Color Fusers--September is Neutral!

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Hi friends—can you believe it is officially the start of ‘Sweater Weather’? I actually love this time of year, I can’t help but appreciate a good cardigan! And I love crafting with fall colors, especially the one we are featuring this month—Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie.

I am really excited to see what everyone designs this month and I actually decided to create a CARD versus a scrapbook page! Although I love this card so much that I will probably use it as inspiration for a future page.

I started with a base of Crumb Cake card stock and stamped some leaves from the Caring Leaves stamp set in the opposing corners in the same ink. Caring Leaves is a well priced autumn stamp set that is a great addition to some of the other fall products.

My second layer is Pecan Pie that I ran through the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder. I love how you see just a few leaves poking through on the sides for some added texture.

I used an easy technique to stamp the leaves on the Basic White layer. I inked up my stamp in Crushed Curry and then used a Dauber in Pecan Pie to to add a bit of color variation in the leaf.

You can use two colors or more to create a fun unique leaf design for your projects.

I really love how fun and simple this technique is and how can it make your projects feel unique as each time you stamp it will be different.

I stamped the leaf 3 times on the Basic White layer of my project and added a little spray of Pecan Pie ink over top.

 

I die cut a stitched circle in Crushed Curry to layer behind my sentiment. ‘You’re Simply the Best’ is from the Caring Leaves stamp set—I used Pecan Pie ink with Clear Embossing Powder to make it pop a bit on the Crumb Cake. I used one of my favorite ribbons behind, the Natural Polka Dot ribbon. I snipped the word ‘Autumn’ from the Choose Happy stamp set.

The adorable die cut leaves are from the More than Autumn Dies and are cut in the 3 colors we are featuring this month. A few of our new Gold Textured Adhesive Backed Dots. I think they will become a staple in my holiday crafting!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the team designs this month! I am always inspired by what they make so please make sure to ‘hop’ all along so you don’t miss anything. Next up we have Melissa Kerman!

You can always go in reverse to Bonnie O’Neill as well. Either way will bring you around to our Design Team.

Here are the supplies that I used to make this card that are current as of this post. The Caring Leaves stamp set, More Than Autumn Dies and Gold Textured Dots will all be available to order once our Holiday Catalogue goes live!

Occasions Catalogue Inspiration Project!

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Well here we are—2024, a new year and a new fun Occasions Catalogue to inspire us! I thought it would be fun to share a project that I recently created to share at my Birthday Cupcakes & Cards class as it used a bundle that I would say is a true ‘Brenda Bundle’!

This bundle is called the Hooray for Surprises Bundle and is found on page 13 of the new Occasions catalogue! It was one of the first things I purchased from this catalogue.

I started with a base of Pool Party—one of my all time favorite colors, including a first layer that I ran through the 3D basics embossing folder (this is an online exclusive product). This folder is one of my absolute favorites, I use it alot!

I stamped the large flower in three colors—Fresh Freesia, Coastal Cabana and Flirty Flamingo. There is a die in the matching set to cut these out.

 

The sprigs are a fun die that cuts out two connected pieces, this make them perfect to tuck in as accents. I used Lemon Lime Twist card stock for these.

I die cut a Pool Party and a Lemon Lolly flower and added a small circle of Basic White card stock behind the centers. These are also popped up on Mini Dimensionals

The sentiment is also from the Hooray for Happiness set and I stamped it in Fresh Freesia with a little Linen Thread tied in a bow on the left.

The Pool Party embellishments are a FREE Sale-a-bration reward—the Opaque Faceted Gems—I love when we can pick a free embellishment!

And lastly, to complete my little garden of flowers—I added a little Lemon Lolly flower that I die cut from the Bright Skies Dies.

I hope this card makes you as happy as it makes me and gives you some great inspiration!

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Color Fusers--October!

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HI friends and Happy Fall Y’all! It is officially here and so beautiful. I love everything about it, and in the words of Anne of Green Gables, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”.

This month the Team is crafting with three amazing colors—Wild Wheat, Pecan Pie and Cajun Craze.

This color combination definitely feels like fall for me and I was thinking about the beautiful trees in our river valley and Banff, all the gorgeous places nearby me. The Forever Forest Bundle felt like a perfect pairing with this months color combo.

I started with a base of Wild Wheat and added a first layer with a bit of speckle stamping from the stamp set. I then die cut half of a Decked Circle Die (can you believe there are 14 dies in this set!!) and I ran this through one of the 3D Basics Embossing Folders.

HOT TIP: Have you been shopping the Online Exclusives? There are tons of amazing things over there including these MUST HAVE embossing folders!

You can see the amazing detail in the die, as it has that torn edge, and the embossing folder.

My trio of trees is created using Blending Brushes and the 3 feature colors—Wild Wheat, Pecan Pie and Cajun Craze. I layered the colors on with my brushes to give the illusion of trees changing colors. I think they turned our really well.

I die cut two other trees from the die set in Cajun Craze and Pecan Pie and did a little blending with my brushes around the edges of the trees for some dimension.

