Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek-Day 1

It's Day 1 of Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks and we have something EXTRA exciting to share today - a whole new line of rubber stamps called Apple Doodle Ink! We're launching this fun new line with two stamp sets deisgned to coordinate perfectly - Window Shopping and Bakery Business. Taylor is working with a new illustrator on this line and I'm loving the adorable style. It's so fun building bakery scenes with Tena and those delicious desserts and we promise you'll get plenty of use out of those windows with more coordinating Apple Doodle Ink set coming in the near future. Be sure to pop over to Taylor's blog to read the whole story of how these sets were developed.

The first card I'm sharing today combines images from both Window Shopping and Bakery Business. I thought I'd fill my window with yummy cupcakes and the sentiment expresses exactly how I feel about cupcakes! The images are coloured with copics and the awning is paper pieced and popped for dimension. What you can't see in the photo is the shiny acetate covering the entire window to make it look like glass. I adhered it under the awning and the bottom window detail before cutting out the entire window.

One thing to note about the images in Bakery Business is that they're all individual images so the combinations are nearly endless with two different cake stands, a cover, four desserts, two images of Tena and several sentiments.

This next card uses only the Bakery Business set with a few items from the Bakery Sampler that'll be available in the TE Store on release day, Friday, February 5th. I used this week's Mojo sketch, Mojo124, for the layout.

I couldn't wait to ink up this DE-licious looking slice of cake...YUM! It totally reminds me of the birthday cake my mom makes. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the icing to make it look realistic...I covered it with Espresso Dimensional Pearls! If you happened to stop by the Taylored Expressions booth at CHA you may have seen this donut card...well I used the exact same product to create the icing on my cake. Then I added white Liquid Applique to mimic whipped cream...Double Yum! Both the Espresso Dimensional Pearls and the White Liquid Applique are included in the Bakery Sampler. There's also an assortment of baking chipboard in the Bakery Sampler and I used the bowl shape on my card...I simply covered it with patterned paper from Basic Grey Nook & Pantry then added a mound of icing with Espresso Dimensional Pearls (now that the cake is iced, the rest is for me!).  :)

To coordinate with the Basic Grey Nook & Pantry paper I chose solid Prism cardstocks in Blush Red Medium, Blush Red Light, Suede Brown Medium, Suede Brown Dark and Kraft. Oh, and another fab product that'll be available on Friday is a set of clay buttons designed by Jamie Pyles to coordinate perfectly with Bakery Business and Basic Grey Nook & Pantry papers...wooo hooooo!!!!

Phew...that was a lot of information! Now it's time for more sweet samples using Window Shopping and Bakery Business so please pop over and visit the rest of the Baker's Dozen for more eye candy!

Alex Maldonado

Charmaine Ikach

Dawn Easton

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Laurie Schmidlin

Melissa Sauls

Sankari Wegman

and Taylor VanBruggen

I'll be back tomorrow with more sneak peeks and news of another exciting development in TE stamps!

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen