Red, White and Blue with Connie and Mary!

This weeks challenge is a Red, White and Blue theme as it is July 4th in the United States! Happy Independance Day to all of my crafty American friends! I used this color scheme to create a masculine birthday card with one of my favourite sets in the new catalogue—Pallet Thoughts on page 137. It was in my very first order that I placed in June. In the stamp set there is a phrase, “Hello Handsome”, and I wanted to incorporate that into my card.

I stamped the Buffalo Check stamp in Real Red on Whisper White card stock. It reminded me of a picnic blanket. I stamped ‘handsome’ in Night of Navy and added some ‘screws’ to sides in Smoky Slate. This is also a fun little stamp in the set. I decided to emphasize the word Hello by using the Playful Alphabet Dies and the Foam Adhesive sheets. I cut the letters from Night of Navy Card Stock which is also the card base.

The card front is covered in a piece of DSP from the In Good Taste paper collection and then I added the Buffalo Check piece at an angle and cut off the excess. I used a retired circle punch to snip out a half circle at the top on each side so that I could tie some ribbon from the Playing With Patterns ribbon along the card.

This card is what I would call #simplestamping and the template of the card is unique without being too complicated! I hope you like it!

I can’t wait to see what amazing projects are showcased throughout this blog hop! You can go BACK to visit Melissa or you can go forward to visit Connie! Make sure to hop the whole way through!

Around the World with the NEW Catalogue!

This might be the most exciting Around the World on Wednesday blog hop in 2020 as we are all featuring things from the brand new catalogue! Its like an early Christmas! The suite that I was the most excited about was the Playing with Patterns suite on page 100. I absolutely loved the color pallet and after playing around with the Playing with Patterns Designer Series Paper I might go on record and saying is my favourite DSP of all time. That is quite the commitment but to me it is perfection!

I knew right away I wanted to create a scrapbook page layout with this suite adding in a few other stamp sets I was excited about. I love a good floral set and I was drawn to the images and sentiments of this new bundle, All Things Fabulous on page 121.

And look at my subject matter! Could he be even cuter? Hawkins has been my faithful companion and my best buddy during the past few months. As soon as I saw the Pallet Thoughts stamp set with “Hello, Handsome” I knew it would be the perfect set to use when scrapbooking my dog, sons or husband! And I love the distressed wood stamp in this set as well. It is the perfect layering piece!

The whole page is designed around the colors of the Playing with Patterns suite—Purple Posy, Night of Navy (however, I substituted our new In Color Misty Moonlight), Coastal Cabana (my favourite color of all time), Crushed Curry (once again I substituted Bumblebee), and Calypso Coral.

I really love the flowers on this page combined with the soft colors. The enamel dots are an awesome finishing touch that helps add dimension to the page. I like my pages to have lots of layers and textures. I used the largest Water Painter brush to swipe over top of the Bumblebee flowers right after I stamped them. I did the same thing on the barn wood piece to soften things a bit and spread out the color slightly. I also stamped the flowers multiple times to give a gradient look to them as well. That is one of the easiest ways to create different colours. Ink once and stamp repeatedly!

I was so excited and inspired by this page layout that I took all of the same elements to create this adorable mini album. I used photos of our ‘quarantine times at home’ as my subject matter. Ridiculously Awesome is a new mlllion dollar achiever set co-designed by Ronda Wade with artwork contributed by Sean Douglass. I LOVE the oversized fonts which makes this a dream set for memory keeping!

For the album shown below, I used all of the same products (minus the flowers) to create this project. I also added in the stamp set A Grand Kid. I love the phrases in it and can see myself using it a lot even though I don’t have ‘grand kids’. Its definitely not a set to be overlooked because of the title.

Click through these photos to see some different views of this fun mini album :)

The next stop on our awesome blog hop of 24 participants is Cindy Schuster from Nutmeg creations! Cindy works at Stampin’ Up! and is one of the amazing co-founders of Stampin’ Through the Catalogue. You can follow them on the Gram @stampinthroughthecatalog