Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #66 -Clueless

Good Morning Everyone and welcome to the 66th Cinema Saturday Creative challenge!! Every week over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog, we pick a different movie from which we base as our inspiration for creating our cards. Well, this week we picked the movie: Clueless (1995). This movie is loosely based on Jane Austen's novel Emma, set in modern time (you can read more about the comparisons on this site ). Our challenge requirement for this movie was to use a touch of plaid (there are so many plaid outfits in this movie!).

I think one of my most favorite memories from watching this movie was remembering how popular it was to use the phrase "whatever", or "as if.." which kinda came out of this movie :)

I always thought that Alicia Sliverstone was just perfect for the role of Cher (which is really the role of Emma from Jane Austen). She has such a sweet heart and I just adored the way that her heart opened and she was able to see the bigger picture. I loved watching this movie again and seeing all of the fashions of '95 and just loved all of Cher's purses and accessories. So my inspiration was to create a gift set for my niece's birthday with a few essential fashion items (some make up, chocolate and lotions :) using the Carolina's awesome purse box template. I used Taylor's beautiful sketch for her 100th sketch celebration (can you believe that?! a 100!! wow!). I used the sketch on the "purse":

And here is the coordinating card: The sentiment and purses are from the Downtown Diva set, the label stamp set is from the Luxurious Labels stamp set - all from Taylored Expressions:

Here is the purse giftset: The sentiment is from the Sweet Indulgence stamp set. It fits a nugget box perfectly and I also added a little make up kit for my niece for her birthday :)

**** Notice that I didn't take a picture of the nugget box with some sweet treats in it - that would be because I ate it while making this project (hanging head down in shame! will have to get more to replenish her little bday present :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Bo Bunny and Bazzil

Stamp sets: Downtown Diva, Luxurious Labels and the Sweet Indulgence stamp set all from Taylored Expressions

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories: spellbinders, bling, dimensionals, punches, eyelets, ribbon and ek success punch

I had so much fun creating this fun little purse for my niece (who isn't into the "girly" colors, so I had to create something that wasn't too pink - hope she likes this :). You can stop by the Cinema Saturday blog for more cinema inspired creations and the inspiration corner for more information and details on this movie challenge! Can't wait to see your cinema inspired creations! And stop by Taylor's blog to check out all the deets on her special sketch challenge celebration!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 1

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Its release week over at Taylored Expressions!!! And I guarantee that you are going to love these awesome sets that Taylor is releasing with this Thursday November 5th!!!!!! I am simply SO excited about all the things that Taylor is coming out with!!!! Today the Baker's Dozen and I are sneaking peeks from the set called Luxurious Labels Stamp set from Taylored Expressions along with these awesome Spa Bottles that Taylor has which makes it easy to create your own homemade lotions and potions to give this holiday season, birthday's, etc. (or keep a few for yourself ;). This is just the best set of stamps for me because my whole family is potions and lotions CRAZY so I can't wait to make some homemade gifts for this holiday season with these awesome sets, papers, labels, sentiments and ribbon and more ;) in this release!!! One of the things that Taylor will be releasing is the awesome Spa Key Ingredients which feature the yummiest groupings of paper, embellies and ribbon (but more about that tomorrow) - I used the paper in the Spa Key Ingredients for today's projects:

I created a little gift set caddy for today's sneak peek and had so much fun creating it as well as filling it up:

Here is a card that I made to go along with my gift set - I love this particular label in the stamp set which is made up of lovely bubbles - how wonderful is that?!!! I cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals and then featured the cutest tub and bubbles and stamped the leaves and the sentiment "Pamper Yourself" and the dew dropped it up :)

And a closer peek at the label: don't you love the bubble label!!!! Isn't that tub just the cutest - I paper pieced it and shaded it a bit:

Here is another angle of the card - and of course some liquid pearl :)

This treat box is made from the tutorial over at SCS by Beate and was really simple to make - you can check out all the details here - This "caddy" allows for 4 compartments to fill so how did I fill them (that is the fun part too!)

The first compartment I filled with these yummy potion bottles that Taylor has - one has bath salts and the other lotion: NOTE that this stamp set has a mini circle stamp that can go right over the bottle cork too!!!!!! I stamped the sentiment: Relax for the compartment for the bottles - I love the font of these sentiments - so gor-ge-ous!

Here is another angle of the potions and lotions - bath salts and lotion customized with the stamp set and this awesome label!!! A little bling, a little ribbon a little liquid pearls - and voila:

Another compartment was used with this sentiment Soothing and a facial cream and washcloth. I know that for me there is nothing more soothing than taking off the make up at night with a warm washcloth and then applying my night moisturizing face cream - somehow it feels like the day is done and washed away! :) I love this sentiment Soothing

Another compartment was filled with the sentiment: Pamper Yourself and a facial mask and pedicure foot scrubby thing - I totally love face masks at the end of the day - and part of me wonders if I didn't secretly make this gift set for myself :) hee!!! :)

And the last compartment was filled with the sentiment Luxurious Lathering and was filled with a loooooofa for shower lathering fun (isn't loofa a fun word :)

Project Ingredients:

Paper: Spa Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions and one pink 12x12 cardstock

Ink: Memento New Sprout, Tuxedo Black ink, Lilac ink, and Brilliance Platinum ink

Stamps: Luxurious Labels from Taylored Expressions (releasing on Thursday!!)

Accessories: metal ring, dimensionals, dew drops, liquid pearls, cuttlebug wave embossing folder, spellbinders, mini circle punch, corner rounder, ribbon from the Spa Key Ingredients set and also from stash, bling and Sakura Pens (silver metallic)

Hope you enjoyed peeking at my sneek peeks!!! I had a blast making these projects and you won't believe all the things that Taylor is coming out with this week - so make sure to stop in tomorrow and Thursday!!!!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! Please make sure you hop on over and check out the beautiful Spa Creations and works of art from the Baker's Dozen!!!

Charmaine Ikach

Denise Marzec

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Laura Fredrickson

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Laurie Schmidlin

Sharon Harnist

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

And stop by tomorrow for Day 2 of sneak peeks!!! I can't wait!!!!

Hugs!

Sankari :)