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 :)

Taylored Expressions - Day Two of Sneak Peeks!!!

Good Wednesday Morning!!!

Tomorow is the big day when Taylor will release her newest cupcake stamps and her new line of stamps called Whimsical Wished by stamp designer Nancy McKinney of Card Worthy. Today I am sooo psyched and honored to be able to bring you some more sneak peeks from her newest Cuppie set called: Sweet Spring!

All I have are 2 words to describe this newest set: fabulously adorable!!! I just love this newest set - there are so many adorable and yummy images of Cuppie!! - this stamp set is such a great way to hippity hop right into spring!!!!

One of my newest fave images of Cuppie is with bunny ears! Okay - first of all - I think cupcakes are adorable, but then put ears on them!! that's taking adorable to a whole other level!!! LOVE it!! I made a card using Taylor's Friday Cupcake Sketch # 44 - this is one of my most favorite sketches (you can click here to see all the previous Cupcake Friday challenges and previous sketches too!).
I love this cute little bunny cuppie - I mean - he is just adorable!!! I stamped them onto this amazing cardstock called Choice White that Taylor has at her store - it is absolutely wonderful paper to use for coloring your images ( 25 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock in a sturdy 100lb weight) I colored them with my Prisma Color Pencils, and it felt so smooth - like butter -- or buttercream frosting on a cupcake :)

This card was super simple to make - all the elements of this card come from Taylored Expressions in a kit that will also be releasing on Thursday called: Easter Key Ingredients set - this package comes with a set of papers and matching and coordinating DP, brads, and coordinating ribbon. And also these awesome awesome felt flowers that I am now officially in love with... so cute!! I love these papers and I love how quickly this card came together, when you have matching everything - which always helps when you are crafting with two kids under the age of 4 and you are trying to do everything quickly :)

Card Details:
Paper: All paper is from the Easter Key Ingredients kit that will be available tomorrow
Ink: Stazon-Black ink
Stamps: Taylored Expessions: Sweet Spring set (available tomorrow)
Accessories: Square punches from Creative Memories, Scalloped Punch from SU!, Stickles (star dust), Liquid Pearls, 1"circle punch, dimensionals.

I couldn't stop at one cupcake card - (how can anyone just eat one cupcake?? :) Here is a quick little treat box that I made in 11.75 minutes (yes, I timed myself because I wanted to be able to tell you how long it took :) - This is a favor box (its called Bride) that is offered at the Taylored Expressions store (for only .50/apiece !!! - 10 required for a minimum order). My daughter was born on Easter almost two years ago and I was thinking that for her upcoming birthday party - that these would be cute favor boxes to give out to her little friends :)

I LOVE that the template is already pre-scored and cut out - all you have to do is fold it! I folded away, stamped the sentiment, punched it out with my scallop punch, adhered a strip of the designer paper from the Easter Key Ingredients set - added some stickles and liquid pearls and Voila!

But then, I thought - hmmm... this could look like a bunny ... so I quickly drew some ears and adhered them on and then -- again Voila :) LOL! I thought that it would be kinda cute to have it as a set to give to someone - a card and a matching favor box:

Last night when I was cleaning up my craft desk, I just had to make one more card - these images are just toooo cute not to be inked up !!! Here is one that I made using Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch #76... I love the elements of the sketch , so I stopped cleaning (that wasn't hard!!! lol!!) and started stamping again. I used all the elements in the Easter Key Ingredients that is releasing Thursday and stamped the images with Staz-On black and then colored them with my Prisma Color Pencils onto the Choice White cardstock - which was a total pleasure to color on!

Card Details:
Paper: All paper is from the Easter Key Ingredients kit that will be available tomorrow
Ink: SU! Rose Red
Stamps: Taylored Expessions: Sweet Spring set (available tomorrow)
Accessories: Prisma colored pencils, Circle punches from Creative Memories, Felt flowers and brads and ribbons are all from the Easter Key Ingredients kit available tomorrow, Stickles (star dust), Liquid Pearls, dimensionals, corner rounder, basket weave texture plate Sissix.

I couldn't decide on a sentiment - they are all tooooo cute... I stamped three different sentiments - but then had to go with this one : "wishing you a sweet spring" - because it is just too darn cute! I also added some of the felt flowers in the kit and lots of Stardust stickles which always adds glitter drama (as one of my dear friends calls it :).
All of these yummy stamp sets, cardstock, key ingredients sets will be available tomorrow !!! Woo-hoo!!!

