Card Worthy: June 2013

Friday, June 7, 2013

Taylored Expressions June Spotlights: Soak up the Beach!

Surprisingly I had some time in my craft space last night so I have a quick card to show today using my new TE Beach Border die.

I cut the border out of textured black to create the silhouette scene and also out of the main kraft panel to create a type of window for the scene. I generously inked up white card stock with cantaloupe memento ink and wild honey and spiced marmalade distress inks for the background and sentiment tag. The sentiment is from A Day in Paradise on the smallest of the Banner Stacklets 1 dies. I added few random lines of tan stitching along the bottom and that's it!

The Baker's Dozen has more inspiration for today too...

Soak up the sun if you have it...

~Nancy

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Taylored Expressions June Release Day: Dude on a Board

It's release day at Taylored Expressions for June! Finding 'me time' in my craft area has been a challenge, but I have a card for today using several of my designs now available in store. I've played with the new Ray of Sunshine cutting plate; Ride the Wave stamp set; Surfboard and Ride the Wave dies; and one of the Pinking Circles stacklets...

I went back to a technique I used with TE's first cutting plate and cut a mask with removable label paper. Love this simple, inky technique. I stamped the dude and sentiment and used the edge of the distressed wave image in the Ride the Wave set to ink the edges of my surfboard-shaped sentiment. The Ride the Wave die reminds me of an armband tattoo when tucked behind. Kind of cool, I think.