Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek-Day 2

Today the Baker's Dozen is sharing samples using the adorable new Wings of Joy set and the coordinating Christmas Key Ingredients. These items will be available from Taylored Expressions starting tomorrow, October 3rd from 8am PST.

I have to tell you, I love love LOOOOOOOOOVE Wings of Joy!!! Surely you know by now that I'm a bit of a bird lover (that's an understatement!) and once you see all the samples with this set you'll know why I adore it so much! I truly feel like it was designed specifically for me! I think Nancy really hit this one out of the park...she's such an amazing designer!!!

First I created this fun and whimsical card using the birds with a garland image. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Buttercream (from the Christmas Key Ingredients) and coloured it with copics. I stamped the image a second time so I could pop each individual item for dimension.

I added a little sparkle to the bird wings with my red Spica glitter pen...don't you just love those little holly leaf wings...too cute!!! The mittens and hats were calling out for more detail so I added some fun Rockstar Red Sparkly Fluff, also from the Christmas Key Ingredients.

The rest of the card came together rather quickly because of the fun patterned paper and solid colours in the Christmas Key Ingredients. I chose to work with the multicolour snowflake paper from Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly line. I matted the image with Blush Red Dark then stitched along the edges and mounted it on foam tape. Next I used my EK large scallop border on a strip of Sunflowers Medium and layered one of the coordinating ribbons from the Christmas key Ingredients. The chipboard snowflakes are also from the Christmas Key Ingredients and I decided to leave them plain because the rest of the card is so colourful. I added buttons to the center of each snowflake and you'll receive the buttons in the Very Merry Christmas Bundle, but not in the Christmas Key Ingredients. The last thing I added was the sentiment which is punched out with an oval and tucked behind the image panel.

When I finished the card I whipped up a quick altered mini book to use as my Christmas shopping list/gift ideas book.

I kept the design very basic and didn't add any dimension because I know this little book will be in and out of my purse a lot over the next few months. The image is again stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with copics. I couldn't resist adding a touch of Rockstar Red Sparkly Fluff to three of the ornaments though.

I used one of the coordinating Jolly by Golly cardstock stickers as my 'presents under the tree'. The cardstock stickers are available in the Very Merry Christmas Bundle.

I know there's lots more to look at on the rest of the Baker's Dozen so let's hop over for a peek.

Charmaine Ikach

Dawn Easton

Denise Marzec

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jami Sibley

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Laura Fredrickson

Laurie Schmidlin

Sankari Wegman

Sharon Harnist

and Taylor VanBruggen

Tomorrow is release day so I'll have a sample with yet another new set. And it's also World Cardmaking Day and Taylor has wonderful things planned so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen