Color Fusers--August Blog Hop!

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Hello friends! Welcome to another Color Fusers Blog Hop! Each month a bunch of us crafty friends from around the globe each create unique projects using a fun color combo! I hope these color combos inspire you to try some new options!

This month we are creating with Mint Macaron, Pacific Point, Highland Heather and Mossy Meadow. This combo was a little tricky for me so I decided to lean into our amazing Perfectly Pencilled DSP to be the star of my project!

Do you ever find that you get hooked on using certain products? For me right now I am hooked on the Diorama Dies! I have used two of them here to create this elevated background for my DSP flower showcase! I thought it was a subtle way to give this card some texture. The top diorama shape I also flicked with my Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blend as well and surrounding the flowers I added some of the Iridescent Pearls, one of my fav new embellishments in the Annual Catalogue.

The sentiment is from the Charming Phrases bundle—it is stamped in Versamark, then Mint Macaron ink and topped with Clear Embossing Powder and heat set! This is the easy way to turn any of our inks into sticky inks for grabbing embossing powder!

I decided to apply my fav technique, "Lazy Watercoloring” to the flower image from the DSP. I love this DSP as it is all black and white designs which means unlimited potential for coloring! After I colored the flowers using all four of our challenge colors I hand trimmed the flowers and added them to the diorama shape, only applying adhesive to the very middle. I wanted to flowers to feel fluid.

‘Lazy Watercoloring’ is so easy! I simply smash my ink pad colors on one of our large blocks and add a pool of water with a Water Painter. I then dip my brush into the water to add color to my image! You can easily layer on the color to create depth and dimension and this method is SO FAST!

I can’t wait to see what everyone else on the team creates this month! I hope you are having an awesome summer and make sure to go follow me over on Instagram @stampwithbrenda as I share alot more on that platform.

Of course you can always shop with me directly here or reach out to me through email!

Next up on hop is Bonnie

If you want to go in reverse, I mean hey—why not? Just make sure to visit us all the way around, you can go check out what the fantastic Tami has created!

Color Fusers--July Blog Hop!

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Hello friends! Where did the month of June go? I know I am asking myself that as my son graduated high school and my other two kids wrapped up grades 6 and 8. It was a busy month at our house! And here we are at summer holidays and I am kicking it off my sharing a CHRISTMAS CARD! I mean, it is Christmas in July right?

The Color Fusers Blog Hop this month is featuring Petal Pink, Poppy Parade and Smoky Slate and I think they make a pretty awesome color combo!

Stampin’ Up!’s Holiday catalogue also began on July 1st and there are so many amazing options for all of your holiday crafting. I didn’t even need to look too hard to find Designer Series Paper that had Poppy Parade and Petal Pink! I used a strip form the Santa Express DSP as my starting point for my card design!

I actually used a whole mash up of products on this card including Linen Paper and Snowy White Velvet Sheets for some of the snowflakes and the cute little heart!

The heart, tag and snowflakes all come from the Celebrations Tags Dies which is an awesome set. There is a coordinating stamp set of course but I pulled my sentiment from the Snowman Magic stamp set. I stamped it first in VERSAMARK, then Petal Pink ink and sprinkled some Clear Embossing Powder on top! I have discovered my love of heat embossing again lately. Now the dies cut a tag that is designed to open, so I just cut off the other side to use it in a more traditional sense.

The ribbon through top of the tag is the new Iridescent Trim with some retired Petal Pink Ribbon tied in a bow. I added the velvet heart and a couple Iridescent Pearls to the tag as well!

Is it really easy to add texture to a background by die cutting shapes in the same color but using different textures such as Linen Paper and Snowy White Velvet Sheets.

I love how the scallop die from the Hand Penned Flowers Dies coordinated with the bottom of my tag! I added in a spray of the colors using the Christmas Banners stamp set and coordinating Christmas Banner Die set. I think it worked really well to add in a different shape to the card design.

I am really curious to see what the other members of the Hop created this month…did they go Christmasy too or not? Make sure to follow all through Hop and visit demonstrators from around the globe! You can click on the button below to visit Bonnie O’Neill or you can click on Previous to see what Tami Hewlett has created this month!

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Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day 7!!

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Hey I did it! I shared 7 scrapbook pages in a row! YAY! I hope you have enjoyed following along and seeing what everyone has created using the #sevendaysofscrapbooking!

My last page features two of my kids (my younger two who are 19 months apart) back in the good ole days I like to say. When they were besties! Now they are at the age of constant disagreeing and competition with each other (which is great when it comes to besting each other with their school marks).

I created this page to celebrate that moment in time when they truly were besties. I really hope it comes back around again—someone reassure me this tween thing is a stage!

The base of this page is my current fav In Color—Starry Sky! I used the stamp set Framed Occasions and Butterfly Kisses to bring this page to life. I used 3 of the fun patterns from the DSP and used the color palette to dictate the colors in my sentiments and the flowers. And my Paper Snips definitely got a workout this month!

 

I stamped some of the dotted circles on the left side of the page for a little texture that is tone on tone.

And I brought in the Beautiful Shapes Dies as this stamp set was designed to coordinate with these dies. I love when SU gives us another reason to use something!

