Release DAY: Taylored Expressions!!!!!!!

TE Release Day!

• All of the new products are now available for purchase! Check out the Fresh Out of the Oven Department for all the goodies!
• More projects from the Baker's Dozen to inspire you.  Just follow the link list below.
• FREE Party Favor with every order! Every order placed between Thursday, September 1st at 8 am PST and Monday, September 5th at 10 pm PST will receive a FREE Party Favor ranging in value from $2.50 - $10.00.  These are all fun products from the TE Store.  We'll chose a favor for you based on the amount of your order.  If your order total is over $100 (before shipping and tax) you will also receive the Sweet Party Petite stamp set as our FREE gift to you!  The set will NOT appear on your order, but we promise to include it in your shipment!
• One more chance to win... head on over to our forum on SCS and tell us your favorite stamp set from this release. We'll be choosing one person to win their favorite set FREE!  You have until Sunday, September 4th at 6 pm PST to enter to win.

Hi Everyone!

It's Release Day over at Taylored Expressions today - and if you are reading this right now - that means that you everything that you have seen this week you can purchase right now! Yippee! Check out the amazing display of all the stamps and dies that are being released this month (talk about crafty yummyness overload!!!!) All of these gorgeous stamp sets are made out of top quality deply etched rubber in a cute shade of pink and come on EZ Mount already trimmed and ready to be used with your acrylic blocks - and they are perfectly stored in the awesome Mini Binder Boxes from Taylored Expressions! 

Today all the Design Team are previewing samples from one of the stamp sets that are released this month. I am so excited to show a sample of Moka Tabitha - the newest Moka in town, illustrated by the awesome Nancy McKinney! - I love all of these sweet Mokas (check out the Moka Gallery here) and the newest one - is probably the cutest little witch I have ever seen! I used the Spooky Project Pantry (Don't forget - now you can get the basic Project Pantry and also some Extra Recipes!) And it was so quick to cut up some strips of these delightfully cute DP and create my little witch card :)

Card Ingredients:
Paper: Spooky Project Pantry Collection from Taylored Expressions (Echo Park)
Stamps: Moka Tabitha from Taylored Expressions
Inks: Memento Tangelo and Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Oval nestabilities, liquid pearls, bling, copics and dimensionals.


This release this week has been so amazing - i can't believe all the amazing dies and stamp sets that Taylor is releasing today - seriously a crafter's dream come true! ANd I know that there is going to be eye-candy galore on today's blog hop - so please hop along with me and check out all the awesome creations from these amazing designers below!

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

And don't forget to check out the Fresh Out of the Oven section at the Taylored Expressions to see all the new products that Taylor has in stock!


Have fun shopping (the best part is shopping in your PJ's!!! :)
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Hugs,
Sankari :)

Verve Stamps: September Diva Inspirations Hop

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the September Diva Inspirations Blog Hop! Our Diva Inspirations team and a few special guests from our Release team are here to start your month off right with a littleVerve inspiration! Take a little peek at each of the fabulous blogs below and leave a little comment love for their Verve-alicious eye candy and you just might win some Vervey goodness of your very own!

This month's challenge was Auntumnal Splendor - and I absolutely fell in love because I simply adore this season and couldn't wait to pull out the awesome and beautiful Tall Oaks stamp set which has the most awesome sentiments and super cute and awesome pumpkins and this sentiment; "Tall Oaks from Tiny Acorns grow. - Everett - isn't that just the most perfect sentiment! I created this card for our son's teacher who is doing an amazing job of molding all the tiny acorns in her class into tall and mighty oaks!

I started off stamping the acorn and sentiment - and then cut out the acorn and adhered it onto the Embossed Oval die from a Cut Above dies from Verve Stamps! I adhered it onto the Labels 20 and then adhered some leaves to the sentiment - I love how this turned out - it was a bit tricky because the blue was a little bit strong - but I tried to keep strong colors to a minimum and tried to use more of the white space of the card. Here is a one view of the card:

Here is another peek of the leaves and the sentiment and cute little acorn :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Imaginisce and cardstock from Bazzill.

Stamps: Tall Oaks from Verve Stamps

Inks: Chalk ink Dark brown, Tangelo from Memento inks,

Accessories: EK success leaf punch, MS border punch and AMerican Crafts ribbon :)

I loved making this fun Autumnal card - can't wait to see what the rest of the girls have come up with! And don't forget to check out the amazing Autumnal Sale going on right now! ANd don't forget that you can receive some Verve-y goodness of your own if you leave a little love on each of the blogs below!

