Miscellaneous Flower Card

I really liked the look of the Treasured Friend post last month, and I got lots of compliments on that card, so I decided to use the same scraps to make one that was very similar, but a little different.



This card uses Taylored Expressions' Discover Your Wings stamp set inked in Mango Madness, Jumbo Java and Hint of Pesto Versa Magic ink, laid out on a scrap of the same Bo Bunny paper used last month and accented with more Grass Green pearls.

Happy Birthday to a Trasured Friend!

This is a card I made for a friend whose birthday I didn't forget, but I was traveling that day and I didn't call or even text. I know, bad friend! But we were able to get together recently and I gave her this card then.



It uses Bo Bunny paper as the background and a scrap of pumpkin that I had in my scrap bin (I'm trying more and more to use those scraps up). The image panel is stamped with a partial image from Taylored Expressions' Discover Your Wings set inked with Hint of Pesto, Sea Breeze, Pumpkin Spice and Gingerbread Versa Magic ink. The sentiment is from The Angel Company's retired Here's To You stamp set, and fit the space perfectly. The image panel is accented with a few Grass Green pearls.

Rock Star Card for Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Dad's out there.

This is another masculine card that we created during the Create-A-Bunch club this month. This card uses strips of paper from The Angel Company's Just Like Dad paper collection surrounded by various sized stars cut with the Cricut. Both of the solid green stars are scored and popped up for some dimension and interest. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions My Hero stamp set.

Best Dad

This is a card I made for the Taylored Expressions sketch challenge this week.



My card uses The Angel Company's Just Like Dad paper collection, and Taylored Expression's Boys Will Be Boys stamp set.

Simple Sympathy

I ran out of sympathy cards for my bin at work, so I made this one up quickly to replenish. The butterfly is from Taylored Expressions Discover Your Wings stamp set, and was stamped and stamped-off in Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet Distress Ink. The sentiment is from The Angel Company's With Sympathy stamp set, and was cut out using Nestabilities Labels Nine.

Happy Birthday Sweetie

Today is my husband's birthday and I made this card for him. I was even prepared, and made it well before we moved so I would be sure that it didn't get put off and become last minute. This card uses Taylored Expression's You're My Hero stamp set and my Stars Nestabilities. The paper is from The Angel Company's Cha Cha collection. I still can't believe that it's only $4.95 a pack.

The bottom panel was made using the Running Water Fiskar's border punch, and then I went in and punched small stars our in each scallop to match the theme. Even the Nestabilities stars are something special. They're popped up and three dimensional. I learned about making the stars pop from someone else's blog a while back ago when I was blog hopping, and hadn't had a chance to use it until this card, but I really like the effect.

TE Blast From the Past Blog Hop - Watercolor Flowers

For the second time, I get a chance to participate in Taylored Expressions' Monthly Blast from the Past Blog Hop.

This is a card that my Create a Bunch group made during lunch in our July class (yes, I'm actually that far behind in posting). For this one, we used the Discover Your Wings stamp set. This is a very versatile set, filled with flowers, butterflies, dragonflies and sentiments. For our card, we used watercolor crayons as our only coloring medium (with the exception of black ink for the sentiment).

The background is made from scribbling on an acrylic block with yellow and orange watercolor crayons, spritzed with water and smeared on damp paper. Then we colored on the rubber stamp with the watercolor crayons and spritzed the stamp to activate the paint and stamped. For a finishing touch we added some Stardust Clear Gelly Pen (far and away the classes favorite embellishment tool) to the flowers and some punched butterflies.





To see what stamp sets other bloggers used, click on the links below:



Happy browsing.

Blast From The Past Blog Hop

I'm kind of excited. This is my very first official Blog Hop - The Taylored Expressions' Blast From The Past Blog Hop. Our challenge was to pull out any Taylored Expressions stamp set that was released prior to March, 2010. I LOOOOOVED this Berries and Cherries set from the minute I saw it and figured it would be the perfect stamp for a summer hop.

This is the card I made using this set when I was helping to man a booth at a crop. We were demonstrating Copic markers and I spent a good part of the afternoon working on the shading of the strawberries to show some of the girls what could be done with Copics. Unfortunately I got all the way to the end and the C1 I was using bled out a big grey spot at the corner of the strawberry basket when I went to add the shadow, so I had to do some quick thinking to save it. I ended up cutting the image out with my Labels 1 Nestabilities die and masking off the strawberries so I could spray some Tattered Angels mist around the edge. Since I was working while I was "working" I wasn't thinking to write down things like the paper collection or the Copic colors I used, so I can't give any credits for anything but the stamps.



Here is a close-up of the strawberries:



To see the ideas other hop participants came up with, click on the link below.

Rockin Birthday Card

On Sunday I made cards for Tom's band mates' daughters birthdays. The purple princess in my last post was for the 5 year old. This one was for the 13 year old, and is definitely geared to the teen lifestyle.



The stamp set it Taylored Expressions' My Hero set, with the background stamped in Claret and Seascape Palette ink and the singer and sentiment are stamped in Black Momento ink. The paper is from the Die Cuts With a View Rock Queen Mat Stack. Who would have thought that skulls and lightning bolts would be put together with paisleys? Stars were cut with a punch and the Stars Nestabilities.

Chocolate Covered Congrats

I have a very good friend, who is a wonderful and creative artist in so many ways. For years her talent has been overlooked, but she was recently asked to be a designer for a stamp company. She'll be doing cards that will be sent to stores as samples, and used in ads both in print and online. I am so excited for her, because she really deserves the recognition, so I made this card for her and gave it to her with a box of chocolate covered cherries.

The card is textured on the right-hand side using the Scor Pal, and the diamonds I created were then accented with chalk painted on with chalk enhancer, and the bling is provided by Waterfall Stickles. The sentiment is from The Angel Company's Label Lingo, and the chocolate covered cherry image and surrounding red circle are from Taylored Expression's Berries and Cherries stamp set.

The cherry was colored using Copic markers E00, E09, E18 and E37, with the stem done in G24 and G28.

Pink and Brown You Rock Card

On Friday, my niece was in a school talent show. Their version of American Idol. I left work an hour early, but even still, traffic was horrible and I missed her scheduled performance. I did however get to see her steal the show when she danced on the floor to the side of the stage to another song that someone else was doing. She was also voted class vice-president this week.

This is the card I made for her to congratulate her on her achievements.

The stamp set it Taylored Expressions' "You're My Hero" set. The background is the Allegro Cuttlebug embossing plate, and the stars were cut with my Nestabilities.

You Rock!

Having a musical husband, some of my faborite stamps are those that lean towards rock, or have some sort of musical theme. Taylored Expressions recently released the My Hero stamp set, which I just had to have. I finally got a chance to cut it this week and used it for Taylor's sketch challenge.



I had a lot of fun giving the guitar a fun paint job with copic markers R28 and Y18. The paper is from The Angel Company's Cha Cha paper collection and matching cardstock. The embossing on the blue panel was created with the Cuttlebug Allegro emobssing folder. Some of the stars are accented with Irridescent Smooch, and some are raised with foam squares.

Cupcake Birthday Card

This is a card I made using paper I got in a limited edition kit from Taylored Expressions. Since I had so many birthday cards that I needed to make in one day, I pretty much took the sketch and idea right from her website too. The cupcake stamps are a combination of other company's stamp sets - Taylored Expression's For the Love of Cupcakes, and a Stampendous, Archiver's exclusive cupcake set from last year. I had originally planned to use The Angel Company's Little Cupcake stamp set, but I forgot that I lent it to a friend, and I haven't seen her to be able to get it back yet. So this one worked out in the interim.