Color Fusers--January 2024!

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Welcome to 2024! It is hard to believe it is the start of an new crafty year, and of course a new year means NEW stamp sets, Designer Series Papers and color combinations!

This month our design team is creating projects with Parakeet Party, Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo! What a bright cheery combo to kick of the new year!

I was in the mood to make a card this month and of course I knew I wanted to play around with a new stamp set. I decided to use the new Adoring Hearts Bundle to design my project.

I started with a base and first layer of Daffodil Delight. I also used this color over top of my sentiment. The Adoring Hearts stamp set has some really beautiful script fonts. I used my Blending Brush with Daffodil Delight lightly over top of the script and then took my Stampin’ Write Marker to trace over the script. It is a really easy way to help your sentiment come to life. The little heart beside the sentiment is from the Adoring Hearts Dies—-these dies are full of hearts!

The background of the card is actually my favorite aspect!

I stamped the large floral image from the set a few times using Memento Ink in the bottom right corner. I used my Melon Mambo and a Blending Brush over top of the flowers—this is a great way to create a ‘color halo’ over a stamped image. I did add some more color with my Melon Mambo blend, however I didn’t want the blooms to look perfect. Hence, the initial layer with the Blending Brush.

I colored the leaves with my Parakeet Party Blend and added a few little die cut sprigs.

I also flicked my Black Stampin’ Blend marker over the background of the card to take away the ‘white’.

Honestly, in my opinion, there isn’t a project that the Black & Very Vanilla Gingham ribbon can not make better! Haha! It looks great with everything, especially this card with a little black Baker’s Twine tied in a bow.

I hope you like this project are inspired to give the Adoring Hearts Bundle a try! It is so much more than just a ‘Valentine’s Set’ ! Don’t be fooled by that one sentiment in the set!

Up next on our Hop is Melissa Kerman! Melissa is actually the one who keeps us on in check each month, and I am grateful for her reminders and patience with us (we know who we are! hahaha!). I can’t wait to see what she has designed for her first project of 2024~

If you need to go backwards or if something happens to our links, you can check out my fellow Canadian friend, Kim McGillis (she is also a former Artisan Design Team member as well!)

As always, thank you for stopping by my blog, following me on Instagram and Facebook @stampwithbrenda

Please consider shopping my online store so I can continue to do what I love! Please keep in mind that the Adoring Hearts Bundle cannot be ordered until the Occasions Catalogue goes live on January 4th (what a great birthday gift to me!)