Taylored Expressions-April Card Kit–Alpha FUN!

Well, I just had to stop and think what month we were in to write the title of this post! Haaaa! Here we are, end of APRIL already!! Which means a new Cardmaking Kit over at Taylored Expressions!!

I know I absolutely say this often, but I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t mean it–this is a GOOD ONE! 😊😊 This is called the Alpha Bits Kit and it is awesome! I love the font TE chose to use for this and I love the size of the letters! I have alpha bit soup still on my desk 🙂

This first card uses lots of goodies in the kit:

Tall Tales Alpha die
Drop Shadow Stencils
Bold Border Background Blocks

I did some masking here to create this one–both for the background stamping and the drop shadow of the stencil. I think it turned out fun! And it was super easy. I used Oyster and Earl Grey and then altered them stamp to stencil.

Of course, the linear edges scream to be stitched, so I listened and did just that. I have PLENTY of letters to make some more of these, so I’m looking forward to that! 🙂

Next up, I had to laugh because I say this all the time.. It’s like a double positive with a negative in there–and then with yes, on the side. 😂 I wasn’t sure if it was a Midwest thing or just a me thing, but Jen Shultz has confirmed that she too says something like this. 🙂 I love being able to personalize cards with fun sentiments!

These letters are cut from Tropical Punch and then stamped with Tropical Punch ink using the Bold Border Background Blocks. One of my other favorite things about this week’s release is the Wavy Stitch Stacklets! And that we can use them alllllllllllllllllll the time now! Eeeeeep!

I couldn’t resist adding in the Simple Strip is from the Simple Strip-Snarky set. Oh my goodness–I still laugh at this one! I hope you get a kick out of it too 🙂

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

The Alpha Bits Kit is $67 packaged in a zippered pouch with a custom sticker. The kit includes:

Tall Tales Alpha die
Drop Shadow Stencils
Bold Border Background Blocks
The Insiders – Alpha Bits
True Colors Inspiration Cards (Set of 4)

Most kit items are not available to purchase individually.

Additional products available to purchase outside of the kit: The Insiders – Alpha Bits, Alpha Bits Envelope Seals, Wavy Stitch Stacklets, and Foil It – Drop Shadow Sentiments.

Limited quantity available.

Thanks card:

Yea No Sure card

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of Alphabetic inspiration from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-New Colors!!

Today is the NEW COLOR release over at Taylored Expressions!! I don’t know about you, but I always love new colors and this release is no exception! 🙂 Don’t even ask me to pick a favorite, because I have found them all useful in some combo and I can’t wait to use them all the time now!

The four new colors are:

Brussels Sprout
Green Tea
Blue Cheese
Oat Milk

I used them all here with the Spring Fling Layered Stencil, Garden Variety 2, Rustic Watering Can and the A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets.

This turned out sooo lovely and pretty! The sentiment is from On Occasion. I added a few extra colors to give the stencil blending some more pop, so I needed a bigger TE True Colors Inkspiration Card! 🙂

This seems like a very cheerful card to pop into the mail for someone! 🙂

Next up, I couldn’t resist the 60’s/70’s color kitchen vibes! I couldn’t decided with scheme to go with, so I might have gone a little overboard adding all the colors, but hey, it’s creating 🙂

So therefore, I used all the new colors Brussels Sprout. Green Tea, Blue Cheese, and Oat Milk and a splattering of “old” colors: Sweet Potato and Dijon!

I had to use the toast, so then I had to put googley eyes on him! ha!! 🙂 If you give a Mouse a Cookie…

While this one is a bit busy, I still think it turned out pretty retro and fun! 🙂 The What’s Cookin’ set makes me what to get out all the vintage Pyrex and Corningware for sure! 🙂

Ok–Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions for today’s color release:

Now for a limited time, we’ve got a Full Set Syndrome Bundle for $106 that includes: 60 sheets of cardstock (15 of each color), 40 A2 envelopes (10 of each color), 4 full size ink pads, 4 mini ink pads, 4 ink refills, True Colors – Shades of Spring stamp set, and True Colors – Shades of Spring labels. It’s a great way to add all 4 colors to your collection and keep them organized! Offer valid while supplies last.

Flower card:

Kitchen card:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of color inspiration from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-For Her Release

Today is the For Her release over at Taylored Expressions!! This a great release for all things flowers, care and evryday greetings! And while it is focused on the women in our lives, there is plenty of love for a plethora of occasions!

