You're Amazing!

Do you scrapbook your pets? I love to scrapbook my dog, Hawkins! In fact when I pull out my phone I swear he starts posing. Hahaha! I want to remember all the things, and the picture of my son Shepard and Hawkins reminds me of the school pick up days. My dog sits on the console between the front two seats anxiously awaiting the arrival of the kids to the car. Scrapbook the everyday, not just the big days!

The base of this page is the new Soft Succulent In Color and I paired it up with a peachy coral tone that I was able to achieve by adding in some of our new You’re a Peach DSP and Pansy Patch DSP. I love this color combo with some hints of gold.

I used the Meadow Dies because they are literally my favorite thing at the moment…maybe in a tie with the Tailored Made Tags Dies…both so versatile and fabulous!

I added in phrases from several stamp sets—A Grand Kid, Create with Friends, and Color & Contour!

I think you could easily recreate this layout using different colors, stamps and DSP! I hope you are inspired!

Create with Connie and Mary--Favorite NEW Designer Series Paper

Okay, I supposed we are actually supposed to pick just ONE…but I can’t because what I love about our Designer Series Papers is how well they work TOGETHER! Have you noticed this? I love that several of the colors and tones are present in multiple papers. This is fabulous and makes way more sense to be able to create with several options! So I have a hybrid project that includes my ‘favorites’…plural!

See what I mean? How outstanding do these Designer Series papers look together? And will make you want all 3—-mission accomplished!

I have been a Stampin’ Up! demo for 15 years and I got into stamping from a scrapbookers lense. So I have always been a big fan or our DSP…and dare I say it, this may be my favorite year yet!! There are honestly so many gorgeous options and so much design potential!

I started with the base of Pale Papaya for my page. One of the best new In Colors we have had in a while (in my humble opinion because it’s a yellow and it’s an orange). And if you poke through the catalogue you will notice this color in more than one Designer Series Paper—WIN!

Typically I do not design pages with out photos first, I don’t know why, it is just how my brain works. But I wanted to create a beautiful Mother’s Day page so I had it ready to go for the day. And this way I was able to tell my husband I needed pictures snapped in both directions, hahaha! He is pretty well trained though!

I hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day!

This layout uses the Hand-Penned, Pansy Petals and the hostess paper Pattern Party! Isn’t that amazing? If I was forced to make a single selection of my favorite, I guess I would say Hand-Penned. I just love the line art soft style of the florals and I am always a sucker for polka dots, stripes and scallops so it checks all those boxes!

The smallest strip of DSP in Misty Moonlight is from the Pattern Party DSP stack. I can’t tell you how happy I am that Stampin’ Up! has included a DSP as a hostess reward option. Whoever decided that should get a raise!

The large floral strip of DSP is from the Hand-Penned collection, along with the Pale Papaya polka dot tag (cut with the Tailored Made Tags dies). Seriously, add them to your list right now!

The gingham piece is from the Pansy Petals DSP and I think it’s awesome that there are gingham options in 3 colors in this collection. So brilliant.

The photo mat is Garden Green. I really love how the concept artist wove this color into the Hand-Penned DSP.

Can we talk about the Meadow Dies for a minute? I am having a love affair with them. They are AMAZING and seriously look good with any project—cards, scrapbook pages, box toppers, I can go on and on but if you follow me on Instagram @stampwithbrenda you will come to see what I mean as I can’t even put them away!

The “Happy Mother’s Day” sentiment is from the Dressed to Impress samp set and is cut with a shape from the Meadow Dies. I then layered that on top of a shape from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.

For this side I decided to focus on the Misty Moonlight design from the Pattern Party DSP by making it the largest section of DSP. I added the same design from the Hand-Penned over top and if you look close you will notice that the circle behind the “Love You More” is from the In Color 6x6 Designer Series Paper stack. The sentiment is from the Measured with Love stamp set.

The other sentiment on this page is from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set.

The dies really stand out on this layout, especially with the floral image stamped direct to the page from the Quiet Meadow stamp set and then softly stamped in the background of the larger sentiments.

I hope this layout helps you think about combining patterns and designs from multiple DSP collections. Like I said, I really could not pick just one so I hope you enjoy this blending together of my favorites! You can go BACK to see what Melissa has designed this week or you can go NEXT to see what Connie selected as her favorite DSP! Have a lovely Saturday and thank you for popping by! Please leave a comment and if you are in Canada and feel inspired by my layout, please chose to shop by online store! I am always happy to have a new stampin’ friend!

Create with Connie and Mary-Favorite NEW In Color!

I don’t even KNOW if its possible to pick just one color…so I am going to go with the first color I chose to create a scrapbook layout! Obviously that color was really speaking to me and I have to say I LOVE how it turned out. I hope it inspires you too!

I am also curious to see if the Design team has similar favorites or if we have quite the spread! Its always so fun to see each week how we incorporate the challenge!

The base of my page is the new Evening Evergreen and I just love it! It is such a nice rich green that looks fantastic with these lighter colors. I added interest and texture to my page by just punching a bunch of 1 inch circles and adhering them flat to the layout. This is a great way to add a design element without any background stamping.

I used the flowers from the True Love Designer Series Paper and colored them in with a variety of Stampin’ Blends.

Evening Evergreen is such a nice base to showcase some brighter colors and make them really pop on your page. Here is stamped the sentiment with Fresh Freesia ink on the coordinating card stock. The sentiment is from the Color & Contour stamp set. Flowers in Calypso Coral, Polished Pink and Fresh Freesia look so awesome on this rich dark background. The leaves are colored with the new Soft Succulent Stampin’ Blend.

