Around the World on Wednesday: Remember When

Here we are. Day 2 on the new blogging site and it’s time for our Around the World on Wednesday blog hop. I’m delighted if everything worked and you found me here. For those who are new to me, I’m Chris Smith, from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, US.

This month we are continuing the celebration of our 5th year as a blog hop and taking inspiration from one of our Artisan members, Bree Renwick. Aside from that we have a theme of “Remember When”.

I fully expected to take full advantage of Bree’s inspiring scrapbook pages and ordered some of our latest scrapbook stamps and “stickers” to use for this month’s hop. But then, late last month I received notice that Typepad, the blogging platform I’ve used since early 2007, was ending the platform and my 999 blog posts plus galleries would disappear after September 30. Needless to say I’ve been preoccupied evaluating what to do about it AND looking back at the posts themselves to help inform my decision making. I will save my work and find ways to bring back what I think still has relevance. And, you know what? It has been fun looking back to Remember When I first started blogging about 18 years ago.

One of my first posts was a brief remembrance of my Grandma Edith:

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My original card used an old product called Iridescent Ice, a sparkly embossing powder. After substituting Petunia Pop Glimmer paper for the skinny borders, I realized this pretty paper has gone from Stampin’ Up!”s Last Chance List to also being discontinued. But it is pretty.

I used Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop, a bit of Melon Mambo along with Old Olive and Crushed Curry.

The flower stem is stamped with Fresh Freesia on Fresh Freesia and colored with the Light Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop and Melon Mambo Blends.

I blended Crushed Curry and Old Olive ink on a piece of white card stock embossed with the Damask Embossing Folder and trimmed to 3 3/4″ x 5″.

I thought the greeting from The Right Words stamp set followed the theme of the original greeting which I always loved: Memory is the power to gather roses in winter

I really like the skinny strip of glimmer at the edges. While I think Bree layered her piece I’m stingy with my (now unavailable) Glimmer paper and just used strips.

Before I sign off I have to share one more card inspired by Bree and I think it fits with Remember When. My husband and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in a few days and I wanted to see if I could make some white roses (my wedding bouquet) look a little masculine. We’ve grown a lot of white roses together over the past 40 years so I thought it could be appropriate. Here is Bree’s:

and here is mine:

I made this a top fold card with a Basic Beige base. Both the fussy cut roses and the brushstroke pecan Pie layer are from the Beautiful Gallery designer series paper. I kept the layering to a minimum. The greeting is from the Peaceful Days stamp set in Stampin’ Up!’s scrapbooking line. Perfect anniversary greeting!

Now you get to move on to Bree’s blog! I can’t wait to see how she did this month’s theme.

Jan Clothier – NZ
Leonie Stuart – AU
Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU
Cheryll Miller – AU
Danielle Kassing – NL
Marga Bultena – NL
Kelly Taranto – US
Chris Smith – US
Bree Renwick – US
Teri West – US
Cheryl Hamilton – US