Taylored Expressions May Release Day!

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Today I'm featuring a new set from the Whimsical Wishes line of stamps by Nancy McKinney. It's called Oops A Daisy and it's beautiful. It is a full size set of 20 images and sentiments and is another gorgeous floral set from Nancy. This set also has four coordinating dies. Once again, Taylor has given us a choice of solid or open line images for coloring and stamping. Truly something for everyone! This is the perfect set for Mother's Day.

For my card, I chose to use the solid images and emboss them on watercolor paper for a soft effect. Hope you like it!

Here's a close up of the watercolor wash I put over the images. I stamped in white pigment ink onto watercolor paper and then heat embossed with white powder. Then, I wet the entire sheet of paper and chose some colors of watercolor pencils and just played around with it until I got the look I wanted. This is a very forgiving technique. At the end, I chose to distress the edges just a bit to "ground" my image.

This is how it looked before watercoloring....

I kept the layout clean and natural and simple. I think this looks nice with yellow and kraft. Just a touch of twine...

For my second card for today I have a (not really) funny story! I was supposed to make TWO cards yesterday! I spaced out and made this card on the wrong day. It kind of worked out that today ended up being a very daisy day...with two card using beautiful new daisy stamps! Is it Friday yet? This next stamp set was illustrated by the lovely Nancy McKinney and is another gorgeous Petite set in the Bouquet series - this is Daisy Bouquet, a set of 6 stamps for the Whimsical Wishes line. This set included sentiments that coordinate perfectly with the new Mini Tags Dies, which is a set of 9 tags in super cute shapes. I chose a more traditional tag and attached it to my card using some twine. These little tags are awesome!

My Copic color choices for this card....

One trick to making things look white (the daisy petals) is to color them grey! I know this sounds counterintuitive...but it works! It tricks your eye into seeing white. Try it some time!

Here is the image of the Mini Tags....

Thank you for coming by this week. It is always fun to share sneak peeks with you. I just know that you have found some things you want to buy today! I hope the rest of your week is awesome. Now, get to shopping! :-)

Here are the last linkys of the week:

Michele Boyer - Guest Designer

Nancy McKinney - Illustrator

Wanda Guess

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Gorgeous cards Wanda!

Posted by: Holly Saveur | 05/04/2012 at 11:16 AM

Lovely! Great resist embossing and I love the tag on the second card!

Posted by: Kathy Martin | 05/04/2012 at 07:50 AM

Beautiful cards Wanda! Daisies are such cheerful flowers...great way to start the weekend!

Posted by: Shannon Fralish | 05/04/2012 at 06:04 AM

Really love your cards today, Wanda! As always! Such sweet daisy flowers and I just adore the totally different feel to these cards. The watercolor background on the embossed piece is just stunning! I could stare at that all day. And love your bright and happy card, too. Thanks so much for the tip about white coloring. Who woulda thunk it?

Posted by: Audrey Pettit | 05/04/2012 at 05:06 AM

I truly love both of your cards. I think I might try a version of that first one as a class project - it would be so fun with such a great result. And I'm going to have to try that gray coloring tip - your daisies look fabulous!

Posted by: Jami | 05/03/2012 at 01:56 PM