Taylored Expressions Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to this months Taylored Expressions Blog Hop.  If you came from Tangii's blog then you're in the right order.  This month's theme is Thankful and we were to use a stamp set released before Sept 2011. A sketch was also provided if we wanted to use it.

I did use about 50% of the sketch. I found that with the pattern paper I chose it became too busy so I had to subtract a few things.

My card:

For this card I used It's in the bag stamp set and Shopping Bag and Labels Die Set along with Graphic 45's Le' Romantique 8x8 Paper Pad. My card base is cut out of The Paper Company's Kraft cardstock. The top layer pattern paper was cut at 4x2 and the bottom layer was cut at 3x4. Sewed around the edges before gluing them down to the card base so that the stitching would not show in the inside of the card.  All my edges were distressed with Vintage Photo distress ink.  Next I cut a scallop circle using Spellbinder's Classic Scalloped Circles LG and a circle using Standard Circle LG. Wrapped a piece of lace around the circle and attached it to the scallop circle. Then I tied a bow around the lace using some hemp twine.  For the tiny bag I cut it out of kraft cardstock. Stamped the flourish stamp on to pattern paper using Peeled Pain distress ink and then inked over top of it with Vintage Photo distress ink to tone it down. The small label and the sentiment were both stamped on the kraft cardstock with Peeled Paint distress ink.  Attached it off to the side so that I can add a Recollections mini rose. For the tissue paper I stamped the tissue paper stamp and beige tissue paper. I wanted the movement of the stamp stamped but I also wanted the transparency of real tissue paper. I added 3 layers of the tissue paper. Two attached to the front of the bag and one attached to the back of the bag. 

Inside of the little bag is a mini Crunch bar. I covered around the top of it with a scrap piece of the pattern paper and tied it tight with some hemp. I wanted to make sure that if you looked at the card from above you could not see the bright blue wrapper of the candy bar. 

That finished up my card for this hop.


Now please head over to Kelly's blog. Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of your day.

Yar!tza

Card to share

I've had this idea in my head for such a long time. I was obsessed with it when I saw all these stamps and cricut cartridge. Saved my pennies and I was able to get all the supplies together to make this one card. Yes one card!! I had to make this one card!

Here is the inside of it: I had to color in the image and then figure out the dimensions of the card based on the final size of the image. Honestly I don't even remember what the final dimension of the card is. I though I had it all figured out and then I had to start over cause I was an inch off.  A whole inch.  Math has never been my strong subject.

Breakdown and supplies:
Fist I stamped C.C.Designs Sweet November Lilliane stamp with Memento Dew Drop Tuxedo Black ink. Covered her with a stamped mask made out of Inkadinkado's stamping mask paper.  Used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to help me line up Magnolia's Castle background stamp.  Colored the whole scenery with my Copics and highlighted certain areas with my atyou spica pens all of that done on Cryogen white cardstock. I distressed the edges with Pumice Stone and Vintage Paper distress ink. Cut panels out of Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante 8x8 paper pad to cover the flaps on both sides.  On each panel I took the biggest rose and covered it with Rock Candy Distress Stickles.

Here is the front:

Breakdown and supplies:
I cut two panels out of the B side of the same patterned paper I used for the inside of the card. Used my Cricut Expression and the Ornamental Iron cartridge to cut the two gates out of  DCWV The Metallic Stack.  I used May Arts 1 1/2 inch silk ribbon which I cut in half and then colored with my Copics to match. I attached the ribbon with 1/4 inch Scor tape to the card base all the way around so the ribbon would not fall off when opened.  On the corner I die cut two small gears using Tim Holtz's Sizzix Bigz die Gadget Gears with black mat board and some left overs of the patterned paper, sprayed with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer mist. Some Recollection's Mini Roses that were toned with Copics to match and sprayed with Dazzling Diamond Glimmer Mist, two white Prima leaves sprayed with Olive Vine Glimmer Mist and some Recollections bling finish off the card.

Copic colors:
B21
BG13, BG15, BG18
C00
E000, E00, E11, E25, E27, E95, E97, E99
G94, G99
T1, T3, T5, T7
R2O
YR05, YR07, YR09
Colorless Blender
atyou spica:
Orange
Turquoise
Silver
Multilner .05

That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by :
Yar!tza