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The July Release for Taylored Expressions is in full swing as all the new products are available in the Fresh Out of the Oven Department. I get to play along with the Baker’s Dozen for one more day of inspiration showcasing all the new stamp sets.

My sample today features Under the Sea, a full-size set illustrated by Nancy McKinney for the Whimsical Wishes collection.  If you saw my post a few days ago that described my previous week, you’ll understand why I needed to make these cards for a few people!  LOL!

And the inside:

I wanted a mostly white card, so I started by stamping the seaweed image repeatedly on the bottom of a Choice Snow White panel and coloring with Copics.  Then I ran it through my Big Shot with the bubbles side of the new Waves/Bubbles Impression Plate before applying Diamond Stickles for plenty of sparkle.

I stamped the crab and colored him with Copics. I used Spellbinders Labels 1 and Labels 1 Small to cut and layer the image as well as for the sentiment inside.  I love having both sets for tighter layering.

Once the regular sized card was done, I realized I should make a couple more, so I created tiny little notecard versions. I think I only spend about 15 minutes making the mini pair to go with little candy gifts.  I only had a chance to snap a quick Instagram photo before taking these info the office.

You may have noticed that I’m on a real kick of using these fun little sparkly embellishments – Pebbles Crystal Candy Dots and Queen & Co. Goosebumps.  At first glance in the store it might be a little hard to tell how they are different, so I made a short little video comparing the two.  Both are self-adhesive and sparkly and FUN.  I used the Goosebumps on the card above and the Candy Dots on my Coconut Cove that I posted on Thursday (and you’ll see it in the video.)  You might find you prefer one over the other or, like me, might find you need them both in several colors!  😉  Check them out!

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Now let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up today:

Charmaine Ikach

Courtney Kelley – Guest Designer

Jami Sibley – DT Coordinator

Jen Shults

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Melody Rupple

Regina Mangum

Sankari Wegman

Shannon White

Shelly Mercado

Stephanie Kraft

Taylor VanBruggen

Wanda Guess

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you are having a great weekend!  We have the dishwasher repairman coming this afternoon to see if it can be repaired or is we need a new one.  It was one of the appliances fried in the power surge last week.  Washing dishes by hand takes a lot of time!

All of the new Taylored Expressions products for July are NOW AVAILABLE in the Fresh Out of the Oven Department!  And I get to join the Baker’s Dozen again today in showcasing all of the new stamp sets.  I have two cards to show you.

First up is another card featuring Coconut Cove – a mini set concepted by yours truly and illustrated by Doug Applegate as part of the Apple Doodle Ink line at TE.

For this card I wanted to create more of a twilight beach scene with the tiki torches.  I stamped the tiki torches first and then masked them and stamped the beach hut and palm tree so they would appear behind the torches.  The beach and sky were sponged with inks.  I used the Wave Taylored Die at the bottom, cut twice from patterned paper with the bottom one popped up on foam dots.  The paper is from the Echo Park Paradise Beach pad.

Both of my cards today include my favorite design touch – a bit of black.

Next up is a fun card featuring Under the Sea by Nancy McKinney.  This stamp set has soooooo many possiblities!  As soon as I saw the set, I knew I wanted to created an underwater scene.

I stamped a bunch of images from the set onto watercolor paper and then colored with an aquapainter and SU inks.  But here’s the really cool part – once the watercolor was dry, I covered the whole panel with Versamark ink direct to paper and then with kaliedescope embossing powder and heat embossed the whole thing.  It’s sparkly and just slightly hazy like water would be.

You might have noticed the embellishments I used on these two cards.  At first glance they might look the same, but they are actually quite different and I have a little video ready to show you tomorrow to compare the Queen & Co. Goosebumps to the Pebbles Crystal Candy Dots. They are both really cool.  I hope you drop by tomorrow to see my short little video.

Before you head off to shop in the TE Store, let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up –

Charmaine Ikach

Courtney Kelley – Guest Designer

Jami Sibley – DT Coordinator

Jen Shults

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Melody Rupple

Nancy McKinney – Illustrator

Regina Mangum

Sankari Wegman

Shannon White

Shelly Mercado

Stephanie Kraft

Taylor VanBruggen

Wanda Guess

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you’re enjoying all the new goodies.  The Baker’s Dozen will have more inspiration tomorrow and Saturday.

• The Baker’s Dozen has 4 days of inspiration, today through Saturday, featuring all the July Release products.
• All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, June 28th at 8 am PST. You’ll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for a look at the stamp sets and a SPECIAL Facebook GIVEAWAY, tonight (Wednesday) at 6 pm PST.
• Blog Giveaway – TODAY ONLY – Two lucky commenters will be randomly chosen to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate. Hop around to see the sneak peeks and leave comments on each blog for more chances to win. Winners will be announced on Taylor’s blog on Thursday morning.

