A Beary Special Gift Set

Good Morning Everyone!

Good Morning! 

So do you remember when I mentioned that I no longer have a craft corner. Its true -I had to take it down because we have some family visiting and there is no room! So instead I am crafting out of boxes and doing it in my closet! LOL!!! (the new name of this blog is Sankari's Sunshine Closet :) 

I had alot of fun creating this fun little gift set in my closet last and here is a sneak peek of a part of a gift set that I made for the Stamp a Sweet Impression blog.

Please hop on over to The Stamp a Sweet Impression blog and check out a few pictures of this fun little gift set - would love to hear what you think :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

You guys are the real sunshine!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

Get Well Soon Cards

Good Morning Everyone, 

Here is a quick question that I have always had - how long does it take you to make cards? From start to finish? 

For me, sometimes a card can an hour (partly because I am watching a movie and making a card, or making it in between making dinner and getting the kids ready for bedtime. So today, I was determined to make a card in 15 minutes! I set the clock and tried my best!  I tried it while making two get well cards that I made using my new fave stamp set -  Doctor's Order set from Taylored Expressions, which uses papers and ribbons from the March Key Ingredients set. 

There have been a few of my friends who are under the weather due to seasonal allergies and so I wanted to replenish my get well soon card supply! Well, how did I do on my challenge... well, on the first card I made it took about 18 minutes from start to finish - which wasn't that bad! I had a lot of fun making this cute tissue box! LOVE it! Okay - seriously -  I am obsessed with this little tissue - box - I LOVE it... there is something so satisfying about stamping it and paper piecing it - love it! 

And then I was so pysched to have made one quickie card - that I had to make another one! This time though it took probably like 30 mintes to make it - I think it was because of all the paper cutting, and paper piecing the bed sheet covers and then adhering etc.

 I LOVE this second card - a little cuppie in bed! That's just such a cute image!!! Also It was sooo simple to make these cards because everything was already in the Key Ingredients package (cardstock, ribbon etc.) already comes with DP and matching cardstock. 

So how long does it take you to make a card? 

Thank you so muh for stopping in and checking my out my little corner :)! 

Hugs to all!

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions May Release DAY!!!

Good Morning Again Everyone!!

YAY! Today is release day over at Taylored Expressions - if you are reading this - then the store is officially open and there are a bunch of goodies in the store including everything flowery on sale for Mother's Day!!! But before you run over there - here are two more peeks from the two sets that are being released today: Doctor's Orders and Boys will Be Boys.

I made this card using Taylor's Friday Cupcake Sketch challenge #56 and this card is from the Doctor's Orders stamp set - and I just LOVE that the little Cuppie is holding some get well ballons! SOO cute! This is such a versatile stamp set and its so great to be able to make some fun and cheery get well cards. I love that this set works well for making a get well set for kids - I made this one for one my son's friends who is under the weather - I tried to make it bright and cheery and fun - but anytime any one of these cuppies gets inked it always is fun :)

Here is a card that I made using Taylor's Friday Cupcake Sketch Challenge #66 (I turned the sketch upside down) and the Boys Will Be Boys set - I LOVE this image of a little patch of golfdom... my DH is a total golf dude and I thought I would make him a just because card - that he is par-fect the way he is :) I love making cards for him!

I pulled out my watercolors for this card - had fun doing a little painting on the green... the flag is paper pieced and I couldn't help putting a little glitter on it --- I know its not very "masculine' perhaps to have glitter on a boy card... but a glitter makes the world sparkle - so why not?! :) The buttons are from the Father's Day Kit - the plaid button is a clear button with DP from the Father's Day Kit.

You have to check out all the images in the this stamp set - because if you are masculine card challenged like me - it is the perfect stamp set to have for all the men/boyz in your life - that and the Father's Day Key Ingredients kit has paper, coordinating ribbon, etc. that makes it super easy to whip out a boy card :)

Don''t forget to check out my amazing fellow DT members from Taylor's Baker's Dozen:

Ana Wohlfahrt
Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz


and of course! Taylor VanBruggen

Don't forget to check out all the deals and steals that Taylor has in store for you over at her store: Taylored Expressions!!!

