A Peek Into My Stamping Room

Happy St. Patrick's Day and other Stuff!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Hope you enjoy some corned beef, cabbage and maybe even some green beer!  I know we are eating the corned beef & cabbage but will pass on the green beer!  The card I want to share with you today has NOTHING to do with St. Patrick's Day. 

The other day on Splitcoaststampers, it was announced that Taylored Expressions was a new member company.  It's exciting because we all love Taylored Expressions stamps in this house.  Whenever my girls make cards for friends, the cute cupcake stamps are the ones they always pull out!  So to show my excitement, I decided to participate in a couple of challenges - Color Challenge & Grand Opening Gallery Challenge using some Taylor Expressions stamps!

Here is my card:

I used MY favorite set from Taylored Expressions called creativiTEA.  This set is full of teapots, tea cups, flowers and sweet sentiments!  My color choices are from this week's color challenge on Splitcoaststampers - Baja Breeze, Soft Suede & Kraft plus a neutral.  I stamped the flower image onto Simply Smooth White cardstock, colored it with copic markers and carefully cut it out.  I layered it onto some die cuts - Classic Circle Nestabilities & the new Parisian Motifs die sete from Spellbinders.  After putting the card together, I added the Crystal Stickles to the flower.  It never fails, whenever I add stickles to my project, I get it all over everything so it works better for me to just put it on last!!  LOL

So if you have any Taylored Expression stamps or want to win some, you should participate in the Grand Opening Gallery Challenge on Splitcoaststampers!  I would love to win some Taylored Expressions!

 

My Free For All Friday!

Wow, things have been so busy around our house the last 2 weeks!  So I decided that I will post my own Free-For-All!  I have a few cards I have made that I would love to share with you!

This card I made using a new stamp set that I got at the CHA Supershow from Taylored Expressions called CreativiTEA.  I stamped the flower image repeatedly and colored it in with Copic Markers.

The patterned paper for this card is from The Girls' Paperie.  I used a new stamp set from Stampin' Up! for the main image and embossed it using black embossing powder.  I added some black organdy ribbon and a ribbon tag from Spellbinders.  Did you notice my brand spanking new Spellbinders die on this card?  Don't you just love the Beaded Ovals?  I got some other new release stuff from Spellbinders to share with you over the next few weeks, too!

I just love this image!  It's a new release from DRS Designs called Wintertime Buddies.  I colored this cute image in using Copic Markers.  Then I added some Crystal Stickles to the fur of Santa's outfit.  I cut out the image and layered it on a piece of white cardstock that I embossed only using a Labels Nine Nestabilities.  The sentiment called Small Merry Christmas.

So these are just a few of the cards I have been working on these past few weeks.  There will be another Mark's Finest Paper blog hop coming on September 7.  You will love all the great new images that Faith has ready to release! 

 

Sisters......

This is a layout I did for Spellbinders Paper Arts back in July.  I actually took this picture of my two oldest girls using my cell phone.  After snapping the picture I sent it to Snapfish and printed it out.  I couldn't believe how happy they looked!  Usually they never act like they like one another!!  For this project I used the following supplies:

Stamps - Branching Out (tree trunk) from Taylored Expressions

Cardstock - Rose Romance (retired SU) and Whisper White cardstock

Patterned Paper - Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye and Crate papers

Accessories:  Labels 9, Scalloped Circle & Classic Circles Lg, Fancy Tag Trio and Kaleidoscope Borderabilities; Basic Grey Buttons, Pink Gingham ribbon

For the journaling, I typed it up using MS Word and printed it out onto Whisper White cardstock.  This I cut/embossed using the Classic Circles Nestabilities from Spellbinders.  The journaling reads - Sometimes I wonder if you even love each other.  Surprisingly, you both posed for this picture willingly.  Please remember you are sisters in Sunshine and in Shade!

This project is actually up on the Inspiration Gallery at Spellbinders Paper Arts.  You should be sure to check out all the great projects that are up in the gallery.  Lots of inspiration from the other Design Team members!  Hope you have a great Monday!!

Your Friendship is Wonderful!

I wanted to take a minute to tell all of you Thanks!  Thanks for checking out my blog, leaving encouraging comments and just for supporting my "habit" with all you do for me!  I just love all the encouraging comments I get from all my readers!  So here is an Accordian Card I made for a special friend - You!!

 

For this card, I used Kraft cardstock for my base.  The patterned paper is from Crate Papers.  I just love the colors in this paper.  The stamps are from Taylor Expressions - Branching Out and Branching Out Accessories.  The yellow ribbon is wrapped around the Kaleidoscope Borderabilites and the owl image is cut using the Labels 9 nestabilites.  I stamped the tree top onto Kiwi Kiss cardstock and cut it out.  Then I popped it up using 3d foam squares.  I used some Scalloped & Classic Circles & Rectangles for the sentiments.  For the dew drops, I colored them with my copic markers so they would match.  This is such a fun way to make a card!

Thanks again for checking out my blog and posting comments I just love to hear what you think!  Talk to you soon!