Happy Anniversary to Me!

ONE year ago today I started my blog process. I knew next to nothing and could not have gotten here 365 days later without the help of Pam Kriangum who took my amazing branding photos and helped me create my vision. Angie Mackenzie, bless your patience as you guided me along with all the behind the scenes aspects of creating blog hop posts!

Many of you have supported me along the way helping with proofreading (auto correct can really sneak things past you sometimes!) and giving me awesome content ideas, leaving comments and sending me personal messages. I feel a lot more confident now than I did in the beginning and I am so proud of myself for making the decision to step out of my comfort zone and expand my technological horizons! I am swearing and sweating a lot less than I was last June! Hahahaha!

I hope you have enjoyed the projects that I have shared over this past year! Not only do I share scrapbooking and card projects but the Lifestyle component of my blog has recipes, musings and family photos. This is a collective form of memory keeping for me and my kids. One day they will be able to go back through all of my posts and hopefully have a few laughs and gain a better understanding of their mom as a person. ‘Moms’ are often just that, MOM, until our kids mature and realize, my mom is also a woman, a friend, a spouse, a superpower, an influencer and the list goes on and on!

So thank you for being on this journey with me! Some of you have been following along since the beginning and some of you are new! I hope you keep checking back every so often and always feel welcome to leave a comment!

Happy Anniversary to ME!

Out of all the photos Pam took of me in my happy place, this one is my absolute favourite. I felt like I was in a crafting magazine! I love everything about this photo!

This page is mix of old, current and new supplies! The new would be the Just Jade DSP in the woodgrain option from the new DSP stack. Goal Crush is stamped with the Lined Alphabet stamp set and the # is from the Hand Lettered Prose dies. I added in the Detailed Hearts dies as my heart is so full and happy!

Wildly Grateful is the perfect sentiment to how I feel and I realize how blessed I am to LOVE what I do and SHARE what I love! You can find it in the new Lovely You Stamp set.

I Heart Rainbows

For my 18th “A Card a Day in May” and it falling on a Monday, I wanted to do something with rainbow colors and Detailed Heart die because I haven’t played with it yet and rainbows are always a fun way to start the week! I chose my color pallet and sponged the colors across a piece of cardstock and then ran it though the die cutting machine with the Detailed Heart die.

I love how it turned out! I wanted the focus to be in the die so I added the sentiment from the Waterfront stamp set and cut it with the Stiched So Sweetly dies. I added the gold thread from the new Forever Greenery Trim Combo and then I used mini staples to attach the panel at an angle to the card.

The colors I used were Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Pretty Peacock

TOP TIP: An easy way to adhere the Detailed Hearts die is to use Tombow glue with a sponge. Simply cut a Stampin’ Sponge into quarters. Squirt some Tombow into a container (I keep all of my empty embellishment containers to use for stuff like this) and dab the sponge into it. On the back of your Detailed Heart die, dab this sponge all over to get coverage. Flip and attach to your project! It is so fast and easy!

This was my first time playing with the Detailed Hearts die!

Sometimes you don’t need a lot of ‘stuff’ to make a card really special. I kept things simple on this one!