These flowers are colored with the Pale Papaya Stampin’ Blends. I brought in a Pale Papaya photo mat and some of the new Pale Papaya and White Ribbon too. It is such a lovely color that really fills a gap in our standard color offering.

You will notice in my paper crafting that I like to create little areas of interest on my pages. Typically on photos or up in the top corners of my pages.

This view gives you a sample of each of these! I love to add sentiments or phrases onto my pages to help bring my feelings about the content to life. Stampin’ Up! has no shortage of amazing stamp sets to help us in our design.

If you have not pulled out this luscious green to play with yet, I really encourage you to do so. It is quite distinct when paired up with some of our current greens and as you can see it really does make a stunning backdrop for this scrapbook layout.

I can’t wait to see what the rest of team has chose as their Favorite New In Color! You can go BACK to see what Melissa’s choice is or NEXT to see what Connie has selected! Please feel free to leave a comment. Its always nice to get feedback!

Color Fusers--May 2021 Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to MAY the official month of spring! Things are starting to grow and poke through the dead that claims most of the year here in Edmonton where I live! The sun is shining for longer and longer every day. Its fantastic!
I love the Color Fusers Combo that we have for you this month! This combo is bright and happy and new I wanted to make a scrapbook page…wait, I ALWAYS want to make a scrapbook page! Cards come in second place!

I started my page with a base of Bumblebee—-it is such a gorgeous yellow! I decided on the theme of Mother’s Day and look at me, I am ahead of the game! Now I just have to pop a 5x7 photo onto my page and Mother’s Day 2021 will be in the books!

I love the bright colors on this page, they are so happy and work so well together!

I always want to play with new stuff so I pulled out the new Quiet Meadow Bundle to pair up with a returning stamp set Dressed to Impress and the new Days to Remember stamp set.

I stamped a few floral images in the background by my photo mat and added in three different die cut florals from the Meadows Dies. The Flirty Flamingo striped DSP strip ion the left side is from the new Hostess options and is called Pattern Party. I know it will be a hit! I love it!

Layered over the die cut flowers I added a tag from the new Tailor Made Tags Dies in Flirty Flamingo. The sentiment ‘Hello Fabulous’ is stamped in Pool Party ink. And really, aren’t all moms fabulous! I think so! Behind the sentiment I layered some Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon and Lined Thread.

A Gilded Gems acts as the perfect accent to this little area!

I love to create little areas of interest on my page such as this!

I punched a 2 inch circle out of the Hand Penned DSP and lined it up along the top right of my page. I trimmed a small portion off.

I added another stem from the Meadow Dies cut from Poppy Parade. I added ‘May’ over top from the Days to Remember stamp set with some Lined Thread and cut Bumblebee Trinket as accents.

‘Happy Mother’s Day’ is stamped in Flirty Flamingo ink and is die cut from the Meadows Die and then layered on top of a tag from the Tailor Made Tags Dies. I added some Linen Thread and Pool Party in between and tucked a couple more florals from the Meadow Dies underneath with a Gilded Gem.

I hope this page inspires you to make your own page in anticipation of Mother’s Day!

I can’t wait to see how the rest of the Design Team spins these 4 colors! If you joined the Hop here (welcome!) you can go back to see what Nicole has designed and if you hit Next you can see what Tami has created for this week! Please feel free to leave a comment, I would love to hear from you!

You're So Cool

Posting a day early in anticipation of National Scrapbooking Day! I have a big team event and a card scheduled for my feed tomorrow…so lucky you! You can steal this page layout idea and make your own version tomorrow! I do plan on making a page tomorrow night while I enjoy a glass of Prosecco!

I created this page because I am hosting an Ice Cream Social with my Team Leader tomorrow in one of our annual team events! We are making a bunch of projects featuring the Ice Cream Corner Suite so I wanted to share an idea with them for a scrapbook page.

And I am really loving Gorgeous Grape right now so I decided to make my page layout on this base. I added Coastal Cabana photo mats that I stamped with the cone detail stamp from the Sweet Ice Cream set.

The sentiment ‘You’re so Cool’ is stamped in the coordinating ink across the background and I gave the page a little spray of color with my Gorgeous Grape Stampin’ Write Marker.

I love to create little areas of interest on my pages. At the top right corner of this page I add a partial circle from the Ice Cream Corner DSP. I hand trimmed two popsicles from the DSP and added some White Twine behind. I stamped ‘You’re so Cool’ in Whisper White Craft Ink and embossed it with White Embossing Powder. I then hand trimmed out the So Cool to draw attention to the words.

I stamped ‘Treat Yourself’ in White Craft ink and embossed it on black. I love the contrast with the sentiments being in black and white and the page being such loud colors.

I added one of the new Loose Flower Flourshings to the sentiment and tucked some of the new Highland Heather 1/2 Grosgrain behind. The Calypso Coral ribbon is sadly long retired! I love a good thin ribbon!

I stamped out a popsicle from the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set and tucked it in behind my sentiment. I love this picture of me and some girlfriends in the mountains of Montana—it was HOT! And we definitely enjoyed some Ice Cream while we were on this girls trip!

This was a pretty ‘sweet’ trip if I don’t say so myself, especially as it was my last girls road trip! Ahh, life before Covid!

I hope you have an awesome National Scrapbook Day and can take some inspiration from my page!

If you are ever looking for a Canadian Demonstrator, please reach out to me! I have so much on the go and to offer virtually!