Good morning and welcome to the first day of our September Release and Birthday Bash! We’re so excited to be celebrating three years of satisfying your creative sweet tooth! Thank you for joining us on the journey! We love to party so this week we’re bringing you lots of ways to win your favorite stamps, free party favors for joining our birthday bash, along with sneak peeks of almost 20 new stamps and dies!

You won’t want to miss out on anything, so make sure you read all the details below:

• At Taylored Expressions we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday and you are invited to our Birthday Bash!
• Sneak peeks Monday through Wednesday – lots of fun eye candy and inspiration!
• All of the new products will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 1st at 8 am PST. You’ll find it all in the Fresh out of the Oven Department at the Taylored Expressions Store.
• Every order placed Thursday – Monday will include a FREE Party Favor.
• To celebrate our 3rd Birthday, you have 3 WAYS TO WIN!

      1. Help Spread the Word! Grab our Birthday Badge from Taylor’s blog and post it on your blog for the week.  Then come back and leave a comment with a link to your blog to let us know you’re spreading the word. You will be entered into a drawing for a $25 TE gift certificate.
      2.  Join us on Facebook for an early reveal of all the new stamp sets Wednesday night beginning at approximately 6 pm PST.  You will have until 8 pm PST that night to comment to enter to win each new set.
      3.  Join us in our SCS Forum for a contest that will begin Thursday morning.  In the meantime you can see Baker’s Dozen sneak peeks there and chat with us!

And now for the sneak peeks! Today the Baker’s Dozen and I are featuring two new stamp sets concepted by Sankari Wegman and illustrated by Nancy McKinney for the Whimsical Wishes collection. The sets are called Build a Treat & Build a Treat Borders…. can you guess what that means!? It’s like “Build a Bear” only with cupcakes and ice cream! Both of these sets have lots of coordinating dies to mix and match and create the treats of your dreams… calorie free too! *wink* Each set has options for both coloring and solid stamping making them a must for any birthday stamp collection. The Doodlebug Cake & Ice Cream patterned paper seemed to be perfect with these stamps. I started by stamping the tops in three different colors and cutting them out with the coordinating die. I stamped the cone directly onto the paper and then popped up the scoops over the top. I added a cherry die cut to the top and covered it (and the cone) with Stardust Stickles. Each of the ice cream scoops was highlighted with Smooch (Sassy Pink, Luscious Lime, and Grape Soda).

In honor of our Birthday Bash, we’re also sharing sneak peeks from a new Cuppie petite set, Sweet Party! Three years ago, Jessie Oleson started us on this journey with her adorable Cuppie illustrations! In this image Cuppie is surrounded by all of his friends for a totally sweet party. I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored it with Copics to match the Basic Grey Indie Bloom patterned paper. It has such funky colors, perfect for a party! I used an old TESC sketch because I thought the awning would be a cute way to highlight the party going on inside. The sentiment was cut out with a label die from the Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio 3 set.

That’s it for my sneak peeks for today! Below are the new dies I used on my Build a Treat project. And you’ll want to make sure you check out the rest of the sneak peeks from our fabulous Baker’s Dozen:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jami Sibley
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melissa Sauls
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild
• Wanda Guess

See you tomorrow for the next round of sneak peek inspiration! Hope you all have a wonderful day!