Artisan Design Team--June Share!

Hello friends! I cannot believe that this month marks the halfway point of this amazing journey and experience! I have learned so much along the way but the best part has been the amazing new friendships I have developed with the other team members!

The Artisan Design Team is broken up into 3 groups as we have the largest team to date and my group was given the assignment of creating with the Art in Bloom bundle which features the new Bloom Hybrid embossing folder!

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to create a page with this little cutie’s smiling face, especially because he is now 16! But his eyes have not lost their sparkle and his face still lights up the room. And I also want people to feel ok about scrapbooking their sons, nephews, husbands, etc with flowers and pinks and other bright fun colors!

I started with a 12x12 base on a sheet of DSP from the Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper. This gave me the foundation to add in these bright pink accents.

I used this new Hybrid Embossing Folder in two ways on this page—-one is the traditional way in the sense of I ran some Basic White card stock through the Stamp Cut & Emboss Machine to create two accent panels to flank my photo. The second way is that I used some Gold Foil Paper to emboss and cut the flowers out. This is what makes this folder so unique—it does both at the same time!! You place your paper in the folder and add the dies on top (they will nestle inside).

I also stamped out some flowers and colored them with the Pale Papaya Stampin’ Blends and then used the dies to cut out the flowers.

My favorite element in the Bloom Dies is the shape that cuts out the ‘ticket’…I just love it and think its a great way to add interest or to cut out with a sentiment. On my card I used it as an accent piece.

My tip to accompany this project is a classic one—using your Stampin’ Write Marker to isolate specific words to change how a sentiment is presented. You can see here that the sentiment in its original form is ‘long’ and I wanted something that would fit into a circle. So I just used the marker to isolate the words and stamp them in the shape I wanted.

Notice the ink spray in the background? One of my favorite things of all time—-use your Stampin’ Write Marker or even a Stampin’ Blend to flick or spray ink across your project. I do this ALL THE TIME. It just helps take away the ‘white’ space on a project.

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Create with Connie and Mary--All In Colors, All in ONE!

This week we are challenged to create a project that incorporates all 5 of our new In Colors onto one project! I actually love doing this and often create cards and scrapbook pages with this design theme.

Our new In Colors are just so fantastic as they look awesome together as a group and they work so well to complement our existing colors. So it was not hard to create with them!

I used the Banners Pick a Punch to create the banners or flags along the left edge in the following colors: Evening Evergreen, Fresh Freesia, Soft Succulent, Pale Papaya and Polished Pink.

I cut a panel of Basic White card stock to layer overtop and pop up with Dimensionals. For the background I stamped the floral image from the Art in Bloom stamp set in Whisper White Craft Ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.

The sentiment is from the Flowers of Friendship stamp set and is stamped in Polished Pink ink and punched with a 2 inch circle (or you can use the Layering Circle Dies) and also popped up with Dimensionals.

Finally I added a couple clear circles from the Silver & Clear Epoxy Essentials which added a nice detail without distracting from the crisp clean background.

You can go BACK to see what Melissa designed this week or keep going along with the hop and see what Connie has created. I hope you are enjoying these new In Colors as much as we all are!