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!
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Here is a little note card matching yesterday’s box.

The cardbase is a 3″ x 6″ piece of Real Red cardstock folded in half.

A 2 1/2″ square of My Mind’s Eye Colorful Christmas paper was taped to a 3/16″ bigger piece of White cardstock. The edges of the layers were paper pierced before the layers were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

The main layer is essentially the same as for the box top. The only difference is that I added a different sentiment from the Wing of Joy set and a red taffeta ribbon bow.

Have a wonderful day! Merry Christmas!
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