Good morning and welcome to my Saturday post for Our Creative Corner. I do appreciate you starting your weekend off with a visit to my blog! This week, our hostess Lori Rider has an inspiration challenge for us, but with specific instructions.
Here's the photo and Lori wants us to pick a minimum of two items to be inspired by and tell us about it on your post. For my sample, I tried to stick to the color palette, just using lighter shades of these colors to give my card a vintage feel. I loved that pleated pillow and mimicked it with my flower. It was made with the same white crinoline that I sell in my Etsy shop. I cut a strip of crinoline and then tea dyed it. After drying it, I took a ruler and a brown Copic marker and drew stripes on the crinoline. Then I cut it using the PTI scalloped dye. I saw a flower made like that on Viola Mahr's blog, in fact she has a little tutorial on it.
The designer paper is all digital - Raspberry Road and Designer Digitals, printed at home. I found the faux vintage image on the internet. I stamped in Soft Suede with a stamp from SU's Elements of Style and the Best Wishes stamp is from Crafty Secrets. I just got a pack of Tim Holtz's Kraft Glassine paper and had to try it out - especially because the colors matched so well. I used an SU border punch on it and ran it through SU's Square Lattice embossing folder, which I hope looks a little like the brick wall in the photo. I added the buttons to look like polka dots and picked up the oranges in that gorgeous new stick pin I made.
I think that's pretty much it. Let me know if you have any questions.
The following items can be found in my Etsy shop:
Thanks again for stopping by and for your lovely comments. Have a great weekend!
