Dec 22, 2014
Blog Design Team: J-O-Y and a Farewell
It’s Monday and the countdown to Christmas is winding down! Today we are sharing the final project (sniffle!) from our wonderful Blog Team designer Caryn Davies. She has given us so much joy as a member of our team and will be dearly missed as she embarks on some new life adventures.
To send Caryn off on all her new adventures, we’re giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store! Keep reading for details…
Caryn’s Notes: Hello there. I’m here to share more Christmas JOY with a card featuring
some of my favorite Taylored Expressions products. I am in love with
the Color Block Cutting Plate and have seen so many fabulous cards
using it that I thought I’d try one of my own.
Caryn’s Notes: Today I’ve paired the plate with the very fun and frolicky Deck The Halls stamp
set – I adore the little penguins and cute critters in this set. I
started with a Kraft card base measuring 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ and cut a
white frame using the Color Block Cutting Plate.
Caryn’s Notes: I cut it a second
time from aqua-colored cardstock and put the frame aside for another
project. Three of the boxes have a snow drift cut from white card stock
using the Build a Scene – Rolling Hills dies.
Caryn’s Notes: For another of the
blocks, I die cut the word “JOY” using the Tall & Skinny Alphabet set and
used the negative placed over the aqua cardstock for some visual variance. The final box contains a
shining star which was stamped in black and then stamped a second time
on white cardstock and paper-pieced. I
stamped and colored the two penguin images from Deck the Halls using
Copics and then cut them out before adhering them in place on the blocks
of my card front. I finished off by adding gloss and a bit of dust glitter glue for a shimmering snow effect.
Thanks so much, Caryn, for being such an incredible talent and for being such a wonderful person. Good luck on all your new life adventures! You can see more of Caryn’s work on her blog, Glitter Me Silly.
Would you like to share some creative JOY like Caryn did with her fabulous card? To help get you started, we’re giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store!
How to Enter: Leave a comment below telling us about your last great life adventure by Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 11:59 pm PST. We’ll choose one lucky winner at random to a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store and announce the winner next week here on the TE Blog! Good luck!