First up, this one is perfect for Mother’s Day! This is the new Folk Mom along with the previously released Roll With It Flower 1 and the Roll With It Flower 3 die. I used Dark Berry and Peacock felt to create these flowers. The leaves are Split Pea.

Making these felt flowers with TE Felt is so fun! I keep saying I am going to make a big pile of them! 🙂 The background here was created with the Petite Scallop Rectangle Stacklets and the Sketched Hearts 3D Embossing Folder.

Next up, the new You Are Additions and You Are Additions Die with a bunch of different words to combine with the start of “You Are..”. For this, I thought it would be fun to make a card to tell someone they are awesome! Male or female, right?
The background is created with the Cloudy Skies Piercing Plate. The clouds were created with the Stitched Easy Strips (Easy Strips – 1/4″ Stitched and 1/8″) and the Cloud Stacklets. And of course, the Gus & Gertie Ride On with the Gus & Gertie Ride On Dies!

So cute!

And I used the “One of a Kind” with the Cute Carton Rainbow.

Ok–Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions for today’s new release:

Special for this week’s release – win a summer trip to the studio! We’ll be selecting 5 lucky winners to receive a studio visit package! Winners will get a free night hotel stay, local restaurant gift certificates, a goodie bag, studio gift card, and a private tour of the TE headquarters! To be entered to win, follow these 2 steps:

Purchase any item from the For Her category
Complete Google Form: Click Here

That’s it!

We’ll be selecting the winners on Tuesday, the 16th on or after 9 am central time! Don’t miss out on your shot at winning trip to our studio – click below to shop For Her!

Folk Mom card:

Gus & Gertie card:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of classic inspiration from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-Bring on the FOIL!

It’s a shiny happy release over at Taylored Expressions today!! It’s all about FOIL! That means shiny, sparkly fun!! There are a boatload (no pun intended from my first card) of new Foil It Panels and there is a plethora of new Fun Foils from Taylored Expressions too! ALLLLLL the colors!

First up, this one uses the new Foil It – Catchin’ Waves and Foil It – Sentiment Strips with the new Cookie Monster Fun Foil! And of course, always some of my favorites (and yours?) Gus & Gertie Ride On with the Gus & Gertie Ride On Dies!

First you always want to foil your panel to be sure you get even coverage with no interruptions from ink, etc. Then you can blend inks over, no problem at all! The foil does not come off–just in case you’re new to foiling and didn’t know 😉. (Because my instinct is to not even touch the foil after, but believe you me, it doesn’t move!).

I love how this one turned out with the sweet dusk of a sky using the Set the Scene – Clouds Stencil Strips with Peaches n Cream, a few different yellows and dash of Bubblegum! They look so happy floating along! Oh and the sentiment is also new from the Foil It – Sentiment Strips foiled in the new Champagne Fun Foil.

Next up, I used the new Foil It – Inked Botanicals along with the Accented Artistic Branch and Artistic Branch Coordinating Die in Jalapeno.

This panel is foiled with the new Dragon Fruit Fun Foil which is bright and bold! I cut the Accented Artistic Branch from Jalapeno cardstock and blended a little ink over top before spattering it too!

The sentiment is again from the new Foil It – Sentiment Strips foiled in the new Champagne Fun Foil. I tried to mix it up a bit, but turns out these work for everything! 🙂

This card is a little busier than what I’d typically create–maybe? But I think it’s growing on me 🙂

Before I forget, there is also a new gift with qualifying purchases over at Taylored Expressions! It’s called Simple Stems–I had to make three to show all the flowers in action!

Ok–Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions for today’s new release:

Taylor’s Favorite Rainbow Bundle is sure to bring all of the color and shine to your projects! This special bundle retails for $105 and includes our TE Fun Foil in Cherry Pop, Dragon Fruit, Candy Corn, Lemon Meringue, Lime Zest, Cookie Monster, and Jelly Donut.

Get the foiling essentials all together in our Metallic Basics Fun Foil Bundle! This TE Fun Foil bundle retails for $75 and includes Champagne, Gold, Silver, Black, and Rose Gold.

And, of course, we didn’t forget about our Foil It panels! Right now through 9AM Central on Tuesday, April 9th, the more you buy, the more you save with ANY of our Foil It packs! When you purchase 5 – 9 Foil It packs you will get 10% off and when you purchase 10 or more Foil It packs you will get 20% off! Stock up on all of the new designs and your favorites! Offer valid while supply last.

