VIDEO | Taylored Expressions | 2023 Easter Release

Hello, crafty friends! Even though we have a lot of snow on the ground, the sun is shining and I can feel that spring is coming. The new Easter Release from Taylored Expressions makes the prettiest cards and I have a video showing you just how easy it is!

This post features the Serene Scene Promo Bundle and I apologize for the photo-heavy post but I just can't help it! I love all the layers and dimension in these dies, and they're so easy to use which makes mass-producing a piece of cake.

I made three cards to show you how the same dies can be used in different ways. You really can't go wrong. All of the cards use the Serene Scene Cutting Plate as the frame. My colour palette for these projects include Rose Water, Raspberry Sorbet, Spearmint, Salt Water Taffy, Toffee, Sea Salt and, of course, Sugar Cube.

This first card also features the Serene Scene - Easter Edition dies, which includes the flowers, bunnies and eggs. I used the coordinating ink colours and blender brushes to add depth to the die cuts. I added some grass details using the Set the Scene - Grass Stencil Strips.

The frame was cut from the Frame in Frame 3 Cutting Plate and the tiny hearts were cut from silver glitter cardstock with the Little Bits - Wonky Hearts. All of the sentiments are from the Easter Egg-stras Stamp Set and I love the big, gorgeous flourish-y fonts!

If I had to choose a favourite from this set, it would have to be this second card. The Serene Scene Cutting Plate cut from Raspberry Sorbet makes a statement, especially with the elegant white heat embossed sentiment.

The inside hills and clouds feature the Serene Scene - Landscapes and the church is from Serene Scene - Easter Edition. I stacked the church three layers high and added silver glitter cardstock behind the window and door.

The base panel was texturized with the Diamonds Piercing Plate which adds the perfect amount of texture needed and gives this card its wow factor.

This last card features a flat, mailable shaker with majestic glitter sandwiched between two layers of acetate taped together. If I were to change one thing, it would be to place a white panel behind the shaker because it's on a Sea Salt card base and that makes it quite stormy looking.

This card features dies from both the Serene Scene - Landscapes and Serene Scene - Easter Edition but in a very different combination from the other two cards. As you can see, simply switching up the colour of the Serene Scene Cutting Plate makes a big difference in the overall look of the card.

One thing that stands out the most on this card is the sentiment and I'm tempted to start writing my Ss like this because it's so pretty!

There's an amazing Serene Scene Promo Bundle and gift with purchase, only available from March 7-9th so I encourage you to take advantage of this fabulous offer while you can!

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Taylored Expressions | One Design, Two Occasions - from Chinese New Year to Easter

Hello, crafty friends! I have a fun post for you today to celebrate Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year). The Year of the Rabbit begins today and while these cards are non-traditional, swapping out the sentiments makes them work for other occasions like Easter and even to welcome a new baby!

The Taylored Expressions Hop to It Background Cling & Clear Combo is new-to-me and I was excited to use it for Chinese/Lunar New Year because it's the Year of the Rabbit! I usually stick to more traditional colours for CNY but this time I went for non-traditional colours that would also work for Easter.

The colours I used on these cards are Rose Water, Guava, Pineapple, Mint Julep and Confetti Cake, both in ink format and coloured cardstock. I stamped the background with Oreo ink and used the clear stamps to add cheeks and ear colours. Then I used the coordinating Hop to It Die to cut out all the bunnies.

Next, I cut all of the mini slim card bases from white linen cardstock and used the Mini Slim Square Window Cutting Plate to create panels from white linen, Guava and Confetti Cake cardstock. 

Next, I cut the coordinating Square Window Frames from gold glitter cardstock. I used the same die to cut inserts for the frames from Guava, Pineapple, Mint Julep and Confetti Cake cardstock.

I used a tape runner and liquid glue to adhere the panels, inserts and frames. Then I popped the bunnies on to the cards with foam tape and set them aside to heat emboss the sentiments.

I chose sentiments from Mini Strips - Holiday, also new-to-me, and Mini Strips - Easter. As I've mentioned before, I love New Year stamps and they're hard to come by so I needed this one, except that it reads "and a Happy New Year". 

The way I paired up these sentiment strips, I didn't need the "and a" on that particular strip since it was redundant. I masked off that part before heat embossing these - gold embossing powder on Sugar Cube cardstock and white embossing powder on Black Licorice cardstock.

After die cutting all the sentiments with the Mini Strips - Flags Die, and storing the unused strips in a Simple Storage for Simple Strips container, I popped them up with foam strips.

Let me know if you have these products and if you plan to give this idea a try. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Pigment Craft | Happy Easter Hugs

Happy Easter! Hooray for a long weekend filled with family gatherings, good meals and chocolate! I couldn't resist using some of the extra eggs and hearts lying in my stash to create this Easter card. You can see other inspiration using these products HERE and HERE. 

This time, I wanted to use the Happy Easter stamp set and coordinating Happy Easter Dies for the big sentiment. I love the way the Happy word has so many layering options. 

You know I'm a huge fan of mixed font sentiments so the scripted Easter word makes me so happy. I stamped these in Balsam, Turmeric and Tajine. I layered gold glitter cardstock behind the Happy letters and Easter word die. I stamped the tiny Hugs word directly on the Dashed Diamonds Cover Plate.

The previously stamped eggs from the Eggcellent stamp set were stamped with Aloe, Blush, Turmeric, Tajine and Fir. The previously stamped hearts from the Printed Hearts stamp set were stamped in Blush, Tajine and Fir.

I glued the Dashed Diamonds Cover Plate panel directly on the white linen card base. Then I added foam tape to the backs of all the elements, except the Tajine heart, which was attached with glue dots.