I nestled them all together to feel like a forest and added the sentiment “For a Fabulous Friend” over top. The sentiment is from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set. A bit of torn Pecan Pie card stock layered underneath felt like it tied in the torn look of the Deckled Circle.

Next up our awesome team hop is the amazing Sue Vine! I know you will love what she has created!

You can always go backwards from this point as well, you will heading over to my awesome friend Melanie Hockins page!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! If you are not, please feel free to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @stampwithbrenda and if I have inspired you in any way, please shop my online store! I would love to be able to keep doing what I love!

Creative Convention--Day 5!

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5 awesome days of inspiration! Yippee! I hope you have been following along so far, if this is your first visit, make sure you go back to see what you have missed. I away in Las Vegas this week with some of my Stampin’ friends for Backstage—a leadership conference SO I thought I should have my own little Creative Convention by sharing a full week of projects with you!

I couldn’t resist making another project with the Autumn Leaves Bundle. Fall is beautiful here in Edmonton, but sometimes it doesn’t last that long and winter comes too quick. So I will take all the opportunity to create fall projects while I can!

Earlier this month I had a Team meeting and I have been trying to share fun or unique folds with my team. Now I do not have the brain power to create these folds myself which is why I am so grateful for this amazing Stampin’ community we have. I found this ‘Pull Tab’ card on Instagram by @stampinjill (go give her a follow if you aren’t) and I went to her blog for all of the measurements and instructions on how to make this card. Here are the measurements I shared with my team (I have the pictures so why not share!)

I wanted to use the All About Autumn suite to inspire my team so I stayed really true to the colors found in the All About Autumn 6x6 DSP.

The base of my card is Pretty Peacock and I used Very Vanilla for all of my stamping.

I stamped the large maple leaf in Copper Clay, one of our fabulous new In Colors and did a little spray of ink with the dark Stampin’ Blend marker. Two die cut leaves in Old Olive and Pretty Peacock finished off the front with the sentiment and some of the new Copper ribbon.

NOTE: I repurposed the tag die that was used to cut the pull tab section from the DSP. I don’t like to waste so it was perfect to add under the sentiment

When you pull the tab at the bottom the front panel flips open to this perspective.

I did a little more stamping on the top Very Vanilla piece, this time using the large leaves from the set in Old Olive ink and the smaller leaves in the Copper Clay ink. I did a little more ink spray and added another leaf die cut.

On the bottom panel, I let the DSP shine (along with the base piece of course) by choosing a pattern and simply cutting it with the maple leaf die and adding the sentiment on top w a little Linen Thread.

I hope you head over to Jill’s blog— https://stampingjill.com/ to see her awesome instructions on how to make this Pull Tab card!

Hope to see you back tomorrow! Please feel free to leave me comment too!

Creative Convention--Day 2!

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Hi friends! Welcome back for another fun inspiration project as I host my own little ‘Creative Convention’ this week! I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate with you as I am off in Vegas at Backstage!

I absolutely love fall—sweater weather, pumpkin spice lattes, fall crafting, the colors and smell of fall! So fun!

My project today is a fall inspired card featuring the Autumn Leaves Bundle and All About Autumn 6x6 Specialty Paper. I really love how this paper is foiled on one side and photography prints on the other. It is really unique paper! And the designers at SU added Moody Mauve into this fall mix and I really really love that!

My card features 3 shades of brown—Copper Clay as the base, Crumb Cake as the first layer and Pecan Pie as the base of the leaf! I love how awesome these 3 tones of brown all look together! And adding in some Moody Mauve is like a chef’s kiss!

I stamped the large maple leaf image on the bottom area of the card in Crumb Cake, did a little blending with my brush and ink, and then finally flicked my Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend marker over top!

I cut a 1 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch strip of DSP from the All About Autumn DSP and added it to the front with just a teeny tiny sliver of Moody Mauve card stock tucked in behind. It was a subtle way to introduce this color into the palette.

I love when we have leaf dies. I love all the different cool grungy techniques that you can do to create leaves!

Option 1: CRUMPLE—thats right, crumple up that die cut and then slightly flatten it like I did here with Moody Mauve leaf

Option 2: TEXTURE—give your leaf texture by running it through one of our many Embossing Folders—in this case I used the new Distressed Tile 3D folder which is a part of this suite

Option 3: COLOR—add some color to the tips of your leaves with a Blending Brush, Dauber, sponge—you name it! It gives your die cut depth

Let’s talk about the large maple leaf die and the cool veining die you can cut to add on top. I die cut this leaf in Pecan Pie (swoon!) and ran it through the embossing folder, then added the veining over top. I cut this out using our Adhesive Sheets so that I didn’t have to worry about glue creeping out the sides. No sticky fingers for me!

If you are looking for the sentiment “thanks so much” you will find it in the adorable Pick of the Patch stamp set. It is stamped with Moody Mauve ink, with a little ribbon and a layered circle from the All About Autumn DSP. The two shiny gold pearls are from the Blooming Pearls embellishment.

I hope you are intrigued by todays project and will come on back tomorrow to see what else I am sharing!