The May Key Ingredients Are Here!!

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Hi everyone! Happy Saturday!!!

Today is a HAPPY HAPPY day in Stamping A Latte land!! Why you ask? Well, it's because I get to share one of my ALL time favorite things with you all, the newest Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions!

If you come around these parts (lol!) you are well aware of just how much I {heart} the Key Ingredients by Taylored Expressions, and the May Key Ingredients is my FAVORITE thus far!! (Yes...I KNOW...I say that all the time...but boy oh boy...I LOVE this kit!).

The May Key Ingredients are CHOCK full of cardstock, patterned paper (Pebbles Treehouse...YUM!), ribbons and chipboard, all hand selected by Taylor herself for the maximum level of fabulousness!

One of my favorite things about each Key Ingredients are the embellishments! I LOVE to embellish my cards, especially with ribbon, and each KI always has such an AWESOME assortment of ribbon (different colors, widths, styles), you can get SO many different looks from just one KI!!! Aside from the TONS of ribbon each month, there is also another AMAZING embellishment that I always LOVE to use!! I feel SO creative using the Key Ingredients!

I have two cards to share with you today featuring the May Key Ingredients!! For my first card, I used Taylor's Sketch from yesterday, TESC113, which was PERFECT for what I had in mind! Now...don't be shocked, but there is absolutely NO stamping on my first card!!! NONE at all!

In lieu of stamping, I used the rub-ons from the May Key Ingredients for both my focal panel AND sentiment panel(s)! How FUN!!! I used the owl rub-ons (how CA-uuuuute are they?) for my focal panel and cut it out and embossed it with Circle Nestabilities. I sponged the edges a bit for definition and layered it onto Scallop Circle Nestabilities. The sentiment that I used, "You and Me" is also a rub-on, and I just cut it up into three pieces and rubbed them on! Easy peasy lemon squeezy! I finished this one off with some yummy yellow polka dot ribbon, also from the May KI!

For my second card, I used another one of Taylor's Sketches, this one from two weeks ago, TESC11. I LOVE this sketch because it really shows off the YUMMY Treehouse Pebbles paper in the May KI! For this card, I stamped the bee hive from the brand new Garden Party Critters by Taylored Expressions, one of the two new sets in Taylor's very own stamp line, TE, colored it with Copic Markers and then cut it out and embossed it with Circle Nestabilities. I layered it onto Scallop Circle Nestabilities. I inked up only the "bee happy" part of the sentiment, also from Garden Party Critters, and punched it out with a Word Window Punch. I popped it up on top of the bee hive.

For my embellishments on this card, I used three of the flower rub-ons from the May KI and I LOVE how they look on the side of the card! A simple ribbon knot using some more delicious ribbon from the May KI finishes this one off!!

Are you ready to become a subscriber? That's the only way to get your hands on the Key Ingredients...they are EXCLUSIVE to subscribers!! You can satisfy your craving for FABULOUSLY put together cardstock, patterned paper, ribbon and embellishments right HERE!!

You can also check out the May Key Ingredients Gallery (and all past KI galleries!!) right HERE for my inspiration and enabling (grin!)!

Don't forget to stop by the other members of the Baker's Dozen that have samples with this kit today!

Donna Baker
Karen Giron
Melissa Sauls
Charmaine Ikach
and of course, Taylor VanBruggen!!

Thanks SO much for stopping by!!

You and Me Card Recipe:
Stamps: None!!
Paper: Cardstock, Choice Snow White & Patterned Paper from the May Key Ingredients
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Canteloupe & Memento Tangelo
Accessories: Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Square and Scallop Square Nestabilities, Ribbon from the May Key Ingredients, Rub-Ons from the May Key Ingredients and Foam Tape

Bee Happy Card Recipe:
Stamps: Garden Party Critters by Taylored Expressions
Paper: Cardstock, Choice Snow White & Patterned Paper from the May Key Ingredients
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Canteloupe & Memento Tangelo
Accessories: Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Copic Markers, Ribbon and Rub-Ons from the May Key Ingredients and Foam Tape

Jodi