A 'Sweet' Birthday Ensemble

Here is my project using Sweet Celebration by Taylored Expressions! I made a personalized Cupcake Birthday party invitation (standard card on left), cupcake favor (center) that is sweetly nestled atop a silver tin filled to the brim with dark chocolate m&m's and once your guest eats their cupcake, they can pop the lid onto the tin & take their candy home with them. Lastly, when the party is over, you are ready with your sweet thank you cards (4 1/2 in square on right) to send to your friends who made your celebration extra special!!

Isn't it great how the cupcake with his tongue sticking out just makes you think he sees (or ate) something sweet? That's why I chose to personalize the set this way - he just makes me smile!!!

Well it's official, Sweet Celebration, Frightful Night & Trick or Sweet are available for purchase at Taylored Expressions! Let's go Shopping!! For full pics of the sets & key ingredients - see Taylor's post be sure to read all about her Top Chef Challenge - you can win a free stamp set from the next release!! She also has a great special if you want it all & you want it first (10 available) at a great savings!!

This project is also for Our Creative Corner Challenge for something birthday!

Then be sure to check out what the rest of the Baker's Dozen Design Team have to show you too! All their blogs are listed on the right.

Details:
Cardstock, Inks: Real Red, Green Galore & Only Orange. Summer Picnic Designer Paper
Accessories: Red, Tangerine & Apple Green grosgrain ribbon, Circle Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Embossing folders Thanks & Spots & Dots, Aqua Painter, JustRite Stampers wooden monogram stamper with small alphabet (you can purchase at Taylored Expressions)

Stamp a Sweet Impression - Exciting News!!

Imagine my delight when the sweet, very humble & talented Taylor VanBruggen contacted me over a month ago to be a part of history; the launch of her new stamp line called 'Stamp a Sweet Impression'. I was grinning from ear to ear for DAYS - no WEEKS! Of course it has been a hard secret to keep, I will not lie!

Any stamper out there knows what popularity cupcakes have taken on this past year and many have enjoyed participating in Taylor's Friday Cupcake Challenge for months - well she's ready to take the cupcake community by storm along with her illustrator Jessie Oleson [Cakespy] and I am so happy to be a part of this new venture with them & the rest of the Baker's Dozen Design Team! I've enjoyed all the sweet eye candy on her blog since Taylor revealed her to the team.

I'm having a ton of fun stamping with her stamps - wait till you see it all - the packaging, convenience, storage-wow! Three sets will be released tomorrow available for purchase exclusively at Taylored Expressions. They are deeply etched pink rubber already die cut & cling mounted ready for you to open your package & stamp to your heart's content the minute they arrive in your mailbox. That is exactly what I did for DAYS (because I cleared my commitment calendar) once my design team box arrived!

Taylor will also have available for purchase "Key Ingredients" for each stamp set which will include a selection of 6x6 patterned papers, 8 1/2" x 11" Prism cardstock, and coordinating embellishments (brads, ribbon, glitter). I used the Halloween Key Ingredients on these fun Halloween games I made. Be sure to see Taylor's blog for more info.


So onto my first sneak peek because I'm sure that's what you're here for. If you read my blog on a regular basis, you may recall my announcement last week that I'm going to CA to visit my sisters, BILS and niece & nephew for Halloween! My niece Gabby is 2 1/2 years old so I made her these 2 games we can play with while I'm there. A matching game and a tic tac toe game (I hope that won't be too hard for her, I remember teaching the game (on paper) to my friend's daughter when she was about 4 but Gabby is so smart she just may get it.

The Tic Tac Toe game is made on a Target $1 spot magnetic frame (so glad I got extras last year) which I covered with the Halloween key ingredients designer paper. The game pieces all have magnets on the back (I wonder if Gabby will still be calling them maggots when I give them to her like she did in May-HA).



The matching game has all the images in the 'Trick or Sweet' set, 2 of each all colored and stamped on the back with 'Gabby's Halloween Cupcake Matching Game' which I used my JustRite Stampers small alphabet set on wooden stamper for. I stamped the small black cat from the 'Frightful Night' set in the centers. You can get the monogram stamper at Taylored Expressions when you shop for your new stuff! All of the game pieces fit in the tin and below, you can see easy storage behind the frame because I put a magnet on the back of it too.

Today the Rotating Design Team are revealed & have sneaks peeks to share!!

All the sets & key ingredients will be available for purchase Midnight (EST) Friday, Sept. 5th.

Taylor Van Bruggen

Rotating Design Team
Carol Halvorson
ME!
Jen del Muro
Laurie Schmidlin
Sharon Harnist
Terri Dodd

Check out Taylor's post with the sneak peeks from the Senior Design Team yesterday:
Ana Wohlfahrt
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Jami Sibley
Monika Davis
Stephanie Hargis

Thanks for sticking with me as this was a LONG post! Happy Stamping to You!!