Sweet Sunday Sketch Winner

Hello and Happy Saturday!  It's time to announce this week's sketch winner - and Random.org has chosen.....

#11 - Dawn Easton!

I love the soft colors Dawn used for her card as well as all of her little details - the pearls, the butterflies and border punch - it's gorgeous!   Congrats Dawn!  Please stop by Dawn's blog, Treasure Oiler Designz and say hello, she's got lots and lots of gorgeous eye candy there for you!

See you back soon for the next challenge, or check out the early sneak peek on Facebook right now :)

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Karen

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 95

Good morning - It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! Here is the deal: make a card with this layout and use the InLinkz button down at the very end of this post to enter your card. The links will close on Friday at 10 PM (Mountain Time), and I'll randomly select one card to feature on my blog on Saturday. So, as long as your card is linked by 10 PM Friday, your card will be in the drawing. Be sure to link directly to the blog post or gallery image which features your card. You may post a picture of the sketch on your blog, but please save the image to your computer first. Use the keyword SSSC95 if you plan to post your card in an online gallery.

I'm breaking out the Verve today - yumm!  Miracles Blossom is one of my all time favorite Verve sets and I can't resist the tulips - my favorite flower.  The papers are again from Marjolaine by Basic Grey.

The Sweet Sunday Stampers have amazing sketch samples to show you today, so stop on by to see:

• Jennifer Tapler - she's on a little stay-cation with her family, but she'd love for you to visit!
• Joanne Basile
• Karen Motz
• Laura Fredrickson
• Lynn Put
• Sarah-Jane Kale'
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for taking on the challenge this week! 
Karen

recipe -

stamps: miracles blossom

paper: night of navy, certainly celery (stampin' up!), choice snow white (taylored expressions) cardstock, marjolaine (basic grey)

ink: old olive, night of navy (stampin' up!)

accessories: labels 4 nestabilities (spellbinders), ice blue rhinestones (kaisercraft)

Taylored Expressions Release Party

Hey, hey!  It's Friday and that means it's the Taylored Expressions release party!  All our new items are now for sale and you aren't going to want to miss anything - lot's of fun items for you and your crafty friends.

For my card today, I'm using the new set, Friendship Blooms along with the coordinating Friendship Blooms Dies.  This blossom set is packed full of different sized flowers and centers to keep your creative wheels turning and is available as a Friendship Blooms, Friendship Blooms Dies, & Leafy Branch Die bundle - convenient one stop shopping, yay!  I stamped the flowers in Warm Red and Yellow Ochre and added a Dark Brown center for the sunflower.  I couldn't resist the polka-dots!  The patterned papers are Basic Grey Marjolaine and I added a fun little olive satin bow using my Bow Easy.  The layout is The Sweet Stop's SSS84.

You can catch all that is new in the Taylored Expressions store today along with all the Crafty Petites, which are available in a bundle package for more than 10% off the original price!  There is more inspiration from the Baker's Dozen - hop on over to see:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Donna Baker
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• illustrator, Nancy McKinney
• and special guest baker, Mona Pendleton

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

recipe -

stamps: friendship blooms (taylored expressions)

paper: certainly celery (stampin' up!), choice snow white (taylored expressions) cardstock, marlolaine (basic grey)

ink: warm red, yellow ochre, dark brown, olive pastel fluid chalk (colorbox)

accessories: olive satin ribbon, savannah buttons, linen thread, circle nestabilities (spellbinders), friendship blooms dies

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek | Day 2

Hello and welcome back to more Taylored Expressions sneak peeks!  Today the Baker's Dozen is introducing 4 new Crafty Petites, which are exactly like the deeply etched rubber cling mount stamps you love, but in a more petite size - so cute!  Each petite set comes on its own 3.5" x 5" full color panel and have about 7-8 individual stamps and are a bargain value at only $7.95 each!  I love the witty sentiments that coordinate with each image and it's so easy to make cute little card sets.  Each of these cards are 4.25" square...

I made this card set using Taylor's TESC134 and papers from The Thrift Shop by October Afternoon.  This particular Crafty Petite is called Crafter's Anonymous and the sentiment inside says "There's a show for hoarders!", which I think is hysterical since I always hoard my crafty stuff, LOL!  I added some Yellow Pearls along with some ivory grosgrain ribbon.

Here's another take on Taylor's sketch using Knit Wit and I used TE's new Large, Medium, and Small Scallop Border Dies to create lots and lots of luscious layers.  The sentiment inside says "Sorry to be such a Knit Wit", hee! 

This stamp is from Kitschy Kitchen and is so, SO fun!  The oven is matched with a sentiment inside which says, "You warm my heart." - love it!

And my last card uses Sew Happy - I also used the new Scallops & Circles Impression Plate on the background paper and then rubbed a sanding block over it to create the worn edges.  Love that look! 

These new little Crafty Petites are brilliant for stocking stuffers or small little goodies for your friends this Holiday season, or you can hoard them for yourself too, lol!  Taylor has a video showing you more about these cute little Crafty Petites, so hop on over and see.

Stop by the TE store tomorrow morning when all of the new release will be available for purchase, yay!!

There is much, much more for you to see from the rest of the Baker's Dozen!  Stop by and see:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Donna Baker
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• and illustrator, Nancy McKinney

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek | Day 1

Hello!  I feel like it has been ages since I've last posted and I'm so thrilled to be able to show you a peek at a new Taylored Expressions set called Friendship Blooms!!  This beautiful set of 22 stamps is deeply etched on cling mount rubber and is full of gorgeous images and sentiments.  The set also has 2 coordinating Taylored Die sets - Friendship Blooms & Leafy Branch - which make cutting out those flowers a cinch! 

I used a fun little 6x6 paper pack from Basic Grey called Marjolaine and offset the blues and greens with a pop of Warm Red for the flowers, which were cut out using one of the Friendship Blooms Die flowers.  I added a few Ice Blue rhinestones and some olive stitched ribbon along the top.  The Leafy Branch die was used to cut out the branch image, which I stamped in Olive Pastel.  The layout is Mercy's MTSC102.

The Baker's Dozen have much more to show you this morning - hop on over and see...

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Donna Baker
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• and illustrator Nancy McKinney

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen