Christmas in July

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Hello Friends! 

Welcome to another Team Tuesday post!  

I have been on a Christmas card kick since so many of the challenges in July are Christmas . This is a good thing for me because it helps me build my stash. I make Christmas cards to give to the local rehab/nursing home so I usually need about 200. 

Today's card uses a stamp/stencil combo by Taylored Expressions. 

To make this card I started with a white top folding card base, a kraft panel and white cardstock for the scalloped frame. I placed a sticky mat in the Original MISTI and then placed my kraft panel down in the middle and stamped the background. Next still using the sticky mat I placed the stencil over the panel in the proper alignment for the poinsettias. To give the card some interest I added some accents using a white gel pen. To finish it I added the embossed greeting and the white scalloped frame. 

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Thank you! 

Team Tuesday With Taylored Expressions

Hello friends! 

It's Ceal, here. Today for Team Tuesday, I am sharing a card made with some Taylored Expressions products. My friend Lori Craig is the illustrator of the set I used Wheatfield  Dreams which is also her instagram handle (all one word of course), you will want to follow her.

I made this card with the Ukraine on my heart, thus the sunflower and the wheat. 

I started with a white top folding card base, a panel of kraft cardstock and a white panel for the images. 

I placed the white panel in the Original Misti along with a Sticky Mat because the splatter is a background stamp and the Sticky Mat is amazing to hold your paper in place because we all know you can't use a magnet with a background stamp. I inked it up with blue ink and then stamped off to get a subtle splatter and then inked up on a few places instead of the entire stamp and stamped it in full strength.

Next I stamped the wheat and colored it using Graph-It markers. I stamped the sunflower using Prickly Pear ink on a separate piece of cardstock leaving it on the lid of the Misti so I could over stamp it in black after I colored it.  To finish the card I cut out the sunflower with the coordinating die and then added a sentiment.

  

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Exotic Tulips with Ceal

Hello Everyone!

 Ceal here, welcome to Team Tuesday!

Today I am sharing a card using the Exotic Tulips layering stamp set by Altenew.

 and a few other companies.  

To create this card I used products from several different companies. I started with stamping the tulips from the Exotic Tulips set by Altenew using the Original Misti onto white cardstock. The cover die is the Plaid Card Front Thin die by Concord & 9th and the Sentiment is the Simple Strips- Birthday by Taylored Expressions. 

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Thank you! 

Friends Make Life Better

Hi everyone,

Ilina here! Today I am sharing a card that combines few products from different companies and I am very pleased how it turned out!

I used Gel Press and a stencil from Picket Fence Studios (along with few distress oxide inks) to create my background. I put my Gel Press plate on top of my MISTI which allowed me to move it around easier and apply the ink and spread it with the brayer much easier. 

Once I created the background, I prepared the rest of the elements, the branch die cuts using My Favorite things die and the Strip sentiments and die set from Taylored Expressions.

To assemble the panel I cut down the gel press print to 4" x 5 1/4" adhered the die cuts and the sentiment and to finish it off I added several Honey Bee gems!! Using craft foam adhered to white note card! 

 

Quick & Easy Holiday Cards

Welcome friends! Today I’m sharing some inspiration using the new Frosty Card Kit from Taylored Expressions. If you are looking to get a jump start for your holiday cards – this is IT!

VIDEO

I have a video sharing the contents of the kit and creating 3 cards from start to finish. You can check out the video down below or HERE on my Youtube channel.

For my first card, the background is stamped in Oreo ink with the bands of the hat stamped in Strawberry Milkshake, Cookie Monster and Lime Zest. 

This would be a great one to mass produce! In the video, I show how I created a template in my Misti for stamping the sentiment.

Once you have everything in place in your Misti, stamping is a breeze.

I ventured out of the kit for this next card and added a stencil from my personal collection.

Using the Masking Stencil Rectangle, I ink blended on Cookie Monster ink with a blending brush. Then added the Winter’s Beauty Stencil over the top of the masking stencil and blended that on with Cookie Monster, Blue Raspberry and Jelly Donut ink.

Be sure to check out the video for all the details on creating these cards.

SUPPLIES

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Team Tuesday with Ceal: Healthcare Heroes

Hello everyone!