Waves card:

Inked Botanicals card:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of FOILtastic inspiration from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-Scattered Blooms!

I can’t even believe it, but it is the end of March and that means a new Cardmaking Kit over at Taylored Expressions!! The ease of this Scattered Blooms Kit and the lovely flowers one can create so easily is going to make you go all 😍😍! It did me! 🙂

First up –I just love how these colors came together on the Scattered Blooms stencil layers and how it turned out! 🙂 When you have a new set, you’re never quite sure what you’re creating til it all comes together. And I never chuck anything (I don’t have time for that silliness 😂), so I’m always hopeful. This is was a delightful result!

First I foiled the Scattered Blooms Foil it with Dark Blue Foil and then I blended all the colorful layers on.

And the Big Hugs die is awesome–don’t forget to snag the Big Hugs Backer, if you’re interested. I can all but guarantee you’re going to want that. But I do love it is not included in the kit, because things like that surely keep the price down for us–and then you personally have the choice to order or not. 🙂

The Simple Strip is from the Simple Strip-Friendship set. I wish I had blended a few more of these when I made this one! Always the way. 🙂

Next up, I went with the pinks and purple-ish colorway and I must say, I was not disappointed! For this, I used a Pink Foil and then blended and die cut the flowers. I absolutely love how the Scattered Blooms Die not only is easy to align and cut these out, but how it makes this letter press like impression etch on the flowers! The details!! 😍

I thought this would make a pretty Mother’s Day Card, so I used the Get the Word Out-Mother’s Day stamp and die.

The background was created with the Masking Stencil-Square and Sour Gummy ink with a VERY light hand!

I love how this one turned out too! I’m hoping to make a few more cards with this kit this week! 🙂

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

The Scattered Blooms kit is $67 packaged in a zippered pouch with a custom sticker. The kit includes:

Scattered Blooms Layering Stencil
Scattered Blooms Cutting Plate
Big Hugs Die
The Insiders – Scattered Blooms
True Colors Inspiration Cards (Set of 4)

Kit items are not available to purchase individually.

Additional products available to purchase outside of the kit: Scattered Blooms Envelope Seals, Big Hugs Backer, Foil It – Scattered Blooms, and The Insiders – Scattered Blooms.

**Don’t delay if you’re interested in this kit!!

Hugs card:

Happy Mother’s Day card:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of beautifully “scattered” inspiration to inspire from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-Let’s Rainbow!

Hooray for a New Release over at Taylored Expressions… it’s all Sunshine and Rainbows!! I am very excited about this release–I love the Sunshine Kit and now you can get some of those items a la carte! Big fan!

These are the Foil It – ROYGBIV with the Create-in-Quads – ROYGBIV! Soooooo fun! I could make these all day! 🙂

Rainbowtastic!

This one uses the Return of the Floaties cutie!

And this one uses the Duck Duck Goose little critter!

For both of these I used the TE Fun Foil Glitter Shimmer! Love that one!

Next up, I really wanted to straight up Googley eye this sun–that is my favorite from the previous kit release–so cute and fun to get in the mail. However, I thought I’d mix it up and go with this little sun!

This sentiment, face and then the die is all from the Here Comes the Sun–stamps, dies and foil it!

Oh soooo cute! I did have to still add googley eyes–looks like my sunshine got sunburned tho? ha!

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

The Rainbow Enamel Dots Bundle is $45 and includes:

This special bundle is only is only available while supplies last!

First 750 orders of $75+ receive the Sticker to It – Rainbow Bright for free!

All these products are available now over at Taylored Expressions. See my links below 🙂

ROYGBIV cards:

Sunshine card:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of colorful examples to inspire from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-2025 Calendars!

It’s TUESDAY and that means it’s a New Release over at Taylored Expressions… Hooray for Calendars! I love to give these as gifts every year! Did we just start 2024? Yes we kind of did, but it’s always great to get a jump on making a stack of 2025 calendars to give! 🙂

First Up is Square Calendar Cards – Gus & Gertie with the 2025 Square Tear-Off Calendars (set of 10). Love these cuties!

They are always so cute! I used two background stamps to go along with these cuties… Fineline Leaf Background and Twinkle Twinkle Background.

Next up, are these elegant calendars I made with stamping and all heat embossing in different fancy embossing powders! These are the Arch Nouveau stamps along with the coordinating Arch Nouveau Dies and the new super fancy 2025 Arched Desk Calendar!!

