June 05, 2022

Seven Days of Scrapbooking--Day #5

June 05, 2022/ Brenda Nelson

Hello friends! Today I am sharing a fun page I made using some of my favorite RETIRED and current things! In fact, there are more retired items on this page than current! And remember I said I would try and make a page with more than once picture? Well I can now say I did!

This page is on a base of Crumb Cake card stock with the two embossed panels also being Crumb Cake. I used the Timber 3D folder that is current and a really old polkadot folder for the other. Polka dots have really nothing to do with camping or nature…but I like them!

My youngest son and husband recently took a tent camping trip to the mountains in Alberta :)

Ridiculously Awesome was one of my FAV stamp sets so I still have it in my collection and I was so happy to pull it off the shelf for this page! I think the sentiment is absolutely perfect for this page and looks so good cut out using the Diorama Dies! I added a little Linen Thread behind as well.

The little clouds added above the trees are from the Waves Dies. I like how these clouds have an embossed design to them versus some of the other cloud shaped dies we have.

Another one of my fav sets is Mountain Air and I am so happy it gets another turn in our Annual Catalogue. It is actually a set I will hang onto no matter what. I love the accompanying Majestic Mountain Dies as I have use the tree dies on so many camping/nature projects! These are cut using Early Espresso and Soft Suede card stock.

I think the little wooden accents were from In Good Taste and I had just enough in my massive stash to add them to this page!

The trees that are stamped just behind the Timber 3D panel are from the Campology set that is also getting another run in the Annual Catalogue. I stamped it tone on tone in Crumb Cake ink.

I used another retired set on this page too called Travel Log. Basically I keep any sets that have to do with travel and adventure as we don’t always have a current option so I like to have them in my stash for projects like this.

I stamped the trees from Campology again behind the polkadot panel and this time I cut out the fun travel log image by hand. It was stamped with Soft Suede ink and both of my sentiment areas got a flicking of ink using a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend. The ‘adventure’ definition is stamped w Mossy Meadow ink on Old Olive paper and is cut using the Stylish Shapes Dies. I also decided to add a wooden element, Metallic Dots and an Old Olive tree to this side.

I really really love how this page came together especially because I made it just for myself! Its not for a class or event display or anything. Just for me and that makes my heart happy as its actually a luxury for me at this point!

I would love to share my passion for scrapbooking with you at one of my many classes! Please reach out!

April 05, 2021

Color Fusers--April 2021 Blog Hop!

April 05, 2021/ Brenda Nelson

Welcome friends to another monthly Color Fusers Blog Hop! I love this hop because it really gets me out of comfort zone for color coordination!

This month we are all tasked with creating projects featuring Seaside Spray (which is also retiring), Old Olive and Real Red. I wanted to challenge myself to use these colors to create a scrapbook page!

By chance, I happened to have this photo of my youngest son, laying on my craft table. As soon as I glanced at it and saw our color challenge, I thought it was a perfect fit!

It worked so well to use the Real Red for apples with Old Olive green accents and a nice Seaside Spray background. I am really going to miss Seaside Spray. I was a blue that I used quite often. However, the new In Colors are also pretty fabulous too!

I added some large polka dots in the coordinating ink onto the background with the Circle Celebration stamp set. The photo mat is made up of a retired piece of 6x6 DSP in Seaside Spray (from the first round of this In Color), Old Olive and Real Red card stock.

I used the stamp Harvest Hello’s to do most of the design work for me on this page. I stamped the apples in Momento Ink and colored them with my Real Red Stampin’ Blends. You can punch out all of the elements of the apple with the coordinating Apple Builder Punch!

I love this stamp set and it will be a keeper for me, especially because I am nowhere near being done scrapbooking school memories of my 3 kids.

I added in the A+ and some Old Olive ribbon from the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack and a few cute red Resin Hearts to create a fun focal point on the corner of my photo. I love how I was able to tuck a cute little apple up underneath the photo too.

One of my favorite sets from this catalogue was Ridiculously Awesome. I can’t tell you how many times i have used it! It is such a fantastic set to use for scrapbooking!

I stamped the phrase in Seaside Spray and then again in Old Olive so I could hand trim out the word ‘Awesome’. I really wanted it to pop and this is an easy way to draw the eye to a certain word out of your sentiment.

Of course I added a few more apples and Resin Hearts!

I created another area of interest on the top left by adding in “You Make me Smile” and another A+, plus a couple different twines and Resin Hearts.

I love how this page turned out and am so happy I have this memory recorded of Shepard. This color challenge worked perfectly for me!

I can’t wait to see what everyone else on the Design Team creates this month! You won’t want to miss what anyone has designed. You can go back to see what Tami Hewlett has created or next to see what Melissa Kerman has stamped for us. Make sure to visit everyone, we are a small awesome group!

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June 10, 2020

Around the World with the NEW Catalogue!

June 10, 2020/ Brenda Nelson

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 … — 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 se… — 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