More is More

It’s time!  It’s time!!!  The new Stamp a Sweet Impression release is now available for your shopping and stamping pleasure!  You need to go to Taylor’s blog first to get all the detailed info and then you can head over to Taylored Expressions The Store to shop your little heart out!  Taylor has put together some awesome Bundle deals that are available through this weekend only. 

Tonight the entire Bakers Dozen has more samples to share.  The one stamp set we have not yet really talked about is A Year of Sweet Sentiments.  I LOVE sentiments and I LOVE this set.  This is by far THE most versatile sentiment set I have ever seen and what an incredible value.  With 30 year-round sentiments you pay less than .75 per stamp.  And remember that’s deeply etched pink RUBBER already on EZ-Mount coming to you on a sturdy 3-ring panel with a full index on one side.  You simply choose a sentiment, slap it on an acrylic block and it will stamp like a dream!

The sentiments in this set were specially chosen to coordinate with all of the images in A Year of Sweets 1, 2, and 3 to make adorable cards and scrapbook pages for occassions year-round, but these sentiments will also work fantastically with lots of images you already own.  And check out the cute fonts!  Oh and many of them work well with punches like Word Window and SU ovals!  Ok so is it weird that I sometimes get more excited about sentiments than image sets?  I just love having the perfect saying to really *make* a card!

For my sample today I chose one of several sentiments that works well with the June image from A Year of Sweets 2 (the June picnic is my very favorite image of all 12 – what’s yours?)

This card is 6-1/2 x 3-3/8 to fit inside an SU small open ended envelope.  This is a fun size card to work with and if you ever have to mail a check to a friend this is just right.  All the cardstock and patterned paper, as well as the heart brad and Starfire glitter used here are from the Valentine Key Ingredients.  The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto TE’s new Choice Snow White cardstock and colored with the Copics in this photo.

I didn’t check my full Copic chart for all the best matches to Key Ingredients, but I did check the chart for the approximately 60 Copics I own and these worked well for my scene.

The flower embellishment to the right side of the card (close-up seen at the top of this post) was created by punching the flower out of one of the KI dp sheets with a circle punch and putting it on the back of an Amuse scallop circle clear sticker.  Then Starfire glitter was adhered to the sticky scallops not covered by the paper (I learned this trick from stampin royalty JulieHRR).  That piece was then glued to a square of the dp layered over a square of red cardstock.  Some Zva pink crystals finished it off.  The main image was cut and embossed with a Nesties rectangle and layered onto a scalloped rectangle where I added more Starfire glitter with a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.

Tonight’s samples are somewhat of a free-for-all so there’s just no telling what the rest of the Bakers Dozen has in store for us…I’m off to see for myself…wanna come?

I’ll be back by 8:00 am tomorrow morning (or maybe even sooner) with a card for the Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge.  I hope you’ll check bak and play along.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

So what do you think of the SASI sneak peeks so far?  Those calendar sets are stinkin’ CUTE – that’s for sure.  Can it get any cuter?  Well…who can resist the ultimate papercrafter’s holiday?  Yep – today the entire Bakers Dozen team is showcasing the new SASI Valentine set Love is Sweet!  Oh be still my heart!

I’ve used two of the cuppies from the set (Love Muffin and Cupid).  Don’t you just want to eat them up?  LOL!  On the left is a small paper mache box I picked up at Hobby Lobby in Texas.  It already had a square hole cut out of the lid – just perfect to make into a shaker top.  On the right is a little 3×3 love note to go along with the sweet little gift box.  And here’s the inside of the note.

All three of the sentiments I used are from the Love it Sweet set as well.

Just as I was getting started on these SASI projects my Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator pre-order arrived.  Oh the agony of so many stamps, so little time!  I just had to use something out of that SU box, so I decided to use this fun new Raspberry Tart dp.  I covered both the top and bottom of the box with the dp.  Then I stamped the Love Muffin onto TE Choice White cardstock and paper pieced his wrapper and colored the rest with Copics.  That was then adhered to a chipboard square that came with the box.  I attached a panel of acetate inside the lid to cover the hole and over that I layered foam tape around all 4 sides of the window – making sure there was no place for my tiny little beads to escape.  After carefully pouring in some of this very fun bead and confetti mixture I attached the image panel to the foam tape on the inside of the lid.  I stamped my sentiment in real Red and punched it out with the SU Word Window punch – I love how so may of the SASI sentiments fit into punches I have.  Then I added some pink Zva crystals (also from TE).  I think this box would be perfect to fill up with Hershey Smooches Kisses or perhaps a piece of pretty jewelry if you wanted to kick it up a notch.

Since there was so much going on with the box I decided to keep the coordinating card quite simple.  Again I paper pieced the cupcake wrapper, punched the sentiment with the WW punch and added the same crystals just in a larger size.

Be sure to check back tonight at 9:00pm Pacific or midnight EST for the big SASI release news and even more samples from the team!  For now let’s hop over to Taylor’s blog to see what she has for us today and to navigate to the rest of the Bakers Dozen peeks!  What a fun way to start the New Year!

Wishing you blessings in 2009!