So cool–these are a fun new addition to the TE calendar selections! Be sure to check everything out, because there are lots of choices and sure to be something fun for everyone! 🙂

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

2025 Mini & Square Tear Off Calendars
2025 Landscape Desk Calendar
2025 5×7 Calendar
2025 Arched Desk Calendar
4 NEW pre-printed calendar cards
Cats & Dogs pre-printed calendar cards (originally offered in the Advent Calendar)
NEW I’m A Hugger dies: Lamb Die & Clear Combo & Unicorn Die & Clear Combo
Arch Nouveau Bundle

All these products are available now over at Taylored Expressions. See my links below 🙂

Gus & Gertie calendars:

Arch Nouveau calendars:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of calendar inspiration to create from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-Easter Release!

Happy Tuesday! It feels like Monday around here (ouch!)–however, it is TUESDAY and that means it’s a New Release over at Taylored Expressions… The Easter Release!

First up, we have these cute little Carrot Treat Boxes! They are sooooo easy to make and oh so adorable! You can easily fit in candies, cash or little gifts! I kept mine really simple as they are fun to make in bulk and adorable just the way they are in fun colors. I modeled mine off my son’s favorite bag of carrots we buy when we see them. 🙂

Next up, we have the Folk Eggs and the Easter Egg Cups! I thought I’d take a swing at using different darker colors for Easter. I love the pop it gives the eggs!

For the Folk Eggs, I blended on Blueberry, Mango, Kiwi, and Bubblegum.

Here is the TE Exclusive – Flower Fields Stamp & Stencil Combo (which is an exclusive gift with qualifying purchases for a limited time or while supplies last. PSA: Don’t delay if you plan to qualify & receive this (this week only!)

I can’t stop with the Sour Gummy –I have to hide this ink pad from myself because I use it on everything lately! Love it! Love how this made the background pop!

So pretty! This is a great stamp and stencil combo!

Lastly, I just wanted to share these cute Hedgehugs Cards which are the Exclusive gift with qualifying purchases in February* over at TE. The To the Point sentiment set is also an exclusive gift for the next level up. Always a good month to stock up, right?!

(*Note: Until supplies run out, the Floral Fields Gift will be going for a very limited time and then the Hedgehugs will be back!) Current info is available via TE–so check there for the latest. But I didn’t want to forget to share them this month!

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

The Folk Eggs Bundle retails for $112 and includes:

Folk Eggs Stamp & Stencil Combo set
Folk Eggs die
Easter Egg Cups die
Hello Spring rubber stamp
Hello Spring die
Foil It – Hello Spring

All these products are available now over at Taylored Expressions. See my links below 🙂

Floral Fields card (exclusive gift set!):

Easter Eggs card:

Carrot Treat Boxes:

Find the TE Blog Post HERE with lots of Easter inspiration to create from the TE Creative Team! 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

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Taylored Expressions-Second Chance Release!

Happy Tuesday! It’s an exciting one as this release is always a fave of mine–It’s the Second Chance release over at Taylored Expressions! In case you missed things when they were offered as exclusive gifts and wanted one, this is for you! I also enjoy it because there are always new things to go along with the previous things–making everything even better–when it was great to begin with!

First up, let’s enjoy the Big Cheers Cling & Clear Combo! I am a huge fan of large words–stamps and dies and now… there is a die for this one- Big Cheers Die–Which makes it even better! This also features the new Signature Cocktails Stamp & Stencil Combo which was super fun to use–I love how these colors turned out!

I actually die cut the word Cheers out because I thought I’d use it just raised up, but it didn’t look as great as the stamped ombre word, so I went with that and added some stitching, of course. You could also easily add Simple Strip to bring this for celebrating a specific accomplishment or occasion.

I love layers of stencils to add all the little details and using the TE Detail Blender Brushes make this WAY easy to do now!

Next up, we have the Giftables Cute Carton! Along with that, I also used the new Take Two – Pretty Polka Stencil which makes quick work of covering the carton pieces with a stencil!

I used the rainbow die that is included with the Giftables Cute Carton to make a window and then I added Mini M&M’s behind it! Oh so cute! The cute little tag is made with the now for purchase Little Bits – Rainbow Coin and the newly released Coin Companions! The Coin dies are so fun and I can’t wait to use them more now! Too cute!

And lastly here is the new Woodland Ferns die–along with the new Mini-Strips-Sympathy. These actually pair swimmingly together. I die cut the Woodland Ferns and then blended some inks on before putting them on the embossed panel.