Inspired By Challenge - Florals

 Hello!  I am sharing a card I created for the Inspired By Challenge, this week's theme is Florals!  I used the Taylored Expressions Diamond Botanical stamp and die set.  Such a beautiful design.  

I colored the image with my Copic markers and used a color palette of blues and light browns.  I layered onto a woodgrain panel and then layered with a dark blue panel that I used an older die that creates stitched line details.   

I hope you get a chance to play along with the Inspired By Challenge!   Check out the blog post here! 

Inspired By Challenge - Mom

Hello! I have a card I created for the Inspired By Challenge this week!  This week's theme is Mom Charcuterie. I decided to go with the mom theme and created this card for my mom for Mother's Day!  

I used a mix of old and new products some retired from Reverse Confetti and new to me products from Taylored Expressions.     

Retired from Reverse Confetti: 

Botanical stamp set 

Botanical Confetti Cut

Layered Mom with Frame Confetti Cut 

From Taylored Expressions: 

All Together Occasions 2 stamp and die 

Diagonal Stitch Square Stacklets 

Knock on Wood Background stamp  

I hope you get a chance to play along with this week's challenge! 

Inspired By Challenge - Quilt

 Hello! I am sharing another card for the Inspired By Challenge with the theme of Quilts!  I used my new Taylored Expressions Pieced Patterns card kit to create this card!  

Join in the challenge with the theme or the sketch! I hope that you find some time to play along with the Inspired By Challenge!   You can check out the challenge here! 

Inspired by Challenge - Grumpy Christmas

Hello!  I am sharing a new Christmas card that I made with some new to me Taylored Expressions goodies.  I used the Big Grumpy stamp and die set along with the Swirling Snow Background stamp. The theme this week is candy cane.  I used the Big Grumpy Christmas stamp that are Christmas accessories for the Big Grumpy stamp set.  

Such a cute set that has some snarky greetings!  Any for those of us that are perfectionist - most definitely the holidays can bring out the grumpiness when the pressures of doing it all come to a head!  

Thankfully I have managed to keep my sanity this year!  Come play along with this weeks Inspired by Challenge! 

Happy Holidays!

Interactive Haunted House - Taylored Expressions

Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful day!  I am sharing a card that I created for the Inspired By Challenge this week.  The theme this week is Boo!  I had this card in mind with the Haunted Mansion Cutting Plate and the Moonlight Layering Stencil.   I made an easel card so that the moon would be able to move around the sky.   

I started by inking a panel of Plum Punch cardstock with Huckleberry and Plum Punch inks.  I then stamped the panel with the Spiderweb Cling and Clear Combo stamp with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I then splattered the panel with Dr. PH Martin's Bleed Proof White ink.   I then used the Moonlight Layering stencil and blended with Potato Chip, Mango and Pineapple inks.  I die cut the moon out with a circle die.  

I die cut the Haunted Mansion Cutting Plate three times from Black Licorice cardstock.  I adhered two of the die cuts together and then layered some orange vellum in between the layered haunted house and the third die cut.  I also layered up the moon with another die cut circle.  I poked a hole for a brad above the window on the top right of the haunted house.   I layered one of the ghosts from Little Critters Halloween to cover the brad.  I colored several of the Little Critter images with my Copics and some Olo markers.  I stamped and die cut some sentiments using the Exclamation Points Die and Clear combo set.  

To assemble the card, I used an A2 card base and scored at 2 3/4 inches.  I trimmed the inked panel in half and adhered to the card panel with liquid adhesive.  I then added liquid adhesive to the lower half of the panel being careful not to add any adhesive to the upper part.   I then adhered my stamped and die cut little critters to the panel with a mixture of foam tape and liquid adhesive.  The inside panel I used a sentiment from Ghostly Greetings stamp set and die. 

Check out this video here for a peek at how the card works!   

Come join along with this weeks Inspired By Challenge!! Happy Halloween!  

Ghosts! Goblins! Halloween!

 Hello! I am sharing a Halloween card I made for the Inspired By Challenge.  This weeks theme is Ghosts!  I love Halloween!  I used Taylored Expressions Trick or Treat Border die along with the Moonlight Layering Stencil. I started by card by ink blending with Plum Punch, Dragon Fruit, Pumpkin and Mango inks onto Sugar Cube cardstock.  

I die cut from Black Licorice cardstock the Trick or Treat Border die and stamped with the Ghostly Greetings stamp set. 

Here is this weeks inspiration photo and sketch! 

For the Moonlight stencil, I used Potato Chip and Sea Salt inks to blend the moon. I stamped it with Versamark ink and used some glow in the dark embossing powder.   I die cut the stamped panel with a circle die.  

Come play along with the Inspired By Challenge this week here! 

Happy Fright Night -Taylored Expressions

 Hello!  Happy Fall!  You know I just love Halloween.  I have been getting into all the spooky things and using my Halloween and Fall inspired stamps and dies!  My house is all decked out!  Still thinking about what I may do with my outside to make it all spooky!  But I know one thing for sure, we cannot wait to do some pumpkin carving.  That will need to wait till Halloween!  Until then, I can create spooky cards! 

For the Inspired By Challenge this week, the inspiration is Pumpkins!  EEK!  I used all Taylored Expressions for my project today: 

Stamp: Spooky Season Stamp 

Die: Snack-O-Lantern Shaker Die 

Inks: Mango, Pumpkin, Peaches'n Cream, Sweet Potato Pie, Plum Punch, VersaFine Clair Nocturne

I started by inking my panel with the Peaches'n Cream, Sweet Potato Pie, Pumpkin and Plum Punch.   I then stamped the panel with the Spooky Seasons Stamp and used the VersaFine Clair Nocturne for the bats.   I then splattered the panel with Chocolate Truffle ink.  I then splattered it with Silver Metallic inks from Tim Holtz.    