Thank you so much for checking out my little corner :)

Ciao for now,

Sankari :)

TECC64 - Happy Mother's Day Card - a la Glitter :)

Good Morning Everyone,

I didn't get to play along last week with Taylor's Friday Cupcake Challenge - and so I had to play along! I didn't use any cupcakes :( but I did use some of the awesome papers from the April 20th Key Ingredients Kit- (it comes with cardstock, coordinating DP, glitter, flower bling embellishments and coordinating ribbon). I absolutely love these papers and had fun arranging them in the rectangle element of the sketch.

I used a technique with tacky tape and glitter that the awesome Lynn Mercurio featured a while ago on SCS - this technique works like a charm! 

Card Details:

Paper, Ribbon, Glitter, flower bling are all from the April 20th Key Ingredients kit

Stamps: Fresh Flowers from Taylored Expressions

Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip!

Accessories: Square punch from CM, Scallop Punch from SU!, Corner Rounder, silver pen

Hope you guys are having a great weekend! 

Thanks so much for visiting my little corner :)

Ciao for now :)

Sankari :)

Mojo Monday#82 - Sweet Friends (Taylored Expressions)

Good Morning Everyone,

Its hard to believe how quickly this week is flying by - I don't know how it happens because when I turned around it was just sunday and here we are at Wednesday! I love Julee's sketch #82 this week over at Mojo Monday and wanted to play along. I love the Downtown Diva set from Taylored Expressions and was excited to use the papers from the Sweet Branch Collection - and so I made this card for a dear friend of mine.

I just wanted to thank all of you, who wrote such sweet comments about the little family accident etc. from the last post.... I am truly grateful for each of you who wrote such sweet words - it really gave me so much comfort...It's amazing to me how a sweet word from a friend can suddenly uplift you - how kindness and and understanding - can make such a difference in how you face things - from thinking that you are alone - to feeling that you are supported. So, this card is dedicated to all of you! You are all priceless and are the sweetest! Thank you so much - you don't know how much it has touched my heart!

I love the heart between the two cupcakes - it says sweet friends! and the sentiment reads: Friends like you are priceless! Here are the deets for the card:

Card Details

Paper: Sweet Branch Collection and Birchtone Medium

Stamps: Downtown Diva set by Taylored Expressions (April release)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Martha Brown

Accessories: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon (1/4"), corner rounder, liquid pearls, silver marker

Technique - Paper Piecing

Show watched: Simple Explanation episode of House on Hulu (I still canNOT believe about Kutner! what was that about!?!)

You all are just priceless and I am so grateful to have met you in blogland! Hope that all of you are having a wonderful Wednesday - and that you have a chance to stop and smell the roses...! 

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner :)

Sunny hugs to all,

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions: Release Day!!!

Good Sunday morning everyone!

Today is the big release day over at Taylored Expessions where you can see the two new stamp sets fresh out of the oven - plus a whole lot more.

To celebrate - I made a quick (I am talking 14 minute card) and a coordinating purse!! I loved the colors that Kristina has up for her ColorInspirationChallenge this week - so I used that as inspiration - as well as Taylor's awesome sketch #62. I love these new stamps that Taylor has in her Downtown Diva stamp set - and one of my favorite images is this cute little purses stamp with the sentiment Retail Therapy (and who couldn't use a little retail therapy? I know I could!!).

I created a matching "purse favor box", which is going to be available at the Taylored Expressions store today - it is perfect for Mother's Day or just giving a gift for that special lady!
And here is a shot of the matching card and the purse (I am thinking to fill it up with chocolate - isn't that what we all need - a purse full of chocoalte - forget your driver's liscence or keys!)


I also used the Favor Box with the oval window opening from Taylor's Store (I love all her Favor Boxes - they are sooo convenient to have on hand - already scored - ready to be folded) and covered the opening with some vellum.


I decided to make some mini note cards for my mother's day gift for my mom that she can give out with gifts.


I used one 8 1/2 x 11" paper from the Mother's Day Key Ingredients kit that I folded into a trifold and then cut out the 2 3/16th inches. I paper pieced this new cuppie set with the papers from the Mother's Day Key Ingredients kit - got to love all the rhinestones in this kit! Isn't this image of Cuppie SO cute?


It was so much fun to use this new Cuppie from the Downtown Diva set - that set is so versatile - its perfect for any project! Well, Taylored Expressions is the place to be this morning because the store is ready to be shopped at - talk about Retail Therapy!!!

To keep up with all of these great deals and steals - you can sign up for the newsletter if you are not already subscribed (you can find the signup widget in the sidebar of the homepage). It's chock full of inspiration and of course you'll be the first to know about all the new products and sales at the TE Store!!!

Speaking of inspiration - you don't want to miss all the amazing samples from my fellow DT members

Ana Wohlfahrt
Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin

and of course! Taylor VanBruggen

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and have fun shopping at Taylored Expressions!!! See you there!!!

Thank you for visiting my little corner!
Hugs,
Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions: Sneak Peeks - Day Two

Good Saturday Morning,

Welcome to the second day of sneak peeks from Taylored Expressions!!! YAY!!Yesterday we got to show you some of the images from the stamp set Fresh Flowers, today we are showing sneak peeks from this awesome set called Downtown Diva - and you are going to LOVE it!!!

These images are sooo cute!!! I have so many ideas spinning in my head from this set that I am dizzy! LOL! Both of these stamp sets are just full of images and sentiments that are perfect for Mother's Day, Thank you Cards, Let's Shop (Girlfriends cards), Happy Birthday Cards, and Just Because cards! Can't wait to ink them all up - and the images that I HAD to ink up as soon as I saw it was the one with these sweet buildings! I inked these up on Stazon Black and then pulled out my watercolors and had so much fun painting. I also added a little dimension to the awning by popping it out on dimnsionals.


I used Taylor's Sketch # 59 for this card and the sentiment reads: People who say money can't buy happiness, don't know where to shop!!! I was sooo psyched when I saw that because my GF and I just had a shopping spree a few weeks ago and had so much fun hitting the shoe stores, craft stores and don't forget the dessert stores!! This card is made for her and I can't wait to give it to her!

For both the outside and inside, I used the Mother's Day Key Ingredient's kit that comes with heavy cardstock in beautiful colors with coordinating DP, flowers, ribbon and rhinestones. I decorated the inside of the card to read: "Shop till you drop!" LOVE IT!!! I have so many GF and SIL's who love to shop (I like to browse) and I can't wait to make a few of these cards for them! Aren't those cupcakes so cute holding purses!!

I also made a little coordinating Favor Box for my buddy that I am going to fill with her favorite chocolate!! I used another stamp in this awesome stamp set that reads: Sweet Shoppe. I used the the matching coordinating papers and ribbon from the Key ingredients kit. You have to check out all the amazing Favor Boxes that Taylor has in her store - they are just amazingly wonderful to have on hand because you can fix up a coordinating gift set in just a few minutes!

Card Details for the Card and the Gift set:

Paper: Mother's Day Key Ingredients Kit and Choice Buutercream cardstock, Favor Boxes

Stamps: Downtown Diva stamp set from Taylored Expressions! Woo-hoo!!!

Ink: Chocolate Chip SU!, Stazon On Black, Water Colors

Accessories: All accessories from the ribbon to the rhinestones are in the Mother's Day KeyIngredients Kit - other supplies include: corner rounder, SU! Circle punch, dimensionals silver marker and liquid pearls

I totally have LOVED using the images from both of these stamp sets (you can see the sneak peek from yesterday here) and can't wait for the big release day!!!

Speaking of which - guess what - Taylor will be releasing all of the new Spellbinders dies tomorrow also. Also two new Twinkles will be released tomorrow - (clear rhintestones in various sizes and Multi-colored twinkles in various shapes (stars, hearts, flowers, teardrops, squares, etc.) Taylor is offering an awesome deal that if you purchase both of these new Twinkles, she will throw in a multi-colored round twinkles FREE. Also JustRite is discontinuing all of their self-inking stampers! They are also discontinuing their Oval Stamper I Ensemble, Birthday Stamp Ensemble, and Oval Stamper I Blister Pack. Taylor is offering a 30% discount on these items as long as quantities last.

