Mini Strips-Floral

Today at Taylored Expressions there are NEW COLORS! And I don’t know about you, but I am always excited for NEW COLORS! It’s always so fun to combine with the old colors and get to know them more and more each project!

The new colors are:

Cinnamon
Huckleberry
Jalapeño
Sour Gummy

These come in all the things! Ink, cardstock, refills and envelopes and they are oh so good! Now, combining them with the existing colors puts everything into a new colorful stratosphere. SO FUN!

For this card, I used all the new colors: Cinnamon, Huckleberry, Jalapeño and Sour Gummy. I also used Rose Water and Dijon. I have to admit, I can’t say I’ve ever reached for a combo like this before, but I love the combo and the feel for fall!

Sour Gummy might be my new favorite color! It transcends both the blue and green categories into its own! 🙂 (My Jalapeño here photographed a bit lighter than I think it looks in person, but it was a rainy day if I recall–which makes all the photos a challenge!)

For the background here, I foiled the Foil It – Fineline Leaves with Champagne foil, which was the perfect compliment to this combo. The sentiment is from Foil It – All Together Occasions and of course, I used the All Together Occasions Coordinating Die to die cut that out.

I haven’t gotten to use the Snow Globe Builder Dies yet, so I did that with the Arched Stacklets to create a shaker card. Inside are all the fall leaves cut with the Garden Variety-Fall. This turned out delightful to me! (The shaker bits are Snow Flurries and the Bits & Pieces Rose Gold Stars (not in my supply list, but still available as of this morning 😉). I may have been overzealous and put too many leaves in because they don’t shake about too much, but they sure are pretty!

Next up, I focused on inks using masks of the Garden Variety-Fall leaves I cut from Post-It tape.

I used the Masking Stencils – Squares along with the masks I created and just masked the leaves off before blending inks all around them. I had this in my head after blending ink on the leaves for my snow globe and seeing the mat underneath with all the leaves “imprinted”. Reminded me of how you put the leaves in the sun on that special paper to leave in imprint. So hence, this card. 🙂

I came back with some score lines to create the frame and added a bunch of splatters and some stitching. The sentiment is from the Mini Strips – Floral stamp and voila, done! 😊😊

And last, but not least, I have been wanting to use the Buds & Blossoms Stamp and Stencil Combo for a long while, so I busted that out here:

The background is stamped in Cinnamon and the buds are blended in Huckleberry. The colors are pretty stuttle looking in this photo, but in person, I think they popped a bit more. The leaves are Mint Julep and Jalapeno, while the buds are Raspberry Sorbet/Pink Champagne and Sweet Potato Pie/Peaches ‘n’ Cream.

The Thanks and sentiment is from the Big Thanks set (and Coordinating die). Of course, I used the Frame in Frame 2 Cutting Plate to frame it all out with the Diagonal Stitch Rectangle Stacklets for a subtle little framing detail too.

Oh and don’t forget to fill up on the Inkspiration cards again! Those are so fun and I love to cut the cardstock swatches to put on those. So tidy!

I can’t wait to keep working these new colors into things with all the existing colors–truly some great compliments to the TE collection!

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

While supplies last, we’ve got a Full Set Syndrome I Want it All – Part 2 Bundle for $87 that includes all four new colors (Jalapeño, Sour Gummy, Huckleberry, and Cinnamon) of full sized ink pads, mini ink cubes, ink refills, and full cardstock packs. It’s a great way to add all 4 of the colors to your own collection! Offer valid while supplies last.

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

Garden Variety-Leaves Snow Globe card:

Masked Garden Variety-Leaves card:

Buds & Blossoms card:

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

Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

Take care-

Jill

Follow me on Instagram: jilldhawkins 🙂

One of my favorite releases at Taylored Expressionsis always the Second Chance release. Not only because I always love the freebies (and who doesn’t like a gift?), but because there are always little additions added when they officially release into the TE Catalog of goodness.

So let’s give these a Second Chance–in case you missed them in round one!

First up, we have the Berry Sweet–I could not love this Berry Basket more! I am looking at everything now and wondering if I can put it in this Berry Basket? 🙂

Of course, these scream summer to me, and berries and gingham go hand in hand for summer, so naturally, I used the Gingham Checked Background, cut out with the Stitched Frame Stacklets 3. I created an ombre Gingham starting with Gumball at the top and Blueberry at the bottom.

I thought it would be fun to make the leaves in two different greens and stitch those up. I actually die cut a ridiculous amount of leaves and have those all ready to go for more cards (hopefully) soon! 🙂 The background is created with the Stitched with Love Cutting Plate and I added some Stickles to wrap this one up sweetly!

Next up, let’s checked out the Sketched Hearts! I think this one was from around the time of the Valentine’s release? Or was it in February? Hmmmmm either way, it’s a fun one! I thought I’d mix it up and use the hearts to create a flower–and goodness–I didn’t know it would work out so well. These are the perfect hearts for such! 🙂

I used Blue Raspberry to die cut the hearts, which I was happy about because apparently I don’t use too much Blue Raspberry. Who knew? I used an Easy Strip (1/8″) to create the stem out of Granny Smith.

I used the Rounded Rectangle Stacklets and the Ridged Rounded Rectangle Stacklets to create the border on Cupcake cardstock and the Cloudy Skies Piercing Plate for the background. The sentiment is from the Mini Strips – Floral stamp set. Such a sweet and simple card.

Lastly for today, I created this simple little Thank You using the Beautiful Butterflies Die and the Foil It – Beautiful Butterflies.

I didn’t add the Butterfly torso on here–instead it lays on my desk still 😂. But I recommend doing that. The sentiments are from the New Mini Strips – Fluttering By and of course the Mini Strips dies to cut those out of Dragon Fruit cardstock. (Have I mentioned how much I love Dragon Fruit?😍)

The circle placemat is create with the Petite Scallop Circle Stacklets and the Embossing Folder Dotted Diamonds. Simply delightful!

These could be created in batches for sure! 🙂

And I thought I’d add in the projects I made before, using some of these Second Chance products releasing today. Note: There are lots of fun additions now–including dies to cut some of these goodies out! LOVE that! You can find all these goodies in the Second Chance release today.

Here’s the scoop from Taylored Expressions:

Right now through Sunday, July 23rd, when you purchase 5 or more items from the Second Chance category in the TE webstore, you’ll get 15% off! It’s the perfect way to collect all of the sets you missed out on + the new coordinating products and save at the same time! Discount applies only to items in the Second Chance category. Offer valid while supplies last.

Also, all of our Rainbow Royalty and Super Fans will earn DOUBLE CRAFTY POINTS on your purchases now through July 20th! CLICK HERE to learn more about our Crafty Points Loyalty Program and how you can achieve Rainbow Royalty and Super Fan status!

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

Strawberry card: