Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop August 2010

Welcome to the August Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop!  To play along this month, you could use any Taylored Expressions stamp set from May 2010 or earlier, and there was an optional sketch.  I chose to do my own thing this month, because I'm getting ready (or at least trying to!) for Christmas.  Every year, I make several card sets to give as gifts--for my Mom, Mom-in-Law, Sister-in-Law, and my kids' teachers.  This Christmas, I've chosen the TE stamp set Sweet Occasions, and this cute paper pad Michael's had a while back called Chloe's Closet.  I had hoped to get a few cards done to show you, but with the kids home and going on vacation, we just have the beginning (but I'm happy to have started Christmas already in August!).

"Friend"

Stamps:  TE Sweet Occasions
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, PTI Tea Inks
Cardstock:  Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Patterned Paper:  Chloe's Closet (MM)
Accessories:  Ribbon, Flower (MM), Rhinestones (Michaels), Copic Markers

The Sweet Occasions set also has these great sentiments--I chose to use them to embellish the inside of my card as well.  And since I had the Chloe's Closet paper in both the 6 X 6 pad and the 12 X 12 paper stack, I used the same print I used for the frame in Friend to line the inside of the envelope to make the card look I hope perfect for a gift:













My daughters wanted to play along as well in the Blog Hop, they just love Taylor's stamps:

Here is my younger daughter J's card, using the Sprinkled with Love Stamp set:

"Sprinkled with Love"



And my older daughter K's card, using the Make the Grade Stamp set:

"You're an A+ in my Book:"




Thanks for stopping by!  I can't wait to see everyone's creations, we are on vacation today but I'll be blog hopping soon!

Chris

21 comments:

  1. LOVE all of these! How FUN that your daughters played along too! Great cards!

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  2. What a sweet trio of cards! I love the colors and the lining in the envelope - such a cute touch. And how wonderful to play along with your sweet daughters too!

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  3. All of the cards are wonderful! I think it is very cool that your daughters wanted to play along as well....what a fun thing to do with them!!

    ♥♥♥Lea

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  4. Great cards! Great job on making 3 of them =)

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  5. These are so cute! I love your color combo! And how wonderful for your girls to play along!

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  6. That is just PURE FUN right there... nice Job Family!!!!! :)

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  7. What cute cards! I love the bright fresh colors you all used. Your daughters are quite the stampers!

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  8. Tons of great cards!

    It's a good life!
    Terri E.

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  9. What wonderful cards you have all made. The colors on the Friend card are so pretty. I love the sprinkles on the ice cream and the back to school card is so cute.

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  10. Sweet cards!! I love how you decorated the inside of the card and the envelope!!

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  11. WOW!!!!! So many wonderful cards in one post!!!!!!

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  12. So fun, Chris! I love it that the girls played along too! All three spectacular creations!

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  13. These are all great - love that your girls played along too!

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  14. Sweet card! Your girls are very talented, how fun to share.

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  15. Three beauties! Lovely job by each of you =)

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  16. Great cards! So fun that your daughters played along, too!

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  17. Such a pretty TE card! Love that image and the great colors... it must have been so much fun to stamp with your daughters! :o)

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  18. all of them are awesome - I just love that your daughters made their own cards! how sweet

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