More is More

Yep – it’s the 5th – New Release Day at Taylored Expressions and it’s HOT!  I hope you’ve been blog hopping for the past couple of days to see all the incredible creations posted by the Baker’s Dozen girls.  If you haven’t, then get yourself a nice hot cuppa coffee and kick back and enjoy!  If you go to Taylor’s blog and read her last 3 posts you can get ALL the info plus links to all the peek projects!

When you’re ready to shop just click here to go straight to the TE Store.

I’m finally getting in on the fun with a card to share.  I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the new Boys Will Be Boys set – especially to use my favorite image – the grill.  I’m really excited because this is my very first attempt at making a shaped card using Spellbinders Nestabilities – I used the Curved Rectangles here. which are also available at the TE Store.  I also used the Ribbon Tags Trio die for the sentiment.  All of the paper, cardstock and ribbon used for this card came from the new Father’s Day Key Ingredients kit.  I love this kit and can’t wait to use it a lot more!

The grill was stamped onto TE CHoice Buttercream cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics.  The legs of the grill were colored with a silver gel pen.  The flame was stamped once above the grill and then twice again on a scrap a cut out.  They were all colored with Copics and I added some orange Stickles.  The two extra flames were popped up on 1/16″ foam tape.

But of course my very favorite part of this card has to be the spatula charm applied to the grill with a red SU brad.  Is that charm awesome or what?  It can be so hard to embellish masculine cards and not send them over the top to *girly*, but these charms are the perfect touch!  Taylor has a variety pack of 5 different charms available as part of the Boys Will Boys Bundle deal.  They coordinate with the images in the stamp set.

Did you know that there is a difference between grilling and BBQing?  My understanding is that grilling is cooking quickly over a hot flame – that makes my Uncle Bernie the Grill Master as he nurtured my love a good steak grilled in the backyard all throughout my growing up!  BBQ is slow cooking with indirect heat and that’s my husband’s specialty.  He loves to do brisket and make it an all day affair.  He even has his own secret recipe for BBQ sauce.  It’s funny because here in California we always say we are going to BBQ (meaning we are going to cook outside on a grill) or we are going to a BBQ (a party where meat will be grilled.)  I sometimes hear friends from the Mid-West mention *grilling out* and it always makes me say “huh?”

We plan to do a lot of grilling and BBQing this Summer.  Our focus for May is to get the yard all prettied up and company ready!  I don’t care for gardening, but I sure do love to host parties!  🙂

For now I need to get to work.  Thanks for stopping by and happy blog hopping and happy shopping!