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Run, don’t walk over to Taylor’s webstore Taylored Expressions!!!

Yep – it’s time – the Official Release of the Taylored Expressions Stamp a Sweet Impression line of rubber stamps, unmounted storage, and Key Ingredients packages.  You can get all the deets at Taylor’s blog.

Tonight I have a project to share that utilizes the Sweet Celebration stamp set and the Birthday Girl Key Ingredients.

One of the papers in the KI package has this green corner border and it reminded me of a tablecloth so I set out playing with layouts until I came up with this.  The stamped image is colored with Copics and the cake plate was paper pieced.  There are dots of Liquid Pearls along all the scallops and stickles on the candle flame.  And Cuppie’s little cherry top is covered with a clear Rain Dot (also available at Taylored Expressions).  I have both the red and the clear and I have used them on several SASI projects.  I highly recommend picking some up at TE when you go shopping!  After finishing this card I realized the pink twill is not from the KI pack, but it is available at TE in the ribbon section.

Not only is it Release Day, but it’s also Cupcake Friday and time for TECC32 – Taylor’s weekly Sketch Challenge.

I hope you’ll try out this fun sketch – cupcakes are not required to play!  You can check out all the details on Taylor’s blog.

I decided to flip the sketch on it’s side this week so I could use a really fun image from Sweet Celebration along with papers from the Birthday Girl Key Ingredients pack.

This is a personal Congratulations to Taylor for scaling that cupcake mountain and making it to the TOP!  I’m so proud and so excited of my sweet friend!

Cupcakes were colored with Copic markers and the little cherry is a Kaiser Craft red pearl this time.  The sentiment was created with the JustRite stamper Small Letters (from TE) and highlighted with Kaiser Craft dark pink rhinestones.  (Kaiser Craft available at eclectic Paperie.) The two ribbons are just stuff I had in my stash.

For those looking for Copic matches here’s what I have for the KI packages:

Birthday Girl – RV34 Dark Pink, YR15 Pumpkin Yellow, YG25 Celadon Green or YG03 Yellow Green

Birthday Boy – BG15 Aqua, B39 Prussian Blue, YG25 Celadon Green or YG03 Yellow Green

Halloween – BV04 Blueberry, YR15 Pumpkin Yellow, YG25 Celadon Green or YG03 Yellow Green and you’ll want a very dark gray and/or black.

Plus you’ll want to think about what colors you might want to use to color the frosting faces 🙂  I tended to use Y21 Buttercup Yellow, E27 Africano, and R32 Peach. 

The Cupcake Crew has sketch samples for you and the Baker’s Dozen girls have release projects for you (several of us are on both teams) – you can get links to all the different blogs over at Taylor’s blog.  And if you want to see a bunch of our samples in the gallery at SCS (more to be uploaded soon) just click here.

WooHoo!!!!  Shop, Blog Hop and PARTY!!!!!

So…after you place your order come on back – I’m dying to know what you got!!!!

WooHoo!!!  Have you heard the news?  My exceptionally talented friend Taylor has her own line of rubber stamps – Stamp a Sweet Impression. 

And as if that’s not exciting enough I’m a member of her design team the Baker’s Dozen!!!  The actual release is Thursday night at 9pm Pacific (midnight EST), but today I have a sneak peek!  It feels soooooo good to finally get to share this with all of you!

This sweet little cupcake witch was created with the Trick or Sweet stamp set and her kitty is from Frightful Night.  All the paper, cardstock, ribbon and glitter are from the Halloween Key Ingredients package.  The witch was colored with Copic markers and cut out with a circle Coluzzle allowing me to leave her broom and the tip of her hat outside the circle.  It’s hard to see in the photo, but there is black glitter around the scallop circle and the black dots on the card were created with little globs of Crystal Effects covered with the black glitter (allow to dry throuroughly before trying to shake off excess glitter!)

In case you’re wondering, the best Copic matches to the Halloween Key Ingredients package are BV04 Blueberry, YR15 Pumpkin Yellow and either YG03 Yellow Green or YG25 Celedon Green.  Taylor is not carrying Copics, but you can get them at eclectic Paperie.

I am so excited for Taylor and her new venture that I am almost speechless!  LOL – *speechless* – that’ll be the day, huh?  Well, ok, I did say almost!  Ever since I got my hands on these sets I have not been able to stop stamping with them!  Let me just share a few of the things I’m loving.

• the scrumptious super deeply etched pink rubber.  I don’t know about you but I’m an old fashioned rubber fan, and this is the good stuff Baby!  It’s perfectly deeply etched so I have not had even one problem with getting a good clear impression!

• die cut *happy sigh*.  There’s no trimming to be done.  When these stamps arrive at your house, you just open the package and pop them on an acrylic block and get stamping!  They’re already on the cling cushion and EVERYTHING!

• storage – ok I can’t tell you about that yet, have to wait for the boss to do the reveal tomorrow, but let me just say it’s FANTASTIC!

• Key Ingredients bake up endless recipes of sweet results.  I cannot believe how many cards I have already stamped and yet feel I haven’t made a dent in the Key Ingredients packages I got.  They are adorable, so full of possibilities and a great value!  I love having all the coordinated stuff right at my fingertips!

• Cute Cute Cute!  Need I say more?  Wait till you see all three sets in their entirety!  WOW!

Taylor is a wonderful friend and I truly couldn’t be happier to be involved with her and Taylored Expressions/Stamp a Sweet Impression.  If you haven’t already been to her blog today, please hop on over to Taylored Expressions for more info and to the meet the rest of the Baker’s Dozen Senior Team Members.  You’ll want to see what SASI creations everyone has cooked up – I know I do!

Be sure to join me Thursday night/Friday morning for the official release and be ready to order because I have a feeling this stuff will be flying off the shelves!  I’ll have another TE/SASI card ready to share at 9pm Pacific.  In the meantime I’ll just be here bouncing off the walls in anticipation!