I placed the eggs first, then arranged the two large sentiments before stamping the Hugs word directly on to the die cut panel. The last step was to add the hearts.

I hope you enjoy your long weekend. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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VIDEO | Taylored Expressions | Easter Tags feat. Spring Squad Die & Clear Combo

Hello, crafty friends! I hope you're all well. We're heading into a four-day weekend here and I'm looking forward to chilling out and getting a lot of crafty deadlines met. If you loved the Snow Squad Die & Clear Stamp Combo, you're sure to love the new Spring Squad Die & Clear Stamp Combo from the Easter Release by Taylored Expressions.

I love these adorable springtime animals and look forward to mixing and matching them with the previously-released bear, penguin and snowman, even if they might not normally hang out in real life. LOL

I wanted to create tags that open up for a message so I die cut two each of the largest Pierced Tag Stacklets 2 Dies from Mint Julep, Sprinkles and Guava cardstock. I partially die cut the top tag to make it shorter in a design that would allow the sentiment to show at the bottom.

I die cut the Tag Reinforcements from the same three colours and rotated them so that all three colours would be represented on each tag.

Using Cherry Pop, Guava, Peaches 'n Cream, Pineapple, Potato Chip, Sugar Cube and Sea Salt cardstock, I die cut all the parts for each of the animals and used corresponding Peaches 'n Cream, Pineapple and Sea Salt ink and Bitty Blender Brushes to add depth and dimension to some of the larger pieces.

Before popping up the animals with foam tape, I die cut the Build a Scene - Rolling Hills from silver glitter cardstock. Then I heat embossed the Mini Strips - Easter sentiments on Poppy Seed cardstock and die cut them with the Mini Strips - Asymmetrical Die.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Easter Release and take advantage of the class with purchase and other freebies!

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Spellbinders March 2021 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop + Giveaways

I'm thrilled to be part of the Spellbinders March 2021 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop! You should've arrived from Virginia Lu's blog and I have the full list of participants below. There are also details on the generous giveaway so be sure to read 'til the end. For this hop, I've used the Large Die of the Month which is quite possibly the most creative and outstanding one of its kind yet!

With 23 dies cutting a total of 31 individual pieces, the March 2021 Large Die of the Month is a fully-emcompassed interactive set but you can use easily them without the interactive pieces to create the most beautiful scenes. I've already featured the cloud and grass dies on my Clear Stamp of the Month card HERE.

Lately, my son keeps talking about sheep, probably because we've been playing a lot of Catan and it's fun to collect sheep so I decided to make him a card featuring a lamb trio. The Large Die of the Month includes elements to make bunnies, chicks and sheep, which is a lot of fun!

Much like my first inspiration card using this month's kits, I used cardstock from Concord & 9th and you can find all those colours listed in the supply links below. I just love the mixability of their colour collection. While spring is usually brighter and lighter colours, I love the vibrancy and richness of this combination.

As I've said before, it's rare that I don't stamp on a card but this kit made it easy to create a combination of sentiments with their three scripted word dies. You can also mix and match these word dies with both the die cut sentiments and stamped sentiments from the other March 2021 kits, just like I did HERE. If you missed any of my posts for the March Club Kits, I've included them at the end of the supply links below.

HOP ALONG!

Spellbinders Blog
Tina Smith
Becca Feeken
Becky Roberts
Carrie Rhoades
Bibi Cameron
Sandra Nagel
Sandi MacIver
Jill Hilliard
Marie Heiderscheit
Jennifer Snyder
Kathy Clement
Jean Manis
Annie Williams
Yasmin Diaz
Betty Wright
Jenny Colacicco
Hussena Calcuttawala
Virginia Lu
You are -->  Emily Leiphart  <-- HERE!
Joy Baldwin
Ilina Crouse
Desiree Kuemmerle
Ilda Dias
Henriëtte van Mierlo
Zsoka Marko

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate this release, we are giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – selected from the comments on our blog. Giveaway closes on Sunday, March 14th, 11:59 pm MST. The winner will be announced in this blog hop post the following Tuesday. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

Please note, store credit (gift certificate) cannot be applied to Club Subscriptions. Store credit can be applied to shop past Club products, Club extras and regular releases.

Your next stop is Joy Baldwin and, if you wish, please head to the Spellbinders Blog to begin the hop. Thanks so much for hopping along with us!

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Spellbinders | March 2021 Small Die of the Month

Hello, friends! I'm back with some inspiration for the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month and this month's membership is packed with 13 dies that cut a total of 22 individual pieces. I'm in love with all of the details in these dies which make both rectangular cards and square cards, depending on which pieces you select. The Spellbinders Platinum 6 die cutting machine cuts them beautifully and the awesome tool 'n one removes all the detailed pieces so easily.

I started by using the largest die, cutting two pieces from Midnight cardstock, two pieces from Dove cardstock, two pieces from Aqua Sky cardstock, and six pieces from white cardstock for layering. I cut off the circles and hoops from each piece and adhered the white and coloured pieces together using liquid glue, slightly offsetting the two layers so you can see a bit of the bottom layer.

I trimmed a piece of Stardust cardstock to 4" x 5.25" and attached the layered die cuts in a diamond pattern, trimming off the overhanging sections. I used micro glue dots to attach die cut flowers from Ballet Slipper cardstock so they'd have a bit more dimension than liquid glue.

The Spellbinders Small Die of the Month comes with its own die cut sentiment but I wanted something smaller and more simple so I opted for a simple sentiment from the Clear Stamp of the Month, stamped in Midnight Ink. The original sentiment is on a single line so I masked it to stamp it on two lines in the centre of the card.

To finish, I added iridescent bubbles to the Ballet Slipper flowers and adhered the 4" x 5.25" panel to a white linen A2 card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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