I would like to invite you to join me in the CLASSroom for Day Six of 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist to see my tag featuring Taylored Expressions dies and stamps. I’ve included a step-by-step tutorial in the post.
Category: Taylored Expressions
Taylored Expressions Holiday Neighborhood
Today I’m sharing a holiday card featuring the Taylored Expressions Neighborhood Border die.
I decided to keep the colors simple, as if the neighborhood had recently been carpeted with snow (and from the looks of the dry embossed background, it’s still snowing!). I backed the neighborhood border die cuts and the evergreen die cuts with a soft yellow cardstock. I almost always include a sentiment on the card front but decided to leave it off this time to preserve the tranquility!
Hope your first week of December has been humming along – I can’t believe how fast this fall is flying by!
I’m linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – the theme this week is Holidays and Christmas.
Supplies: TE Dies: Neighborhood Border, Little Bits-Christmas Tree, Build a Scene – Rolling Hills; TE Stamp: Welcome Home; TE Snowfall embossing folder
Let It Snow
I’ve had these penguins and snowbanks on my worktable for several months! We’ve had a particularly chilly couple of days, so I thought it was time to put this card together.
I had been playing around with different backgrounds, and the Taylored Expressions embossing folder gives just the right scale snowfall for the rest of the scene. I dry embossed the cardstock with my Big Shot extended multipurpose platform on Tab 1. This gave just a bit more depth to the embossing. I cut the penguins twice and adhered them together for extra depth. The front two penguins and front two snowbanks are attached with dimensional adhesive as well.
Supplies: Memory Box Playful Penguins; Papertrey Ink die cut and sentiment; Taylored Expressions Snowfall embossing folder; Taylored Expressions Build a Scene – Rolling Hills
colourQ challenge #263
I’m playing along with colourQ challenge #263 this week with a Halloween-themed card.
The Taylored Expressions Neighborhood reminds me of a nearby neighborhood to which I like to walk. It’s not far away from a park in which there’s a “Fright Night” held each year, and tonight is their opening night.
After heat embossing the SU sentiment, I backed the windows with orange and yellow strips. I added a strip of polka-dot patterned paper at the bottom for a bit of visual contrast.
Supplies: Stampin’ Up Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight; Stampin’ Up Ghoulish Greetings; Taylored Expressions Neighborhood Border; Memory Box Ghost Trio
ColourQ Challenge #260
Today I’m sharing a card created for colourQ challenge #260.
This is such a delightful color combination for the fall. I grew up in Denver; the Broncos football team colors are orange and blue. I had at least one school outfit that was pumpkin and navy!
The branches, from a Taylored Expressions die set, were cut from a woodgrain textured cardstock. I double cut the birds, (from the same TE set), adhered them together and put them onto the branches with dimensional adhesive. The navy background was cut with a Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle die. The sentiment, from a Taylored Expressions stamp set, was heat embossed.