Seriously What awesome deals!!! Taylored Expressions is the place to be and to keep up with all of these great deals and steals - you can sign up for the newsletter if you are not already subscribed (you can find the signup widget in the sidebar of the homepage). It's chock full of inspiration and of course you'll be the first to know about all the new products and sales at the TE Store!!!

Speaking of inspiration - you don't want to miss all the amazing samples from my fellow DT members

Ana Wohlfahrt
Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin

and of course! Taylor VanBruggen

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and have fun shopping at tonight at Taylored Expressions!!! See you there!!!

Thank you for visiting my little corner!
Hugs,
Sankari :)

PS - head back here tomorrow - for the Sneak Peek Celebration Day - there are a few more samples from all of us for you!!!

Taylored Expressions: Sneak Peeks - Day One

Happy Friday Everyone,

YAYAY! Its time for a new release at Taylored Expressions!!!

Welcome to the first day of sneak peeks for the April release of two new stamp sets plus a whole lot of amazing new products over at Taylored Expressions!! I am soooo excited to be able to show you some samples from Taylor's newest release called Fresh Flowers from her Whimsical Wishes line. This set is really an incredible assortment of flowers and containers that are just amazing to color and put together in different ways.

I love the versatility of the sentiments in this stamp set and for today's sneak peek I decided to create my Mother's Day Cards for my wonderful mother and mother-in-law (and if either one of you are reading this - you can pretend to be surprised :) love you both!!) . For both cards, I used the Mother's Day Key Ingredient's kit - this kit is absolutely wonderful and has beautiful heavy cardstock with coordinating Designer paper (double sided) with coordinating ribbon and rhinestones and flowers - it makes making a card so much easier because everything is right there.

A Card for my Wonderful Mother

My mother adores flowers - she just loves loves loves anything that is bright and that is blooming. And she is an amazing gardner - I am always amazed by how she can create a mini greenhouse in our patio at home - and no matter how many plants she gives me for our home here... they invariable succumb to my lack of green thumb-ness :). So for this little card and gift set is for my wonderful mother! I used Julee's beautiful sketch from Mojo Monday#80 for this card .

I also made a little packet of petite marigold seeds with a matching marigold-ish pot (marigolds are hugely popular in India - its such a happy bright and cheery flower isn't it?) I used the same papers from the Mother's Day kit and also used some Flower Soft for the flowers in the planter... it gives such a wonderful feel and texture to the project. I used a little dot of velcro to close the packet.

Here is a picture of the complete little gift set for my mother... I can't wait to see these marigolds bloom... it will be like our gardens in India :)

Card Details: (I will go thru and edit all these with the link to Taylor's store after the release on Sunday)

Paper: Mother's Day Key Ingredients and Choice Buttercream Cardstock

Stamps: Fresh Flowers

Ink: Stampin Up! Old Olive

Accessories: All accessories from the ribbon to the rhinestones are in the Mother's Day Key Ingredients Kit - other supplies include: velcro dot, corner rounder, SU! Scallop punch, SU! Circle punch, flower soft, crimper, Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks, Taylor's Tiny Twinkles and liquid pearls

Special Ingredient: Flower Soft on the planter on the seed packet (more on that on Sunday!)

A card for my wonderful Mother-in-Law

My second card is for my wonderful mother-in-law who I love to eat chocolates with! It is just so much fun to snack on a few pieces here and there as we chat and have some tea - its always funny to see how bar of chocolate suddenly disappears :) So for my gift set to my mother-in-law who also has a beautiful garden - I thought I could create a little card and coordinating gift set full of her favorite sweets: maple fudge! YUM!

I used Taylor's beautiful sketch #42 for this card and had a lot of fun putting together some more of the elements in this awesomely versatile stamp set into this card:

Card Details for the Card and the Gift set:

Paper: Mother's Day Key Ingredients Kit and Choice Buutercream cardstock

Stamps: Fresh Flower stamp set from Taylored Expressions! Woo-hoo!!!

Ink:Old Olive SU!

