Inspirational Challenge

Inspiration Photo

Those wonderfully talented ladies over @ Our Creative Corner have an Inspirational photo to challenge you.  And to help with what or how we have gotten our inspiration, each DT member have given a little blurb about how they were inspired.   Please check out what the other DT members have created!  You will be inspired and aw struck!

My Card

When I look at the inspiration photo, the objects that I instantly focused on, were those wonderful pillows!  I just love the stripes on the round pillow.  It has so much character and is simply pretty!  And, how can you resist those orange pillows!  The polka-dots, and those kraft pom-poms!  The colors remind me of nature, and the photo shows all natural materials.  So here is what I made.  

The card base is Chocolate Chip.  The main panel is a simple green pattern on green cardstock; simple and elegant.  The stripes are layered onto the green piece, just like the pillow sits on the green sofa.  The orange polka-dot piece mimics the adjacent pillow.  I felt that the kraft pom-poms made such an inpact, that I had to re-create the pom-pom and put it on my card.  I made the kraft flower out of 'natural' coffee filters and a scallop circle die.  I cut 12 scallop circles and stacked them.  Then I crumpled each one individually.  With all the natural materials in the photo, I wanted an 'earthy', simple material to wrap around my polka-dot piece.  So, I chose a thick hemp twine.  I kept the leaves simple, few and a 'background', just like the potted plant in the photo.

I used this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch, to help me with the layout.  All paper craft supplies are from Stampin' Up!  However, most are retired.