Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hello friends! I was really excited about our theme this month and its really open to interpretation so I can’t wait to see what the team designs! Make sure can go “Around the World” with us and check out everyone’s crafty creations! And thank you for being a part of our journey this past year and a special round of applause for Angie @naturesINKspirations for being our fearless leader!

Our theme is Something Old and Something New so I decided to NOT making a Christmas card, gasp I know! But I just got some new stuff and I needed to play!

What you are seeing here is a sneak peek of a new Saleabration stamp set and Saleabration DSP paired with one of my favorite bundles from 2021! I absolutely LOVED the Pretty Perennials Bundle so I was really excited to have a chance to dust it off!

The color palette of my card is straight from the new Friendly Hello DSP! I love these soft pastel tones paired with the deepness of Shaded Spruce! The sentiment is from the SAB stamp set Friendly Hello (this is a level 2 bundle). This set has some great floral images and some awesome sentiments such as this one.

The base of my card is Crumb Cake (a classic don’t you think?) and I ran the top layer through a new gingham embossing folder that you will be seeing in the upcoming January to June catalogue. See those adorable brass butterflies? Also new and oh so fun!!!

I cut out the sprig from the Perennials Dies with the Gold Shimmer Vellum which was a Holiday Catalogue favorite of mine. I even added in some Holiday Rhinestones!

I am really happy with how this project turned out and I know I can recreate the design with ALL NEW stuff once the new year begins! I can’t wait to see what everyone else has made. You can go see what Tricia Butts has created this month! You are heading from Canada to the Unitied States!

Hello friends! Welcome to another Color Fusers Blog Hop! I am so excited to be hoping with this talented group of ladies for 2021, especially with these color combos forcing me out of my comfort zone!

The Color Challenge for February includes Gorgeous Grape, Magenta Madness, and Bermuda Bay—three very very bright colors! I was a little intimidated by this color combo!

Because these are such bold vibrant colors I new that I needed to begin on a pretty neutral base so I went with Basic White card stock for my base. I had some strips of these colors in my scrap bin which gave me an idea for incorporating them into the background.

The strips of card stock are actually all different random widths which I think helped achieved a whimsical background!

I decided to use the Pretty Perennials Bundle on this card project as I haven’t had much of an opportunity to stamp with it quite yet. I stamped some of the images from the stamp set on the Magenta Madness and Gorgeous Grape strips on the coordinating ink color.

I really wanted the colors to be the focal point of this card so I used Basic White, Vellum and the new Pearlescent Specialty Paper to embellish the card with flowers and leaves from the Perennial Petals Dies.

The flower on the top right is on a Pearlescent base with Basic White layer on top and Opal Round.

The main flower is on a Basic White base with a Pearlescent layer on top and a large Opal Round in the center.

I cut apart the large vellum leaf/sprig to add in few more sprigs.

The word ‘Happy’ is stamped in White Craft Ink and embossed with White Embossing Powder on Bermuda Bay card stock. You will need to hand trim this word as the die set does not include a die to cut it out.

“Sending Lots of Happy” is stamped on another strip of Magenta Madness in the coordinating ink. Both of the sentiments are popped up with Dimensionals.

I hope you are inspired to create a fun project using this color combo yourself!

You can visit Melissa next to see her amazing creation! I know you will be wowed!