Accessories: All accessories from the ribbon to the rhinestones are in the Mother's Day KeyIngredients Kit - other supplies include: corner rounder, SU! Circle punch, vellum paper and liquid pearls

I cut out all the window frames in the window set and then put a piece of vellum behind it for the look of transparency. I cut out all the flowers and adhered them with dimensionals. The window and the window box were also popped up on dimensionals.

Here is the little gift set that I created for her using the matching coordinating papers and ribbon from the Mother's Day Key ingredients kit. You have to check out all the amazing Favor Boxes that Taylor has in her store - they are just amazingly wonderful to have on hand - because they are already cut out and scored - they can be assembled and decorated quickly and in just minutes you have a coordinating gift set :)

I have to tell you that it was hard to create this little set and not eat all the yummy goodies in it!! I might have to refill it before Mother's Day! Lol!!! Here is a picture of the Mother's Day gift set for my mother-in-law:

Well, I hope you had fun checking out these samples as much as I did putting it together !!!!

And speaking of awesome - you have to go and check out my amazing fellow DT members from Taylor's Baker's Dozen:

Ana Wohlfahrt
Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz

and of course! Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you for visiting me in my litter coner :)
sending you all LOTS of sunshine!!!

Sankari :)

PS - My fellow DT member Laurie Schimdlin is sick with the stomach flu and was unable to play along with us for the sneak peeks - but I know she would love it if you stopped by and wished her a speedy recovery!

PPS - Head on back over here tomorrow morning for Day Two of sneak peeks! All I have to say... is this next set is just awesome!

Mini Bookcase with Drawers - project

Good Morning Everyone,

Have you checked out the Stamp a Sweet Impression Blog? This is a blog that showcases some of the amazing stamps and products at Taylored Expressions - its really amazing to see all the creations on this blog - as well as a place to find lots of tutorials on how to create something sweet - and recipes too for creating something sweet for your sweet tooth :) You can check out the blog and subscribe on the right hand side when you click here - so that you don't miss out on these great inspirations and ideas!

Today was my turn to contribute to the blog - so I create a little mini chest with drawers. Here is a mini sneak peek :)

I made this project with boxes and a mini drawer shelf for some projects that Paper Craft Planet was hosting. I got a few questions on what the dimensions were for the box holder - so I thought I would make a little tutorial on that... 

If you hop on over to the Stamp a Sweet Impression blog, you can see the tutorials and the full project here! 

Please check it out - its kind of my first tutorial (the kind with measurements and stuff :)

Thank you so much for coming over to visit today! This is the last day of march! Do you have any April Fool's tricks ready up your sleeve??  I am going to have to watch my toes around here tomorrow!!!

Have a wonderful day!

Sankari :)

Taylor's Cupcake Challenge #60 - You are a good egg!

Good Friday Morning Everyone!!!

Happy First day of Spring!!!

You know I am always excited about Fridays!! One of the many reasons is because Taylor does her cupcake challenges on Friday and if that weren't reason enough to make today exciting, this Friday there is some big exciting news from Taylored Expressions.

You might have already seen this at Taylor's blog, but if you haven't --- Taylored Expressions is offering something new that you are definitely going to want... a subscription to her popular Key Ingredients kits! The kits will be shipped straight to your doorstep each month so you'll never miss out! Be sure to check out this post on Taylor's blog for all the details!

This Friday, half of the Baker's Dozen Team is going to be featuring the Key Ingredients for the month of March and you can't miss it!! These women are simply divas! You can check them out here and also take a peek at the possiblites with this awesome Key Ingredient subscription plan! You can check them out here:

Charmaine Ikach
Donna Baker
Ana Wohlfahrt
Karen Giron
Jodi Collins
Laura Fredrickson

The Key Ingredient's Kit that Taylor offers is really awesome! As you probably have seen, I have been loving using the Easter Key Ingredients set (which comes with cardstock, designer papers, brads, ribbons, flowers that all coordinate together). I have been using these papers and kit to create a scrapbook for my daughter. And I love them so much, because everything coordinates together and you can get a card or scrapbook page come together sooo easily! 

Everything on this card for Taylor's sketch challenge this week is made with elements from the Easter Key Ingredients kit, using the newly released set called: Sweet Spring! What a perfect stamp set to use to celebrate the first day of Spring!!!

I loved making this card so much, that I had to make a little basket also - the sentiment says "You are a good egg!" I filled it with lots of yummy Robin looking candy eggs.

And here is the card and the coordinating basket (as you probably saw from yesterday, I am still addicted to making these baskets lol!!! I am literally becoming a basket case :)

Card Details:

All Papers, ribbon brads, flowers are from the Easter Key Ingredients set
Stamps - Sweet Spring
Ink: Regal Rose SU!

Check out all the ladies on the Cupcake Crew for more inspiration!!!

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jami Sibley

Lynn Mercurio

Monika Davis

Sherrie Siemens

Vicki Chrisman

Ana Wohlfahrt

And a big congratulations to my girl!!! Jen Tapler on being the featured Cupcake Sampler this Friday!!! yay Jen!!!!  Check out her awesome card here!

How about a sweet Spring Treat? Taylor is giving away a FREE Tiny Twinkle to one random winner from among all the people who upload their sketch challenge cards to Paper Craft Planet using the same TECC60 keyword. So hop on over and upload your card at PaperCraftPlanet and you could be the winner of some cute twinkle bling! Its as easy as that!!! We would like to congratulate Lori McAree who was the winner of last week's Twinkle giveaway!!!!

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner :)

Hope your Friday is delicious and yummy!!!

Ciao for now,

Sankari :)

Newsletter, Liquid Pearl Featurette and Birthday Celebrations

Good Friday Morning Everyone,

Wow! What a week!!! Taylor just released her newest set of stamps this week and you can take a peek at all new products that are fresh out of the oven over at her store Taylored Expressions. Today, I am totally honored to the Featured Baker's Design Team Member for the Taylored Expressions newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter by visiting the Stamp a Sweet Impression blog and then click on the "subscribe to our newsletter" button on the right hand side.

When I was talking to Taylor about the project for the newsletter, she mentioned to maybe do a little tutorial on how to use Liquid Pearls! Well, first of all as many of you know -- I LOVE LIQUID PEARLS!!! I use them all the time - and actually have to resist the urge from putting them all over every card!!! lol!! So I jumped at the chance! 

So what are liquid pearls? They are a dimensional decoration that has a pearlized sheen and they are great for embellishing paper and fabric. It is a wonderfully versatile, waterproof medium that is acid-free, non-toxic and has an easy flow tip and applicator, so its perfect to draw, dot, outline, create borders, colorize on either paper or fabric. For those using Adirondack ink, Taylor also has them in 11 shades of the Adirondack colors, so that you can match your liquid pearl embellishment color perfectly with the Adirondack ink on your project.

Step One:
It is best to use the liquid pearls embellishment after all the elements to your card has already been assembled because otherwise if you are working on your card still - it might smear. Here I have created a card using Jen Del Muro's sketch for this week and the stamp is from Taylor's... Year of Sweets 1 stamp set. The Emerald Green Liquid Pearls that Taylor has in her store are awesome! It is soooo shimmery, shingy and it has a very thin applicator for precise projects.


Step Two.
I like to trace around the areas that I am highlighting. Here, I highlighted some of the grass, and 4 leaf clovers in the Emerald Green liquid pearl.

Step Three.
Okay - I admit it! I am addicted to dots :) Here I go over the star with the sentiment Good Luck, from the Year of Sentiments stamp set.

*** One of the keys to get a precise dot is to hold the bottle downward - and shake it down over a scrap piece of paper- this helps bring all the liquid pearls down and you don't have to squeeze very hard.
***The other important thing is to maintain a regular pressure while squeezing the bottle - this will ensure precise simillarly shaped dots.

Step Three.
I also like to highlight the Designer Paper (DP) with some liquid pearls because this gives it a nice texture and slight sheen.

Step Four.
Drying Time: The recommended drying time on the bottle is to dry flat for 24 hours - but that is for big projects, for these little dots and outline - I find that its good to let them dry for about a half hour (although having said that -- I am usually taking pics of my projects while they are still wet because I just can't wait :) lol!) Its nice to let it dry by a window or somewhere where little hands or pets can't jump on them :) 

Card Details:

Paper: K & Co.

