Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hi friends! Welcome to the Be Inspired Blog Hop! I love creating with this fun crew of people and I hope you will visit all of our blogs and leave us some comments!

This month the crew is creating projects featuring Triadic Color Theory! You can find this in the Annual Catalogue—its such a cool resource, especially if you are looking to mix things up in terms of color. I know I have my favorite go to colors, so it is nice to step outside the box occasionally!

I decided to use the combination that is on the bottom of the right page— Fresh Freesia, Wild Wheat and Pretty Peacock. I can confidently say I have never crafter before with this combination, however I am IN LOVE with how my project turned out! I hope you will give this combination a try yourself after seeing how awesome it looks!

I started with a base of Fresh Freesia. I had this design in mind and I knew that in my personal stash, I have alot of 12x12 DSP to match in Fresh Freesia. This particular print is from some Sale a bration DSP. I used a 9 inch paper plate to trace the circle and just cut it with scissors! Such a fun way to use DSP, I think I might CASE myself!

My photo mat is in Pretty Peacock to showcase this picture of myself with my mom a few summers ago.

I am a fan of coordination and it is a happy accident that my sunglasses just happened to match!

On this page, the showstopper is this new bundle that will be available to order in the Online Store in July. I am obsessed. It is a MUST HAVE. It is an amazing new hybrid bundle called Changing Leaves. And while it appears ‘fall’, it definitely does not have that vibe on this scrapbooking page!

The largest of the leaves in the stamp set is stamped with Wild Wheat ink on coordinating card stock. The midsized leaf is stamped in Fresh Freesia on coordinating card stock. I added some directly to the 12 x 12 and some as elements.

The sentiment “You are a shining light” is from the You are Beautiful stamp set in our annual catalogue. I added a scalloped circle behind, die cut in Pretty Peacock card stock using the Round We Go dies.

I used a length of Wild Wheat ribbon that I cut in half to bring life to the sentiment. I also added a die cut from the Flowers of Beauty Dies and a spring from the Bough Punch.

The sentiment ‘Love You’ is from another new set, Everyday Greetings, that you will be able to order in July under the Online Exclusive section. I added a bit of white thread and a cute little heart from the Bee Builder Punch.

The little die cut flowers are from an unknown die set—haha! I didn’t put it back and its been too long to remember where it goes! I am sure I am not the only person who has some ‘homeless’ dies.

I really love this scrapbooking page and I am so glad that I was encouraged to use this fun amazing new color combo! It is definitely one that I will try again, maybe on a card design!

Next up on the hop is a fellow Canadian, my friend Carolynn! She lives a couple of hours away from me and I am pretty sure she cheers for a different hockey team! haha! Go Oilers!

Click the link below to visit her blog and see her crafty project!

If you are inspired and are looking to place an order, please consider shopping my store! Your support allows me to keep doing what I love!

HI friends and Happy Fall Y’all! It is officially here and so beautiful. I love everything about it, and in the words of Anne of Green Gables, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”.

This month the Team is crafting with three amazing colors—Wild Wheat, Pecan Pie and Cajun Craze.

This color combination definitely feels like fall for me and I was thinking about the beautiful trees in our river valley and Banff, all the gorgeous places nearby me. The Forever Forest Bundle felt like a perfect pairing with this months color combo.

I started with a base of Wild Wheat and added a first layer with a bit of speckle stamping from the stamp set. I then die cut half of a Decked Circle Die (can you believe there are 14 dies in this set!!) and I ran this through one of the 3D Basics Embossing Folders.

HOT TIP: Have you been shopping the Online Exclusives? There are tons of amazing things over there including these MUST HAVE embossing folders!

You can see the amazing detail in the die, as it has that torn edge, and the embossing folder.

My trio of trees is created using Blending Brushes and the 3 feature colors—Wild Wheat, Pecan Pie and Cajun Craze. I layered the colors on with my brushes to give the illusion of trees changing colors. I think they turned our really well.

I die cut two other trees from the die set in Cajun Craze and Pecan Pie and did a little blending with my brushes around the edges of the trees for some dimension.

I nestled them all together to feel like a forest and added the sentiment “For a Fabulous Friend” over top. The sentiment is from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set. A bit of torn Pecan Pie card stock layered underneath felt like it tied in the torn look of the Deckled Circle.

Next up our awesome team hop is the amazing Sue Vine! I know you will love what she has created!

You can always go backwards from this point as well, you will heading over to my awesome friend Melanie Hockins page!

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