An inspired hello....

Hi there friends! It's been a great day in the craft studio today! I am almost done getting my posts ready for next week's Taylored Expressions Release, and I had time to make something for the August Hero Arts Contest too! It's been a while since I entered the Hero Arts Contests - and I really miss doing so! This month has fantastic themes...and I'm going to try to make more entries before the month runs out too. Click here to go to the page with the contest deets! Maybe you will join in the fun with me? For today's card, I went with the part of the contest for 'make your own embellishments!'

I am ALWAYS inspired by the super talented Kathy Martin. Have you ever seen her blog? It's so happy and beautiful and fresh...I honestly don't know how she does it. Every project more gorgeous than the last. Well, a while back I saw this card of Kathy's and pinned it to my Pinterest board. I kept thinking about it and the idea of using the negatives of my letter dies. Today I decided to go for it and do my take on Kathy's card.

 

 

 

 

I used the pretty Poppies stamp as a lovely soft image on my tag. I was going to color it in, but it didn't look right. I love the aqua popping through!

 

 

 

One trick for making your own embellishments, and something I do alot, is to cut out accent pieces from your patterned paper. Here I made a flower embellishment by cutting out the red flower, adding a button and then finishing it with some twine. On the other part of the card, I cut out another couple of pieces of the paper too. This way everything is sure to match!

 

 

 

Here are my supplies... At the last minute, I decided not to go with the cute wood typewriter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello! This card is not my usual color palette or layout...I really went outside my box with it. The new paper from Basic Grey spoke to me and I love aqua and red. I'm happy with it!

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Lots of love coming your way from craft room to yours.... Thanks for coming by today!  

 

Comments

[Shannon White]

Oh Wow Wanda! This is Fabulous!! So Pretty And Summery Fresh! Love the Wonderful design and the fab dp's and your custom embellies too! Awsome take on Kathy's Pretty card! I'm pinning this right now! 8-) LOVE it! 8-)

Hugs
Shannon

[Audrey Pettit]

How absolutely adorable, my friend!

[Fonda Jo]

So many different ideas on this great card! How neat it is!! Collages are so much fun.

[TeaDub!]

Fabulous job Sistah...I love this collage card! Red and aqua are one of my favorite color combos to use! :o)

[julie]

Love the tone-on -tone poppies. I've never used that stamp that way.
I also love your choice of patterned paper.

[Kathy Martin]

You made my day girl! ;) Thank you for the shout-out! I LOVE your card with your stamping and cut out flower.....you have a way with handmade accents and details! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :)

[Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)]

I agree. That color palette is a beauty. I love the tag with the soft image and the defined negative space. Cool! "-)

[Holly Saveur]

Gorgeous Wanda..I pinned that card too..LOVE her work.
ps did you get my email?

[Krebsen]

Lovely :-)