Let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up today!

Happy Tuesday! So last week was really crazy!  A quick run-down: Wednesday early afternoon I ended up in tears at work (yes it can happen even in a job you love and even at a church, although I must say it had nothing to do with anyone from our church), Wednesday later afternoon the copier broke again just when we needed to run bulletins and programs for the weekend. Thursday (the day I’m supposed to get off work at 12:30) the copier tech didn’t come until 11:00 am and didn’t finish until after 3:30 at which point the choir aide needed the copier.  Curt had a doctor’s appointment in the afternoon at which time he found out that he has 2 new kidney stones and will need another lythotripsy procedure.  🙁 Thursday night I went back to work and didn’t get home till 9:30 pm. *deep breath*  Thursday night/Friday morning at 2:30 a.m. we had a huge power surge and then a power outage which fried our microwave, dishwasher, air conditioner and some other things.  Friday night I taught stamp class (started creating samples and prepping at 1:00 in the afternoon.)  Saturday was somewhat of a quiet day and then Sunday we had church in the morning and in the afternoon thCurt participated in the church Patriotic Musical as well as performing in the Old-Timey Gospel Band (on mandolin) during the BBQ that followed.

*PHEW*  Am I ever thankful that Pastor Jeff gave me yesterday off, so I could get some bills paid and get caught up on some things!

Now, on to what this post is really all about…the class I held Friday night.  I just wanted to share the projects we created.  First up is a pretty card featuring Forever in Bloom from Taylored Expressions.

We used shimmery white cardstock and colored the image with SU water-based markers directly on the rubber before stamping.  The background panel was run through the Cuttlebug with a Sizzix embossing folder and then aged with Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress ink.

Our second project featured my newest TE set Bikes & Trikes along with Echo Park Dots & Stripes 6×6 papers.  🙂 (I say “my” because it was my concept, wonderfully illustrated by Emily Burger!!)

The girls had a choice of which image they preferred and also which sentiment.  A lot of my girls don’t care much for coloring, so most of them chose the old-fashioned trike.  We also used the grass border and cloud duo Taylored Dies along with Spellbinders circle dies.

I messed up this sample as the sentiment should have been on the left to balance out the clouds on the right.  I had to tell the girls to “do as I say, not as I do!”  LOL!  I love how the black in this design makes the card pop – my old adage…when you’re not sure what to do, fall back on black!

The idea for these 2 cards came from one by my friend Melody Rupple. I absolutley LOVED this card she created and had to figure out how to adapt it to make it work with supplies I had for class.

It was so great to see almost all of my regular students Friday.  I had missed teaching a class in May and even though I was pretty spent on Friday night after a crazy week, I wouldn’t have missed it!  I’ll be back tomorrow with a sneak peek of the TE July release which is happening early!  Please come see me tomorrow. 🙂

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through      Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase      on Thursday, June 7th at 8 am PST. You’ll find it all in      the Fresh out of the Oven Department at      the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for an early peek at the      stamp sets, as well as a SPECIAL      Facebook GIVEAWAY, on Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.

I’m happy to be back, playing along with the Baker’s Dozen again today as we preview a gorgeous new set from Nancy McKinney for the Whimsical Wishes line – Forever in Bloom.  This full sized set includes 16 images and sentiments centered around beautiful hydrangea blooms in both solid and open line forms.  Hydrangeas are probably my 2nd favorite flowers, right after roses so I have really been looking forward to this set!

For my card today, I decided to keep it really simple and just showcase the largest solid bloom.

It really doesn’t get much easier than that, does it?  Simple elegance!  Love it!  Of course there is also a set of dies to cut out the blooms, so the possibilities are endless.  Here are some of the supplies I used to create this card.

Pink Versamagic ink, Old Olive SU classic ink, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, shimmery white cs (my fave!) along with black and Pretty in pink cs, some pink satin ribbon, my faithful stamp-a-majig, Diamond Stickles, black Goosebumps.

Now let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up today:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Jami Sibley (DT Coordinator) <— you are here
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Michele Boyer – Guest Designer
• Nancy McKinney – Illustrator
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Stephanie Kraft
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Wanda Guess

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you’re enjoying the peeks!  Tomorrow is Release Day and everything will be available for purchase at 8 am PST.

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, June 7th at 8 am PST. You’ll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Join us as a fan on Facebook for an early peek at the stamp sets, as well as a SPECIAL Facebook GIVEAWAY, on Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.

• Charmaine Ikach
• Jami Sibley (DT Coordinator)
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Michele Boyer – Guest Designer
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Stephanie Kraft
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Wanda Guess