Hi friends! Welcome to September’s Color Fusers Hop. While the calendar says it isn’t officially fall, I am getting those vibes here in Alberta as you can feel a shift in the air!

Our color palette for this month also reflects that fall feeling so I could not resist making a scrapbook page!

This is me in yellowstone park last fall. It was a really beautiful place!

I started with a 12 x 12 base of Two Tone Crumb Cake and added a 5 x 12 section of Blackberry Bliss that I ran through our new Textured Tree Ring Embossing Folder. As the paper was longer than the folder (it is one of our oversized folders but still won’t cover a full 12 inches). I decided to add a section of polkadot DSP from the Neutrals collection and a strip of some long retired Crumb cake ribbon. This is a great way to mask off the fact that the tree ring design does not go the whole length of the paper.

I new that I was going to use the new Simply Leaves bundle and I wanted to find a creative way to share a bunch of leaves —focusing on some stamping, using card stock and of course DSP. Having a punch made this so quick! I decided to frame either side of my center panel in leaves focusing on the colours the Team is using this month.

The main sentiment on my page is from the Extraordinary Life stamp set and it definitely captures the sentiment of how I have been feeling and approaching my life this past year.

I matted my photo on a piece of Crumb Cake card stock to help draw attention to it against the Blackberry Bliss. I added a few other sentiments from the new Beautiful Together stamp set (I love the circles with Here & Now and Good Life).

The plaid little leaf is also a fan favourite of mine! And a few Neutral Matte Dots and I had my page together!

Please Hop around to everyone and see what amazing projects they have created this month. Next up on the Hop is the amazing former Artisan Design Team member Heather from the Songbird Stamper. I love everything she creates and we were on the team together a few years back!

If you prefer to got the other way you can check out Melissa Kerman and see what fabulous project she has designed.

Thank you for stopping by and if you are interested in what I have been up to besides stamping this year, check out my Lifestyle Tab and see what goals I have been crushing on my 50 Things to Do List!

Thanks friends!

A few years back I started this card mailing challenge called “A Card a Day in May” as a way to challenge myself and others to send or hand deliver a card each day for the entire month. This truly is a challenge as each day we need to take a selfie of ourselves mailing and delivering each card.

I set up a private Facebook group where we can share our daily photos! It is a fun way to connect with my team and customers and to mail out and bright the day of 30 different people. I truly look forward to doing it and try my best to not just do a mailbox dump, but to actually send a card each day.

It is a challenge because it takes time, commitment and planning to hit up your mailbox each day! And it doesn’t always happen because of you know LIFE. But I make my best effort and its fun.

Fun Fact: I like a challenge which is why I am personally challenging myself to post a Card a Day in May on my blog as I have sort of been neglecting my blog. Which is silly because A) I PAY FOR IT B) YOU are here reading this right now C)This is a great memory keeping tool for me and a way to curate a collection of things I love.

Making the cards is not my issue so I am going to share a Card Picture a Day in May. I am not going to hold myself to any standards (why add stress) so I am going to share cards that maybe I already have on my Instagram account or are sitting on my cameral roll!

Here is my first card for May 1st! I LOVE IT. I actually made this card for a Color Challenge I have each month with my team. It uses Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, and Night of Navy. Colors that were chosen at random that I probably would never put together on my own, but actually really love!

So Dear Reader (Yes, I am currently reading the Bridgerton books and watching the show) I encourage you to attempt to send a Card a Day in May. At the very least, follow me along here for some inspiration!

Please feel free to shop by shop by clicking on the image links. This allows me to keep loving what I do.