Happy Friday! A ton of new products were released yesterday in the Taylored Expressions web store and today I’m playing along with the Baker’s Dozen Design Team to highlight a lot of those new stamps and dies. I couldn’t let this week go by without sharing a sample featuring the newest set in the line of my jars concept – Hey, Sweet-Tea. The previous sets have been petites, but Nancy went to town on the illustrations this time and we ended up with a mini set which has almost twice as many images as a petite.
This time we have a mason jar with a handle that’s perfect for all of your favorite beverages! There is also a die set available that has the jar and a cool lid with a straw-hole! The set is oriented toward lemonade and ice tea, but you can let your imagination run wild!
My sample today showcases a refreshing glass of ice tea with a wedge of lemon. I grew up having ice tea with dinner every night from a very young age. {Perhaps all that caffeine explains why I’ve always been a night owl. LOL!} My aunt brewed the tea in a pan of water on the stove using Lipton’s loose tea leaves. It was the BEST! I still make my ice tea that way, although I don’t make it very often. There’s just nothing like it. Oh and I actually do NOT like lemon in my tea. When I order it in restaurants I always ask for it without lemon, but it comes with the lemon wedge anyway about 80% of the time! Despite that, I couldn’t resist adding the cute lemon wedge to the side of my mason jar!
I used Karen Giron’s Sweet Sunday Sketch #190 for the layout of my card, along with the same papers and cardstocks I used on Wednesday – Simple Stories Vintage Bliss. I distressed most of my edges for a little more shabby feel. The mason jar was layered onto a tag cut with Tag Stacklets 1 and the sentiment was die cut with the Band It Die. I used Crackle Accents on the ice cubes and Glossy Accents on the rest of the jar. {Why oh why do I find it necessary to use these products when I have a deadline and I’m losing light to get a photo taken??} The butterflies were cut with the new Butterfly in the Sky Taylored Dies and I added some Kaisercraft pearls.
Now let’s see what the Baker’s Dozen has cooked up today:
I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead. At the moment we have nothing on the agenda and after almost 2 months of total craziness from one thing after another, “nothing” sounds awesome to me right now!
