Falling for You with Taylor & SCTCCD

At my recent SCTCCD event one of the main classes (3 cards in 90 mins) was Taylor Vanbruggen from Taylored Expressions. The event was a "fall event" as it's fall in the States etc. and to be honest I don't actually make fall cards but the triple slim line stencil TE gave us was fab and it was so fun to see the layers come alive!!! We actually blended and our final panel was then cut down to make 3 mini slimline cards - very cool clever idea. I know TE do something similar with quad stencils (i.e. the final panel gives you 4 cards).

The mini slimline card that TE had us creating were 7"x 6" so we finished up with a 3½" x 6" card which can fit in an A2 envelope.

Now our main swag for this class kit was layering stencils which let's be honest aren't very exciting photographed. We also got some mini leaf dies and a wee cute stamp set to actually stamp the veins whilst the cardstock had the stencil on top, so sometimes you were stamping on the card and some of the stamp was also on the stencil. So very realistic.

So the kit included:

• Happy Harvest clear stamp
• Falling for you triple slimline stencil (FOUR layers) and clear stamp combo
• Fall Flurry die
• TE Mulled Wine cardstock
• TE Sweet Potato cardstock
• TE Kraft cardstock
• mini slim envelopes

This is the sneak peek of our class projects; stenciled and coloured by Taylor. She used Mulled Wine (burgundy), Sweet Potato (dark orange), Dijon (mustard), Mocha (dark brown) and Toffee (kraft brown) inks from Taylored Expressions for her blending. I used my SU! inks Merry Merlot, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. We also splattered in places with gold Gansi Tambi watercolour.

These stamps and stencils and co-ordinating products were released on class day, so if this looks like something you would like to have a go at check them out HERE. If you also check out the TE blog you can see some summery/spring colour combos too.

BEST TIP from the class: When blending with blender brushes blend in both directions; clockwise and anticlockwise circles.

Here are my cards:

I changed the orientation of the card below from Taylor's example and some details have been added with a white gel pen.

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