It's MFT Release Time!

There are so many fabulous new stamps and dies available now MFT and the design team has a New Product Tour to recap everything. Be sure to start at Kim's blog for a list of all participating designers.

I worked with Clearly Sentimental About Family. It's a set of beautiful sayings that really make you reflect on the importance of family. But I didn't just use the sentiment set, I paired it with Pure Innocence Girl and Baby. Seemed like a natural fit to me!

What I love about Clearly Sentimental About Family is that the word 'family' is a separate word, available in two different fonts, which makes it super easy to highlight by stamping it in a different colour ink.

Here I cut out some cream card stock with the framed greetings die-namic then stamped the sentiment in black and the word 'family' in magenta ink. I layered the sentiment onto a pink oval, and backed that with the new oval decorative doily die-namic, which, in my opinion, is definitely a must-have!! I coloured the PI Girl and Baby with copics and paper pieced her dress with one of the patterns from the Basic Grey Sweet Threads paper pad. You can also see the magenta border tucked under the ribbon...I used the new postage border die-namic to cut it out. 

On the inside I stamped another of the sentiments from Clearly Sentimental About Family. Sigh...this makes me miss my family but thankfully my parents are coming to visit in just 10 days!

Three of the new stamp sets this month are in support of those affected by cancer; Who's That Girl Chooses Hope, à la mode Fight Like a Girl, and Pure Innocence Have Hope. Click here to read a beautiful story of how PI Have Hope was born and then click over to the Hope You Can Cling To thread on Splitcoast.

Do you have a long MFT wish list? Then the Cherry On Top promotion may be just the thing for you. The Cherry On Top is earned when I customer spends $150 before shipping and tax, earning them $15 off their order. Once that amount is hit, a coupon code will pop up on the computer screen, which you can write down and then apply to your order in the shopping cart. If you happen to remove items from your cart, making your order fall below the $150, the coupon code is removed automatically. How sweet is that!


There's blog candy hidden on one of the design team posts so be sure to leave some love as you make your way through the New Product Tour! Click on the Brand Spankin' New tab to see all the new products in one place. Happy shopping!

Click over to Kim's Blog to download the October MFT Shopping List to help you get your order organized.

Here are the die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks Day 2!

October Release At a Glance

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, October 6th at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the OvenDepartment 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.
• Mystery Baker's Dozen Blog Giveaway: Each day, one lucky blog commenter will be chosen by random draw to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate.  Winners will be chosen from a different Baker's Dozen blog each day and will be announced on Taylor's blog on Release Day!  Be sure to hop around to see all the sneak peeks and leave comments on each and every blog for more chances to win. Limit one comment per blog per day, please.  Comments close Wednesday 10/5 at 7pm PST for the drawings.

Today I have a fun project using Totally Tags Holiday that will help wrap up all your gifting needs! I created an adorable set of gift tags and decorated a little tin to house them all.

Totally Tags Holiday is illustrated by Nancy McKinney for the Whimsical Wishes line and is a full sized set on a sturdy colour storage panel. There are nine tags for just $21.95.  There is also a set of coordinating dies, Totally Tags Taylored Die Set, to make cutting out these tags a snap! All TE stamps are made from top-quality deeply etched rubber in a cute shade of pink and come on EZ Mount already trimmed and ready to use with your acrylic blocks.

I wanted my tags to be a little bigger than the size of the stamps so I used the Frame It Up 1 die as the base. The tags are cute on their own, but this adds just a little more oomph for larger packages.

All the papers and some of the ribbons are from the 12 Days Project Pantry. When you want to bake up a yummy dessert you head to your pantry for the ingredients.  When you want to create a sweet papercrafting project, you can head to our Project Pantry for all the coordinating elements.  We've found that some of the best cake and cookie recipes are the ones based around a basic batter or dough recipe with lots of options to spice it up according to your tastes.  Taylored Expressions is offering our Basic Recipe Kit along with optional Spice It Up Ingredients that you can pick and choose from to build the kit just the way you want it.

The 12 Days Project Pantry Basic Recipe Kit is $11.95 and includes:

My Mind's Eye 12 Days of Christmas 6x6 pad

12 sheets of 8.5" x 11" cardstock in coordinating colors

6 yards of ribbon (2 yards each of 3 different styles)

Optional Spice it Up Ingredients (choose any or all) are:

• Christmas Button Mix
• Doodlebug Holiday Brads
• Rockin' Pink Sparkly Fluff
• Rhinestones (Red, Split Pea, Island Lagoon)
• Coordinating Copic Markers
• Additional Cardstock Pack
• Additional Ribbon Bundle

For the tin I simply created a belly band. The window in the lid allows the tags to show through so the tin really doesn't need a lot of embellishment. I used the fun Trim the Tree Taylored Die Set to create the layered tree.

