Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day 7!!

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Hey I did it! I shared 7 scrapbook pages in a row! YAY! I hope you have enjoyed following along and seeing what everyone has created using the #sevendaysofscrapbooking!

My last page features two of my kids (my younger two who are 19 months apart) back in the good ole days I like to say. When they were besties! Now they are at the age of constant disagreeing and competition with each other (which is great when it comes to besting each other with their school marks).

I created this page to celebrate that moment in time when they truly were besties. I really hope it comes back around again—someone reassure me this tween thing is a stage!

The base of this page is my current fav In Color—Starry Sky! I used the stamp set Framed Occasions and Butterfly Kisses to bring this page to life. I used 3 of the fun patterns from the DSP and used the color palette to dictate the colors in my sentiments and the flowers. And my Paper Snips definitely got a workout this month!

 

I stamped some of the dotted circles on the left side of the page for a little texture that is tone on tone.

And I brought in the Beautiful Shapes Dies as this stamp set was designed to coordinate with these dies. I love when SU gives us another reason to use something!

I also used the Fun Flower Resin Shapes as an accent to this page as they work with my hand cut flowers as well. And really, they are just super cute!

I love everything about this page and how easy it was to create with this stamp set! I hope you don’t over look it in the Annual Catalogue!
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Color Fusers June 2022--Day 6 of Seven Days!

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Today is really a double whammy! The Color Fusers Team is creating with the NEW In Colors and some of my Artisan Alumni friends are spending a week sharing scrapbooking projects so of course I combined these two concepts into ONE project!

Each month this awesome design team created projects featuring a color scheme, of course this month we are featuring our 5 new In Colors—Parakeet Party, Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis, Starry Sky and Tahitian Tide!

My current favorite new In Color is Starry Sky? What is yours?

This is my project featuring all 5 of the new In Colors—I love how it turned out! Each year I do try and create a scrapbook page that incorporates all the new colors together. Sometimes its a challenge and sometimes its easy and in this case, its easy as these 5 new colors look absolutely spectacular together! What do you think?

I started with a base of Basic White and used Basic white elements along with the new colors. I feel like they really pop on this crisp base. Last summer a couple of my long time bestie’s and I got together for a girls weekend and besties photo shoot. Our awesome photographer is also a friend so of course I had to snap my own girlfriends selfie and I thought it was a fun picture to add to this page. I layered our picture on Basic White, Orchid Oasis and a piece of the Starry Sky DSP from the In Color 6x6 stack.

I have known these amazing gals for over 20 years. It is a blessing to have such fantastic lifelong friends!

I mashed up a whole bunch of products on this page! That is my favorite thing to do! I used the For the Record stamp set, Summer Shadows Dies, Shaded Summer stamp set, Stylish Shapes Dies and the Amazing Thanks Dies. I even ran the Orchid Oasis card stock through the TImber 3D folder.

Each row of color has a stamped and die cut element to bring it to life along with some of the Matte In Color dots. And each row of color is working to build the story of this page, starting with the sentiment ‘Love You, Friend’.

and ending with “For the Record, I really like you, You’re Awesome and You’re Amazing”. I love taking a bunch of individual sentiments and building them into a broader more encompassing phrase.

I can’t wait to see what every one else on the Color Fusers team has created this month using one or all of the new In Colors—and if you are following along with #sevendaysofscrapbooking then you know you are going to see some amazing projects shared today! Make sure to check things out in my Instagram Stories.

The keep going with our Blog Hop you can go NEXT to see what my awesome former Artisan Design Teammate (#artisanalumni) Janneke has created. And if you want to go in reverse you can see what my current Artisan teammate, Tami, has designed. Make sure to hop all the way around and see what everyone has designed using our amazing new In Colors!

Thanks so much for following along on this Blog Hop and make sure you scroll back through my blog for some scrapbooking and card inspiration!

Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day #5

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Hello friends! Today I am sharing a fun page I made using some of my favorite RETIRED and current things! In fact, there are more retired items on this page than current! And remember I said I would try and make a page with more than once picture? Well I can now say I did!

This page is on a base of Crumb Cake card stock with the two embossed panels also being Crumb Cake. I used the Timber 3D folder that is current and a really old polkadot folder for the other. Polka dots have really nothing to do with camping or nature…but I like them!

My youngest son and husband recently took a tent camping trip to the mountains in Alberta :)

Ridiculously Awesome was one of my FAV stamp sets so I still have it in my collection and I was so happy to pull it off the shelf for this page! I think the sentiment is absolutely perfect for this page and looks so good cut out using the Diorama Dies! I added a little Linen Thread behind as well.

The little clouds added above the trees are from the Waves Dies. I like how these clouds have an embossed design to them versus some of the other cloud shaped dies we have.

Another one of my fav sets is Mountain Air and I am so happy it gets another turn in our Annual Catalogue. It is actually a set I will hang onto no matter what. I love the accompanying Majestic Mountain Dies as I have use the tree dies on so many camping/nature projects! These are cut using Early Espresso and Soft Suede card stock.

I think the little wooden accents were from In Good Taste and I had just enough in my massive stash to add them to this page!

The trees that are stamped just behind the Timber 3D panel are from the Campology set that is also getting another run in the Annual Catalogue. I stamped it tone on tone in Crumb Cake ink.

I used another retired set on this page too called Travel Log. Basically I keep any sets that have to do with travel and adventure as we don’t always have a current option so I like to have them in my stash for projects like this.

