Joy of Sets--That's FONT-astic!

Thank you so much for hopping along with The Joy of Sets team this month! If I am your first stop, welcome, and have fun seeing all the creative ways we are using FONTS!

A big thank you Joy of Sets team for such a unique Blog Hop Theme! I had a lot of fun creating my project featuring FONTS and how they can help bring your projects alive. I wanted to create a scrapbook page as it gives you the space to use a variety of FONTS on your project.

On this page I used 5 different fonts, 4 from stamp sets and one from the Playful Alphabet dies! I love the unexpected combo of fonts!

I used the Peony Garden DSP as my color palette and then decided to add in some soft purples to pull in the color from the lilac bush in our picture. I always look at some angle to get my photo to coordinate with the colors of my scrapbooking.

Always is stamped in Smoky Slate using the Field of Flowers stamp set from the Annual Catalogue. Smile is cut in Blushing Bride and is lifted using the Adhesive Sheets. Quite possibly my FAVORITE accessory in the new catalogue, at the moment at least!

I Like You A Lot is also stamped with Smoky Slate ink on Highland Heather card stock. You can find this phrase in the Blossoms in Bloom stamp set. I used a retired scallop boarder punch (gasp, yes, I don’t sell everything! Somethings I love too much to get rid of, even if they are retired!) to highlight the sentiment and paired it on top of the of Label Me Lovely punch that I trimmed down.

The embellishments in the corner are the new Elegant Faceted Gems. Now when you look at them in the catalogue on pg 157, it looks like you get a light green gem, you DON’T—its actually the clear gem appearing that way because of the background it was photographed on. I wanted to point out because I don’t using ‘read’ stuff, I am a visual person!

I decided this page was taking on an elegant feel and it needed something to fill the white space but not be distracting at the same time. I ended up using the Basic Patterns Decorative Masks with the Shimmery White embossing paste. I love the feel and texture it gave the page. I added in a small strip a DSP in a Purple Posy pattern to keep the purple flowing down the page. It is from the Playing With Patterns DSP.

Happy Day is from the much overlooked, in my opinion, stamp set called Friend Like You in the annual catalogue. And the accompanying sentiment is from the Forever Blossoms stamp set. This set holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the stamp sets I used when I presented at On Stage in November of 2019.

The Highland Heather die cut flowers are from the Many Layered Blossoms dies in the Annual Catalogue.

I really love how soft and lovely this page turned out and how using a variety of fonts really show cased the photo!

I hope the next time you sit down to do some memory keeping you consider how mixing up the fonts on your page can add a little twist!

Enjoy making your way around to all 16 Blogs this month! Next up is Alejandra Gomez, I can’ wait to see what she has created for us.

Just Blends!

Welcome! I hope you have been enjoying my “A Card a Day in May” challenge so far! This is my 19th card to share with you. I created this card after seeing something similar from another stamp company and thought, I can do that with my Stampin’ Up! supplies!

I chose to use 4 different colors of Stampin’ Blends, using the light marker for each. I started colouring a strip of Purple Posy, Mint Macaron, Calypso Coral and then Daffodil Delight. Each strip is different in thickness as well to give interest. After colouring the strips I stamped the cherry blossom image from the Forever Blossom stamp set using Staz On ink. I then used the Cherry Blossom dies to cut this shape out and then I layered it back in on some Dimensionals to give it a raised look.

The sentiment is stamped on Crumb Cake and then punched with the new Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. I added a little White Bakers Twine to attach the tag.

The sequins in clear just add a little bit of interest without taking away the simplicity of the card. They are from the Peaceful Poppies set.

I absolutely LOVE how this card turned out. I think its a fun technique that I can’t wait to share with my stampers when I can hold in person events again!

Spring Flowers Scrapbook Page

I was going through some old photos the other day, you know because we have THE TIME, and I came across this one of me, Reese and Summer. Reese would have been around 4 and Summer under 1. I used her cute hat (I loved hats with big flowers on them because she was bald!) and tutu as the color palette for this scrapbook page. I would also say that Petal Pink might be my favourite color at the moment. I am so happy Stampin’ Up! added it to their color lineup when they did the Color Refresh!

I did a simple color wash with my Aqua Painter in the background with Petal Pink and then I layered some Calypso Coral on top and did a bit of flicking with the Aqua Painter. And then I just started digging out flower stamp sets and dies from my collection. I used the Forever Blossoms stamp set and Cherry Blossoms dies, To a Wild Rose stamp set (I used Calypso coral as the outline, the solid fill in stamp is in Petal Pink and third detailed layer is in Grapefruit Grove) and Wild Rose dies, Magnolia Memories Dies, and the Frosted Bouquet dies. The Your Amazing sentiment is from the new Ornate Thanks stamp set coming out in the new Idea Book & Catalogue. The grey accent is Grey Granite as it had the same undertone to it and worked well with this color palette.

I love everything about this page, the softness of the colors, the simple phrases on the page and of course the two little people in the photo with me

This is a terrific ink color combo for spring!