TEBB Challenge #7 Hosted by Dawn

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are enjoying all of the challenges!?! We are only at the half way mark and you still have plenty of time to catch up or join in on the fun! You won't want to miss out :) Remember you have 5 days to complete the challenges and upload your creations to be eligible to win some FANTASTIC prizes!

I'm so excited to be hosting a challenge for you today. Since this is a challenge I've decided to challenge myself too! I've never been a fan of scissors as I'm sort of accident prone...lol BUT like I said it's a challenge right?

So how about a little paper tole? Not sure what that is? It's when you stamp your image at least three times, cut it out, pop it up with dimensionals. Here I have stamped the bear from Beary Special but only the bear paws are popped three times. The bear and present(from the Beary Special Accessories) has been popped twice.
Here is a close up of the layers.
Ready to play along?

CHALLENGE: Get out your scissors and layer up some fabulous stamped images! You’re not required to use Taylored Expressions images for our challenges.

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBDE. Then come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation! In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the cards I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of our Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!”

TEBB Challenge #6 Hosted by Laura

Hello everyone! Are you keeping up with all the challenges? Don't worry, you have plenty of time so have fun! It's Laura here, and I have a sketch challenge for you! I don't often make up sketches, but I sure do love to work with them, and I hope you do too!

Here's my sketch. And here's my take on it!

So here's what do you need to do:

CHALLENGE: Create a card using the sketch! So simple! You’re not required to use Taylored Expressions images for our challenges.

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBLF. Then come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation! In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the card I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of our Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!”

That's it...so simple! Have fun creating and make sure you come back and share it with us all!

TEBB Challenge #5 Hosted by Denise

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Birthday Bash and my Inspiration Challenge!!

CHALLENGE: Get inspired by the photo. Pull out a color combination, image, or theme. Create anything your heart desires! You’re not required to use Taylored Expressions images for our challenges.

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBDM. Then come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation!

In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the card I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of the Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!”

Okay, so here's the inspiration photo...


I think there are so many great elements in this photo to work from and I hope you like it too....the polka dots in the costume, the Halloween theme with the grouping of pumpkins and the ghost, the colors, the outdoor feel, and hey...there's a cupcake in it!

Here's the card I came up with from the photo:



I went with the polka dot and pumpkin theme for my card. The grouping of pumpkins in the photo totally reminded me of this pumpkin cuppie stamp from Year of Sweets III ...I love pumpkin stamps! Don't know what it is about them, but I love them! The punched sentiment and orange deckled rectangle behind the main image are both up on Taylor's foam tape. The square button and Intense Orange card base are from the newest Bundle & Key Ingredients that were just released in the TE Store today! The layout is Jen del Muro's sketch from Aug, 29th.

Here's the inside of the card too, in case you'd like to see:


SUPPLY LIST ~
Stamps: TE Year of Sweets III
Paper: Prism Intense Orange, PTI Dark Chocolate, SU Sweet Always DP, White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, White Craft
Copics: G40, G21, 0, E41, E42, E43, R00, R11, RV21, YR15, YR04
Accessories: Deckled Rectangles, Circle Nestabilities, SU Word Window Punch, Square Button, Brown String, Brown Gingham Ribbon, PTI Chocolate Satin Ribbon, Foam Tape, Leafy Cuttlebug Folder
Card Size: 5" Square

I can't wait to see your cards, and good luck in the drawings!!
Denise

TEBB Challenge #4 - Hosted by Charmaine

Are you having fun with the challenges yet? I hope so! I'm bringing you challenge #4 in the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash (TEBB). . .a color challenge! It's no surprise that I LOVE bright, happy, fun colors that make me smile!


The colors for my color challenge are (in Prism colors) Intense Kiwi, Nautical Blue Light, Sunflowers Medium. You can find this color pick HERE in the store! Of course, if you don't have Prism papers, use like colors in the brand that you do have!

So how do you participate?

CHALLENGE: Use Intense Kiwi, Nautical Blue Light and Sunflowers Medium (or like colors) on your creation. You can find the Prism Color Pick HERE.

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBCI. Come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation! In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the card I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of our Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!”


I can't wait to see what you create! For my card, I used the Season's Sweetings and Home Sweet Home sets from Taylored Expressions. I'm not a big fan of winter and the cold weather that comes along with it, but I just LOVE sunny days in the winter and how the sun sparkles off of the snow! These colors remind me of that and would bring warmth and cheer to anyone during those cold months, or it would just be a perfect Christmas card for someone on your list who lives in a warm, sunny place!

Enjoy the Birthday Bash and I look forward to seeing your creations!

TEBB Challenge #3 Hosted by Donna

Good morning Taylored Expressions/Cuppie Fans!! We’re so excited you’re joining us for the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash! We’ve got so many fun challenges planned for you today and lots of SWEET prizes to celebrate Cuppie’s 1st Birthday!

A new challenge will be posted each hour by our fabulous Baker’s Dozen design team! We’ll have a variety of challenges including sketch, technique, color, and inspiration. You’ll have 5 days to complete these challenges and be eligible for the prizes. It's also o.k. to combine a few of the challenges so you don't have to make 13 cards (unless you really want to!) *wink*

My challenge is the first TECHNIQUE challenge of the day; I am a HUGE fan of the of paper-piecing your line art images, it gives you a FUN, easy option in lieu of coloring. All you do is pick out your patterned papers to coordinate with the rest of your supplies for your card or project. Then, you will stamp your image on your card layer directly, then stamp your image directly on the patterned paper and cut out on the line or just inside the line for a perfect fit, because then you glue your pattern piece onto your stamped layer.

So what do you need to do to participate?

CHALLENGE: Pick out your stamp set and pattern papers and follow the directions above if you've never tried this technique before. You’re not required to use Taylored Expressions images for our challenges, but if you got 'em, you may as well use 'em!

Here is the card I made for this challenge - I brought out one of my favorite Cuppies from last year's Trick or Sweet set illustrated by Jessie Oleson, dracula and he is standing in front of his spooky house from Frightful Night, also a release from a year ago. What I love about these sets is they never get old - they were JUST as FUN to use this week as they were LAST YEAR! That speaks VOLUMES to me as a consumer!

FUN PAPER-PIECING TIP: Since I planned on using the technique so it became a purple spider-web house compliments of the Basic Grey Eerie designer paper in the Halloween Key Ingredients! I did not have to mask the house after I stamped it so I could sponge in the spooky night sky, isn't that great? What I did do, though was make a few extra stars & a moon by using a watermark pen on the paper and embossed with clear embossing powder, the ink would 'resist' those areas and stay white.

Now you see how the house fit in perfectly on the background and it looks great, huh? I also want to point out to you the attic window on the house. You will notice it is not cut out and colored in with light in the windows like the others. That is because no one was hanging out in the attic that night. That's a place strictly for storage of non-Halloween decorations, like Christmas decorations. (that's my truthful explanation for having not realized I forgot to cut out the window until AFTER I had already made & photographed my card-HA!) Now you know I'm not perfect, nor do I ever claim to be. This card was a lot of work and I put my heart into it and did not have time to make another one. I hope you still like it & would be proud to own it if you win!

ANOTHER PAPER-PIECING TIP: In order to make dracula's cape look like it was really OVER his cupcake liner, I paper-pieced both with the purple designer paper. Then, I paper-pieced the cape with the polka dot paper so it was on top. It creates a more fluid and realistic effect.

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBDB. Then come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation! In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the card I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of our Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!” HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!

HAVE FUN & GOOD LUCK!