Taylored Expressions Cupcakes and Tea

 Hello friends!  I hope all of you had a fantastic Thanksgiving with family and gobbled till you wobbled!  It feels like forever since I last posted to my blog. We had Thanksgiving here at our house so I was busy with all the preparations of cooking and cleaning, and over the last few days I actually put a dent in some Christmas shopping.

I'm here today to share two fun projects I've created using my November Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit.  The first is a birthday card that I created using last weeks TE Sketch Challenge #134, the TE stamp set For the Love of Cupcakes and some of the sweet papers and rick-rack from the KI Kit.

 For my next project I created a tea tray which I purchased from my local craft store.  I wanted to make something three dimensional and keeping with this months Key Ingredients Challenge something to spice up my kitchen.  I painted the wooden tea tray a yellow ochre and the inside base cherry red using craft paint and then punched out squares of the fun designer papers from this months KI Kit.  I stamped the center image of the cupcake, pedestal and glass dome as well as four other cupcakes from the For Love of Cupcakes stamp set and colored all of them using my Copic makers.  I applied a thin layer of Mod Podge to the base of the tray using it as a glue and placed my designer paper squares, cupcake squares and main image, then applied two more layers on top to really seal everything in know that I wanted a good coating because it would be in contact with water.  This was a fun and easy project to create and something anyone could do.

For more handmade gift ideas you can visit Taylored Expressions on YouTube for the 12 Days of a Handcrafted Christmas projects.

Thanks for stopping by!

CTD120 - Butterfly Birthday

Hello friends hope you're well today!  It's Wednesday and time for another Color Throwdown!  Danielle has chosen a very pretty color palette for us this week with the colors Rich Razzleberry, So Saffron and Old Olive.  For my card I used the stamp sets Flight of the Butterfly and Well Scripted to create a birthday card.

Supplies: Fight of the Butterfly, Well Scripted, Cottage Wall DSP, So Saffron DSP, Butterfly punch, Scallop Trim border punch, Perfect Polka Dot Impressions Folder, Ribbon, Floral Fusion Sizzlits die, Pearl, hole punch.

For all the details on how to play along, visit The Color Throwdown site.

And be sure to check out what the other design team members have created using the colors for this week:

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Kristin Beuter - Mindless Creativity

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker Designs
Cathy Indelicato - Crafty Thoughts

To all of my American friends, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.



SSSC94 - Finding Each Other

 Good morning!  It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!  Karen has an excellent layout for all of us this week and I hope you'll find time to play along!  For my card using the sketch I decided to have some fun using the Two Step Owl punch and the stamp set A Word for You.  I think this layout using the owls would make a cute Valentines Day card as well.

Supplies: Two Step Owl Punch, A Word for You, Sunny Garden DSP, Two Step Bird Punch (for branch), Scallop border punch, Ribbon, Dimensionals.  Colors: Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation! 

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Joanne Basile: ...just a little something

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Laura Fredrickson: Scrapnextras

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown

Color Throwdown #119 - Greatest Gift

Hello everyone!  It's Wednesday and time for this weeks Color Throwdown!  Barbara has picked out a sharp looking color combo for this week of Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz and Cajun Craze and we hope you'll play along!  For my first card I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge for the layout and the retired SU stamp set Branch Out and since I don't have Pear Pizzazz I went with Kiwi Kiss.

Supplies: Branch Out, Retired DSP, Square Lattice Impressions Folder, Ribbon, Brads, Oval Nestie, Piercer, Dimensionals.

For my second card I used the stamp sets Aviary and Curly Cute (I love these sets together).

Supplies: Aviary, Curly Cute, Ribbon, Perfect Polka Dot Impressions Folder, Scallop border punch, Brads, Piercer, Dimensionals.

For all the details on how to play along, visit The Color Throwdown site.

And be sure to check out what the other design team members have created using the colors for this week:

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Kristin Beuter - Mindless Creativity

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker Designs
Cathy Indelicato - Crafty Thoughts