1. Julee 9. Andrea 2. Betty 10. Sankari 3. Dawn 11. Teresa 4. Jen d. 12. Tosh 5. Lynda 13. Charmaine 6. Shannan 14. Maureen 7. Sony 15. Jen T. 8. Susan   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, September 12 Prize: $30 gift certificate to Verve Autumn SALE! Fall is in the air and we're in the mood for a SALE! During September, enjoy 25% savings on all of our autumn themed stamps! Plus, don't miss our September Stamp of the Month special on Autumn Splendor... At 30% off during the month of September, Autumn Splendor is one splendid deal!

Isn't this such an awesome sale! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 3!!!

September Birthday Bash and Release

• At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday and you are invited to our Birthday Bash!
• Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday - lots of fun eye candy and inspiration!
• All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 1st at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Every order placed Thursday - Monday will include a FREE Party Favor.  Details coming Thursday morning..
• To celebrate our 3rd Birthday, you have 3 WAYS TO WIN!

      1. Help Spread the Word! Grab our Birthday Badge from Taylor's blog and post it on your blog for the week.  Then come back and    leave a comment with a link to your blog to let us know you're spreading the word. You will be entered into a drawing for a $25 TE gift certificate. 

      2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.  You will have until 8 pm PST that night to comment to enter to win each new set.

      3.  Join us in our SCS Forum for a contest that will begin Thursday morning.  In the meantime you can see Baker's Dozen sneak peeks there and chat with us!

Hi Everyone,

Today is day 3 of sneak peeks from Taylored Expressions - and today the design team will be previewing 5 stamp sets both Petite and A La Carte. The sets that you will be seeing today are the: 

- Autumn and Spooky Wreath (these popular seasonal wreath series was concepted by Jami Sibley and illustrated by Nancy McKinney for Whimsical Wishes and they work perfectly with the Seasonal Wreath and Bow Taylored Dies.

- Moka Tabitha - there is another cute little Moka in town for the Moka line by Nancy McKinney - welcome to Moka Tabitha (I will be showing her tomorrow :)

 - There are also two new A La Carte's that we are featuring, both designed by Nancy McKinney: The Spooky A La Carte and the Fall A La Carte which are the perfect size for cards, scrapbooking and homedecor! 

My project today features the Fall A La Carte which is just the cutest little thing - I love the Font of the word Fall and the cute little squirrels around the letters - too cute! Fall is my FAVORITE season - ever! I love the feeling of a chill in the air, the colors turning beautiful colors, hot apple cider, getting into comfortable hoodies and sweats and heading down to the Farmer's Market with a hot cocoa in hand, something about this season always makes me happy! 

So for my card today, I wanted to create a leaf card - so taking a regular A2 size card (horizontal) I drew out a big leaf that I cut out of brown cardstock and then sponged on the sides - this was then adhered to the A2 cardstock that I used some scrap paper on and then cut out the right side of the cardstock falling the leaf pattern. The image was stamped in Black Memento Ink onto Choice Snow White cardstock and then copicfied. I cut it out using the Frame it Up die from Taylored Expressions. I tied some American Crafts ribbon around the leaf and added a little outline of liquid pearls.

Card ingredients:

Paper: Papaya Puree Orange cardstock, scrap DP and Choice Snow White

Stamps: Fall A La Carte

Inks: Copics and Memento Black

Accessories: American Crafts ribbon, liquid pearls, dimensionals and Frame it Up die from Taylored Expressions. 

I really love this cute little A La Carte - so perfectly cute and cozy and Autumnal in every way! I can't wait to see what the Design Team has created using one of the stamp sets listed above! Please hop on over and check them all out with me!

Charmaine Ikach

Danielle Lounds

Jami Sibley

Jen Shults

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Melissa Sauls

Melody Rupple

Regina Mangum

Sankari Wegman

Taylor VanBruggen

Tori Wild

Wanda Guess

Thanks so much for stopping by today 

And please stop by tomorrow for some release day celebration!

Hugs,

Sankari :) 
PS: Here is a link and pic of the die used in today's project - LOVE this die!
Frame it Up Die 1:

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 2!!!!

September Birthday Bash and Release

• At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday and you are invited to our Birthday Bash!
• Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday - lots of fun eye candy and inspiration!
• All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 1st at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Every order placed Thursday - Monday will include a FREE Party Favor.  Details coming Thursday morning..
• To celebrate our 3rd Birthday, you have 3 WAYS TO WIN!

