Crafty Comeback Party - Day 6 - Taylored Expressions + Giveaway

Good morning, friends and Happy Monday!  I hope that you had a wonderful weekend!  Other than going to an overwhelmingly large, but very cool, candy store....my weekend was quiet & crafty.  I love those kind of weekends!

Today marks week 2 of my Crafty Comeback Party, and we are going to kick it off with Taylored Expressions!  I have worked with Taylor a lot in the past, and I LOVE her product!  Taylor's stamps are high quality, rubber cling mount stamps that leave BEAUTIFUL impressions.  She also designs dies that cut beautifully, and so much more!  I highly suggest checking out all her company has to offer - you won't be disappointed!

I created two cards for today, and love them!  Be sure to keep scrolling, because you will get the chance to win some of the very product that I used today!

Up first is this faith based Christmas card, featuring a galaxy watercolor background and the Nativity!  {What a monumental night that was - the night that Jesus was born unto this world.}  I'm a bit less rusty this time around, and got my galaxy background just the way I wanted it on the first go! I created this background with just a standard palette of watercolor cakes. I purposely added a moon behind the palm tree on the left side just by drying off my round #6 watercolor brush, and swishing it in a circle fashion to pick up the paint in that area.  It is a little muddy in the middle, but thankfully the palm tree covers most of it up!  I spritzed the entire galaxy background with white Heidi Swapp Color Shine to give it a shimmer as well!  

I diecut the Nativity Cutting Plate from black cardstock, and mounted it to the top of the galaxy background with 3M foam tape.  {I swear by 3M foam tape.  It is the ONLY brand I use now, and I've tried them all!}  I love the added dimension that gave the card, yet it will still slip into an envelope.  I heat embossed the sentiment from the Sing of the King stamp set to a strip of turquoise colored cardstock, then cut a banner edge to it before layering to the card front.

By popping the Nativity scene with foam tape, it also allowed me to do one of my favorite things - tuck embellishments here & there so that they peek out from the scene!  These are some older Prima Marketing "Say It In Crystals" that I have in my stash, but you can substitute any round embellishments here.  Enamel dots, buttons & brads would work beautifully!

The next card up is a wintry shaker card!!  To begin, I heat embossed the Snowed In Background to white Strathmore art paper using my MISTI tool.  After that I blended the background with distress oxide inks in Lucky Clover & Peacock Feather.  This was my first time using the distress oxide inks, and everyone is right - they are amazing!! I did spritz water in my hand a few times and dripped it to the front, then pulled it up with a paper towel in order to get the cool water reaction from the inks.  I feel like the distress oxide inks react a little bit differently to water than distress inks do, but I still love the outcome!

When it was time to make the shaker, I felt like the card needed a pop of color other than the green tones that I blended together.  So, I chose to add rose gold glitter paper behind the peekaboo circle, and I LOVE how it turned out!  I kept doubting myself at first, but once it was all put together - I am really happy that I made the decision to go with it!

I used a combination of Pretty Pink Posh sequins (all linked below), combined with Little Things from Lucy's Cards jewels.  They go together beautifully!!  I didn't want to heat emboss the sentiment to the clear sheet, so I used white Staz-On ink for my sentiment instead.  I love how this ink looks on transparencies, and I always keep it fresh & in my stash for this purpose. 

There you have it, friends!  I hope you like my latest creations, and as always...if you have any questions, leave them in the comments & I will for sure answer them.  :)

Taylor is also playing along with me today, and has created a card using some of the same products that I did!!  Head on over to check out her blog post, and the beautiful card she created! Thank you Taylor, not only for your support during my crafty comeback party, but for your prayers during these hard times in my life, and during my previous crafting life as well.  I LOVE working with your products - they are just amazing!

GIVEAWAY

Taylored Expressions is graciously giving away three of the newly released products I used on my cards to one lucky winner during my Crafty Comeback Party!  These include the Nativity Cutting Plate, Snowed In Background, and Snowed In Sentiments stamp sets!!

Giveaway Details: This giveaway will stay live until 11:59pm CST on Friday, November 10th.  All winners will be picked, notified & shared here on my blog on Sunday, November 12th.

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