Color Fusers--May Color Challenge!

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Hi friends! Welcome to another fun Color Fusers Blog Hop! We are so happy you are here. Each month our Blog Hop team creates projects with our monthly color challenge—sometimes it really is a challenge! But its a fun way to create with a color combos that are unique and different, and this month is no exception as we are crafting with Pebbled Path, Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve!

This past weekend was National Scrapbook Day so in honour of that, I have created a scrapbook page with this color combination for May.

I won’t lie, I actually found this a tough color combination as Moody Mauve isn’t necessarily a color I gravitate too.

I started with Bubble Bath as my base and I traced a paper plate with pencil onto the middle of my 12x12 page. This gave me the ‘cicle’ shape to use as guideline for my design.

Isn’t this a cute picture of Hawkins? I came across it recently and I thought it was pefect for this page

My picture is matted on Pebbled Path and offset to the left. From here I did some stamping to poke out from underneath the picture following the circle that I traced. I added a little tab of Pebble Path ribbon at the top of the picture and a scallop border along the edge.

I cut ‘My Bestie’ out with the Alphabet a la Mode Dies with a Foam Adhesive Sheet underneath to give them some lift. After that I just started stamping and collaring a variety of flowers to place around my traced circle, erasing the pencil as I went.

I used a combination of dies with card stock and DSP to help create my page. I even pulled out some retired heart embellishments that I have been hoarding!

I really love the design of this scrapbook page and I will probable recreate it with a different picture and color combination in the future. YES! I often use my own pages for inspiration, especially when I am feeling stuck. Plus, I have 3 kids—so eventually all of these pages will be divided up amongst then, so why not use a design you love more than once?

The stamp sets I used to create this layout were:

  1. Flowers of Beauty

  2. Textured Floral

I found that they worked really well together!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Team has created with Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve and Pebbled Path this month. I do know that you will find lots of inspiration throughout the blog hop. Next up you can visit former Artisan Design Teammate, Janneke, to see what she has designed. Just click on the link below:

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Be Inspired Blog Hop--February!

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Hi friends!

I know I haven’t been sharing on here as much so I am extra happy to be participating today in the Be Inspired Blog Hop! This month, February, we are sharing projects with our favorite things from the Occasions Catalogue. This is easy and challenging at the same time to pick just one or two things!

There are some really fantastic things in the new Occasions Catalogue so it was really hard to narrow it down. I decided to use a stamp set that I have been creating up a storm with lately. I have used this stamp set on a couple scrapbook pages and to make some cards for an upcoming birthday class. This is what I wanted to share with you today!

Isn’t this adorable? This fun card can be for a lot of occasions where you could have cake to celebrate! I intentionally left off a candle on the top so that it could be used for a variety of events.

The color palette is definitely one of my favourites at the moment!

—Bubble Bath

— Fresh Freesia

— Lemon Lolly

— Highland Heather

 

I started by stamping the base of the card with one of the flowers in the stamp set in the same color ink (Bubble Bath) in opposing corners to add some interest to the base.

The cake plate is stamped in Pebbled Path on the Basic White layer and then once again so I could hand cut it and pop it up.

The layers of the cake alternate color and direction. I started with Bubble Bath, then Fresh Freesia and a little layer of Lemon Lolly with one of the icing stamps in the set. This stamp set has 25 images to choose from the build your cakes and pies!

I stamped four different flower designs from the stamp set to add as decorations to my cake. I used two stamps to create the sentiment, ‘Time for Cake’ and cut it out with a circle punch.

A little Lemon Lolly twine and some long retired gems were the perfect touch! I am trying to use up my vast stash of embellishments!

I hope this card inspires you to do some stamping with the Cake Fancy stamp set! I do really think it is a gem in the Occasions catalogue!

I can’t to see what Artisan Design Team member Maheswari has created for our blog hop today! I love all of her designs so I know I will be inspired. Make sure you go all around the hop to maximize your inspiration!