Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek - Moka Karen

June 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, 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 honoured to have been asked to play along with the Baker's Dozen design team to help showcase a sweet new stamp set, Moka Karen. She's an adorable Canadian Mountie and I'm sure you'll recognize her iconic red coat uniform. Moka Karen is part of the Whimsical Wishes line from Taylored Expressions and Nancy McKinney, the illustrator, is Canadian, so it's fitting to add a Canadian counterpart to Moka Betsy. I'm also Canadian and you'll notice there are a few other Canadian guest designers sharing Moka Karen creations today.

It's not always snowing in Canada (well, I guess that depends where you are in Canada...LOL!) so I thought I'd have her outside on a beautiful summer day. Maybe she's getting ready for a July 1st Canada Day parade. No matter what she's doing, I can't help feeling a sense of pride when I look at her. She's kinda special to me because I was a police officer when we lived in Canada. I wasn't a Mountie, so I didn't get to wear the red coat, but we did have similar hats (which I hated wearing!).

She's stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Buttercream and coloured with copic markers. I added a little whimsy to the Canadian flag by paper piecing it with red polka dot paper from the My Mind's Eye On the Bright Side One paper pad. I used the Cloud Duo dies to cut out the white felt clouds and used the Picket Fence Border die to cut out the brown fence. To finish the card I stamped two of the sentiments from the set along the bottom.

Moka Karen is a Petite set of 6 images and sentiments made of deeply etched rubber. The set comes on a full colour 3" x 5" panel which stores perfectly in the Petite Storage Case.

Be sure to hop around and see what the rest of the Baker's Dozen and Guests have to share today.

Charmaine Ikach

Christine Okken - Special Guest

Jen Shults

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz - Special Guest  <----- you're here

Kerry Johnson - Special Guest

Melissa Sauls

Melody Rupple

Michele Boyer - Guest Designer

Nancy McKinney - Illustrator

Regina Mangum

Sankari Wegman

Sherie Siemens - Special Guest

Stephanie Kraft

Taylor VanBruggen

Wanda Guess

Here are the dies I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - Thanks Bunches

Welcome to day six of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers!

It's Pure Innocence day and I've used the ultra adorable Mouse in the House Blessed Mouse set. I just adore her with her little basket of flowers!!

She's stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with copic markers, but I paper pieced her top. Then I cut out the image using my Rectangle STAX 1 Die-namics. The patterned papers are from the My Mind's Eye Happy Go Lucky paper pad.

The layout is an older of Jen's Deconstructed Sketch, DS46, and when I saw the little scallop layer I knew it was a good opportunity to use the Hexagon Die-namics in a new (to me anyway) way.

The Hibiscus Die-namics was a perfect accent for this sweet image, cut out of patterned paper and topped with a corduroy button. The Pink Lemonade card stock base was embossed with the SU Lattice embossing folder.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment along with the pretty butterfly image that's included in the set. I used the Notched Border Die-namics to cut out the floral paper.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on June 5 at 10 PM EST:

• You can attend the New Release Party on June 5 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can enjoy fun, games, and PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on June 5 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is ON!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on June 5 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Sweet Sunday Holiday Cheer

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC160.

It's doesn't take long to fall behind on making one Christmas card per week, but I'm jumping right back on the wagon with today's card. This is card #18 for Project Christmas 2012, and it's a nice flat one for easy mailing!

I used the Christmas Ornaments stamps and Die-namics set from My Favorite Things and paired it with patterned papers from the October Afternoon Holiday Style paper pad.

I used Bubblegum and Sour Apple card stocks for the ornaments then stamped the snowflakes on each with Memento Lady Bug and Memento Cottage Ivy inks respectively. Then I covered them completely with glitter for a gorgeous sparkly look! I used the new Traditional Tags STAX Die-namics to cut out the cream tag and the Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics were perfect for creating the striped layer. I finished the card with a snowflake cut out of Berrylicious card stock using the Let It Snowflake Die-namics.

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

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - I Had a Blast

Welcome to day five of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers!!!

It's à la modes day and I've used the new à la modes Firecracker set.


I had a clean and simple vision for this card and I think it turned out quite nice. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black then cut it out with the Square STAX 1 Die-namics. I wanted a wider border of the polka dot patterned paper (which is October Afternoon Sidewalks) around the image so I used the next size of the Square STAX 1 Die-namics. I could have used the Square STAX 2 Die-namics for a narrower border, if I'd wanted that.

The Star STAX Die-namics were a perfect accent for this image. I cut out the stars from Berrylicious and yellow card stocks.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment "Thank you, I had a blast" and used the Star Border Die-namics to continue the star theme.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on June 5 at 10 PM EST:

• You can attend the New Release Party on June 5 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can enjoy fun, games, and PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on June 5 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is ON!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on June 5 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - #1 Dad

Welcome to day four of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers!

I used the awesome new Masculine Graphic Tee stamps and Die-namics set for my card today. I don't know about you, but for me, masculine cards are not the easiest to create. Well MFT to the rescue with this set!!! The manly t-shirt and sentiments are perfect for so many occasions. I made a card for my dad, for father's day. My parents are coming to visit later this month and they'll be here on Father's Day, so I can't blame a late card on snail mail this year.  ;-)

I chose patterned papers from the Echo Park A Boy's Life paper pad and paired them with Sour Apple and Berrylicious card stocks. I combined two sentiments from the set, the "#1" and "DAD" to create this graphic grey t-shirt. I used the largest of the Circle 1 STAX Die-namics to cut out the green circle and embossed it with the diamond plate embossing folder. The new Star STAX Die-namics were a natural accent for this manly card, along with some simple stitching and shiny silver brads.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on June 5 at 10 PM EST:

• You can attend the New Release Party on June 5 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can enjoy fun, games, and PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on June 5 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is ON!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on June 5 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

MFTeaser - I Love Your Smile

Welcome to day three of seven fabulous days of MFT teasers!

Today I have a sweet card I created with the even sweeter Triple Scoop set Complimentary Greetings. In case you're wondering what makes this set so sweet (aside from the amazing sentiments), well, it's yours absolutely free during the month of June with a qualifying $60 order!!! It just doesn't get any sweeter than free!

I paired one of the sentiments  from Complimentary Greetings with the new Designer Labels 2 STAX Die-namics to create the sentiment panel from Fossil card stock. I also used the gorgeous new Hibiscus Die-namics for the flower and topped it with a pearl. The patterned papers are from the Authentique Splendid bundle.

On the inside I used another sentiment from the set and the Notched Border Die-namics was perfect to separate the sentiment from the patterned paper.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on June 5 at 10 PM EST:

• You can attend the New Release Party on June 5 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can enjoy fun, games, and PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on June 5 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is ON!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on June 5 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen