Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 3!!!

October Release At a Glance

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, October 6th at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the OvenDepartment at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for an early peek at the stamp sets, as well as a SPECIAL Facebook GIVEAWAY, on Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.
• Mystery Baker's Dozen Blog Giveaway: Each day, one lucky blog commenter will be chosen by random draw to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate.  Winners will be chosen from a different Baker's Dozen blog each day and will be announced on Taylor's blog on Release Day!  Be sure to hop around to see all the sneak peeks and leave comments on each and every blog for more chances to win. Limit one comment per blog per day, please.  Comments close Wednesday 10/5 at 7pm PST for the drawings.

Hi Everyone!

It's Day 3 of sneak peeks from Taylored Expressions and today  we are previewing two joyful stamp sets: Glad Tidings and Wreaths of Joy! The Wreaths of Joy stamp set continues the seasonal wreaths series concepted by Jami Sibley and illustrated by Nancy McKinney. The Glad Tidings stamp set is a mini set illustrated by Doug Applegate and is a joyful Christmas stamp set, which can also coordinate with the animals from the Easter Joy and Green Acres stamp set (perfect for creating a manger scene!). 

For today's card, I used the beautiful papers from the Holiday Wonder Project Pantry kit .  I wanted to create a glow inside the manger and also outside of it - so I stamped the images and then masked it and sponged around it with some yellows, gray and blue inks (Dandelion, London Fog and Paris Dusk from Memento) and thenstamped the sweet images of Mary and Joseph again and for their clothing  colored it with copics and paper pieced it with papers from the Project Pantry. 

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Glad Tidings from Taylored Expressions
Paper: Holiday Wonder Project Pantry (Aunthentique Holiday Wonder (6x6 paper pad collection)
Inks: Memento Ladybug Red, Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Rich Cocoa, Accessories: pearls from Want2Scrap, dimensionals, liquid pearls, Spellbinders labels and nesties and copics

I also paper pieced the leaves of the tree with DP and then colored the trunk with copics. I popped up the roof of the manger with dimensionals, and created the ground by tearing some DP and then sponging it. The sentiment was stamped and then die cut and I adhered it going across the card. I finished it off with just a bit (just a wee tiny bit!) of both liquid pearls and real pearls. This Glad Tidings stamp set is such a joyful set and making Christmas cards with this set makes the heart smile! I can't wait to see what the rest of the team has created with the two gorgeous stamp sets that we are previewing today!!! Come on with me and check them out!

• • Charmaine Ikach
  • Danielle Lounds
  • Jami Sibley
  • Jen Shults
  • Jodi Collins
  • Karen Giron
  • Karen Motz
  • Melissa Sauls
  • Melody Rupple
  • Regina Mangum
  • Sankari Wegman
  • Taylor VanBruggen
  • Tori Wild
  • Wanda Guess
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  Thanks so much for stopping by today!
  Please stop by tomorrow for lots of release day fun!!!
  Big hugs,
  Sankari :)
  
  

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 2 !!!

October Release At a Glance

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, October 6th at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the OvenDepartment at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for an early peek at the stamp sets, as well as a SPECIAL Facebook GIVEAWAY, on Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.
• Mystery Baker's Dozen Blog Giveaway: Each day, one lucky blog commenter will be chosen by random draw to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate.  Winners will be chosen from a different Baker's Dozen blog each day and will be announced on Taylor's blog on Release Day!  Be sure to hop around to see all the sneak peeks and leave comments on each and every blog for more chances to win. Limit one comment per blog per day, please.  Comments close Wednesday 10/5 at 7pm PST for the drawings.

Hi Everyone,

Today is the second day of sneak peeks over at Taylored Expressions and it is filled with all kinds of yumminess to get your holiday crafting mojo going! We are peeking two sets today - Peaceful Poinsettias and Totally Tags! The Totally Tags stamp set is filled with 9 tags/images that are perfect for creating the perfect tag for your holiday needs illustrated by the awesome Nancy McKinney for the Whimsical Wishes line at Taylored Expressions. These also coordinate with the Totally Tags (set of 3) dies from Taylored Expressions which will also be released on Thursday. I stamped  (all of which are super fast to stamp/color) and cut out my tags using the dies. And to store them, I used the Tim Holtz Configurations 5.5" x 5.5" box to keep all the dies in order - also with some extra ribbon for last minute tag/ribbon tying emergencies :) 

Here is a view of the Tim Holtz box that is Taylor's store - it is so perfect and easy to decorate - I just used some of the papers from the Holiday Wonder Project Pantry to decorate the box (which has a lid that slides off):

Here is a view from the side - I sponged the DP and then added a line of liquid pearls to decorate the edges and tied a ribbon around the box lid:

The smaller compartments in the box can be removed out and shifted around to find the configuration that you like best. I used one of the smaller compartments to store some extra ribbon:

Here is a view of all the tags that I made using the tags in this stamp set - it was so easy and quick to stamp and cut out the tag images using the coordinating Totally Tags dies from Taylored Expressions and I used both of the Project Pantry kits in making my tags: (both the Holiday wonder and the 12 Days of Christmas Project Pantries):

I loved making all the tags and can't wait for the holidays and I can't wait to check out all the amazing creations from these amazing ladies - so much awesomeness!

