It's officially release day! ALL of the new Taylored Expressions products are now available in the Fresh Out of the Oven Department. Release week continues, but we're showing you all the great new stuff today! Don't you love that? Yay!
Today I'm showcasing TWO projects made with TWO new stamp sets! The first one is called Under the Sea, and it's from the Whimsical Wishes by Nancy McKinney line of TE stamps. Super adorable undersea creatures and punny sentiments. Nancy worked her magic on this fun set and I can hardly wait to see all the underwater scenes everyone comes up with. This set coordinates with the Life Saver Petite set and can also be combined with several other sets from this release. I combined it with a saying from the Moka Pearl set!
Here's my fun little underwater scene…
I used a clear acetate card base and then added my blue sea and waves. Then I stamped a bunch of my little sea creatures onto white paper, colored them with Copics, and cut them out…. The fun part was putting them all together!
I used only bright, vivid, fun colors!
Here's how I made my waves…by using the Scallop Border Die!
Here's a cute little pink seahorse swimming by, and don't those fish look exactly like goldfish crackers? I had to make them orange! The seahorse and the little yellow blowfish are mounted on top of the card. The rest of the pieces are attached to the blue ocean.
My second card for today features the Bon Voyage stamp set, from the Embracing Grace collection by Emily Burger. Nancy's stamp set went under the sea and now Emily has us sailing on the sea! I'm just loving all the ships and boats she's created and I know you will too! I used the adorable little sailboat and the anchor image. I made a CAS graphic card using two of my favorite colors….
I kept the lines really clean and crisp on this one. I tried at first mounting my images onto a white card base but it seemed too much. I think the kraft base grounds the rest of the color.
I made my own background paper by stamping the anchor image onto white cardstock using, what else, Nautical Blue ink! This is another one of the brand new Memento colors. It's the absolute perfect shade of navy. Ahoy!
Wouldn't you like to go sailing today? Let's go!
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Here's your list of links for this fun release day!
Courtney Kelley – Guest Designer
Jami Sibley – DT Coordinator
Nancy McKinney – Illustrator
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12 responses to “Taylored Expressions July Release Day!”
I wanted this set even before I saw your adorable card Wanda, but this baby sealed the deal for me. LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE this one!!!
Wonderful, Wanda! Especially love the clear card base!
AAACCCKKKKKK! I LOVE that clear card so much! I need to make one now too. It’s much fun and so well done! Your sailboat card is perfectly graphic and simple.
I just can’t get over that adorable clear one though!!!!!
Wow Wanda!! these are both Awesome! LOVE your clear card! What a Super idea and so Fun! I’m with Jami and now want to make one also! LOL 😎 And I love your Fun sailboat card too! Super stamped BG! Love it! 😎
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Shannon
Tis the sea-son for such a cute card! LOVE the clear front. I haven’t done a clear card is such a long time…need to change that!!! 🙂
SOOOOOOOO Cute!
Wanda, I love both of these cards! Tres clever with the acetate card, and yes, they do look like the goldfish crackers, which means I know a certain 2 1/2 year old who would love to receive one from her wonderful godmother! And I love the crispness of the nautical card – excellent job as usual!
I love the acetate card with the scallop ocean border. Now that I have the die cut, I can try it!
Your acetate card is ingenious…so well done and the scene makes me want to jump in and swim. Except I can’t swim, lol! I suppose I could bob around though. Love your nautical card, too! 🙂
I love these new stamps sets! I’ve always been partial to sea stamps (something about living in a desert I guess). Darn not being spontaneously rich! I can’t wait to visit blogroll and see what their is to see (to sea?)
SO very cute and fun!
You are a cardmaking genious!! Love the wave! Both cards, super cute!!