So do you need a fun way to wake up tomorrow -- how about an early morning par-taaay!!! We would love it if you joined us tomorrow morning for a yummy release party with some fun prizes! Here are all the details:

COME PAR-TAAAY WITH US!!!

Taylored Expressions is Branching Out! Come
Join us to celebrate Taylor's newest release!!!

When: 7am PST - 8am PST (its an early morning soiree to get you going!)
Where: Join us at Paper Craft Planet at the Taylored Expressions Group
---- Taylor will have a special color challenge that will be posted at the party - Create a card using the color challenge and you will be eligible to receive the Key Ingredient's Birthday Boy!!! (Winner will be drawn by Random.Org) Please upload your creations to Paper Craft Planet with the key word: tecolorchallenge (all one word, all lowercase).
You must have your cards uploaded by Monday, March 9th at 8am PST to be eligible for the Key Ingredients Birthday Boy Set.
----There will also be some fun trivia and prizes for the winning guesses!!! So come on and join the fun as we celebrate Taylored Expressions Branching Out!!!

Don't foget to check out all the wonderfully sweet and yummy sneak peeks from all of the Baker's Dozen Design Team:

Ana Wohlfahrt
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Donna Baker
Jen del Muro
Jodi Collins
Karen Giron
Karen Motz
Laura Fredrickson
Laurie Schmidlin
and of course:
Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you all for coming over today and visiting me! I truly appreciate your visits and hope you will join me tomorrow for some more cupcake creations as we celebrate the release of all these yummy goodies!!! Thank you so much for visiting!!!

Big Cupcake hugs to all!!!
Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #32

Good Morning Everyone,

Do I smell cupcakes baking??? 

Is it Friday?!!!

YES and YESSS!!!! 

Because its the most wonderful day of the week: It's time for Taylor's Friday Cupcake Challenge and this week is awesome becauseTaylor just announced that she is releasing a new line of stamps called: Stamp a Sweet Impression and let me tell you, from the tempting sneak peeks that I have seen - they are SO awesome and beyond cute!!!  You will have to go check out both her stamps and her awesome storage system that will available starting at midnight (EST) on the 5th.

Well, I was already looking forward to this week because it was my birthday (and while I am excited about everyone else's birthdays, this was the first time in a long while that I have been excited about my own). To even make it more exciting, Taylor picked me to be the Featured Cupcake Sampler this week! 

Woo-hoo! I was so honored and excited and surprised! THANK YOU TAYLOR!!The best part is that I got to participate in the new release of her sweet stamps. As soon as I saw this stamp, I was in love!! and couldn't wait to make a card for this week's sketch - which is awesome! 

I love the half-circles in the sketch and  the sentiment that immediately popped into mind was: Wish Big! So this is what I came up with:

 I love this little guy blowing out his cake!!! I colored this set with my Prism pencils and then covered it with liquid glaze. The little cherry on the cupcake is a red brad, there are yellow brads on the cake and teal star brads on the corners. The sentiment was made in Photoshop and then cut out with My Creative Memories Circle cutters. I outlined around the circles in both little droplets of teal paint and red candy cane 

stickles. I wanted a big bow for the Wish Big sentiment and I love that you can see the fun cardstock through the ribbon. This card was beyond fun to make! 

Well, you know what they say ... time flies when you are having fun... I couldn't stop after making this card - so I made another one with Taylor's sketch (I couldn't get this sketch out of my mind because the half circles reminded me of cupcake tops - seriously - all I see these days are cupcakes! :)

So I thought I would make another simple card with two cupcakes next to each other:  

I used my new Stampin UP! scallop punch (courtesy of my awesome buddy Brooke!) and punched out some aqua cardstock and folded it in half and adhered them together to create the tops. For the cupcake bottoms, I went to the pantry and got 2 baking cups that I folded and wrapped and adhered them side by side. 

The little "cherry" is a button with red thread and little burgandy paint droplets on the edges. The edges of the cupcake tops are lined with waterfall stickles and the edges of the pink cardstock are edged with Martha's metallic ink. I wrote the sentiment (happy b-day dear you) around cupcakes in a brown archival pen from CM. This card was so much fun to make too - and very simple :) But then again, how can things not be fun when you are working with cupcakes :)

I love Cupcake Land :)

Thanks everyone for coming over for a visit!

Have a fabulous weekend and hope you give Taylor's fun sketch a try!

Best wishes,

Sankari :)

EDIT: just realized that the OCC theme for this week is birthday - so I am so excited that I can offer these cards for the challenge :)