Create with Connie and Mary--Favorite NEW Catalogue Bundle!

So to end this month of new ‘favorites’ we had to design something with our favorite new bundle! Well the one that I have created with the most would have to be the Hand-Penned Petals suite! I just love the whole collection. I created a really fabulous project to share with my team and I thought it was the perfect project to end this month of ‘favorites’! I hope you are inspired!

I can’t believe in my 15 years of Stampin’ I have never created a card folio before! I designed this one to hold two cards on either side of the folio. There is enough space that you could also include envelopes. The color palette of the project is based off of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper which I am in love with. I have always been a fan of pastels, in fact, when I got married my 5 bridesmaids wore pastel pink, yellow, blue, green, and purple!

I added the inside sentiment from the Pansy Patch stamp set

I can’t wait to see what all of the other Design Team members have selected as their favorites! You can go BACK to see what Melissa is loving or you can go NEXT to see what Connie has selected!

Create with Connie and Mary--Favorite NEW Designer Series Paper

Okay, I supposed we are actually supposed to pick just ONE…but I can’t because what I love about our Designer Series Papers is how well they work TOGETHER! Have you noticed this? I love that several of the colors and tones are present in multiple papers. This is fabulous and makes way more sense to be able to create with several options! So I have a hybrid project that includes my ‘favorites’…plural!

See what I mean? How outstanding do these Designer Series papers look together? And will make you want all 3—-mission accomplished!

I have been a Stampin’ Up! demo for 15 years and I got into stamping from a scrapbookers lense. So I have always been a big fan or our DSP…and dare I say it, this may be my favorite year yet!! There are honestly so many gorgeous options and so much design potential!

I started with the base of Pale Papaya for my page. One of the best new In Colors we have had in a while (in my humble opinion because it’s a yellow and it’s an orange). And if you poke through the catalogue you will notice this color in more than one Designer Series Paper—WIN!

Typically I do not design pages with out photos first, I don’t know why, it is just how my brain works. But I wanted to create a beautiful Mother’s Day page so I had it ready to go for the day. And this way I was able to tell my husband I needed pictures snapped in both directions, hahaha! He is pretty well trained though!

I hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day!

This layout uses the Hand-Penned, Pansy Petals and the hostess paper Pattern Party! Isn’t that amazing? If I was forced to make a single selection of my favorite, I guess I would say Hand-Penned. I just love the line art soft style of the florals and I am always a sucker for polka dots, stripes and scallops so it checks all those boxes!

The smallest strip of DSP in Misty Moonlight is from the Pattern Party DSP stack. I can’t tell you how happy I am that Stampin’ Up! has included a DSP as a hostess reward option. Whoever decided that should get a raise!

The large floral strip of DSP is from the Hand-Penned collection, along with the Pale Papaya polka dot tag (cut with the Tailored Made Tags dies). Seriously, add them to your list right now!

The gingham piece is from the Pansy Petals DSP and I think it’s awesome that there are gingham options in 3 colors in this collection. So brilliant.

The photo mat is Garden Green. I really love how the concept artist wove this color into the Hand-Penned DSP.

Can we talk about the Meadow Dies for a minute? I am having a love affair with them. They are AMAZING and seriously look good with any project—cards, scrapbook pages, box toppers, I can go on and on but if you follow me on Instagram @stampwithbrenda you will come to see what I mean as I can’t even put them away!

The “Happy Mother’s Day” sentiment is from the Dressed to Impress samp set and is cut with a shape from the Meadow Dies. I then layered that on top of a shape from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.

For this side I decided to focus on the Misty Moonlight design from the Pattern Party DSP by making it the largest section of DSP. I added the same design from the Hand-Penned over top and if you look close you will notice that the circle behind the “Love You More” is from the In Color 6x6 Designer Series Paper stack. The sentiment is from the Measured with Love stamp set.

The other sentiment on this page is from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set.

The dies really stand out on this layout, especially with the floral image stamped direct to the page from the Quiet Meadow stamp set and then softly stamped in the background of the larger sentiments.

I hope this layout helps you think about combining patterns and designs from multiple DSP collections. Like I said, I really could not pick just one so I hope you enjoy this blending together of my favorites! You can go BACK to see what Melissa has designed this week or you can go NEXT to see what Connie selected as her favorite DSP! Have a lovely Saturday and thank you for popping by! Please leave a comment and if you are in Canada and feel inspired by my layout, please chose to shop by online store! I am always happy to have a new stampin’ friend!

Etched in Nature--Card Inspiration for On Tour!

Yesterday my team and I participated in some virtual training provided by Stampin’ Up!. They are hosting sessions over the course of a week to demonstrators all over the world which is really exciting. As part of our event registration, we were given the stamp set Etched in Nature and I decided to use this set as part of my team’s Afterparty event that I hosted virtually.

It is always more fun to stamp together and even better when we all have the same stamp set to use. I designed 3 Make’n Takes to work on with my team. Now, I will be totally honest, this stamp set was not a style I would normally gravitate towards so it was a pretty good challenge for me to create cards that had a design and a feel that I loved. However, playing with the NEW In Colors, some ribbon and embellishments and the new Hand Penned Designer Series Paper made this a much easier project than I was anticipating!

I think these cards look fabulous as a trio and all have a really unique feel to them as individual projects. By designing them with the same color palette and using the Hand Penned DSP as the anchor, they work as a group. This stamp set doesn’t have coordinating dies or punches so I had to pull in a couple favorite options to help accentuate the design.

The base of this card is the new Pale Papaya. This is a really interesting color for me as it leans yellow and it leans orange based on the colors that you pair it with. This color is one featured in the Hand Penned DSP. I punched out a circle that highlighted the color. This swatch also allowed me to pull in coordinating colors such as the Mint Macaron and Misty Moonlight circles. Both of the card stock circles are stamped with images in Momento Ink from the Etched in Nature stamp set.

I added a die cut sprig in Basic White from the Forever Flourishing Die set to add to that natural feel. Thank You is also stamped in Momento Ink and behind the sentiment I added some of the Pale Papaya Open Weave Ribbon and Basic White Thread. A few Matte Black Dots finished off this card perfectly!

This next card is an example of #goodcarddesign and was a feature project design of our team meeting. I briefly touched on this topic on a previous blog post and I will be adding to my #goodcarddesign concept with more examples later this week—so make sure you check back if you are interested in this concept!

The base of this card is the new Soft Succulent color and its just such a warm green with a nice grey undertone to it. It definitely has a ‘neutral’ feel to it and I can imagine it pairing so well with our other 50+ colors!

I added a scallop detail in Misty Moonlight along the edge using the Peony Die and layed a strip of DSP from the Hand Penned collection. I did a bit of background stamping and stamped the sentiment out twice so I could pop up and isolate the word Happy Moments.

Between the two circles I added some of the Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon and some Basic White twine. A few Opal Rounds to add some glitz to this card was the perfect touch.

The final card in this trio is on a crisp Basic White card stock base. I added a middle panel that I ran through the Tasteful Textile 3D folder and added two strips of DSP from the Hand Penned Collection.

I wanted to focus on the butterflies from the stamp set on this project. Underneath the sentiment, stamped on Pale Papaya, I added a little strip of Polished Pink as scallop accent using the Stitched Be MIne Dies. The ribbon is amazing—I LOVE IT! It is the new Pale Papaya & White 1/2 Ribbon. A few In Color Jewels just finished things off perfectly!

Overall, I really really love how these cards turned out and believe that you can recreate them with ANY stamp set you might have that combines images and sentiments!