Weekender with Wanda – Sending you a smile with Taylored Expressions!
Hello my crafty pals! Happy weekend! What are you up to? I’m getting super excited about leaving for Phoenix this week for the CHA Convention! So I’m working hard to get organized and make all the projects I want to post next week. Thinking about seeing my friends and colleagues. It’s all good! We are fully into the new year now and it feels refreshing and new – time for new goals and a new start at things. Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda. Happy to have you here!
Today I’m sharing a project featuring stamps from one of our favorite companies – Taylored Expressions! Simon Says Stamp carries over 900 products from Taylored Expressions in our store! Wowza! So many wonderful things to spark your creativity. One thing I love to do is make cards for my crafty friends. So today I made a clean and simple, and cheery card with some paintbrushes and a sweet sentiment. I used my Copic Markers to color the images and pretty paper from Echo Park.
The sentiment on this card is from a stamp set that I LOVE – called C’mon Get Happy! I used my MISTI tool to line up the words next to the jar of paint brushes and I also used the MISTI to place the little bird right where I wanted him on top of the words.
The little bird is from the Sunshiny Day stamp set and the paintbrushes are from another beautiful Taylored Expressions stamp set called A Life She Loved. The artwork on the images all works so nicely together.
I started this card with a crisp white A2 card base. I layered papers from Echo Park to make a bright background for the focal images. I added a strip of Kraft cardstock and pretty twine underneath the Stitched Circle die. If you wrap twine around your card, use foam tape for your top layer – that gives just the right amount of room for the twine to fit underneath.
Sometimes in my posts I like to share a technique and sometimes, like today, I want to share a card layout. This layout for today is a great way to use your patterned papers when you have one main image. It can work for any occasion and in any color palette. This little note today is to send YOU a smile – hope it worked!
Happy Creating in the new year! Thanks for coming by today!
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Nice bright combination of elements to cheer me up on this cloudy, icy day.
Such a CUTE card!!
So cute! That little bird makes me so ready for spring!!! Nicely done!
Such a bright cheery card!
This card is so cheerful and love the use of the spring paper. I received the smile!
A very sweet card and a great idea…just send someone a smile in a card to brighten their day. I very often stamp a new image and then color it to experiment with it…why not die cut a shape and mat it quickly and send it off with a quick note. Instant smiles. Thanks for the cute design idea.
Very cute card! Just so pretty. Thanks for sharing.
love this fun card
Love the simplicity of the card and the cheery colors!
I love this layout, and heaven knows I have scads of dsp. Thanks for sharing this delightful card!
Super cute
Love this card! The bird is adorable.
Nice and simple cute card. I especially like the sentiment font and bird.
This is a really cute card and I checked out the stamp set and it’s really cute, too!
This is a darling card – thank you so much!!
What an adorable card!
Super cute!!, love the mix/match of stamps sets and patterned paper…paired together perfectly!
I love evefything about this card., beautiful paper, great design, and wonderful stamp.
Sweet card, it really does make me smile.
Very cute card.
Really Sweet card!!! Love the coloring!!
Love the colors of this cute card! Thank you
It worked! I adore the paintbrushes in a jar, and the sweet patterned paper! Thanks for the chance to win!
Your card is so cheerful♥ Have a fun time next week!
HI Wanda – so happy for you to go to Phoenix – I am jealous – some of my family lives in Phoenix and Would love to go as well – and especially to CHA! Oh my goodness – only see videos – You will have a super time! Enjoy the sunny weather and your time at CHA – fun, fun – thanks for sharing your lovely card – I like the layering on this spring look beauty! Have a blessed week!
Very cute and cheery!
This is adorable! That’s one of my favorite sentiments! Such a happy and cheerful card – I love the colors – it would certainly send me a smile!
This card is so bright and cheery!
Love your cheerful card! It really catches my eye! I’m always so glad to see patterned paper used on a card (it’s my goal this year to use as much of my patterned paper stash as possible!!!)
Very very sweet, I love that it reminds me of Spring too!
Such a sweet card! I really like the layout.
Bright and sweet. Love how you combined several different stamp sets.
A much needed hint of Spring, thanks Wanda !
Love the little bird sitting on the words. Love the paint brushes. Nice and bright card.
Delightful! Love this cheerful beauty!
A bright,fun card!
Oh such a cute card! Have a fabulous time at CHA!
This is such a pretty card!
What a wonderful card! I have so many patterned papers that it’s nice to see a card incorporating the papers and a lovely stamped and colored scene! Thank you so much for sharing and enjoy your visit to CHA!
Your card layout is very pretty and the stamped images are very sweet. Great job!
What a cute card!
So pretty and cheerful! Thanks for sharing!
Just delightful!
This card is so cute it did make me smile!
Such a bright, happy card!
The brushes in the jar are adorable! Love it!!
Sweet card… I mean tweet card!
A cute and cheery card! Have fun in Phoenix!
What a fun card! The bird is so cute :)
This card is just so stinkin’ cute! The colors are so cheerful and that little bird is adorable.