Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Taylored Expressions Clearly Planned: Faith Hope Love

It's the second day of sneak peeks for the May release of new Clearly Planned stamps from Taylored Expressions.  All of the new products will be available on Thursday, May 18th!

The Clearly Planned line of stamps is focused on planners - but there's no rule that says they can't be used for cards!!

Taylored Expressions Faith Hope Love

This release includes a number of Christian stamps.  (Check out the TE Blog to see sneak peeks of all of them.) I love them all but the set that I used on this card is a must-have!  There are so many sentiment combinations with each component being separate so you can do different colors on the sentiment - or put a word on a banner!!  (BTW - I did that banner by using Banner Stacklets 1, cutting half way, then rotating the die and cutting the other half.)

Taylored Expressions Faith Hope Love<

There's a special deal on the Christian sets (and on the Super Sweet set). For a limited time, earn DOUBLE CRAFTY POINTS on our Clearly Planned Super Sweet Stamp and Coordinating Dies Bundle and on ANY of our spiritual Clearly Planned stamp sets! If you're not a Crafty Points member, it's free and easy to join. Just create an account at the TE webstore and you're automatically enrolled to begin earning crafty points with every purchase. 

You'll earn DOUBLE CRAFTY POINTS on the purchase of one or more of these Clearly Planned products:  74 Crafty Points on our Super Sweet Stamp and Coordinating Dies Bundle; 30 Crafty Points on our Faith Hope Love stamp set; and 16 Crafty Points EACH on our Yahweh, Faith Full, and I Am stamp sets! 


Offer valid on qualifying purchases made between 9am CST on Thursday, May 18, 2017 and 11:59 pm CST on Sunday, May 21, 2017 and only while supplies last. Crafty Points are only available on purchases made via our retail site: Taylored Expressions.


There's another great deal too.  Just head over to the TE Blog to answer the question of the day for a chance at a prize!


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Monday, May 15, 2017

Taylored Expressions Clearly Planned: Hinged Insta-Frames

Taylored Expressions has a fabulous line of stamps for planners called Clearly Planned.  I am most definitely a planner gal. My lists make me feel good because once something is written down, I don't have to stress over remembering it - my planner will!!  I do stamp in it - although usually just one or two stamps a week - simply to make me smile when I need it or to give me encouragement.  So I have an extensive collection of the Clearly Planned stamps!!

Here's the best part - they work perfectly on a card too!

There's an exciting new release coming this Thursday, May 18th!  Today I want to give you a sneak peek of a new die set - Clearly Planned Hinged Insta-Frames.  I saw the largest frame and decided it would work perfectly with any Grumpling in my collection!

TE Hinged Insta-Frames

Isn't this pretty from the outside?

But look at what happens when you open the little window!!  (I love surprises!)

TE Hinged Insta-Frames

There are so many stamps that will fit in these frames.  My favorite Clearly Planned set for my planner is Clearly Planned Sneak-a-Peek.  How fun will these little animals be peeking out of a frame?  (And there's more cuteness in this release that will fit too.)

Be sure to check out the Taylored Expressions blog for all of the details and to answer the question of the day for a chance at a prize!!!  I'm back tomorrow with a fabulous Christian set for planning and for cards!

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches: Birthday Balloons

It's time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! Today we have a sketch by Jennifer Timko.


It seems like half of my department at the office has birthdays in May so I've been heavy into birthday cards.  For most of them, I have to stay fairly "generic" because I don't know the person well enough to be able to tailor it for them.  This is an example.  I figured I couldn't go wrong with balloons! 

FMS Balloons

I found the paper - retired Stampin' Up. Then I found balloon dies from Lil' Inkers of the right size and look (sponged to mirror the balloons on the paper).  Then I wanted a sentiment that was one line but still slightly quirky and I found that from Papertrey Ink!  The banner is my go-to banner stacklet from Taylored Expressions.  I'm not sure I could have fit many more companies on my card!!

I hope to see you playing along!

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The paper is from the retired paper pack from Stampin' Up called Birthday Bash - which amused me when I picked the sentiment and it's from PTI's Birthday Bash!!

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Taylored Expressions: Thanks For Being My Anchor

My husband grew up on the east coast and loves to sail.  He introduced the boys and I to it on a lake in the mountains of Colorado.  I can't say we totally took to it - I think you have to grow up understanding that sailboats practically lay down sideways when you are turning (or tacking??) - but we spent some lovely days on the water!  He has a little red sailboat - so as I was thinking ahead to Father's Day - these nautical dies made sense.

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OK - the lighthouse probably doesn't make any sense here here in Colorado - we'll call that artistic license!!

The set that has "Happy Father's Day" also has "Thanks for being my anchor".  I made it for one of our boys to give to him - but then it occurred to me that at 17 years old and 21 years old, they'd probably prefer picking out their own card for him - probably wildly sarcastic.

I do love making little scenes with dies.

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