Taylored Expressions is celebrating our two year anniversary in September! To celebrate and kick of the newest release several designers are participating in a birthday bash blog hop. If you came from Ana Wohlfahrt’s blog, you’re on the right track! The amazing Debbie Olson is next on the hop! Or if you want to start from the beginning then head back to Taylor’s blog.
I chose this darling duck stampfrom the newest Ala Carte images. I thought the image plus the matching sentiment were too cute. You can find all new released stamp sets in the store now. Check out the great specials Taylor is running to celebrate her companies second birthay.
I stamped the image in Tuxedo Black Memento ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored it in with Copic Markers (ducks: Y13, Y 15, Beak: Y17, YR04, Grass: YG23, YG25). The image was cut with long oval Nestabilities and airbrushed with Copic Marker BG11. It was layered on a black piece of cardstock that was cut with long scallop oval Nestabilities.
My card base is a 6 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ piece of Sour Apple Cardstock folded in half. A 1 1/2″ x 6″ piece of October Afternoon Thrift Store paper strip was adhered to a 3 1/2″ x 6″ of another pattern from the same paper pack. The layers were stitched to a 3/16″ bigger piece of black cardstock.
1/2″ wide Seam Binding was colored with Copic Marker YR04 and tied over the top edge of the horizontal strip. A yellow button was tied over the bow. Two small Basic Grey orange buttons were stitched to the top right of the layers before adhering them to the card base.
The sentiment was stamped on Neenah Solar White cardstock and cut with a double ended Tag die and airbrushed with Copic Marker Y15. The card was finished off by adding Black Kaisercraft Rhinestones to the tag ends as well as the lower left hand corner.
For the inside of the card A 1 1/4″ x 6″ piece of Thrift Store paper was layered on a 3 1/2″ x 6″ piece of white cardstock, topped with more Seam Binding and stitched to a 3/16″ piece of Basic Black cardstock. The other sentiment of the set was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and cut with the bigger Double ended tag die and airbrushed with BG11. A few more black Rhinestones were added to finish the inside of the card.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have fun participating in Taylor’s birthday bash!
Hugs and smiles
Beate
Stay at Home Mom of Three, Splitcoast Team Member and Copic and Spellbinders die Lover.18 Responses to “Taylored Expression Birthday Bash”
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How adorable!! Love how you’ve used seam binding and your stitching is incredible. Love the fun paper and your coloring is wonderful!!
Love your sweet ducks on the long oval, Beate — such a happy card!
SUPER sweet Beate! LOVE the long layout and the colors rock!
Beate, this is SO CUTE! I love your coloring and the details are so precious! XOXO
OMGoodness, how cute!!! Your card makes me smile!
What a sweet card. Thanks for sharing.
Fabulous card! So happy and sweet! Love it!
That’s adorable Beate!! I love the colors and your coloring is just perfect for these cuties!!
Oh, how I love your style!! And, this card is so cute, too! 🙂
Just when I think you cannot get any better…you put another smile on my face…Beate ~ This is absolutely an adorable mix of art and smiles 🙂 Bless you and yours…have a great weekend!
too cute! such an adorable card, Beate!!
What a cutie! I love the images and the saying. I love how you always do the inside of your card. I’m so bad not to do that.
Such a cute card Beate. Love the cute image and the great coloring… nice papers! :o)
Sooooo incredibly cute!!
This is sooooo cute, Beate! I love the little bow and button accents and your fabulous coloring! Thanks so much for helping us celebrate our birthday!
Herrlich liebe Beate, was für eine megageniale Entenkarte, super gemacht.
Einen guten Start in die neue Woche
wünscht Dir
Anke
OMgosh, this is just ADORABLE!!
This is TOO cute, Beate! Love your little ducks!