More is More

Happy Wednesday!  I’m super excited to get to play along with the Baker’s Dozen girls in the first day of sneak peeks for the Taylored Expressions May release!!  I’m always excited when I get to play, but even more so this month as we help launch a brand new line of stamps to the Taylored Expressions rubber family.  As you probably know, Taylor works with several illustrators and designers on the various lines currently in the TE mix and she has always had a large part in the concept/design of each set, but this week we’re celebrating the introduction of the very first *te* stamps completely designed and illustrated by Taylor!  Garden Party Blooms, Garden Party Critters and the Cloudy Day Big Background all have Taylor’s cute and whimsical signature style and I just know you going to LOVE them!

The card I’m sharing today features Garden Party Blooms, a set of 20 deeply etched rubber images with almost endless possibilities for building your own garden!  Karen Giron’s Sweet Sunday Sketch  – SSSC67 – was the perfect jumping off point for getting my new stamps inky!

Another exciting new product being introduced this week are Project Pantry kits. When you are looking for just the right ingredients to create a new recipe where do you look? In the Pantry of course! Taylored Expressions is introducing a new line of kits called the Project Pantry with just the right ingredients for your cardmaking and paper crafting projects. These kits will be a variation on our Key Ingredients and our Taylored Card Kits. We will introduce them each month at Release time and you will have the option to purchase them with or without stamp sets included.  My card today was created with cardstock, patterned paper and a dimensional sticker (that big ol’ CUTE frog) from the Garden Party Project Pantry.  I added some Diamond Stickles and some Bright Smooth Bling (love love that stuff!) — uh oh that seems to be out of stock at the moment.  The blossoms were stamped a second time and cut out and popped up on foam tape.

I believe TE will have some chalk ink bundles to coordinate with the Project Pantry kits, but when I sat down to create with the Garden Party Project Pantry (featuring paper and stickers from the We R Memory Keepers 72 and Sunny collection) I had to figure out what ink colors would work from what I already had.  Usually I’m matching up Copics to patterned paper, but these sets have a bunch of fun solid stamps to work with.  For those of you who come from a SU background like I do, I thought you might appreciate seeing the ink chart I made for myself to put in my kit .

The ink colors I felt worked best with these papers are: More Mustard, Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Ruby Red, Kiwi Kiss, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, and Bermuda Bay. There may be some others as well, but this is what I chose.  I know that sometimes stampers who mostly use SU are a little wary of purchasing papers from other companies for fear they won’t have any coordinating accessories.  The great thing about Project Pantry is that you will get ribbon and accessories in the kit…and you probably already have inks that will work great!

Remember all the stamp sets and products being previewed this week will be available in the TE Store on Friday morning at 8:00 PST.  Now let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has created with Taylor’s new stamps!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!