Category: Summer

Taylored Expressions – Let the Sun Shine

Hello! Welcome to Day 1 of the Taylored Expressions June 2018 Release Sneak Peeks. This release is all about summer and includes products for a number of summer-related themes such as 4th of July, Tropical, Under the Sea, and Food & Drink. The TE June 2018 release products will be available Thursday, June 7 @ 7 AM PDT!

My first project is tropical-themed and showcases the Do the Hula Stamp & Die Combo and Liquid Watercolors (yes – Taylored Expressions will be carrying these, and there’s information about a promotion at the end of my post)!

Taylored Expressions June 2018 Release

  • I stamped and heat-embossed the hula girl and her skirt and colored her with a number of the TE Liquid Watercolors. Once dry, I cut the images with their corresponding dies.
  • For the background, I sponged Sugar Cube ink on Blue Raspberry cardstock (new color intro this month) with the Set the Scene – Clouds Stencil.
  • To complete the scene, I added a palm tree cut with the Build a Scene – Tropical set and a heat-embossed sentiment.
  • I used a strip of the Hello Sunshine 6×6 Paper Pack along the bottom for a colorful ground.

Taylored Expressions June 2018 Release

Supplies (new products will be released June 7):


My second project is sea-themed and showcases a super cute set – O-Fish-Ally Awesome.

Taylored Expressions June 2018 Release

  • I stamped and heat-embossed the whale image from the O-Fish-Ally Awesome stamp set and colored it with the Liquid Watercolors. Once dry, I cut the whale with its corresponding die.
  • The card background was created with two stencil sets – Set the Scene – Waves and Bubbly. I first sponged Salt Water Taffy ink on to the background with the Set the Scene – Waves stencil. Then I added Moonstone Nuvo Glimmer Paste to the panel with the Bubbly stencil (masking any part of the stencil that was above the top wave).
  • The  O-Fish-Ally Awesome sentiment was heat-embossed on the background panel.
  • To fill out the scene, I added die-cut sea plants cut with the Build a Scene – Underwater die set.
  • And those bubbles above the whale? Those were cut with dies in the Snowman Shaker set!

Taylored Expressions June 2018 Release

Supplies (new products will be released June 7):

TE June 2018 Release Promotion

For a limited time, earn DOUBLE CRAFTY POINTS when you purchase our NEW TE Liquid Watercolor Collection! Included in this exclusive bundle are all 12 bright liquid watercolor hues, our innovative, unique shimmer liquid PLUS a bonus set of 4 mixing palettes to explore your creativity! If you’re not a Crafty Points member, it’s free and easy to join. Just create an account at the TE webstore and you’re automatically enrolled to begin earning crafty points with every purchase. You’ll earn 134 Crafty Points on the purchase of our TE Liquid Watercolor Collection! Offer valid on qualifying purchases made between 9am CDT on Thursday, June 7, 2018 and 11:59 pm CDT on Sunday, June 10, 2018 and only while supplies last. Crafty Points are only available on purchases made via the retail site: www.tayloredexpressions.com.

Taylored Expressions is celebrating Release Week with a giveaway during each day of sneak peeks! Visit the TE Blog to answer Taylor’s Question of the Day for a chance to win one of the latest products before you can buy it!

Thanks for visiting! On the TE Blog you will see more projects and product information, as well as a complete list of participating designers.

The Adventure Begins – a Die-Cut Camping Scene

Hello! Today I am sharing a camping scene in which I have combined the Spellbinders Camping die set with a sentiment in the Hero Arts The Adventure Begins stamp set. With warmer weather here in the PNW, my thoughts turn to outside adventures.

Die-Cut Camping Scene | Jean Manis

To create the sky, I inked white cardstock with Distress Oxide inks in Fossilized Amber and Blueprint Sketch. I then added Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink to darken the sky.

Die-Cut Camping Scene | Jean Manis

The back row of trees was cut with the Poppystamps Pine Tree Border from black cardstock. The tent was cut from Chili Pepper cardstock and Taylored Expressions Earl Grey cardstock. I trimmed away the tent portion of the piece I cut from the gray cardstock. I cut the ground (using the MFT Snow Drifts die set) and the trees (included in the Spellbinders Camping die set) from Lawn Fawn Noble Fir cardstock. I cut the lantern from TE Silver Foil Cardstock and added a tiny circle cut from TE Potato Chip cardstock.

The sentiment was stamped on a panel of Taylored Expressions Toffee cardstock from which I cut the circle in the center to create a frame. The card base was created with Lawn Fawn Blue Jay cardstock.

Die-cut Summer Chairs

This past weekend, my husband and I visited Gig Harbor, just about an hour away from Seattle. It is a picturesque town whose harbor is graced with a magnificent view of Mount Rainier. Many of the houses on the main street had Adirondack chairs on their porches. One house, of which I wasn’t able to take a photo, had three colorful chairs, and it is that which I have tried to capture with my card.

Summer Beach Chairs

I cut the Impression Obsession Single Beach Chair from Stampin’ Up cardstock in Lucky Limeade (retired), Pumpkin Pie, and Bermuda Bay. The PTI Flipping Out sentiment was heat-embossed on SU Basic Gray. I dry-embossed the white background with the SU Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impressions embossing folder. The card base is SU Crumb Cake.

Summer Beach Chairs

Lawn Fawn – Happy Hello

Hello! This past week, I saw the first leaf of the season fall, and I have heard that Starbucks will soon be serving Pumpkin Spice Lattes! I figured I needed to share any remaining summer-themed cards before we move completely into the fall and holiday seasons! My card features the Lawn Fawn Mermaid for You set.

Lawn Fawn Mermaid for You

I stamped and Copic-colored the mermaid images, cutting them with their corresponding dies. I used Distress Oxide inks to stamp the underwater foliage. The background was created using the smooshing technique on Canson watercolor paper.

Lawn Fawn Mermaid for You

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Lawn Fawn Summer Hello

Hello! Today, I’m sharing a CAS card featuring supplies from Lawn Fawn.

Lawn Fawn Summer Hello

The Happy Howloween set includes lots of fun images for a fall scene, but I wanted to use the dogs in a summer scene. I stamped and heat-embossed the Happy Howloween dogs on a variety of watercolor papers and started coloring them with Distress Inks; in part, I was experimenting with which colors and  watercolor papers I liked best. The ones shown were colored with Gathered Twigs on Arches (left) and Distress Oxide Vintage Photo on Strathmore (left).

Lawn Fawn Summer Hello

I colored Canson watercolor paper with Distress Inks for the tree trunk, foliage and grass borders, and once dry, I cut those pieces with the Leafy Tree Backdrop – Landscape, Meadow Borders, and Grassy Border dies. For the background, I applied Distress Oxide Broken China on Canson watercolor paper using the smooshing method. Once dry, I stamped the sentiment from the Hello Baby set with VersaFine ink. To create the frame I cut Arc Crafts White Birch with the largest die in the Stitched Square Stackables – Large set and then with a smaller square die included in a Lil’ Inker set I own. The card measures 4 1/2″ square.

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