Totallyawake4-life: Monochromatic Coneflower Celebrations

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Monochromatic Coneflower Celebrations

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A huge thank you to this months Scrapbooking Global blog hop host!

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I am excited to be joining in, for my first time, with the Scrapbooking Global Facebook group Monthly blog hop. I hope I do all the linky things right.

Augusts hop is to be inspired with the Monochromatic colour palette and Sharon has shared this awesome Color Coach graphic to help.

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I have chosen to play with a pink palette using both Berry Blast and Pretty in Pink papers, ink pads and blends. I have been really wanting to get my new Coneflower Celebrations bundle from Stampin' Up! inky so this was the perfect match for this challenge. For my sentiment I have chosen the Celebrate You retired Stampin' Up! die set from my stash.

I got my creative juices going by using the Scrap a Sketch Facebook group's Sketch #175 for my layout inspiration. I loved the stripes and thought the Coneflowers would be perfect focal accents in place of the circles!

I hope that you love how everything came together as much as I do. This was such a fun challenge and it feels great to be back in my craft room getting inky after a far too long hiatus.

The Celebrate sentiment just pops on the Berry Blast paper and is going to make this a perfect layout for my granddaughter's birthday memories. If it was a card I might layer a few cuts to really make it pop however I do not want to make my layout too fat for my scrapbook so have to reign myself in.

The butterflies and coneflowers have been colored with my Berry Blast and Pretty in Pink blends from Stampin' Up! I love coloring it is so therapeutic at reducing stress and clearing the mind and the blends make it so easy to get awesome results. I have added Wink of Stella to the butterflies for an added bang of bling - for those who do not know me yet I LOVE my bling. My poor husband is constantly finding glitter on himself and his friends love to tease him for it.

It is hard to pick up in the photo but I have used embossing folders on 2 of the strips in my design.

The first strip is from the Bokeh DSP 6x6 pack of paper in the Berry Blast colour sheet - I do not know about you but I LOVE the Bokeh effect in art work so this paper was a must for me!

BEAUTIFUL BOKEH 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER

The solid strip of Berry Blast embossed with the Dotted Circles 3D embossing folder.

The Whisper White strip has been embossed with the Forever Plaid and than I dragged my Pretty in Pink pad across to make it pop more.

FOREVER PLAID 3D EMBOSSING FOLDER

I just love how the finished product comes together. I will make a second coordinating page for the birthday photos using a pocket page style!

Thank you so much for stopping by I hope there was something in my design to inspire you in your crafty adventures.

If you are already a blog follower of mine and stopped by via an email update or a social media post please click here to go to the start of the Blog hop as I think I am the last stop in the hop. You will want to check out what other inspiration is to be found in the hop as there are some really amazing paper crafters in the line up.