It's Ceal, here to share with you today.

Our small group usually visits a local nursing home once a month. Since the whole social distancing thing, we haven't been able to go and the activities director told us that they miss us terribly. So what we decided to do was to dress silly (not as clowns, because clowns are creepy) and make signs to hold at their windows to let the know they are loved and we miss them too. They absolutely loved it, by the second window everyone was either standing or sitting by their window smiling and waving. It's the little things yall.  no worries there weren't that many of us and we stayed over 6 feet apart going from one window to the next. I should have taken pictures to insert here so I'll insert another one of the cards

I got to thinking that lots of cardmakers (including myself) are making cards to be sent to hospitals, well the people that work here at the nursing home are on the front lies as well so I decided to make them a card to say thanks.  This is when you are so thankful for Iliana inventing the Misti.  I had 130 cards to make so I made a simple design that could be mass produced. After I got done with the stamping I thought they needed a bit of color. Not only can you use the Misti for stamping but also for stenciling. I placed the stencil in the corner of the Misti and taped it down and then just placed my card under the stencil and added color with the Life Changing Blender Brushes. I used a stamp set that I earned free by taylored Expressions and several stencils and the Life Changing Blender Brushes by Picket Fence Studios.

Team Tuesday with Channin

Hello friends!! It's Channin here and today I'm sharing a sweet card featuring some adorable products from Reverse Confetti!

First I watercolored an A2 panel of watercolor paper with some liquid watercolors (Cookie Monster, Jelly Donut, Lollipop). Once I finished watercoloring I then stamped several snowflakes in Versamark ink and then heat embossed with opaque iridescent embossing powder. Next, I then stamped the cute hugging mice in Gina K. ink onto white cardstock. I then colored the images in with prismacolor pencils and then die cut with the matching dies. I then hand cut a snow drift from white cardstock and then stamped a sentiment from the set in Versafine Onyx Black ink using the MISTI to help me curve the stamp.

Next, I ink blended with Pinkfresh Studio's Ocean Breeze dye ink along the bottom of the drift and then applied Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops along the top of the snow and added iridescent glitter. I finished the card by adhering the watercolor panel onto an A2 top-folding card base and then adding the snow drift and critters with foam squares.

I hope you enjoyed my card! Thank you so much for stopping by!!

~Channin

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions Nativity Card

I love it when I see a new product and I know what I want to make with it right away.   I used the inspiration from the Taylored Expressions A Savior is Born sample.    I combined it with the Follow the Star Die set.  Super easy with with the Altenew Galaxy Washi and the Watercolor Nebula Washi.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the video.




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Galaxy Pattern Paper

I love galaxy backgrounds.  My good friend Suzy has the most gorgeous galaxy backgrounds on her Instagram sosuzypodcast.  I know that there are different ways to create them with ink blending or watercolor.  The best method for me is pattern paper.  A few months ago I went to The Paper Forest in Washington, Illinois.  While I was there I found this galaxy paper.  It is by Reminisce.  I put this awesome paper in a drawer and just put off using it.

I took each sheet of 12 x 12 and trimmed it down to 4 x 5.5.  I wanted to get as many backgrounds as I could with each page.    This card has Mama Elephant Space Bears.  I did mix the planets and rockets from the different stamp sets I own.  I only made a couple with the sentiment stamped on the paper.  I had to move the sentiment around so that it could be read.

For this card the astronauts are from Taylored Expressions Space Cadets.  I kept the coloring simple.  For the sentiment, I used the Mama Elephant stamp set.  It had these small borders and I stamped them to form the bottom.  The bottom was not completely covered by the pattern paper and it was a great way to hide that.

These two are some of my favorites.  It uses the Lawn Fawn Out of this World stamp set.  I used some Little Things by Lucy jewels.  I just placed them over some of the stars in the pattern.

For all of my astronaut cards, I used glossy accents for the helmets and rocket window.  I also used my clear Wink of Stella to add shimmer to the planets.

I decided to add a twist to the paper and brought out my Concord & 9th Unicorn Awesomeness stamp.  I remembered my friend Chris Dayton made a card for my little petunia.  I went to her room and brought it to my craft room.  Chris had listed the numbers for the Copic markers she used . 

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