I stamped the trees from Campology again behind the polkadot panel and this time I cut out the fun travel log image by hand. It was stamped with Soft Suede ink and both of my sentiment areas got a flicking of ink using a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend. The ‘adventure’ definition is stamped w Mossy Meadow ink on Old Olive paper and is cut using the Stylish Shapes Dies. I also decided to add a wooden element, Metallic Dots and an Old Olive tree to this side.

I really really love how this page came together especially because I made it just for myself! Its not for a class or event display or anything. Just for me and that makes my heart happy as its actually a luxury for me at this point!

I would love to share my passion for scrapbooking with you at one of my many classes! Please reach out!

Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day #4

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Hello friends! Are you enjoying following along? I hope so as I have loved creating these pages and am so happy to share them!

My page today uses Crumb Cake and the awesome Abigail Rose Suite! I love this suite and I am hosting a Summer Stamp Camp with Honeybee Stampers in July featuring this product suite. I will also be offering a ‘Scrapbookers Add On’ class as well post event, so if you are interested please look under my events tab or send me a DM!

What I love about the Abigail Rose DSP is its neutrality and how you can turn it into any color you like by spritzing, blending and coloring. I also love the designs of the flowers and how easy it is to die cut or hand trim them out as well.

This is another picture of my husband and I on the Green Incentive trip. When in Rome, hire a photographer to do a photo shoot!

I think the whole highlight of this page is the DSP—I colored the flowers and leaves in using the ‘lazy watercoloring’ technique. I have coined this term because I honestly don’t always have time to fuss about and color things with Stampin’ Blends. So instead, I smash my ink pad onto one of our acrylic blocks and use my Water Painter to swiftly color things in. You have to be quick and not use a ton of water as this is not water color paper! Keep that in mind!

 

I used Blushing Bride and Old Olive to color in these flowers. I actually hand trimmed them because I wanted to cut a little closer to the line I also layered the flowers by cutting out just a few individual flowers and adding them over top of a larger image.

The sentiment is stamped in Blushing Bride as well and I die cut it with a shape from the All That Dies. I added a little Heart Pearl beside the phrase and some Linen Thread underneath.

I stamped some of the large flowers from Cottage Rose on the base of the page in Crumb Cake ink and added some die cut flowers and leaves in and around my colored DSP flowers. A few of the retired Metallic Dots were a perfect addition.

Everything is concentrated on the right side of this layout and I love how the flowers sort of cascade down much like the greenery in our photo. Tucking die cut shapes in all the layers also helps develop texture as well.

I love this page and hope you are enjoying everything being shared so far! Please feel free to join in by using the tag #sevendaysofscrapbooking and following my Instagram Stories to see what everyone is making! You will be amazing and hopefully inspired to start your own creative journey!

Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day #3

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Are you having fun yet seeing all of these amazing scrapbooking projects? I know I am beyond inspired by what everyone is sharing and creating! Make sure to check out my Instagram Stories each day for a recap of what everyone has shared!

Today I am sharing a page that uses one of my favorite bundles. It was originally shared in our January to June catalogue and is now available in our Annual Catalogue for 2022/23—the Blessings of Home Bundle I don’t even know how many packages of the Heart & Home DSP I have ordered!

I am trying to be strategic about the pages I share during this challenge so you can get a sense of my scrapbooking style. I teach a variety of classes each month so if you are local to Edmonton, I would LOVE to have you come scrapbook with me. Please reach out if you are!

Would you believe that this handsome little boy is graduating TODAY! Be still my heart and time, please slow down (I think every mom in the history of moms has wished for this).

The base of this page is a nice crisp Basic White and I layered a good sized piece of DSP from the Heart & Home collection along the bottom. The DSP needed a defining edge so I stole a nice piece of a Night of Navy design from the recently retired Sweet Symmetry collection. The photo mat is Soft Succulent and there are die cut and colored images in Petal Pink and So Saffron.

Who says boys can’t be scrapbooked with flowers? I do it all the time!

The sentiment “Love is What Makes us Family” is from the enduring stamp set Lovely You. Now its original form was not going to work in a circular shape so I used my Stampin’ Write marker in Night of Navy to modify it. It is layered on a Petal Pink circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies with some retired Metallic Thread behind. Now, truth—Metallic Thread was probably my favorite embellishment of ALL TIME. When it retired…well I won’t even disclose how many rolls I bought. If you want to sandbox bringing it back, please DO!

Of course I also had to add some die cut flowers and sprigs around my sentiment and I did so with the Flowers of Home Dies and finished off this little section with some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

 

I love this large floral image from the Blessings of Home stamp set. I think our Concept Designers did such an amazing job with it. I colored it in m Stampin’ Blends and then stamped it a second time to color in the large So Saffron flower again to pop it up on Dimensionals. This just gives it a bit more of a dynamic look and feel.

The original sentiment has ‘for love’ underneath which is a beautiful sentiment but it didn’t work for the content or picture on my page. Remember how I shared I always let my photo guide my design?

I used the Stampin’ Write marker again to just modify the sentiment. I added a second small stamped and colored flower below the sentiment to fill in the whole side of the photo mat.

A bit of twine and a die cut flower underneath my sentiment finished it off nicely,

I hope you are enjoying everything I have shared so far! Please feel free to check out my page Gallery and leave me any comments you may have!