More is More

Happy Friday!!  Please join me in wishing a very Happy 2nd Birthday to Taylored Expressions!  It’s Birthday Bash Day and everything we’ve been showing you over the past several days is now available for purchase.  I’m joining the Baker’s Dozen in a Release Round-up as we each show 1 or 2 new samples of the many new stamp sets and products available at TE today.  You can hop over to Taylor’s blog for a summary or go straight to the TE Fresh Out of the Oven Department (click “show all” in the upper right hand corner when you get there) to see it all in one place.

The card I have to share today features the Belated Birthday A la Carte – Ducks in a Row.   I just had to make a card with this image right away because this concept is the one that started the whole Belated Birthday stamps idea in the first place.

We were driving down the freeway on vacation a few years ago when I saw a billboard with a row of rubber ducks and the tag line “Someday you’ll have all your ducks in a row.”  It was followed up by something like “in the meantime you have Chase Bank” – or something like that.  Anyway, I immediately thought how much I wished I had a stamp that said that so I could use it for belated birthdays.  Well hot-diggity HERE IT IS!!!

Although these ducks were drawn to be walking I realized that they would look really cute swimming, so I colored a pond with copic markers and covered it with crystal effects.  The sun is from Garden Party Blooms and I heat embossed it onto patterned paper with versamark and clear ep.  Then I die cut it with the  sun shape from Garden Party Blooms Die Set 2.  Paper is October Afternoon and cardstock is from a kit TE had to coordinate with the October Afternoon pads, but I no longer see it in the store.

These Belated Birthday A la Carte images come with the cute critter main image AND 2 coordinating sentiments.  In this case, they work equally well whichever you decide to put on the front.  Many of the sentiments will mix and match well with each other if you decide to pick up several of them.  It’s like creating your own custom set! And all of the images will also make adorable cards for occasions other than birthdays.

In celebration of TE’s 2nd Birthday Bash, Taylor is running some great shopping specials now through Monday:

Bash Buy #1 – Buy ANY 4 full size stamp sets (new or old) & receive a free Mini Binder Box.

Bash Buy #2 – Buy ANY 8 A la Carte stamps (from any line old or new) & receive a free set of Storage Panels.

Bash Buy #3- The first 20 customers to order the Fright Night Project Pantry will receive a free set of orange glittered chipboard letters

Win one of Four Golden Tickets – One TE Store order each day ( Friday – Monday) will be selected at random to win a $25 TE gift certificate!!!

And now it’s time to see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up today –

• Barbara Anders – Guest Designer
• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Nancy McKinney – Whimsical Wishes Illustrator
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a fabulous long weekend and I hope you make time for some stamping!