      1. Help Spread the Word! Grab our Birthday Badge from Taylor's blog and post it on your blog for the week.  Then come back and    leave a comment with a link to your blog to let us know you're spreading the word. You will be entered into a drawing for a $25 TE gift certificate. 

      2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.  You will have until 8 pm PST that night to comment to enter to win each new set.

      3.  Join us in our SCS Forum for a contest that will begin Thursday morning.  In the meantime you can see Baker's Dozen sneak peeks there and chat with us!

Hi Everyone,

Are you ready to get your "boo" on?! Well, today for Day 2 of sneak peeks from Taylored Expressions - get ready to see lots of treats from all of the Halloween stamps, dies and Project Pantry kits! On Thursday, Taylor will be releasing 2 full sized awesome stamp sets: Toil and Trouble and Fangtastic (both so cute!) and also will be releasing the Spooky Impression Plate and Spooky Fence Border die and the Spooky Project Pantry Kit

Taylor is doing something a little different this month with the Project Pantry.  As you know, the idea behind the Project Pantry is that 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.  This month we are 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.

The Spooky Project Pantry Basic Recipe Kit is $11.95 and includes:

Echo Park Apothecary Emporium 6x6 pad

10 sheets of 8.5" x 11" cardstock in coordinating colors

6 yards of ribbon (2 yards each of 3 different styles)

Optional Spice it Up Ingredients (choose any or all) are:

Black Sparkly Fluff

Black/White Enamel Accents

Orange Rhinestones

Black Pearls

Halloween Button Assortment

Spooky Cardstock Pack

Spooky Ribbon Bundle

When you go to the Spooky Project Pantry in the store you will see the optional items linked under the Basic Recipe kit, so you can pick and choose what you'd like to add to your cart.  We know you'll have fun customizing your kit!

Today I was going to make one card with the full sized Fangtastic stamp set (Designed by Doub Applegate for the Apple Doodle Ink line) - but I seriously could NOT but this stamp set down - I just kept going - this stamp set is full of 21 images that are boo-licious (yes, I just wrote the word "boo-licious" lol!) and I paired them with the Spooky Fence Border Taylored die which is 6" long and perfect to create that spooky haunted feeling. All of the projects were made using the Spooky Project Pantry kit - and I still have a ton of ingredients left over! 

 I love the trees in this stamp set - they are so "dark night" scary looking and I wanted to create a spooky feel and so I sponged some clouds using a couple of different inks and used the Clouds Border die as a template. And then stamped the trees in a row using some Dark Brown Fluid Chalk ink. I tore black cardstock black to create the hills on and then used the Spooky Fence Border to die cut a spooky fence from one of the DP. I finished it off by stamping some bats in the sky and using the sentiment: "Have a Fangtastic Halloween" (isn't that a fun Halloween sentiment!)

The second card that I made was using the super cute house in this stamp set - I love the fun feel of this house and used the DP papers for the background and also for paper piecing the roof (I crimped the DP to create a rolling roof). Can't wait to make more with this super cute house! 

For my last project with this stamp set, I wanted to make a banner for our front door to get into the Halloween Trick or Treatin' spirit. When we were at CHA this summer, I was having a conversation with my girl Eva about how cute these Shopping Bag and Labels die set are - and how cute it would be to create a banner from them! So I thought I would try to 

I alternated cutting the bag with orange and black paper and then cut a little hole on either side to create a way to weave the ribbon through and had so much fun embellishing the bags with all the fun sentiments and images from the Fangtastic stamp set. I tied the banner onto two magnets that I embellished and finished off with putting a little witch and vampire trick or treater on the magnets and then stuck it to the door:

Here are some angles of the door banner -  can I just say HOW much I love this stamp set and all the dies that made this project so fun and easy!

Here is a close up of the bags - I love love LOVE all these sentiments, fonts and pumpkins:

Please check out all the amazing projects with these spookilicious projects!!!

Charmaine Ikach

Danielle Lounds

Jami Sibley

Jen Shults

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Melissa Sauls

Melody Rupple

Regina Mangum

Sankari Wegman

Taylor VanBruggen

Tori Wild

Wanda Guess

Thanks so much for stopping by today 

And please stop by tomorrow for some more birthday release peeks!!

Hugs,

Sankari :)