It's Release Day at Taylored Expressions AND World Card Making Day!

Woo Hoo!!! The new sets are available now at Taylored Expressions. But before you rush off to shop, take a peek at this fun card I created using Holiday Wonder...the newest addition to the Cuppie family of sets.

I used the Christmas Key Ingredients again for this card and also some Appletini Sparkly Fluff which is included in the Very Merry Christmas Bundle.

When I saw this set I envisioned rolling, snowy hills with a forest of trees. Then when I saw the fun Jolly by Golly paper in the Christmas Key Ingredients I knew exactly how to create my hills. I used the two-tone pink wave paper and just cut apart the waves. Then I tore the edges to look more like snow and layered them onto the blue background...easy peasy!!! For Santa's sleigh I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black first onto the blue background. Then I stamped it a second time onto Sunflowers Medium and punched out the circle I wanted to highlight. I adhered the circle directly over the image, lining everything up, and presto...instant spotlighting!!!

Then I set to work on the trees. I stamped the tree image seven times and coloured it with copics before adding the Appletini Sparkly Fluff. Then I cut the trees along the different lines to get smaller and smaller trees...this really helps with perspective. I stamped the mailbox with Memento Tuxedo black, coloured it with copics then cut it out and popped it on foam tape for dimension. I created a sentiment banner and tucked it behind the mailbox.

For the back of the card, as part of Taylor's World Card Making Day celebrations, Taylor is offering this fabulous FREE "designed by" digital download. There's a horizontal and a vertical version and it's set up so that you simply run your cardstock through your printer then cut it in half for two card bases. You'll find the FREE Digital Download on Taylor's blog, not in the TE Store.

But that's not all that's going on for World Card Making Day:

• All orders placed on Saturday, October 3rd before 11pm PST will receive a FREE card kit to create this card. All you have to provide is the image and ribbon.
• 2008 Christmas stamp sets, Home Sweet Home and Season's Sweetings are available for 25% off from October 3rd-5th.
• Several other products are on sale for 15%-25% off so be sure to check out the What's The Deal? section at the TE Store.
• World Card Making Day challenge on the Stamp A Sweet Impression Blog. You could win a free Taylored Expressions set of your choice! Hurry though, the deadline to enter is Sunday night.
• And of course, don't forget the FREE digital download on Taylor's Blog.

I hope all these Christmas creations have got you thinking about your Holiday cards, but I know the rest of the Baker's Dozen will have more inspiration for you!

Charmaine Ikach

Dawn Easton

Denise Marzec

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Laura Fredrickson

Laurie Schmidlin

Sankari Wegman

Sharon Harnist

and Taylor VanBruggen

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen