Taylored Expressions – Merry Blooms Card Kit Launch!

Hey howdy hi hello greetings! Oh, and Merry Christmas! What?! I'm here today to introduce the newest card kit from Taylored Expressions and it's called Merry Blooms! It's Christmas in July! It's a GORGEOUS stamp and stencil combo that makes a poinsettia border….then beautiful sentiments and die cuts, and envelopes, and pearls, and much more! So officially we have the first Christmas card of 2021! The kit is available now for shopping and shipping! The Cherry Kit from last month is also still available (I'm shocked that one didn't sell out)…. CLICK HERE to head over to the TE Store! 

How was your weekend? I have a story for you! We were having an awesome weekend…. Friday night we went to see some live music and went out for coffee and had a great evening. Saturday we got up early and went to the awesome Farmers Market and listened to more music and bought goodies (and more coffee of course)…Then we did errands and shopping. We tried a new pizza place for lunch – cute casual place. We parked on the street right in front of the big window at the restaurant and were enjoying our meal… Well, we heard this HUMONGOUS CRASH and saw something flying. I knew it was a car accident. I leapt up from my seat to go see how I could help. Well, guess what? It was MY CAR! A big Pepsi Delivery truck smashed into my parked car and the entire front end flew off. Like the entire bumper laying in the street, and bits and pieces everywhere!!!!!! My poor car! I yelled many obscenities. Then switched over to gratitude. If I had been entering or exiting the driver's side I would surely have been killed. That's how hard he hit the car. The driver was rude, but he stopped and gave me his information. So this week I 'get' to experience insurance claim land…. (For those that don't know, I worked in the insurance industry for almost 30 years) Needless to say we had to stop all the fun-ness and head on home. I hope your weekend was not nearly as exciting as mine!!!

Okay, enough with the stories, let's take a look at my card made with the new Merry Blooms Card Kit! You guys know I love a vintage vibe at Christmas so I went rustic and vintage with my card. I was kind of pressed for time and I wish I could have made more cards!! My finished card is an A2 horizontal card base made from woodgrain paper. The top layer is cream cardstock. I used Distress Ink pads for my stamping and stenciling. (All the supplies are listed at the bottom of this post)

 

This is a one layer card, so I popped up the top layer with foam tape for some interest and dimension. Here's a close up of the beautiful stencil design. The lines in the flowers and leaves and the flower centers were added with the matching stamps after I stenciled the design. It's soooo pretty.

 

The matching dies for the sentiments are an add-on to the kit and I really recommend getting those! I love how crisp it looks when the sentiment is popped up off the card. The sentiment set has several large sentiments and then matching small sentiments. Love that look. My sentiment is heat embossed with gold embossing powder onto cream cardstock.

 

The pretty sentiments and the included gems!

 

I inked the edges of the card panel with Distress Inks to give a vintage vibe. Then, as I'm know to do, I splashed gold paint all over it! LOVE how elegant it looks with those pretty poinsettias.

 

 

 

 

 

The kit comes with matching dies so you can cut out the poinsettias and use them separately or layer them over the stenciling. Taylor thought of everything with this one!

 

 

 

HERE ARE THE FULL CONTENTS OF THE 

MERRY BLOOMS KIT! (The kit is now sold out – see the supply list for individual pieces!)

Okay friends! That's it for today's post!  I'll be back here on Thursday with a new Doodlebug Project! Yippee! Until then, take good care. XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see all the supplies used in today's project! (Affiliate Links Used)