April Key Ingredient's Release - Taylored Expressions

Good Morning Everyone,

Is there a paper lover that is reading this? Well, today I am psyched to show you some of the awesome new paper and other fun elements from the April Key Ingredient's Kit from Taylored Expressions. Taylor has been putting together some awesome Key Ingredients kits (seriously - she has such an amazing eye to coordinate it all!) that include designer paper, coordinating cardstock, matching ribbon and then some fun accessories like: brads, rhintestones, glitter, etc. that allow you to make 16 cards from just one packet of the Key Ingredients kit. Last month Taylor introduced her Key Ingredient's subscription program on a 3 month or 6 month basis - where you will receive a Key Ingredient's package in the mail by the 20th of each month. I totally have been loving all of the kits that Taylor puts together - its just all so well coordinated and makes putting a card together pretty simple and fast :)

Today, half of the Baker's Dozen girls on Taylor's design team will be showing you some of the ingredients in this month's April Key Ingredient's kit. I absolutely love the papers in this kit and the coordinating cardstock is perfect. Here is a fun project that I made using this kit:

Paper Plate Wreath:

I made this little wreath and card for a friend of mine for Mother's Day. This is made using a small paper plate (like a dessert plate - I used the Chinet variety for more strength). I wrapped the plate with some plain ribbon that I had lying around so that when I adhered the flowers it wouldn't be against a plain paper plate.

I drew a 5 petaled flower of three different sizes and cut them out from the various papers and then adhered it in different combinations and arranged around the plate.

This kit comes with the delicious glitter called blue rapture: it is just yummy - I used it on the buttons, the butterfly and on the flower - it give it just an extra umph of sparkle :) I also love this ribbon of pink flowers that I put the butterfly on. The Happy Mother's Day sentiment is from the Fresh Flowers stamp set and fits perfectly onto a 1 1/4" circle punch to be on the inside of a flower.

I wanted to make a coordinating card for my friend - and so I made a quick coordinating card that I wanted to tie in the flowered theme of the wreath and so I made a flower card using the new Blossom Spellbinders nestabilities set (check out all the new Spellbinders that Taylor has in her store!) I had so much fun making this card - it was super quick and fun to make and embellish with the glitter and the sweet little flower bling embellishment. I love this DP from the April Key Ingredient's set - its so much fun and colorful.

Check out the awesome projects from the rest of the ladies from the Baker's Dozen who have also made some awesomely fabulous creations using the the April Key Ingredient's kit!

Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin

and of course! Taylor VanBruggen

And can't wait to see your creations with this with this fun kit!

Hope you are all having a fabulous start to your week!

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner :)

Ciao for now,

Sankari :)

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3D Tuesday! Paper Plate Spring Wreath

Happy Tuesday!!!!

I am the hostess this week for the 3D Tuesday Challenge at Paper Craft Planet! YAY!!!! This is a challenge where every Tuesday a different challenge is posted that gets you to go out of the box and make paper crafted projects like boxes, bags or mini books.

So, in honor of spring (which was official last Friday) I thought it would be fun to create a spring wreath to welcome spring and welcome your guests to your house. You can make this wreath with things lying around your house: paper plate, yarn, flowers (punched out from circle punches, scalloped punches and embellished with buttons), ribbon etc.

1. Paper Plate: I would recommend a paper plate that is a little heavier

2. Cut out the center

3. You can either paint it or cover it with something like yarn (I have a door with glass - so I wanted it to look pretty from the back side too).

4. Punch out a lot of shapes from your DP, stash etc.... I used my circle scallop punch, and everything from a 1 1/2 punch on down to 1/2" punch.

5. I used a lot of different colors, and mix and matched sizes and colors together to create flowers.

6. I then embellished the flowers with some buttons, flowers, etc.

7. The leaves were hand cut from some green DP at different sizes and adhered outside and inside the wreath

8. I found that I had to use hot glue to get them to stick

9. The ribbon was tied at the end - but looking back,I think I would have done it in the beginning so that I could space everything out.

10. I also added a little beading at the end (one string of beads) because it looked a little bare - I punched out a little butterfly and added it to the wreath and beaded string (and added a little bling to the butterfly)

Here is another closer look at the wreath :

You can simply go nuts with this project! And I hope you all play!!! All you have to do is to create a wreath and upload it to Paper Craft Planet with the keyword 3d5.!!!

I can't wait to see your projects and creations!!!!

Thank you for visiting my little corner!

Ciao for now!

Sankari :)