Welcome to our Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop where every 2nd Wednesday of the month, our team based around the world, share Stampin’ Up! inspiration. Today we’ve got a sketch challenge and we could choose one of these variations.
A couple of weeks ago I celebrated my big 50. As part of of my celebrations, over the entire month of September I shared a card each day created with a different sketch during my Sketchtember Challenge. So with today’s sketch I thought I’d do something a bit unusual for me and create a scrapbook page with the layout on the left.
A friend of my daughter Cassidy took 800 photos (yes you read that right) on the night of my party. I am still sifting through what to post on Facebook! Got to love a young lady who takes her party duties seriously. I thought a family photo would be nice to place in this page layout with a similar colour palette to my birthday celebrations which was pink, sage and gold.
I am not a scrapbooker but I do love creating these layouts and I like that I can display them in a frame or shadow box and change the pictures out.
I started by cutting an entire sheet of Hues of Happiness DSP to 3.5 cm strips. Now that took courage to chop that pretty paper. Have you seen the other side? Papercrafter struggles! Then I laid all the strips together and blended Polished Pink ink over some areas through a mask before assembling it on my Crumb Cake Cardstock. Did you know we have a range of 12″ x 12″ Cardstock in our entire colour range? This makes it so easy when creating larger projects or gift boxes.
I stamped several of the flowers from the Happiness Abounds stamp set in Crumb Cake ink. This provided a more subtle outline and blended with my colour palette well. I coloured them in with a mix of Stampin’ Blends as shown below.
How to colour the flowers
- Stamp in Crumb Cake ink
- Light Petal Pink over entire flower
- Some shading with Dark Petal Pink
- Highlights of Light Polished Pink through the centre and at the base of some petals
- Light Crumb Cake for shadow and depth at base of some petals
How to colour the leaves
- Stamp in Garden Green ink
- Long highlight strokes at base with Light Soft Succulent
- Filled in with Light Soft Sea Foam
- Add Dark Soft Sea Foam on smaller leaves to add shading at base
The number ’50’ was on the cupcakes which I had on my birthday and adding this to my page gave meaning to why we call scrapbooking – memory keeping. Also better than having this laying in a drawer with no purpose – now it has a place!
Thank you for stopping by my blog today and I hope you are inspired to create some scrapbook layouts and make those memories even more special. Products I have used on this project are listed at the bottom of this post. If you have any questions please get in touch with me.
Next on our hop is the fabulous Cazz Boylan who loves a bit of pink as well! Please make sure you check out the beautiful creations of all our designers and leave us a comment as you travel with us around the world.
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Such a special Scrapbook layout! I love your colour palette x
Gorgeous page Rochelle, and such a beautiful photo!! Love those strips in the background! xx
Just beautiful and for such a special occasion too. Fabulous!! x
I love this! A Beautiful layout
Happy 50th! Beautiful take on the sketch for your special memories. TFS
What a gorgeous layout! I love the extra detail of adding some stencilling to the background strips. How lovely that you got to use your cake topper in the arrangement. Happy belated Birthday!
Very good idea Rochelle! I love this page! Thanks for sharing! Xx
Thanks you Aurelie x
Beautiful layout Rochelle, love it xx
Thank you Fiona 😍