Taylored Expressions Release Day…Petite-a-Palooza LOVE!

Happy 2015! I hope you have all been celebrating the new year in style! I got to kick the year off by playing along with the designers for Taylored Expressions for Petite-a-Palooza, which was really fun. Today, I'm sharing two cards I created with some newly-released products, beginning with a card I made for my little guy for Valentine's Day.

I used the new Vroom Vroom Stamp & Die Combo Petite set -- how cute is this little race car and the sentiment? I paired the race car with Build-a-Scene Rolling Hills and the new Build-a-Scene Rolling Clouds and Build-a-Scene On the Road. The best part is that TE has released a new coordinating Paper Pack to match Build-a-Scene! I used Curly Border to create some exhaust smoke from the car and the heart from Build-A-Tag 2 (which made for the perfect 'driver!')

I think my little guy will love his V-Day card. He adores race cars and he makes me run around so much that my heart really does race!

Next up is another V-Day card, this time created with the new Hello Baby Petite Stamp & Die Combo. Even though the set can be used for baby cards, I thought I'd create a bright, happy V-Day card, which features the new patterned paper and card stock from the Rainbow Brights Matched Kit. L-O-V-E!

The stamp set comes with awesome dies that cut out the cloud perfectly and little happy shapes that can 'rain' from the cloud. I've also used the new Cloudy Days Embossing Folder which is one of my new favorite tools!

I finished off with a bit of Wink of Stella glitter pen just to give the cloud a little pizazz. I hope you can see it in the photo above.

Happy Release Day, Taylored Expressions! You can find more projects over on the TE Blog and all products are now available in the Store!

Washi Washi Washi!

Today is my very last day on the Design Team for ScrapbookSteals.com (a great place to get scrapbooking supplies) -- it's been a fun and fast 3 months and the design team was challenged to use something really fun...Washi Tape from Love My Tapes!

I have to admit that I was a bit baffled by washi tape. I thought it was a cute idea as something to use when wrapping gifts or sealing envelopes, but then I got to really play with some thanks to ScrapbookSteals. I was lucky to get some colors that seemed perfect for a boy and I had an idea for something I could create for my little guy who is celebrating his fifth birthday next month.

My son is having a reptile-themed birthday (including live reptiles like snakes and lizards) and I think there will be some great photo ops. I wanted to create a little mini album for him as a special memento of his day. 

I used the washi tape by alternating the colors across my album cover (super easy to trim, by the way) and it was also a great embellishment to use throughout the pages!

I wanted to make a matching card to go along with the album and the washi was a wonderful way to make them match. (Plus, I found that if I didn't apply it quite to my taste, it was simple to unstick and reapply!)

BEAN NOTES
Accents: Washi Tape (Love My Tapes); Electronic Files: Ribbon Tie Mini Album (Lori Whitlock); Snake shape (Jennifer Wambach); Gecko (Lettering Delights); 5 Card (Loni Harris); Tool: Cameo (Silhouette); Cardstock: all cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Fibers: ribbon (Kate's Paperie)

This is my last project on the Design Team for ScrapbookSteals.com. Thank you so much to Kristy and Brittany at ScrapbookSteals for giving me this amazing opportunity -- but, best of all, thank you for being my friends and for introducing me to Katrina Hunt and Kerys Sharrock, my talented teammates and paper-crazy buddies! Go to the ScrapbookSteals blog and check out their incredible washi creations!

Far Out...

It's the day after Mother's Day and I had a lovely day celebrating with my little guy's great-grandmother, his Nana, and other family. He was so sweet and he got me thinking about little boys after all the flowers and girly-girl activities. So for today, I've got a boyish card that I hope is "out of this world!"

I was inspired by this week's Mojo Monday sketch. I actually flipped the sketch over and thought it would make a great outer space background for a flying saucer.

I grabbed the new Far Out set from Taylored Expressions and stamped this cute U.F.O, coloring in with some gray-shaded Copics before fussy cutting and popping it up over some perfect patterned paper. I spritzed the entire card with silver mist -- in person the card really sparkles and I love the glimmering highlights.

Hope your day is a BLAST!

BEAN NOTES

Stamps: Far Out (Taylored Expressions)

Patterned Paper: Rocket Age (October Afternoon)

Cardstock: Choice Snow (TE); Not Quite Navy (Stampin' Up!)

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (Tsukineko)

Accents: Silver Mister Huey (Studio Calico)

Dies: Classic Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders)

Coloring Medium: Sketch Markers (Copic)

Goodbye, Mr. Wild Rumpus...

Rest in peace, Mr. Sendak.

Thanks for the many hours of happy reading

with our little rugrat.

May you enjoy your last, superb, wild rumpus in the sky.

(and you ROCKED the Colbert Report.)

For my tribute to the late, great Maurice Sendak, I decided to create a card. How lucky for me that Taylored Expressions has this perfectly wonderful image? For a good bit of whimsy, I tore the patterned paper to reveal my colored scene. Some eyelets, canvas rope ribbon, and I could bid this incredible author a fond farewell. 

BEAN NOTES

 Stamps: The Places You'll Go (Taylored Expressions)

Patterned Paper: Dots & Stripes (Echo Park)

Cardstock: Choice Snow (TE); Wild Wasabi, Riding Hood Red (Stampin' Up!)

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (Tsukineko)

Accents: Eyelets (Making Memories)

Fibers: Canvas Rope Ribbon (Canvas Corp)

Coloring Medium: Sketch Markers (Copic)