Taylored Expression Day 2: A Snowy Day

It's day 2 of sneak peeks for the October release from Taylored Expressions and it's a snow day!!  Everything you see today will be available on Thursday, October 3rd.  Be sure to check out each of the creative team members' blogs for all of the sneak peeks starting with the Taylored Expressions blog.

I have two cards today.  First I want to show you  new series of dies that work together to create winter scenes - plus an addition to the beloved series of Simple Strips stamps.  (Guess what?  There's a new Mini Strip - Holiday too!!)

For my first card I'm using Border Builders - Snowflake and Border Builders - Evergreens and two sentiments from Simple Strips - Christmas.

I love the way those two soft colors - Salt Water Taffy and Spearmint - pop on the Toffee.  I put the top panel on a background embossed with the Corrugated Embossing Folder just for a bit of texture.  Then to finish my scene I went looking for a deer that would sized appropriate and happily I found it in the older die set Sitting Pretty Holiday Accessories.  (As a total side-track - there are a wide range of seasonal and holiday dies in the Sitting Pretty series.  They were designed to decorate a "shelf" and the "wall" behind it on your cards - a fabulous look.  But if you don't want to do that type of card, the icons in them are fabulous on other cards like this.  The Holiday set has this deer, a Santa, a snowman and others - all of which fit perfectly.)

There's another die that's part of this group that I did not use.  It's Border Builders - Home Sweet Home.  Plus the Border Builders - Evergreen die actually has a second die with trees to the right.  You can layer them all up and it's gorgeous.

Here's the supply list for this card - but keep scrolling to see a second card and for all the fun and prizes with this release!

SUPPLY LIST
Remember that the new links won't work until Thursday.



Have yourself a merry little Christmas! Every order placed between October 3rd - October 6th will earn DOUBLE crafty points to apply to a future purchase! Plus, receive FREE U.S. shipping on orders over $25 OR $5 off shipping for residents of Canada with the code CANADA5. 

Now for a new set in the "Flip the..." series.  This is Flip the Snowflake.  I used it directly on my card, but there's also a coordinating die to pop it.

My whole card is done with Blueberry; it's a gorgeous blue.  To get the sparkle, I used my Misti to stamp the blue, then I stamped over it with Versamark and applied Diamond Fine Detail Embossing Powder.

 You might notice in my supply list that I used the previously released Notepaper Background and I doubt you are seeing any notepaper on my card!  I was thrilled when I saw that Sentiment Stacker 2 fit the sentiment, but the piece in the back seemed a little dull with all of the sparkle going on in the card.  I thought about just glittering the whole thing, but instead I used just the striped part of the Notepaper Background at an angle to get a thin little stripe and then I used embossing powder on that too.

And for even more fun and prizes, Taylored Expressions is celebrating Release Week with a giveaway during each day of sneak peeks! Visit the TE blog to answer Taylor’s Question of the Day for a chance to win one of the latest products before you can buy it!

Be sure to come back tomorrow - it's still Christmas around here and tomorrow is the reason for the season!!

SUPPLY LIST

Remember that the new links won't work until Thursday.