<\/a>It’s September Sneak Peek time at Taylored Expressions<\/a> and OH MY WORD do we have a whole bunch of cute new stamps and dies to share with you in this release, not to mention a week’s worth of birthday celebrating to do as it’s Taylored Expressions FIFTH birthday this year! WOOHOO!<\/p>\n

Today I’m sharing two projects, first up is a little mini card using the brand new Bracket Notecard<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. This notecard die creates a 3″x3″ mini notecard. I just LOVE these notecard dies. I use them all the time for quick present tags and little notes for my kids and husband. This die is a perfect addition!! I paired this die up with the new Totally Tags – Occasions<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. This sweet stamp set coordinated with the Totally Tags die<\/a>s and previous Totally Tags stamp sets<\/a>. I stamped the sweet For You tag, die cut it and colored it with Copics. I then mounted it on a matte cut from the Label Stacklets 4 die set<\/a>. I added bit of twine thread<\/a> and a small bow and this little notecard was done! It fits perfectly in the 3×3″ envelopes<\/a> from TE.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Next up is a fun little card I made for my nephew, Carsen. His birthday is tomorrow (we share a birthday!!) and when I saw this fun little Candy Monster<\/strong><\/em><\/span> stamp I KNEW I had to use it for him.<\/p>\n

Today at Taylored Expressions we are playing a fun little game of Tic-Tac-Toe! I love challenges like this and had a BLAST putting together Carsen’s birthday card!<\/p>\n

<\/a>For my Tic-Tac-Toe I chose use a button, make a birthday card, do not use patterned paper<\/strong> (and for a bonus I used two stamp sets and 2 or more dies)<\/p>\n

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I started out by stamping and die cutting the Candy Monster<\/strong><\/em><\/span> and his had with the coordinating dies. I colored them both up with Copics and set them aside and started building the background. I die cut the Party Banner Cutting Plate<\/strong><\/em><\/span> out of orange and green cardstock and then sliced the green one up so I could alternate colors with the orange. I die cut two sizes of the Label Stacklets 6<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, on from orange and one from blue. I stamped the twirls from Borderlicious on the blue to create a little party background. The gorgeous Happy Birthday banner is die cut using the new Birthday Treat Toppers<\/strong><\/em><\/span> and Circle Numbers<\/a>. To finish it all up I assembled the card using foam tape to separate a few of the layers and added tiny green button as accent. This went together so quickly and was VERY fun to make!<\/p>\n

If you’d like to join us for this fun game of Tic-Tac-Toe you can get all the details on the Taylored Expressions blog<\/a> about how you can WIN one of 5 gift certificates!!<\/p>\n

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That’s it for me today! I hope you’ll hop around and check out the rest of the birthday festivities at the Baker’s Dozen blogs!<\/p>\n

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Carole Burrage<\/a>
\nCharmaine Ikach<\/a>
\nHeather Jensen<\/a>
\nJami Sibley<\/a>
\nJen Shults<\/a>
\nJoan Ervin<\/a>
\nKerri Michaud<\/a>
\nRegina Mangum<\/a>
\nSankari Wegman<\/a>
\nShannon White<\/a>
\nShelly Mercado<\/a>
\nStephanie Kraft<\/a>
\nTammie Edgerton<\/a>
\nTaylor VanBruggen<\/a>
\nWanda Guess<\/a>
\nFor You Mini Card:
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