More is More

This month marks the One Year Anniversary of the Embracing Grace collection of stamps at Taylored Expressions illustrated by Emily Burger.  To celebrate, the Baker’s Dozen is highlighting Emily’s very first set Love Grows Here.  This stamp set was introduced last November and it continues to be one of my faves.  Each and every image is adorable and the set can be used year-round!  Here’s my card for Emily.

My card is 5″ square and features paper from the Cosmo Cricket 8×8 Mini Deck – S’more Love.  The sketch is Karen’s SSSC171.  The die cut shapes are a little peek of new Stacklets from the upcoming TE November Release (more about those tomorrow on Taylor’s blog.)  I colored the image with copics and then sponged on some Distress Ink before covering the whole panel with Versamark and heat embossing with Kaleidescope embossing powder.  It’s so hard to capture in a photo, but it makes the panel so super sparkly and pretty!

I wanted to use the sentiment “you make me smile” (because all of Emily’s work does indeed do that!), but I couldn’t seem to make it work on the front, so I used it inside instead.  I honestly love everything Emily does, but I have to admit to being a little partial to Bikes & Trikes and Let’s Chat as those are two of my concepts that Emily brought to life so wonderfully!  Here are a few cards I’ve posted before featuring Bikes & Trikes and Let’s Chat (click on them to see them larger):

Emily has donated two sets of mirror cards from her etsy store to go to one lucky winner (so you can keep one and give one as a gift.)  The winner will be chosen by a random drawing from all of the comments left on all the posts in today’s blog hop (One comment per blog, please.) and will be announced in Taylor’s blog post tomorrow morning.  So let’s check out what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up and be sure to leave some love along the way!

Happy Anniversary, Emily!