I Miss You for the Be Inspired Blog Hop

It’s time for another Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop – what fun! The Be Inspired Design Team is a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world who are excited to share our themed projects with you. I’m so honored to be a part of this group of talented stampers!

For today’s Be Inspired Blog Hop, we are sharing projects we’ve designed with a “good bye” or “miss you” theme. We hope our projects inspire you and that you leave with lots of fun ideas! If you aren’t starting the hop here, then you probably just popped over from the project shared by my talented friend Carolynn Sander.

I Miss You

Prepare yourself for the understatement of the year – the last two years have been strange. I hope we will never again experience such a time where we are removed from friends and family. I can survive without dining in restaurants, sitting in movie theaters or traveling in planes, but I hope I never have to go so long without seeing friends and family. “I miss you” cards strike a very different tone after what we’ve all be through. Here’s my card for today’s hop:

I’m a big fan of a simple landscape on a card – I don’t have to be an incredible artist to create a green field and blue sky. Even with all the bright-and-cheery pages of flowers in the Flowering I cropped these panels from the Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper. Here’s a look at the colors and patterns in the Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper:

I used the second design on the top row for my grass, the fourth design on the bottom row for my sky and the sixth design on the bottom row for the background panel on my card. I added a layer of the Vellum Layering Designs behind the focal panel. You might not be able to see the design, but there’s a map design on the vellum panel – I thought it worked great with the grid design from the Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper and worked well with my “miss you” theme.

Along my skyline, I placed a simple tree from the Tulip Fields Bundle. I inked the tree with Pear Pizzazz ink and used a Blender Pen to pull some of the ink away from the tree trunk and branches. I then painted them with an Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker. I cropped the tree with one of the dies from Windmill Fields Dies, part of the Tulip Fields Bundle. Here’s a look at this bundle:

While Old Olive isn’t listed as one of the colors in the Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper, the panel of paper watercolored with Pear Pizzazz has some rich tones that look very Old Olive, while the tree and grass are softer and sweeter. If you like this mix of Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive as much as I do, I hope you’ll save this for future reference:

I hope you like my project today! I hope you’ll continue the Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop to see more projects by my awesome friends – I’m sure you’ll love them. The next stop is my talented friend Jennifer Picard. Click on the banner below to continue through the hop:

I hope you’ll hop through the rest of the projects in this lineup. In case you get off-track at any point during the hop, here’s a listing of all the participants in this hop:

• Janneke Dijkstra-de Jong
• Carolynn Sander
• Brian King
• Jennifer Picard
• Angela Meiritz-Reid

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

Here are the products I showcased in today’s post:

Bundles: Tulip Fields  Stamps: Tulip Fields, Art Gallery  Papers: Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper, Vellum Layering Designs, Old Olive, Thick Basic White  Inks: Pear Pizzazz, Neutrals Stampin’ Write Markers (Early Espresso), Versamark Accessories: Windmill Fields Dies, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Heat Tool, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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