Be Inspired Blog Hop--Let's Get Crafty with the Regals!

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Ok friends! Hello and welcome to another fun Be Inspired Blog Hop—now I don’t know WHO it was that decided that we should design with the Regals this month, but at first I didn’t like you much. Now I am thankful and grateful because a) I was pushed out of my normal crafty zone by having to use these colors and b) I created a page that literally reduced me to tears.

The universe sent me a gift when it gave me my son Reese, from the moment he was born he just had that sparkle in his eye, electric and boundless energy, and the BEST personality. Every teacher he ever had reported back the same thing and its a gift that will carry him far in life.

Reese went away to Millar College of the Bible earlier this year…so mom’s who have had kids leave the nest, you get why looking at this picture and creating this page brought me to tears. Hands down, the best decision I ever made was to scrapbook my families life.

I think to myself—where would this picture be now? On a camera roll, maybe if I was lucky, in a shoe box somewhere? But now it is living large on this gorgeous scrapbook page and I can pass it down to my son and his family one day. Okay, enough crying! Seriously, here are the Crafty Details!

I started with an awesome piece of DSP from the Delicate Desert 12x12—I was so excited to see this piece designed with Cajun Craze! I cut a piece of card stock down to 11x11 to give the page a solid base. I then matted my photo with another piece from the DSP that had Cajun and Gray Granite. It was perfect!

And then I started to think about my stamp collection. With the end of this catalogue on the horizon I start to think of the sets that I really truly love and I was reminded of the Hand Penned Petals bundle. I have not crafted with it in a while and I am so happy I dusted it off. It really brings this page to life.

I stamped the main floral image from the stamp set in Basic Grey ink. Black ink just felt a little to strong for the look I was going for. I then colored the flowers with my favorite technique, Lazy Watercoloring using Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze. I was really pleased that I could incorporate 4 colors from the Regals family into my design!

The stitched heart die cut is from the new Radiating Stitches Dies which are a new Online Exclusive product and the sentiment “You are Easy to Love” is from the recent Sale a bration set Beautifully Happy. Its the perfect sentiment for this page and how I feel about my son. I added some gold metallic thread behind it because it was one of my fav embellishments of all time and I have SO MUCH of it!

The best part of the Hand Penned Dies are the amazing flowers they included. I decided to cut them out in Cajun Craze to have that tone on tone textural feel to them. When I dug into my bin of card stock scraps I found a piece of Cajun Craze that had a torn edge. I tried laying it underneath my photo mat and it was perfect—its like this scrap of paper was just waiting to become something special. I think the juxtaposition of the torn paper and the flowers is really special.

TOP TIP: Moms of boys—please use florals on your scrapbook pages! Boys are like nature, wild and free! Embrace it!

The most powerful element on this page is the sentiment “Anything is Possible” that I stamped in Old Olive ink and extended the phrase with ‘Son’, cut in Gold Foil paper with the Alphabet A la Mode dies. Isn’t this the message we want our children to feel?

And I love the mix of the watercolored flowers with the die cuts and some of the gold sequins from the Subtle Adhesive Backed Sequins.

This might be one of my favorite scrapbook pages EVER.

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the squad has designed using the Regals family! I also cant’t wait to see the new and updated Regals family in the 2023/24 Annual Catalogue being released in May! I hope all of the colors I used on my layout will be returning! Fingers crossed!

Please check out what my friend Carolynn has created by clicking on the link below! I am excited to see what the whole team has designed so make sure you hop all the way through!