• • Charmaine Ikach
  • Danielle Lounds
  • Jami Sibley
  • Jen Shults
  • Jodi Collins
  • Karen Giron
  • Karen Motz
  • Melissa Sauls
  • Melody Rupple
  • Regina Mangum
  • Sankari Wegman
  • Taylor VanBruggen
  • Tori Wild
  • Wanda Guess

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari

JustRite Stamps: Autumn Words

Hi Everyone,

Today over at the JustRite Stamps blog, we are previewing a new clear stamp set that is perfect for this gorgeous autumnal season called: Autumn Words - ohmyword - talk about the yummiest font ever! I love the feel of the fonts in this set and especially fell in love with the gorgeous leaves. On a sidenote (hope you don't mind), I have a thing for fall leaves - I remember growing up on the east coast and just locing breathing in the fall colors, crunching the leaves as I walked to school and collecting bouquets of fall leaves to give to my mother. That is one thing that miss about living in the east coast - the gorgeous fall display of gorgeousness.... sigh... and the sweetest thing is that my BFF from grade school sends me a package every fall with some fall leaves from the neighborhood - isn't that the sweetest?! This year, I am going to try to make fall bouquets with my kids and wanted to try the same thing with this gorgeous stamp set! I stamped the different leaves in different inks and then cut them out and layered them together into a fall bouquet :) with a litle button of twine to the center. I created a little circle scalloped frame and then stamped the words "Give and Thanks" together for this awesome sentiment and attached some ribbons to the ends of the sentiment. 

Here is another view of the dimensions to the card - I love inking these gorgeous leaves in the fall color scheme and then curled them to create a waviness to the bouquet:

 I love using my scrap pieces of paper (confession: I am feeling like my scrap pile is getting bigger - ack!) and I love it when I save pieces of paper and then I can use it later on! I love this season and can't wait to see what all these amazing designers have created with this gorgeous new stamp set: Autumn Words !! Please check them out here!

JustRite Inspiration
Sankari WegmanMichele Kovack
Angela Barkhouse
Sharon Harnist 
Heidi Blankenship 
Kazan Clark 
Kellie Fortin

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
Have a beautiful day!
Big hugs,
Sankari

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 1 !!!

October Release At a Glance

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, October 6th at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the OvenDepartment at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for an early peek at the stamp sets, as well as a SPECIAL Facebook GIVEAWAY, on Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.
• Mystery Baker's Dozen Blog Giveaway: Each day, one lucky blog commenter will be chosen by random draw to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate.  Winners will be chosen from a different Baker's Dozen blog each day and will be announced on Taylor's blog on Release Day!  Be sure to hop around to see all the sneak peeks and leave comments on each and every blog for more chances to win. Limit one comment per blog per day, please.  Comments close Wednesday 10/5 at 7pm PST for the drawings.

Hi Everyone!

Today marks the first day of sneak peeks from Taylored Expressions for this month's amazing and awesome October release! My oh My oh MY!!!! Talk about yummo stamps, project pantry kits and delicious dies! Today we are sneaking peeks from so many awesome stamp sets that you will be reeling from the gorgeousness of it all! For my first project today, I created a set of cards that can be mass produceable using the new winter wonder-awesome stamp set: Woodland Winter which was illustrated by Doug Applegate for the Apple Doodle Ink Collection and features the cutest little animal cutie pies to create awesome winter scenes. 

I used the Gift Card Frame Die to cut out DP from the 12 Days Project Pantry kit to create the background and then used the Trim the Tree die (that will be released on Thursday) that coordinates with the sweet Christmas Tree in this stamp set to cut out 4 trees and then used the layered Christmas tree dies to layer different colors of the DP onto the tree and popped it up onto the Gift Card Frame Die. It was fun to mix and match the different DP's and at the same time try to keep it simple :) I finished it up by using the the Pennant Border Die across the side of the card and then added some bling onto the tree and stamped the sentiment onto the side of the card. 

Here is a pic of one of the cards - I loved making this so much - and seriously can't wait to make more! It was so much fun to make this card using the fun papers in this 12 Days of Christmas Project Pantry - When you want to bake up a yummy dessert you head to your pantry for the ingredients.  When you want to create a sweet papercrafting project, you can head to our Project Pantry for all the coordinating elements.  We've found that some of the best cake and cookie recipes are the ones based around a basic batter or dough recipe with lots of options to spice it up according to your tastes.  Taylored Expressions is offering our Basic Recipe Kit along with optional Spice It Up Ingredients that you can pick and choose from to build the kit just the way you want it.

