This gorgeous photo comes to you, courtesy of the brilliant stylist & photographer, Leslie Shewring of A Creative Mint. She creates the most amazing displays of color by grouping pretty household items and then photographs them in such a way that always leaves me inspired and anxiously awaiting her next color story.
So my sweetie-pie friend, Melissa Phillips, posted this photo on her blog a few days ago for all of us to use as inspiration for a crafty project. I couldn't wait to whip up a card inspired by this photo.
Here are a few things that I pulled as inspiration from the photo, and incorporated into my card:
- shades of aqua
- patterns, patterns, patterns!
- a bit of kraft color thrown in for good measure
- creamy white
- a pretty label
- twine
- a touch of bright pink
The card base is hawaiian shores card stock and to that, I added a layer of rustic white card stock that was stamped with my favorite pattern from Background Basics: Diamonds using hawaiian shores ink. I stitched the layers together with my sewing machine, using a zig zag stitch across the top.
The focal point here was a really fun one to create. If you look closely, I've added 3 more patterns to the card here, on the kraft label, the smallest flower layer, and the leaves. The kraft layer was cut out with the mat stack 4 die and stamped with a coordinating image from Mat Stack 4 Collection, using versamark ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The next layer is rustic cream card stock die cut with a Rectangular Labels die and stamped with the coordinating label image from Label Basics using hibiscus burst ink. The "happy birthday" sentiment is from 2011 Birthday Tags.
For the flower, I used the two smallest dies from Beautiful Blooms II #1 and cut one layer from hawaiian shores card stock and the other from rustic cream. I inked the edges of both with vintage touch tea dye, and stamped the cream layer with the text image from Background Basics: Newsprint. An aqua mist button was threaded with chocolate baker's twine and adhered to the center of the flower with foam adhesive, so that it pops off the flower a bit more than normal to allow the flower layers to curl forward a bit more.
The leaves were die cut with one of the Turning a New Leaf dies and stamped with another pattern from Background Basics: Diamonds using dark chocolate ink. A couple more aqua mist buttons finished things off.
As for the sentiment label, that came from the Mat Stack 4 Collection stamp set and was stamped in raspberry fizz ink. The "celebrate" sentiment came from Mat Stack 1 Collection and was stamped in dark chocolate.
All in all, I'm thrilled with how the card turned out and I have to thank Melissa and Leslie for the inspiration! Thanks, Girls!! Have you used Leslie's photo to create a card for Melissa's challenge yet?
Have a wonderful Wednesday, friends!
Chat soon,
{Happy Birthday supplies}
Paper: rustic cream, rustic white, kraft, hawaiian shores
Stamps: Background Basics: Diamonds, Background Basics: Newsprint, Label Basics, Mat Stack 1 Collection, Mat Stack 4 Collection, 2011 Birthday Tags
Ink: hawaiian shores, raspberry fizz, hibiscus burst, versamark, vintage touch tea dye
Other: beautiful blooms II #1 dies, mat stack 4 die, rectangular labels die, turning a new leaf die, clear embossing powder, aqua mist buttons, chocolate baker's twine
