Floral Affection for PPA #309

Stampin Up, Floral Affection Embossing Folder, birthday card - Michelle Gleeson, stampinup

Today’s card was inspired by this rich color palette created by Katy McGloin. I have struggled with the new In-Color Sweet Sugarplum therefore this was a true challenge for me. I created two cards because I was struggling finding my stampin’ mojo. Let’s look at the one I chose to share as a design team member. Floral Affection Textured Embossing Folder adds texture and the small flowers from Jar of Love Bundle add a splash color.…

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Capturing Everyday Beauty

Stampin Up, Project Life, Cature the Everyday - Michelle Gleeson, Scrapbooking

Last week I shared a special event; today I want to share the importance of sharing the everyday happenings of our lives in our memory keeping albums. I love this quote (source unknown).   Today we capture so much more than we could years ago with our phones. (I wish I had my iPhone back when my kids were growing up.) So why not include many of these moments in our albums. I don’t live in the…

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A Perfect Day to be Happy

Stampin up, Vintage Leaves, PPA308 - Michelle Gleeson, StampinMojo, SU

Every day is the perfect day to be happy and sometimes there are extra special days to be happy. I was inspired to create this Happy card from the Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge and Serene Scenery DSP Stack. Here is the sketch for this week: The Serene Scenery DSP Stack gave me the color palette of Delightful Dijon, Old Olive and Whisper White. The mat borders are small 1/8″ around. The leaf from Vintage Leaves was…

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Memory Making Monday – Graduation Celebration

Making Memories Monday, Project Life, StampinMojo, Graduation

Capturing memories is not just for special events and special moments. Yet we LOVE to capture the special events. That was certainly true as I captured our eldest’s recent college graduation. Here I used Project Life pocket pages to capture the event. Memory Making Tips: Save memorabilia to include in your page Combine traditional elements and digital brushes Don’t feel confined to the pocket size as you can split a photo or make it smaller…

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