For my next project, I used the gorgeous new Moka that will be part of the Moka Collection - introducing: Moka Hope! October is breast cancer awareness month. TE will donate $1 from the sale of each Moka Hope set to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. This set is so perfect for all types of encouragement - and the ribbon that she wears around her can be customized to any color for any cause. This petite set was designed and illustrated by Nancy McKinney and is so sweet - I chose to make this sweet Moka holding a ribbon for breast cancer awareness for the card drive that Taylored Expressions is a proud sponsor of the Hope You Can Cling To card drive - Everyone can play the challenges on SCS during October and donateyour cards to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

I used the sweet papers from the Echo Park Victorian Garden  paper collection and paper pieced Moka Hope's dress with the papers and colored in the ribbon and the rest of her with copics. I created a frame to put her in and used one of the Felt Pearl Blossoms (Pink and Grey) for one side of the card and stamped the sentiment: "Once you choose hope, Anything is Possible" - Christopher Reeve - such an inspiring sentiment!

I can't wait to see all the gorgeous creations that the awesome design team has created for today's eye candy wonderment!!! Please check out all of their awesome creations:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jami Sibley
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• Wanda Guess

Big hugs,

Sankari

October Diva Inspirations Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

Today Over at the Verve Blog - Julee is kicking off the month of October and Mojo Monday Madness with the October Diva Inspirations Blog Hop! Today we are all getting some Vervey ink on our fingers and I KNOW that this hop will filled with inspiration - just look at the blog roll - holy moly - talk about crafty divas!!  For today's project, I was just drawn to the Tall Oaks stamp set -(which by the way is on sale right now!!!) seriously, this might be my favorite fall set (wait, they all are!!!!) and I still had some strips of paper from the last paper pumpkin I made a few days ago, so I thought I would keep going and create more pumpkins! (Thanks to Michelle for this great idea when I walked into our scrapbook store - yay!)

I wanted to make some to give to the kids teachers and my friends at work - and I used the beautiful (and so perfectly sized font) sentiment from the Tall Oaks stamp set  that says: "Give Thanks" - so perfect for this season of giving thanks for all the beauty around us. I created little tags for my pumpkins by using the Tagged Rectangle Die from Verve Stamps (A Cut Above dies). I used a nestie for the inside shape and pumched out circles that I sponged and stamped the sentiment onto and popped it up over the tag.

I love this sweet acorn image in the stamp set - I stamped 5 of them and colored them with copics and cut them out and popped them up in the corner of the sentiment. I punched a whole at the top of the tagged rectangle die and then added eyelets to the top so that it would be sturdy when attached twine through it - this tag I would across the stalk and glued it to one side of the pumpkin: Here is a picture of the 5 paper pumpkins that I created:

 And here is a picture of one of the individual pumpkins: To make the pumpkins, I cut 1" strips of DP (I used the kind that had a design on both sides so that you can see the design on the inside of the pumpkin) and the attached them together at the top with a brad. They were then fanned out to create a circle and then I pulled the strips down into a circle and attached with a brad on the bottom (it can be various sizes long depending on how big you want to make your pumpkins - (the pumpkins here are about 7" long strips of 1" wide paper).

For the stalk - I just cut out some brown cardstock and rolled it and then glued it to the top of the pumpkin

For the leaves - I cut out some leaves using the Tim Holtz die: Tattered Dies and then sponged them and attached them over the stalk

For the vines - I just cut some very thin pieces of paper and curled them around my pen and then attached them to the leaves.

I loved making these pumpkins! Thanks to my friend Michelle for the inspiration!

Card Ingredients:
Paper: MME and Imaginese and Bazzil cardstock
Stamps: Tall Oaks stamp set from Verve Stamps
Inks: Memento RIch Cocoa, LadyBug Red and Potter's Clay
Accessories: Tagged Rectangle Die from Verve Stamps, nestie shape, ribbon from Emma's Papiere, liquid pearls, copics, dimensionals, twine, ribbon from stash, red lined tape, Tattered Leaves die from TH, eyelets and hole punch.

It was so much fun to create these and I hope that you will check out all the Verve-y inspiration flowing out of all these amazing ladies! AND if you leave a little comment for them - you are eligible to win some awesome Verve-y stamps! Check out these amazing divas:

1. Julee 9. Charmaine 2. Betty 10. Sankari 3. Dawn 11. Teresa 4. Jen d. 12. Andrea 5. Lynda 13. Tosh 6. Shannan 14. Maureen 7. Sony 15. Amy 8. Susan 16. Laurie 17. Jen T.  We've hidden a little mystery prize on one of today's hop spots, so be sure to leave a little comment love as you hop around for a chance to win! Comment Deadline: 11:59pm Mountain, October 10 Prize: $30 gift certificate to Verve October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and we're doing our part to raise awareness.We've got a special Think Pink SALE, with all in-stock stamps and dies 20% off October 1 - 16. And to sweeten the deal, Verve will donate 10% of proceeds from this sale to the Susan G Komen For the Cure foundation. A little something for you... a little something for the cure! And last but not least, a new month brings a new Stamp of the Month... At 40% off during the month of October, Harvest Blessings is one splendid deal!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs :)

Sankari