Category: cardmaking

Taylored Expressions January Release Sneak Peeks Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the Taylored Expressions January Sneak Peeks! The release is packed with Stamp & Die Combos, along with new dies and embossing folders! The January products will be released Thursday, January 7 @ 7 AM PST!

My first project features the Mane Event Stamp & Die Combo used to create a CAS (and colorful) birthday card.

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I stamped and colored the lion and cut him (her?) with the corresponding die. (The corresponding dies for the images makes these sets so easy to create with!) The sentiment was heat-embossed on a circle cut with one of the dies in the Stitched Circle Stacklets set.

Jean Manis Taylored Expressions Jan 2016 Release

I added banners cut with the Skinny Mini Party Borders set and flowers cut with the Mini Bloomers set. The card base was dry-embossed with the Splatter embossing folder.

My next project combines the Let’s Talk Edger 1 die along with the adorable hens from the Happy Hens set.

Jean Manis Taylored Expressions January 2016 Release

I stamped and colored the hens and cut them with their corresponding dies. I heat-embossed the sentiment and cut it with the Let’s Talk Edger 1 die. I created a frame for the scene with the Pockets & Pages – 3×4 Photo Frame die.

Jean Manis Taylored Expressions January 2016 Release

The card base was dry-embossed with the Chicken Wire embossing folder.

Taylored Expressions is celebrating Release Week with some fabulous giveaways! Visit the TE Blog each Sneak Peek Day this week for details on how you can enter to win. 

Taylored Expressions Release

Thanks for visiting! If you’d like to see more projects and new product information, please head over to the TE Blog for a complete list of our participating designers! I’ll be back tomorrow with more sneaks!

Products in BOLD will be available in the TE store Thursday, 1/7/16 @ 7 AM PST!

Supplies for Mane Event:
Supplies for Happy Hens:

Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #16

I’m playing along with Share Joy Challenge #16 at Taylored Expressions.

I used the sketch and created a CAS Valentine’s card:

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I stamped the cat image from the Stitch by Stitch set by coloring the stamp with Memento markers. I cut the image with one of the circle dies in the Stitched Circle Stacklets set. I heat embossed a sentiment from Love Makes the World Go Round and cut it with one of the Stitched Banner Stacklets dies.

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I dry-embossed a rectangle cut with the largest die in the Stitched Rectangle Stacklets set with the Swiss Hearts embossing folder and adhered that to the card base. I used a couple of the Stitched Square Stacklets dies to create the Earl Grey triangle I placed behind the cat (I don’t know that I’ve ever used a triangle die cut on a card before!). This card came together quickly with the various Stacklets die sets!

Supplies:

Avery Elle How You Doin’?

Although Christmas may now be behind us, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t still winter-themed cards to be made! Today I’m sharing a friendship card featuring the bear and rabbit on a sled image from the Avery Elle Snow Much Fun stamp set which I framed with Pretty Pink Posh’s Decorative Tag 1.

AEHowYouDoinI stamped, cut and Copic-colored the bear and rabbit, adding them to the PPP frame. (I cut a snowbank with Dotted Borders and with the PPP inner frame.)

I heat-embossed a sentiment from Simply Said: Hello and cut it with a banner die. I added a dry-embossed rectangle and a strip of patterned paper to the card base. (I’m using a pattern from one of my many Christmas-themed patterned paper pads.)

Supplies:

Good Tidings – Die Cut Christmas Scene

Today I’m sharing a Christmas scene using die cuts.

I cut the Poppystamps Elegant Stair Frame from the white cardstock and attached it to the card base, which I’d covered with patterned paper. I created the sentiment on my computer using a sentiment set from Ali Edwards. I decorated the tree with ornaments I cut with the Cabrini Ornament die from red, silver and gold cardstock. To finish off the card, I added a cat cut with an Impression Obsession die set.

Merry Christmas!

Penny Black Simplicity – CAS Holiday Woodland Scene

Today, I’m sharing a CAS holiday, woodland scene created with Penny Black stamps and dies.

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To begin, I covered the card base with paper from the 80-013 Holiday Trimmings pad. I stamped a tree from the 30-261 Nature’s Friend set onto white cardstock and cut it with a circle die cut, and then I trimmed off the right-hand side and bottom. I added a deer, cut with the smaller die in the 51-069 Together set, to the circle panel with foam adhesive. The heat-embossed sentiment from the 30-257 Joy Filled set was cut with the banner die from the 51-055 Shades set.

I also have a holiday card on the Penny Black Simplicity site. I hope you’ll head on over and take a look.

Penny Black Simplicity Sneak