Sweets for the Sweet...Taylored Expressions Sneak Peek Day One!

September Birthday Bash and Release

• At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday and you are invited to our Birthday Bash!
• Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday - lots of fun eye candy and inspiration!
• All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 1st at 8 am PST. You'll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Every order placed Thursday - Monday will include a FREE Party Favor.  Stay tuned for details!
• To celebrate our 3rd Birthday, you have 3 WAYS TO WIN!

      1. Help Spread the Word! Grab our Birthday Badge from Taylor's blog and post it on your blog for the week.  Then come back and    leave a comment with a link to your blog to let us know you're spreading the word. You will be entered into a drawing for a $25 TE gift certificate. 

      2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.  You will have until 8 pm PST that night to comment to enter to win each new set.

      3.  Join us in our SCS Forum for a contest that will begin Thursday morning.  In the meantime you can see Baker's Dozen sneak peeks there and chat with us!

I adore birthdays and this week's release for Taylored Expressions is a special one -- TE is celebrating three wonderful years of providing sweet creativity for the stamping and creative soul and I'm so proud to be a part of the celebration! This week we have lots of fun projects and today I have two to share. The first uses everyone's favorite cupcake, Cuppie, surrounded by a bevy of sweet treats. Did you know that Cuppie was the star of TE's very first stamp set? Well, as they say, "You've come a long way, baby!" Sweet Party (designed by Jessie Oleson) is the perfect way to party on!

So let's keep the party going with a sneak peek of a darling new set, Build a Treat Borders (a perfect companion to the soon-to-be-released Build a Treat) that has a coordinating set of dies! Concepted by my talented team member, Sankari Wegman, these fabulous stamps create adorable "buildable" treats like ice cream and cupcakes. I've been wanting to create a layout to commemorate my son's very first ice cream cone, so I did a little dance when I saw this set! How cute are those cones and the dies make them so easy peezy, this page was done in no time. By the way, the title was created with a portion of a sentiment from Build a Treat and the previously-released TE set, You're My Type-Upper!)

BEAN NOTES
Surrounded by Sweetness Card
Stamps: Sweet Party (Taylored Expressions)
Cardstock: Choice Snow White (TE); Kiwi Kiss, Melon Mambo (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
Patterned Paper: Lime Twist Life of the Party (My Mind's Eye)
Coloring Medium: Sketch Markers (Copic)
Accents: Green Brads (Making Memories); Stickles (Ranger)
Tools: Scalloped Circle Punch (EK Success)
Fibers: Organza Ribbon (generic)


Seize the Ice Cream Layout
Stamps: Build a Treat Borders, (sentiment from Build a Treat), You're My Type-Upper (Taylored Expressions)
Ink: Alabaster Chalk (Colorbox); Memento Tuxedo Black, Desert Sand (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, Pacific Point (SU!); Choice Buttercream (TE)
Patterned Paper: Lime Twist Life of the Party (My Mind's Eye)
Coloring Medium: Sketch Markers (Copic)
Accents: Stickles (Ranger)
Tools: Border Punch (Martha Stewart Crafts)
Dies: Build a Treat Borders Taylored Die (TE)

So let's get to partying! Don't forget to visit the rest of the Baker's Dozen (plus special guest Jen Shults, who plays with us this week for our lovely Karen Motz, who returns next month. Join me tomorrow for some spooky good fun!

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• Wanda Guess
• and friend Jami Sibley