Hello Friend!

A recently hosted a get together of a group of girl friends who had formed one of my first scrapbooking groups back about 12-13 years ago. One of the girls had moved away and was back in Edmonton for a night so I gathered everyone together to make this awesome scrapbook page. I want to give some credit to Angela Meiritz-Reid who had shared a card on Instagram that featured this color palette. I love it immediately as it was not a combo I would have put together myself. I used this color combo as the creating start to making this page. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. I combined the Be Mine Stitched Framelits, Poppy Moments and Painted Labels Dies along with the Thanks for the Laughs and Seriously the Best stamp sets plus a few select embellishments to create this page. I love the crispness of the white with the softness of the Petal Pink, Daffodil Delight and the contrast of the Call Me Clover. The Honeybee DSP added in a nice metallic touch.

I love this page so much that I have created another project with this same elements. I will be sharing it on my blog next week so stayed tuned!

If you look close you can see that the base of the poppies was run through the Subtles embossing folder (found in the main catalogue). This is a great way to add texture and interest when using tone on tone to create these flowers. I used the Frosted Flowers embellishments, Metallic Pearls, Perennial Essence Floral Centers, and the Petal Pink 1/4 Metallic-Edge Ribbon to add detail. I have been heard to say, “It’s all the details” and this page is a great example of that. I hope you are inspired!

Joy of Sets February Blog Hop--Sprinkle Hearts

The theme for this month’s Blog Hop is love and hearts! Those two criteria inspired me to make this Valentine’s Day layout featuring my favourite item of the moment, Pigment Sprinkles. I have really been focused with sharing this great product at my groups over the month of January. I was finding two things-my loyal stampers needed an introduction to something NEW and many people were intimidated by how to use the Pigment Sprinkles. They are, my friends, so easy! The first tip I have is to let go of trying to control them! They will work magic for you with just a little water and either water-colour paper or Shimmery White Cardstock as your base. In my case I used Shimmery White to add to the overall finish of the hearts. I have played around with spritzing water first and adding the sprinkles or adding sprinkles and then water and I find I have a better end result by adding sprinkles and then the water. You will also get a different look with using a heat tool (which is what I did in my class settings) versus allowing the product to air dry (who has time for that! hahaha).

You can see here that you only need three ingredients to create something awesome! After you spritz the sprinkles with water, let them sit for a few seconds as they absorb and spread. The last photo shows the difference of letting the sprinkles sit. I then took my heat tool and blasted the paper until it was dry.

I tried to keep the rest of the elements on my scrapbook page minimal to really draw the attention to the sprinkle hearts. They were easy to punch out using the heart punch pack from page 10 of the Occasions Mini. The Happy Valentine’s Day stamp is from the Heartfelt stamp set (pg 10). LOVE is embossed in gold from the Well Said stamp set (found in the main catalogue) and the From My Heart Faceted Gems added the perfect finishing touch!

I hope this page has inspired you to try playing around with the Pigment Sprinkles. You can find them on pg 179 of the main catalogue in a group of six awesome colors. My page features the Mango Melody pigment sprinkles which is actually a great blend of pinks with a tinge of coral and orange!

Continue hopping along by visiting Rochelle Laird-Smith’s blog and please feel free to leave a comment for me to enjoy :)

I am also going to include all of the stops on the Blog Hop just to be sure no one gets missed!

Blog Link

Rochelle Laird-Smith

https://stampingflair.com/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-february-2020-love-is-in-the-air/

Fiona Whitehead

https://craftystamping.blogspot.com/2020/02/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-february-2020-love.html

Jane Allmark

https://amethystarcrafting.blogspot.com/2020/02/jos-blog-hop-february-2020-love-is-in.html

Tricia Butts

https://triciastampingcreations.blogspot.com/2020/02/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-love-is-in-air.html

Angie McKenzie

https://www.naturesinkspirations.com/2020/02/the-joy-of-sets-blog-hop-love-is-in-air.html

Susan Webster

https://pumpkinhillstampers.com/?p=3657

Sue Allen

http://sueallensimplycraft.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-joy-of-sets-february-2020-blog-hop.html

Libby Fens

https://libbystamps.com/2020/02/08/love-is-in-the-air/

JoAnn Pollock

https://jpollockdesigns.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/from-my-heart-suite-day-5/

Alejandra Gomez

https://www.creatingwithallie.com/?p=2966

Narelle Fasulo

http://www.simplystampingwithnarelle.com/2020/02/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-love-is-in-air.html

Vicki Milyard

https://stampingvickisvisions.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-joy-of-sets-february-blog-hop-love.html

Gez Carpenter

https://www.nigezza.co.uk/2020/02/joy-of-sets-february-blog-hop-love-is.html

Jill Chapman

https://www.paperdaisycrafting.co.uk/2020/02/joy-of-sets-february-blog-hop-love-is.html

Kristie Meeker Wilson

https://mypaperlife.com/2020/02/08/the-joy-of-sets-love-is-in-the-air-blog-hop

Annette Ball

https://stampinwiththebees.blogspot.com/2020/02/joy-of-sets-february-2020.html

Anne Marie Hile

http://www.stampinanne.com/2020/02/the-joy-of-sets-february-2020-blog-hop.html

Angélique Nederpel

https://stempelkeuken.blogspot.com/2020/02/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-love-is-in-air_8.html

Brenda Nelson

https://www.stampsandstretchypants.com/home/joy-of-sets-blog-hop-feb2020

Feeling Tropical?

It snowed quite a bit here today in Edmonton, and the forcast is suggesting a massive dip in temperatures. Since I can’t run away on an airplane I will just have to settle with creating stuff with the Tropical Oasis Suite!

I created this page to help showcase the awesome, vintage inspired Designer Series Paper found in the new Mini (not so Mini) Occasions catalogue. You can find all the elements of the Suite on pages 39 and 40. It was actually quite a fast and simple page to put together that you could easily reproduce with all of the new Designers Series papers in the Mini catalogue by swapping out a few elements and embellishments! Maybe I will take my own advice and create something in the future!

In 2017 I was lucky enough to take Summer, who was 9 at the time, on the amazing Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip to Phuket, Thailand. It was one of the most amazing experiences we have had together and I am forever grateful for the opportunity!

Parisian Blossom Suite

I was so lucky to be asked to present at On Stage here in Edmonton in November! It feels like another life time ago when we consider this busy time of year! I was given the Parisian Blossoms suite to get crafty with. I created a bunch of cards and of course, scrapbook pages! This month I am going to share all of my creations with you. I created 18 cards and 4 pages…three of them are seen here below! Each page is made exclusively with products found in the suite (with the exception of the card stock). I tried to create soft pages as that is how the elements spoke to me. I really loved the Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder and incorporated it on all three pages shown. Please leave me a comment if you have any particular questions about my creations!

Happy Wicked Creepy Spooky Halloween

I pulled out all the stops to create this fun and bright Halloween page! I included sentiments from the Word Wishes dies (from the last few posts you can tell I am really into this set of dies!), the Wicked dies and the Spooktacular Bash stamp set. I had to add a cute little monster, he is just a ‘little creepy’ from the Boo to You stamp set plus some spooky spiders and itsy bits bats! I hope you have a fun day celebrating with your families today!