Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek-Day 1-Discover Your Wings

Today the Baker's Dozen is sharing projects made using the brand new set Discover Your Wings. I have lots of info to share today so grab a coffee and please stick with me...there's a prize announcement at the end! ;)

Every three months Taylored Expressions introduces a new set in the TE Giving Tree Program. Discover Your Wings is the new charitable set, designed by Nancy McKinney. The set will be available for purchase in the TE Store on Friday, December 4th from 8am PST. Proceeds from the sale of this gorgeous set ($7 from every set sold) will be donated to the Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation (more on this in a sec.). The possibilities for this set are endless with the beautiful butterfly, dragonfly and flower images, not to mention the wonderful sentiments that are included in Discover Your Wings. I can see myself using it any time I need an uplifting card, or how about a classy graduation card, and it would make a beautiful set of notecards too!

Here's a little more on the Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation. It's a charity that serves families dealing with infant death. Their mission statement is "To introduce remembrance photography to parents suffering the loss of a baby with the free gift of professional portraiture. We believe these images serve as an important step in the family's healing process by honouring their child's legacy." NILMDTS administers a network of almost 7000 volunteer photographers in the US and 25 other countries. This is a wonderful charity that Taylored Expressions is honoured to support and I would encourage you to learn more about them by visiting their website.

I have to say that I had never heard of this charity until Taylored Expressions brought it into the spotlight. Thankfully I've never had to deal with an infant death and I can't even begin to imagine the loss a family feels. But that's what I love about the TE Giving Tree...they bring charities into the spotlight and I get to be a part of supporting these charities just by doing what I love, stamping!

How about a few details on my cards. On the first one I stamped the butterfly with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Buttercream then again onto the Spring Fling patterned paper and I paper pieced the inside of the wings. I coloured the outside edge with a purple copic. Only the butterfly body is adhered to the circle so I could bend the wings up. The layout is Mojo115. I used my Fancy Tags to cut out the sentiment then sponged it with Memento Desert Sand and added two brown Zva crystals (leftovers from the crystal swirl on the circle. For the background I ran the paper through my textile Cuttlebug folder then sanded it lightly. The card base measures 5.25 inches square and there's plenty of dimension because each layer is on foam tape.

The second card whipped up super quick! I inked the flower image with Memento Sweet Plum and Memento Cantaloupe then coloured the stems and leaves with my artichoke marker and stamped it onto Choice Snow White. I layered it with the following Prism colours: Frosted Amethyst, Herbal Garden Dark, and Papaya Puree Medium. The layout is today's Splitcoast sketch, SC257. The butterfly was stamped with Memento Grape Jelly. I added some Diamond Sitckles and Black Flower Soft to the flower centers and two purple Tiny Twinkles on the diamond squares. The center panel is popped on foam tape and so is the butterfly.

Are you ready for the prize announcement? I know you deserve it!!!

Come blog hoppin' with me to see what the Baker's Dozen girls have cooked up with Discover Your Wings today.

Charmaine Ikach

Dawn Easton

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jami Sibley

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Laurie Schmidlin

Nancy McKinney

Sankari Wegman

Sharon Harnist

and Taylor VanBruggen

Be sure to leave some love along the way because one lucky commenter will win a Discover Your Wings stamp set!!! How cool is that?!?

All you have to do is leave a comment on each Baker's Dozen blog today for the best chance to win! One lucky winner will be chosen at random from all of the comments on one of the blogs, but the trick is that nobody knows which blog it will be! You have until 6am PST on Thursday to enter. The winner will be announced Friday morning on Taylor's blog.

I'll see you back here tomorrow for day 2 of Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen