Happy Birthday Taylored Expressions!

YAY! Celebrating with you today! Handmade card by Jen Shults, taylored expressions, ink blending, stencil, copic markers

Hi everyone! This week we are celebrating Taylored Expressions 11th Birthday!! We have a bunch of birthday themed goodies to share with you this week ending on release day on Thursday (at 9 am CST.).

I have two projects to share with you today. The first project uses a new stamp and stencil combo that I LOVE. My card started with a piece of Sugar Cube cardstock that I stamped with the Gifted Background stamp and Oreo ink. I heat set the ink just a little to be doubley sure the ink wouldn’t smear when I used the Gifted Stencil (which lines up PERFECTLY with the Gifted Stamp) to stencil the rainbow over the presents. I then used C1 and C3 Copic markers to add a tiny bit of drop shadow under the presents.

YAY! Celebrating with you today! Handmade card by Jen Shults, taylored expressions, ink blending, stencil, copic markers

Next I using TE’s Blender Brushes to ink blend a bit of Lollipop and Strawberry Milkshake ink on Sugar Cube cardstock and die cut with the Caps Lock – YAY dies. I layered two pieces of Sugar Cube cardstock with Oreo cardstock and popped them up on foam tape over the Gifted background with a bit of vellum toward the bottom. I then attached the Caps Lock YAY cut out over the vellum. Next is stamped and die cut the present from Big Grumpy – Birthday and added it to the side of the YAY! To finish up I added a sentiment from Simple Strips stamped on Poppy Seed cardstock and cut with the Simple Strips die.

YAY! Celebrating with you today! Handmade card by Jen Shults, taylored expressions, ink blending, stencil, copic markers

Yay! Card Supplies:

Gifted Background
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Gifted Stencil
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Caps Lock – YAY
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Simple Strips Background
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Simple Strips Die
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Big Grumpy – Birthday
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Big Grumpy Birthday Dies
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TE Premium Cardstock – Sugar Cube
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TE Premium Ink – Oreo – Full Pad
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TE Premium Cardstock – Oreo
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TE Premium Cardstock – Poppy Seed
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Copic Markers
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VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
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TE Fine Detail Embossing Powder
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TE Foam Tape, 1/16″
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TE Vellum
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TE Blender Brushes
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TE Blender Brushes Storage Caddy
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Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
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This new adorable giant Grumpling, Big Grumpy Stamp & Die Combo, is ready for all of your snarky card giving needs! This adorable guy comes with 7 fun sentiments and has a birthday companion set Big Grumpy – Birthday that has the balloons and gift you see here along with some fun birthday snarky sentiments.

To start my card I stamped Big Grumpy on Sugar Cube with Oreo ink along with three balloons, the party hat and present from Big Grumpy – Birthday. I colored all of these with Copics and die cut with the coordinating dies. Next I used the TE Blender Brushes to ink up the cloud background with Salt Water Taffy and Sprinkles ink and the Set the Scene Cloud Stencil Strips.

For the grassy hill I die cut Build a Scene – Grassy Hills from Peapod and used the blender brushes to add a bit of Peapod ink for dimension. I stamped the sentiment in the middle of the sign and arranged the scene, popping various things up on foam tape.

Big Grumpy Card Details:

Big Grumpy Stamp & Die Combo
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Big Grumpy – Birthday
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Big Grumpy Birthday Dies
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Set the Scene – Clouds Stencil Strips
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TE Premium Cardstock – Sugar Cube
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TE Premium Cardstock – Peapod
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TE Premium Ink – Peapod – Full Pad
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TE Premium Ink – Sprinkles – Full Pad
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TE Premium Ink – Oreo – Full Pad
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TE Premium Ink – Salt Water Taffy -…
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TE Blender Brushes
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TE Blender Brushes Storage Caddy
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Copic Markers
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TE Foam Tape, 1/16″
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Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
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We’re celebrating our 11th birthday and the gifts for you are stacking up! Here’s how you can jump in on the celebration!

1. Receive a free Share Joy enamel pin with every purchase of new release products (while supplies last)2. Free US shipping on orders of $50+
3. Orders of $75 will be entered to win 1 of 11 gift certificates to the TE store: ten $50 gift certificates, one $100 gift certificate! 

Offers valid 9/10 – 9/22 and while supplies last. Gift certificate winners will be announced on the TE blog on 9/23.

You’ll also want to check out the TE Blog this week as we share the stories of TE friends and fans who are sharing joy through their handmade cards! During our birthday celebration, Taylored Expressions will donate 5% of new release product sales to support one customer’s mission to provide a backpack filled with love and hope to children being placed in foster care. Read Louise’s story on the TE Blog and continue to follow along as we tell Share Joy stories throughout our birthday month!