My Favorite Things, The Cat’s Pajamas and Verve Stamps have all come together to offer you 10% off and donate a portion of their sales to my friend, Susan and her family.
Every bit helps! Thank you!!
**on the MFT site, use the code SUSIEQ at checkout**
Wednesday greetings! Thanks to everyone for your great music suggestions yesterday! I love the stuff that you all came up with!
I’m back with another Skipping Stones Design sketch and this is your second stop along the SSD blog hop. Be sure you start out on the SSD blog and when you are done here, you will hop on over to the talented Erin Grotegut’s blog…
Here’s my take on the sketch using the new set, Home of the Brave. I wanted to make a more masculine card, so it’s a little plainer than my usual style, but it works for a “guy card.”…
The winner of the Funny Bras Vol. #2 from last week’s comments is…
Michele, just shoot me over an email {link under pic on the left} and I will get that super fun set off to you!!
Now hop on over to Erin’s blog to see the goodness she has for you to take a peek at! 
Today is the first day of DARE TO GET DIRTY ‘09 on Splitcoast. You can read more about it in the DTGD ‘09 Forum, which is also where all the challenges will be posted. For the next three days there will be several challenges posted each day. The first 3 of the day are challenges celebrating previous Dirty Dozen galleries. Since I am kicking off this event, I could think of a better gallery to chose but the very first one…TAG ART.
Since this is a project made for the Stamp A Sweet Impression blog {Taylored Expressions}, I only have a sneak peek for you here, but you can see the full project and details on the SASI blog and on the DTGD Challenge Thread…
I hope that you {SCS Fan Club Member} will play along with the Dare To Get Dirty challenges! Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
***If you are looking for today’s SKETCH FOR YOU TRY post, please scroll down. This is the 2nd post for Saturday***
***If you a DFW local, today is Imprints last day of business. The entire store is 75% off. There is a farewell potluck beginning at 6:30pm***
So, this is the creation that I made for ABC Friday, but it turns out the 20th is TODAY…not yesterday. Sometimes I wonder how I make it from day to day! LOL! The requirements for the Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients challenge this month are as follows…
Focus: June - create a card or gift item for a June event…wedding/graduation/Father’s Day/last day of school/etc….any June event you like.
Required - dimension - you can pop stuff up on Taylor’s foam tape, or do some paper tole, or use liquid pearls, or any other trick you can think of to create dimension
Restricted - no Copic markers. I know we’re all addicted to them, so let’s see what we can do without them…just this once! LOL!
This is how I dealt with these parameters…
I created a gift for a June birthday. Instead of doing a card and making it dimensional, I did an altered 3D project. No Copics…no problem!…I just won’t stamp anything that I have to color.
Here it is a bracelet in a tin…
The bracelet can be found HERE at Creative Imaginations. I used a 7/8″ circle punch to punch out the circles and then I adhered them to the bracelet with 3M glue. Here are a few more pics of the project…
Links to more projects featuring this Taylored Expression Kit of the Month COMING SOON!!
BTW…Did you know that Taylor is having a great moving sale in the TE store? Check it out!
Have a great weekend!
Ok, so a few weeks ago Taylor asks me if I was to try out one of the new alterable items that she is carrying…a wooden purse by Kaiser Craft. I first painted the purse with acrylic paint and then covered the large “oval” portions with DP from My Mind’s Eye. I added on some bling {Swarovski crystals} and a flower made from my Slice machine {topped with a Prima flower and a rhinestone}.
Detail shot…
The center of the purse is divided into 2 sections, making it a great pen/marker holder or a cute little treat container. The purse itself comes unassembled in 6 pieces: 2 sides, 2 scallop decorative pieces {I love how these were separate}, a bottom and a piece that needs to be divided to create the sections {these fit like a puzzle into the bottom piece}. Since there are no instructions in the packaging, I was a little intimidated at first, but it became pretty obvious that you had to break apart the pieces and assemble them to create the dividers. I used E6000 adhesive, but I am sure a strong glue such as Zip Dry or any wood glue would work like a charm.
I also have another card to show you using some of the new stamps that are being released today. This card is sweet and simple and I chose to eliminate a sentiment so that I could use this for any occasion. I rarely go without a sentiment, but I saw a cute package of blank notecards the other day that reminded me that I don’t always have to put one on a card. I have really been into “more is more” lately, so departing from that approach was a little difficult, but I do like the outcome.
You can see from this shot that I popped the flowers up on dimensionals…
Want more samples from the Taylored Expressions DT. Well, check ‘em out!
Ana, Charmaine, Denise, Jodi, Laura, Karen, Dawn, Donna, Karen, Laurie, Sankari and, of course, Taylor! 