Inks: SU! Always Artichoke

Stamps: Year of Sentiments and Year of Sweets 1 from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Liquid Pearls, Brads from Easter Key Ingredients and Chocolate Double Edged Ribbon from Taylored Expressions, Star punches from Creative Memories

Using some more of the liquid pearl colors Taylor has over at the store, I made a little present to give to my friend's daughter, for easter. I used the liquid pearls on a onesie - it is good to pre-wash fabric before using. The only thing about fabric, is that it is important to lay a piece of cardboard under the fabric before painting. I actually find it easier to paint on fabric. You can mix the colors around and the create a whole new set of colors. Fabric also takes a longer time to dry - they recommend 24 hours laying flat (but wait for 72 hours before machine washing - which you do on gentle cycle with a mild detergent, no bleach)

I like to put all the colors on paper plate and take a little bit with a brush over the image on the fabric. The liquid pearls will apply almost translucently over the fabric and you can layer up the colors for a darker color. I loved making this little onesie using the latest stamp release: Sweet Spring .

-----I love using liquid pearls and I hope you do too!! They are so inexpensive and they go such a long way on so many projects and creations. You can pick this up at the Taylored Expressions store - speaking of which, Taylor is celebrating the First Birthday of the Taylored Expressions Store and she wants to invite you to the party! 

The festivities will last all weekend long with games and prizes on her blog! There will be drawings for Party Favor Packages for three days - Friday (today), Saturday and Sunday, with a different package given away each day. PLUS on Monday there will be a Sweepstakes Grand Prize winner drawn from all the orders placed at the Taylored Expressions Store from Thursday through Sunday. Be sure to visit Taylor’s blog to get all the details and to join in on the FUN! 

Thanks so much for visiting!!!

Happy Friday to all!!

Sankari :)
 

Taylor's Cupcake Challenge #52 - Happy {heart} day

Happy Tuesday Everyone,

Taylor is celebrating a year of Cupcake Challenges this week at her blog Taylored Expressions. This is her sketch for this week's sketch challenge - and if you have cupcakes stamps - why not use them for this cupcake challenge. For her celebration, she had her design team come up with sketches too and asked all the featured cupcake samplers from this year to participate in those sketches. You can check out all the details on Taylor's blog.

This week's sketch (TECC52) has an oval element in the sketch - which I realize that I don't use enough in my cards. so it was really run to use an oval for this sketch :) I am in love with this Basic Grey DP and so just used that for this card. The stamps are from Taylor's Love is Sweet set and the ribbon and buttons are all from my stash -- yay! I am trying to whittle this stash down :)
I love these two cupcakes smooching and this stamp set always tickles me and gives me the giggles :)

I hope all of you are doing well. Things here have gone from busy to insane! We are getting ready to head for warmer weather and so all the preparation has sucked up any craft time :( but I can't wait to soon!

Hope you are all doing well!
Wishing you a wonderful Tuesday filled with happiness and cupcakes!
Ciao for now,
Sankari :)

KW Color Inspriation #37 - Cupcake Love :)

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you all are doing well! Things in our household are good - the common cold has our wee ones a bit congested, so I have been up and down trying to help them sleep. The thing is that when they finally go to sleep - then I am up! So what else to do but to make a card (at least, that's my logic :)
I was up and saw that Kristina Werner had her color challenge up (Color Inspiration #37) - yay! I missed playing last week and couldn't wait to play when I saw these yummy colors (how can it not be yummy with names like: Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie :). I loved the shot of the pencils together as our color inspiration - and I had to - I mean had to use this stamp that I just got from the Love is Sweet stamp set collection - of a cupcake holding a pencil and the inspiration colors came from pencils - that was just too cool :)! Originally, this cute little cuppie was drawing a heart - but I masked that and instead stamped the sentiment: "Be Mine" upside down (I was going to stamp it right side up - but unless the cuppie had mad skillz in upside down writing, it made more sense to have him write it upside down :)

I stamped the image on the different color cardstock from the colors of the inspiration challenge and then paper pieced it all together. There's a touch of Crystal stickles on the top of the cuppie, but I don't think the photo captures it. I cut out a heart shape and then paper pierced around it twice giving interlocking hearts. I also paper pierced the chocolate brown paper. The scalloped edging was done with a circle punch, and the bottom edges of the card were corner rounded.

