Color Fusers--Soft and Fun!

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Hello friends! And welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for August—we are so happy you are here and I hope you find some inspiration by visiting all of our posts! If you don’t follow me on Instagram, please do @stampwithbrenda as I do post with more frequency on that platform.

Our Hop today is focusing on probably one of my all time favorite color combinations—Lemon Lolly, Bubble Bath and Fresh Freesia which coincidentally are all apart of the Subtles color family.

I have been really focusing on my memoring keeping lately—in fact, I make way more scrapbook related projects then I do cards. So hopefully its not a surprise that I am sharing a page with you today!

I started with a 12x12 base of Basic White and added in Basic Beige as my photo mats so that there was a slight difference behind my 4x6 pictures. I picked two fun summer pictures from a few summers past. With scrapbooking or memory keeping, you are never ‘caught up’ because you are living life and always creating new memories. I decided long ago to scrapbook whatever picture was grabbing my attention at the moment.

This page is the ultimate mash up of retired, current, Christmas stamps, and Paper Pumpkin stamps to create a really fun page that feels like summer to me.

The tag is from the Merriest Trees Dies and I used retired DSP on this page—use your stash! The Lemon Lolly ribbon is from three pack that also had Bubble Bath and Azure Afternoon included. I added a flower from the Textured Floral stamp set (fun fact, it was a left over from another project that I didn’t use!

The heart die is from the Hooray for Surprises Dies—one of my fav sets! The heart is the perfect scale for cards and scrapbooking as it allows you to build other elements on top. Here I have added ‘Hello, Sunshine!’ which is from a long forgotten Paper Pumpkin kit (if anyone happens to know, please comment so I can have my memory refreshed). Basically, since its first use it has sat on a block so I can use it every summer!

The best part of this little section is the flower stamped out from the Happiest Day stamp set—it is, in fact, created using the butterfly wings from that stamp set and then hand trimmed out.

The Bubble Bath card stock at the top of the page was run through the new So Swirly Embossing Folder and I added a scallop detail with a retired die and then some retired DSP.

I created a fun ‘Summer brings me happiness’ stamp by using a long retired stamp ‘summer’ and pairing it up with a new set that actually reads ‘A friend like you brings me happiness’—-I love that we can customize our stamps using our Stampin’ Write Markers. The sentiment is from the upcoming Winterly Tree Tops stamp set.

I used both butterfly wing stamps from the Happiest Day stamp set to create a couple more flowers and added some die cut flowers from Hooray For Surprises and Country Flowers die sets.

I am really pleased with how this scrapbook page turned out. I hope it inspires YOU to create a page or use some of the elements on a card. To me, the top section is all stuff you could easily add to the front of a card!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the team has designed this month with Lemon Lolly, Bubble Bath and Fresh Freesia. Next up on the hop is Melissa Kerman—who has been organizing and managing a our Blog Hop team for a number of years. Recently she has stepped back and we so appreciate her efforts! You can click this image to head to her blog!

You can always go in reverse as well which will take you to Sue Vine’s fantastic creation! Make sure to visit everyone on the hop, you will find tons of design variety and inspiration!

Thank you for popping by! I have been a terrible blogger lately and I do appreciate that you here! If anything on my project has inspired you, please consider shopping with me so I can continue to love what I do!