More is More

Happy Wednesday.  I’m tickled pink to play along the Baker’s Dozen to show you sneak peeks of  7 new Belated Birthday A la Carte images in the Apple Doodle Ink line and concepted by ME!  *GRIN*  I’ve always loved celebrating birthdays, but over the past few years I seem to be ALWAYS be late in mailing out birthday cards.  I don’t mean to be late…I hate being late…and yet I’m late.  As I’m sure you can guess, I handstamp pretty much all of the cards I send out.  You may or may not know that I am a sentiment fanatic.  In fact one of my very favorite jobs behind the scenes at TE is getting to help brainstorm sentiments for some of the stamp sets.  As far as I’m concerned my cards aren’t finished unless I have appropriate sayings for both the front and the inside.  So it drives me crazy that I have almost no belated birthday sentiments…and that’s what drove the concept for these stamps.  I’ve been collecting ideas for belated sentiments for quite awhile.  I finally decided to send a long list to Taylor that included an outside sentiment, and inside sentiment and ideas for a coordinating cute critters. I was over the moon when she decided to hand these over to our Apple Doodle Ink illustrator and release 7 A La Cartes!!! I may be a tad biased, but I think everyone needs at least a few of these in their stamping arsenal.  😉

I have two cards to share with you today.  Both of them feature patterned paper, cardstock and ribbon from the Make a Wish Project Pantry available Friday.  My first card features some cute little birdies!

On the front it says “I didn’t forget your birthday”

And on the inside…

I just wanted my card to stand out from the crowd!

{Oh so TRUE!!}

My second card

“Oh Nuts!”

and on the inside…

Sorry I forgot your birthday!

I am absolutely dying to see what the Baker’s Dozen has created with these images.  Between the entire team you should get a chance to see all of the different Belated Birthday A La Cartes.  Let’s go see what they’ve cooked up!

• Charmaine Ikach
• Danielle Lounds
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Melissa Sauls
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tori Wild

I’d love to hear what you think of these stamps and which of the 7 are your favorites!  Please don’t tell me that I’m the only one who can’t get my cards out on time!  LOL!

Remember that everything we are peeking this week will be available for purchase at Taylored Expressions on Friday morning at 8:00 am PST.  Thanks for stopping by!