Taylored Expressions April Studio Challenge

It's time for the Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge. This is a monthly opportunity for the Taylored Expressions team to share what makes our stamping studios hum. Each month we have a fun, crafty question so we can share our favorites, some tips and tricks, stamping advice and more.

The theme for April is:

Mix & Match! TE stamp sets are designed with plenty of images and sentiments so they are "self-contained" for lots of creativity, but sometimes it's fun to mix and match several different sets for even more possibilities.

Your challenge is to create a project using three or more TE stamp sets.

Well, I may have mentioned this to you one or a hundred times lately, but at this time of year, I'm always in desperate need for graduation cards. Thus, I endeavored to make a graduation card for this month's Studio Challenge. Here's what I came up with:

I started off with the adorable new MOKA SKYLAR image as my foreground image. Here she is, in her graduation finery:

I needed a sentiment/background image that would lend itself to a graduation-themed card, and the Dr. Seuss quote with the road & mountain scene from THE PLACES YOU'LL GO stamp set did both for me:

After adhering Skylar to the left hand side of the background layer, there sure seemed to be a lot of empty airbrushed sky in the upper right section of the background. I decided to punch out the trendy chevron circle and 'congrats' sentiment from the current/April Stamp of the Month kit to add a festive embellishment and cover up some of that empty skyline.

Want to try mixing and matching stamp sets to challenge yourself, and/or get more use out of your favorite sets? Then, in summation, my advice is:

pick out a foreground image to build your card around,
find an image from a different set to create a background, of some sort, that is in keeping with your foreground set,
select an appropriate sentiment from another set, and
find another set you can use to make an embellishment.

Ready to see what the rest of the oh-so-talented Baker's Dozen (and our fabulous Mar-April Guest Designer) have made to fulfill this month's Studio Challenge? Then head on over to visit these lovely ladies' blogs:

Posted at 11:15 AM in Stamping advice, Taylored Expressions, TE Stamp of the Month, TE Studio Challenge | Permalink

Comments

OMG This is freaking awesome!!!!!! Love how you combined the landscape with the words. ACK. Perfect! And this will truly show the graduate that you care. XOXOXO ;-)

Posted by: Wanda G (stampcat) | April 23, 2013 at 12:02 PM