I die cut the Snack-O-Lantern from black licorice and some yellow cardstock from my scraps.  I stamped and embossed a sentiment from Spooky Season and then ink blended the XXXX panel with Mango ink.  I finished the card by adding some orange stars from the Halloween Bit's & Pieces.  I just LOVE how the card turned out!!! 

Come play along with the Inspired By Challenge! 

Happy Halloween! 

Halloween Potion Bottles - Taylored Expressions

 Hello!  I love Halloween! It's one of my favorite time to make papercrafts.   I absolutely adored these products from Taylored Expressions!  I combined several different products to make these mini slim shaker cards.  Happy Halloween!   

Supplies from Taylored Expressions: 

Potion Bottle Die & Clear Combo

Ghostly Greetings stamp

Spooky Season stamp 

Spiderweb Cling & Clear Combo 

Stitched Mini Slim Stacklets 

Petite Scallop Mini Slim Stacklets 

TE Cardstock & Inks: Pumpkin, Lime Zest, Plum Punch, Eggplant, Sugar Cube and Black Licorice 

Create in Quads - Ever in Bloom

 Hey there!  I am sharing a card I created with the Create in Quads Ever in Bloom stencil from Taylored Expressions.  I only created one card but I saved my other panels for a rainy day!   I am playing along with the Inspired By Challenge.  This week it is all about Leggings!   I used the photo as my inspiration using the florals in the leggings and thought about the Ever In Bloom stencil to create my fall spray! 

I added details to the image with some Prisma Colored pencils and a white gel pen.   Join us for the Inspired By Challenge here! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Taylored Expressions - Big Happy

Hello!  It's time for another Inspired By Design Challenge!  Today it is all about the alphabet or you can use a big bold sentiment for your card!  I chose to use the big bold sentiment. I have had the Big Happy Cling and Clear combo stamp for a while and inked it up all rainbow.  There are several different type of sentiments and I decided to go with one I could use for my upcoming anniversary! 

I used several Taylored Expressions Inks:  Fruit Punch, Pumpking, Mango, Lime Zest and Blue Raspberry inks.  I added some dot details to the letters and then stamped the "you make me" from the clear stamp set with black ink.  I added some clear sparkling sequins to finish it off.  I layered onto a panel of Cookie Monster cardstock.  Join the weekly challenge here! 

Happy Crafting! 

Taylored Expressions Cherry On Top

Hello!  I am sharing a card I made for this week's Inspired by Challenge!  The challenge this week was berries!  I used a cherry stamp set from Taylored Expressions called Very Cherry & Cherry on Top!  I forgot that cherries are not actually a berry since they have a pit and not seeds!  Oh Well!  We will go with they are Cherry Berries, right? 

I love the combo sets at Taylored Expressions - this one is a Cling & Clear Combo - Very Cherry as it has a panel red rubber background that stamps the cherries and then the cling stamp is the filling for the cherry and leaves.  You don't have to be perfect in your stamping for this to look great!  You can go outside the lines, stamp over, etc.  It is just good old fashioned stamping without a positioner! Love it!

 

There is a stencil to match the background that allows you to stamp all the hearts around the cherries and it is called Very Cherry.   I used the Cherry on Top stamp and die to create the center cherry.   I die cut a scalloped frame and circle die cut for the center.   The sentiment is from the Cherry on Top stamp set.   Check out the Inspired by Challenge here and join along!  

Dragonfly Hello's

 Hello! I am sharing a card created for the Inspired by Challenge using this week's sketch! I used the Taylored Expressions Dragonfly Dreams stamp and die.   

I stamped some kraft paper with the Wood Plank Background stamp and then splattered the panel with white and black ink.   I then trimmed it down for the three panels and layered onto a kraft card base with foam tape.  

Check out the Inspired By Challenge here and join in! 

 

I used the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set to stamp the dragonflies using several different colors of ink.  I used my MISTI to stamp the image and then layered the negative die cut panel around the stamped image. I then put the die cut into the negative panel to get a precise stamped image.  Makes it so easy when you have a multiple layer stamp set.  You could free range stamp but I like using the negative die cut to create the perfect image.  

The sentiment is from a stamp set that was a special release from Virtual Stamp Joy but there is a similar set called All Together Occasions stamp and die! This is such a cool set.  You stamp all the sentiments and die cut them all at once! 

Inspired by Sea Decor - Challenge Blog

 Hello!  It's. been awhile :-) I have joined up with the Inspired By Challenges!  This week was Sea Decor.  The sketch each week is “inspired by” the photo inspiration (sometimes loosely inspired ). You can use the sketch alone for your inspiration that week, it does not have to be inspired by anything else in the photo inspiration.

I was inspired by both the sketch and the photo!  I used the photo for my theme and loosely used the sketch for placement of my penguins.  These are stamps and dies from SugarPea Designs!   Hop over to the Inspired By Challenge blog and link us with us for this week! 

I used Nautical Notions, Salty Seagulls and the Sunburst stencil from Sugarpea Designs.   The sentiment die is from Taylored Expressions and it is called Sentiment Strips Duo.   The cover panel is a Reverse Confetti Stitched Burst Cover Panel.  I used Mango, Pineapple, Lemon Meringue and Potato Chip inks for the stencil from Taylored Expressions.   

Thanks for stopping by!