Hi Friends! I’m super excited about this release! Taylored Expressions has added SEVEN NEW COLORS of inks & cardstock to their beautiful color collection: Rose Water, Banana Cream Pie, Passion Fruit, Macaron, Dried Fig, Tropical Punch & Oyster. Today, I’m sharing two cards showing off both the new ink & cardstock colors.
The new colors include new jewel tones that look gorgeous with gold and silver. This is definitely a color story I would like to use more than once so I created a True Colors swatch card that I slipped into a Mini Slim Binder Insert. I included both a first and second stamped impression—I like including the second impression because helps me visualize what the color will look like when ink-blended.

New Ink Colors Card Details
I used the Best Buds Stamp & Stencil and stamped the background using VersaMark ink which I heat embossed in Gold TE Embossing Powder. With Bitty Blender Brushes (no masking required with this little brushes when I applying color) and the Best Buds Layering Stencil, I added Macaron, Dried Fig, Passion Fruit, Tropical Punch and Rose Water.

I die-cut the stenciled background with a Stitched Rectangle Stacklet and attached to a Passion Fruit card base that was stamped tone-on-tone with Passion Fruit Ink with the Denim Background Stamp. To finish the card I added a Gold & Velum stacked Signature Thanks Die-Cut and Gold Bits & Pieces to the center of the Tropical Punch blooms.


New Cardstock Colors Card Details
New colors have entered the rainbow spectrum and I couldn’t be more excited! For my thinking of you card, I went with a more retro rainbow vibe blending new and older colors together starting with Tropical Punch, Rose Water, Guava, Pineapple, Blue Raspberry, Dried Fig and Macaron.

I used the 1/2-inch Easy Strip die to cut out all the new and older colors of cardstock and adhered them in rainbow order to a piece of copy paper that had a TE Sticky Sheet applied. I didn’t want to hide all the beautiful colors, so I stamped and heat embossed the Fancy Florets Stamp with white embossing powder and attached to the striped background with Thin Adhesive foam strips.

To hide the adhesive, I added a white Stitched Frame Stacklet border. To finish the card, I added a gold embossed Thinking if you Die Cut from the On Occassion Stamp Set and Gold Bits & Pieces embellishments.



So there we are friends, two very different cards using the new color collection of inks & cardstock from the new Taylored Expressions Release. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Taylored Expressions blog for more Creative Team Inspiration along with the Taylored Expressions Shop to check out the entire kit release. Big Paper Hugs!
New Release Promotions—IT’S SO GOOD!!
First up is the I Want it All New Color Bundle:We have a one stop shop ready for those of you who want to pick up all of the new colors with one click. The I Want it All New Color Bundle includes:
- 7 Full Size Ink Pads in the new colors
- 7 Mini Ink Cubes in the new colors
- 14 sheets of cardstock (2 each of each new color)
- ink pad labels for the new colors

Next is the Swatch Out Bundle:In addition to the I Want it All New Color Bundle, we are having a swatch party! The Swatch Out Bundle gives you everything you need to swatch out your new colors, plus join us for a virtual swatch party!
The Swatch Out Bundle includes:
- Swatch Out stamp set
- Clearly Crafty True Colors stamp set
- True Colors Ink-spiration cards
- FREE True Colors Ink Swatch Cards
- Access to virtual Swatch Party on June 10, 6PM Central on Zoom (you will be emailed a Zoom link to join the party and/or you can watch the replay after the event)
