beautiful set Faith and Hope and then attached it with some ribbon that she can pull out and have a quick read anytime she wants :) I hope she enjoys it - it was so wonderful to create a personalized gift for someone. :)
These past few days have been so much fun to show samples from these wonderful stamp sets! I really had so much fun - and couldn't really stop inking them all up :) Taylor is offering an awesome deal for a way to have all these stamp sets in her Stamp Lover's Package (and it comes with a free Binder Box - which is a great way to store all these great stamps!).
Don't forget to check out the fantastic creations of my fellow Design Team members!
Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin
Ana Wohlfahrt
and of course: Taylor VanBruggen
And hop on over to the Taylored Expressions Store - where everything that you have been seeing for the last three days are available for purchase!!!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs!
Sankari :)
Good Evening Everyone,