Can ya'll believe its Thursday -- seriously - where did this week go? Hope you are all having a fabulous day!

Thanks for coming over for a visit!
Ciao for now,
Sankari :)

ETA: pictured in daylight

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Brown (Paper Company), Orange and Green (DCVW), Blue - handmade paper
Ink: Adirondacks Expresso brown
Stamp: Love is Sweet by Taylored Expressions
Accessories: Corner Rounder, Paper piercer, Ribbon, Crystal Sickles, Creative Memories Circle Cutters, CM circle punch
Movie's watched: nothing!! (shocking!) instead listened to my 80's mix (2 words: Bon Jovi :) totally relived highschool listening to that one :)

Paper Craft Planet Sketch Challenge!

Hi Everyone,

You might have heard that Pluto is not considered a planet anymore (what's up with that??!!) But don't worry - there is a new Planet in town that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better: it is called Paper Craft Planet and it is the creation of Susanna Boyd of Card of the Week. Susanna does such an amazing service to the paper crafting community in her site Card of the Week - because she goes through hundreds of blogs and even more posts and puts it all together in her site - its is such a great way to see what amazing things people have made and are up to.

In that same way, Paper Craft Planet takes this to a whole new interactive networking level and is an online community for papercrafters that is filled with familiar faces, a chance to meet new friends and is an amazing new way to draw inspiration from each other, share photos, videos tutorials to all things paper crafted.

In one week, the number of people who have joined has jumped from 500 members to 2500!!!! There are numerous Stamp Companies that have created groups and are doing fun give aways and challenges - You have to check it out and it is so easy to join and get started in the fun - click here to get started (if you haven't already) !!!

This week, Susanna is hosting a sketch challenge - (below is her fun sketch). Sakura is offering a prize for two lucky winners - all you have to do is to create something crafty with this sketch that expresses the theme of thanks or gratitude and then go over to Paper Craft Planet and link it up to the sketch (use the keyword: Sk110808 when you upload so that everyone can see your work in the gallery!) When you are done also leave Susanna a link to your creation on her blog and you are automatically entered to win another prize from Sakura!

I made two cards for this challenge.


The first draws its color inspiration from the lovely ladies at the Color Throwdown.

This week's colors were Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Pale Plum.

The center flowers are from Handmade Heart (felt flowers) and are layered on a scallop punch and a 2"punch on dimensionals. The lavendar buttons race to outerskirts of the circle, which are followed by an outline of liquid pearl dots.


The ribbon is from Offray, the cardstock from the Paper Company. The bottom edge is corner rounded as are the dies of the images. I threaded a ribbon through the center and added a little chocolate button. The little thank you tag was hand written and was punched out from a Fiskars Tag punch and then adhered onto the cardstock.

The second card draws inspiration from the lovely ladies at the OCC (Our Creative Corner) - where the challenge this week was to draw inspiration from a holly inspired Martha stewart cupcake. Well, I just can't pass up a cupcake challenge - and Taylor is the guest designer, so I had to play! The card for this week's challenge uses her new stamps from the Stamp a Sweet Impression line (this reindeer cupcake is from the Home Sweet Home set).


paper pieced the reindeer and put a little red sequin as the cherry/nose and red stickles for the glow lines. The Icut ovet the larger circles with CM cutting system. The papers are from the Paper Company and DCWV. I added some cotton uff dots as snow, embossed the sentiment Let it Snow in white RP and then added some white liquid pearl dots to one side of the cirlce. The scalloped edge of the circle is from a mini scalloped punch from Martha. The center circle is raised up on dimensionals and for a little touch, I added an ornament to the sweet little reindeer's nose.

These cards were so much fun to make - I really enjoyed the process :) Can't wait to see all the fun creations that everyone has made - don't forget to check out Paper Craft Planet - and also stop by see what our pick is for the Cinema Challenge Creative Challenge for this week.

Thanks for coming to visit!
Ciao for now,
Sankari :)