Here are the dies I used:

Now it's time to hop around and see what the rest of the Baker's Dozen created.

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jami Sibley
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• Wanda Guess

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks Day 1!

October Release At a Glance

• We have sneak peeks to share Monday through Wednesday.  All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, October 6th at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the OvenDepartment 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.
• Mystery Baker's Dozen Blog Giveaway: Each day, one lucky blog commenter will be chosen by random draw to win a $10 TE Gift Certificate.  Winners will be chosen from a different Baker's Dozen blog each day and will be announced on Taylor's blog on Release Day!  Be sure to hop around to see all the sneak peeks and leave comments on each and every blog for more chances to win. Limit one comment per blog per day, please.  Comments close Wednesday 10/5 at 7pm PST for the drawings.

Today we have lots of new stampy goodness to share from Taylored Expressions. I'll start with the adorable Woodland Winter set, illustrated by Doug Applegate for the Apple Doodle Ink Collection. This is a full size set on a 5.75" x 8.5" full colour sturdy storage panel and includes 21 images and sentiments for just $21.95. You'll fall in love with these cute little critters!

I used Taylor's current sketch challenge for the layout, TESC147, and supplies from the 12 Days Project Pantry. I started by stamping the little mouse then I masked him and stamped the fox, to create this adorable duo. The image is coloured with copics and I added some rhinestones (which I coloured with R29) to their hats. Do you see the subtle tree background paper? I repeatedly stamped the tree image with old paper distress ink to create this look.

Next up is Snow à la carte, another fun image illustrated by Nancy McKinney for the Word à la carte Collection. This single stamp is just $5.95, perfect for quick cards and projects.

I took my own advice on this one and created a clean and simple single layer card. I know...freaky for me, eh? :-)

First I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Snow White then I coloured it with copics. Next I ran it through my swiss dots cuttlebug folder to add the snow. Then the snowgirl looked a little sickly with bumps all over her body so I stamped her again, coloured her and popped her on foam tape. Love how this little bit of dimension adds so much detail to this simple card.

I have another very special stamp set to tell you about, and I know you'll see fabulous samples with it on some of the other Baker's Dozen blogs: Moka Hope. As you probably know, October is breast cancer awareness month. Taylored Expressions will donate $1 from the sale of each Moka Hope set to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

TE is also a proud sponsor of the Hope You Can Cling To card drive over on Splitcoast and we encourage everyone to participate in the challenges during October and donate their cards to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This little set is perfect for all types of encouragement cards and while it was designed with breast cancer in mind, her ribbon can be customized to any colour for any cause or disease.

Now it's time to hop around to the rest of the Baker's Dozen blogs and see what everyone else created.

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jami Sibley
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• Wanda Guess

See you tomorrow for more stampy goodness!!!
Oh, and by the way, these two cards are numbers 20 & 21 for my Project Christmas 2011.

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - Pure Innocence Girl Doctor

Welcome back for day six of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers. Today is Pure Innocence day and there are so many little cuties to gawk at this release: Girl and Baby, Boy and Baby, Calendula, Pumpkin Patch Girl, Have Hope, Girl Doctor, and a new addition to the Pure Innocence family, Precious Little Lamb-Where Flowers Bloom. Whew...told you there was a lot!

I had good intentions of using a couple of these cuties today but time slipped away and I only got one card finished, using Pure Innocence Girl Doctor. But I'm sure you'll see plenty of the other PI's as you hop around the design team blogs.

I wanted to give her a jazzy lab coat instead of boring white, so I paper pieced it with one of the patterns from the My Mind's Eye Life of the Party pad. Doesn't she look like the kinda doctor you'd like to see in real life? I cut her out then layered her onto a blue oval that I cut with the new Oval Decorative Doily die-namic...love! I kept the layout simple and stitched together a few patterned strips. One of the banners from First Place Award Ribbon die-namics was perfect for the sentiment on the front.

On the inside I stamped another of the sentiments and used the new Postage Border die-namic to add a little detail.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on October 4 at 10 PM EST:

• The MFT release is on October 4 at 10 PM EST. You can attend the release party from 8-10 PM EST here in the forum for fun, games, and prizes! All the new sets and dies will be available October 4 at 10 PM EST.
• The guest designer contest is ON! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $100 in stamp sets and play along with the DT for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to Kim's blog NOW! Be sure to leave comments as you go for a chance to win one of 2 $10 vouchers being given away daily, just for leaving a comment. :) Check Kim's blog every day for the winners.