I also used the Fun Flower Resin Shapes as an accent to this page as they work with my hand cut flowers as well. And really, they are just super cute!

I love everything about this page and how easy it was to create with this stamp set! I hope you don’t over look it in the Annual Catalogue!
Make sure to check my Instagram Stories to see the last set of pages being shared using the tag #sevendaysofscrapbooking

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Color Fusers June 2022--Day 6 of Seven Days!

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Today is really a double whammy! The Color Fusers Team is creating with the NEW In Colors and some of my Artisan Alumni friends are spending a week sharing scrapbooking projects so of course I combined these two concepts into ONE project!

Each month this awesome design team created projects featuring a color scheme, of course this month we are featuring our 5 new In Colors—Parakeet Party, Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis, Starry Sky and Tahitian Tide!

My current favorite new In Color is Starry Sky? What is yours?

This is my project featuring all 5 of the new In Colors—I love how it turned out! Each year I do try and create a scrapbook page that incorporates all the new colors together. Sometimes its a challenge and sometimes its easy and in this case, its easy as these 5 new colors look absolutely spectacular together! What do you think?

I started with a base of Basic White and used Basic white elements along with the new colors. I feel like they really pop on this crisp base. Last summer a couple of my long time bestie’s and I got together for a girls weekend and besties photo shoot. Our awesome photographer is also a friend so of course I had to snap my own girlfriends selfie and I thought it was a fun picture to add to this page. I layered our picture on Basic White, Orchid Oasis and a piece of the Starry Sky DSP from the In Color 6x6 stack.

I have known these amazing gals for over 20 years. It is a blessing to have such fantastic lifelong friends!

I mashed up a whole bunch of products on this page! That is my favorite thing to do! I used the For the Record stamp set, Summer Shadows Dies, Shaded Summer stamp set, Stylish Shapes Dies and the Amazing Thanks Dies. I even ran the Orchid Oasis card stock through the TImber 3D folder.

Each row of color has a stamped and die cut element to bring it to life along with some of the Matte In Color dots. And each row of color is working to build the story of this page, starting with the sentiment ‘Love You, Friend’.

and ending with “For the Record, I really like you, You’re Awesome and You’re Amazing”. I love taking a bunch of individual sentiments and building them into a broader more encompassing phrase.

I can’t wait to see what every one else on the Color Fusers team has created this month using one or all of the new In Colors—and if you are following along with #sevendaysofscrapbooking then you know you are going to see some amazing projects shared today! Make sure to check things out in my Instagram Stories.

The keep going with our Blog Hop you can go NEXT to see what my awesome former Artisan Design Teammate (#artisanalumni) Janneke has created. And if you want to go in reverse you can see what my current Artisan teammate, Tami, has designed. Make sure to hop all the way around and see what everyone has designed using our amazing new In Colors!

Thanks so much for following along on this Blog Hop and make sure you scroll back through my blog for some scrapbooking and card inspiration!

Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day #5

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Hello friends! Today I am sharing a fun page I made using some of my favorite RETIRED and current things! In fact, there are more retired items on this page than current! And remember I said I would try and make a page with more than once picture? Well I can now say I did!

This page is on a base of Crumb Cake card stock with the two embossed panels also being Crumb Cake. I used the Timber 3D folder that is current and a really old polkadot folder for the other. Polka dots have really nothing to do with camping or nature…but I like them!

My youngest son and husband recently took a tent camping trip to the mountains in Alberta :)

Ridiculously Awesome was one of my FAV stamp sets so I still have it in my collection and I was so happy to pull it off the shelf for this page! I think the sentiment is absolutely perfect for this page and looks so good cut out using the Diorama Dies! I added a little Linen Thread behind as well.

The little clouds added above the trees are from the Waves Dies. I like how these clouds have an embossed design to them versus some of the other cloud shaped dies we have.

Another one of my fav sets is Mountain Air and I am so happy it gets another turn in our Annual Catalogue. It is actually a set I will hang onto no matter what. I love the accompanying Majestic Mountain Dies as I have use the tree dies on so many camping/nature projects! These are cut using Early Espresso and Soft Suede card stock.

I think the little wooden accents were from In Good Taste and I had just enough in my massive stash to add them to this page!

The trees that are stamped just behind the Timber 3D panel are from the Campology set that is also getting another run in the Annual Catalogue. I stamped it tone on tone in Crumb Cake ink.

I used another retired set on this page too called Travel Log. Basically I keep any sets that have to do with travel and adventure as we don’t always have a current option so I like to have them in my stash for projects like this.

I stamped the trees from Campology again behind the polkadot panel and this time I cut out the fun travel log image by hand. It was stamped with Soft Suede ink and both of my sentiment areas got a flicking of ink using a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend. The ‘adventure’ definition is stamped w Mossy Meadow ink on Old Olive paper and is cut using the Stylish Shapes Dies. I also decided to add a wooden element, Metallic Dots and an Old Olive tree to this side.

I really really love how this page came together especially because I made it just for myself! Its not for a class or event display or anything. Just for me and that makes my heart happy as its actually a luxury for me at this point!

I would love to share my passion for scrapbooking with you at one of my many classes! Please reach out!