Here are the die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Sweet Sunday Caroling Penguin

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC137.

Karen has switched up the size of the card for today's sketch, and I decided to flip the sketch. So the finished size of my card is 3 1/4" x 6 1/2". This is card #19 for my Project Christmas 2011...yay!

I used the fun Penguin Pals set from Taylored Expressions and paired him with patterned papers from the Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas 6x6 pad. I thought the colourful music paper was perfect for this little caroler.

He's stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with copics. I added some white liquid appliqué to his hat and some red Twinkles for the berries. I used my medium scallop border die to cut out the green strip, and it wasn't quite long enough to reach across the entire card so I cut two strips and hid the seam under the scalloped circle.

I hope you'll play along with this week's sketch and link your creation on Karen's blog. Now it's time to hop around and see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers created.
Dana White
Jen Tapler
Lynn Put
Sarah-Jane Kalé
Vicki Burdick
and Karen Giron

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - à la mode Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch

Welcome to day five of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers! Today is à la mode day and there are two cuties (as usual), Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch and Fight Like a Girl.

I've used à la mode Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch and the layout is MFTWSC34, which I missed when I was off in August. It's never too late to play, right?

I used the new Postage Border die-namic on the front of the card but it may not be quite evident, because I used the negative cut off instead of the positive die-cut piece. I really LOVE the bumpy look of the negative. I used the positive part of the die-cut on the inside, so it was like cutting two things at once.

The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with copies. I paper pieced the pumpkin with one of the patterns from the Stella Rose Mabel collection by My Mind's Eye. The new oval tab die-namic was a perfect spot for the sentiment.

Here's the inside with using the postage border die-namics.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on October 4 at 10 PM EST:

• The MFT release is on October 4 at 10 PM EST. You can attend the release party from 8-10 PM EST here in the forum for fun, games, and prizes! All the new sets and dies will be available October 4 at 10 PM EST.
• The guest designer contest is ON! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $100 in stamp sets and play along with the DT for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to Kim's blog NOW! Be sure to leave comments as you go for a chance to win one of 2 $10 vouchers being given away daily, just for leaving a comment. :) Check Kim's blog every day for the winners.

Here are the die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - Comtempo Cage

Welcome to day four of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers. Today I have a card using the new Contempo Cage stamps and die-namics set, but I'm sure you'll also see samples using Bon Appetit stamps and die-namics as you hop around the design team blogs.

I used the cage and bird die-namics and stamped the swing and the bird's wing. I love that the clear stamps are a little flexible and I took advantage of that to curve the sentiment to follow the curve of the new oval tab die-namic.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on October 4 at 10 PM EST:

• The MFT release is on October 4 at 10 PM EST. You can attend the release party from 8-10 PM EST here in the forum for fun, games, and prizes! All the new sets and dies will be available October 4 at 10 PM EST.
• The guest designer contest is ON! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $100 in stamp sets and play along with the DT for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to Kim's blog NOW! Be sure to leave comments as you go for a chance to win one of 2 $10 vouchers being given away daily, just for leaving a comment. :) Check Kim's blog every day for the winners.

Here are the die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - Clearly Sentimental about Abundance

Welcome to day three of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers! I'm sharing a card I made using the new Clearly Sentimental about Abundance set, which is this month's Triple Scoop set!

I knew the sentiment would work perfectly with the layered labels die-namics, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how well the layered labels work with the new Oval Decorative Doily die-namic! Doesn't it add just the perfect detail around the labels? Sweet!!!

This is such a pretty main focal point that I kept the rest of the card super simple and just added a Rolled Gardenia die-namic flower as an accent. The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye Stella Rose Gertie, the green layer is MFT Sour Apple and the brown layer is MFT Hot Fudge.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on October 4 at 10 PM EST:

• The MFT release is on October 4 at 10 PM EST. You can attend the release party from 8-10 PM EST here in the forum for fun, games, and prizes! All the new sets and dies will be available October 4 at 10 PM EST.
• The guest designer contest is ON! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $100 in stamp sets and play along with the DT for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to Kim's blog NOW! Be sure to leave comments as you go for a chance to win one of 2 $10 vouchers being given away daily, just for leaving a comment. :) Check Kim's blog every day for the winners.

Here are the die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen