Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Terrific Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

Happy Tuesday All!

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday weekend. The weather was fabulous here. We visited with friends and family and did some yard work. All in all, it was a nice weekend.

Now that it's Tuesday, I have a card to share with you that I made for Cindy's Terrific Tuesday Challenge. This month she chose to do an inspiration challenge. To see the inspiration piece, please click on the link to her website.

I decided to make a pocket card for this project and went with the colors from the inspiration piece. I started with Black as the base and then layered on Brocade Blue, Rose Red, So Saffron, and Vanilla. I was also inspired to use flower stamps. I used Essence of Love to create a garden. I colored directly on the stamp with my markers, then stamped the Vanilla. I added some butterflies and ribbon to finish the card.

In keeping with the flower theme, inside the pocket is a seed packet of Zinnias, a gift to create a garden. I CASEd this idea from my SBS sister Lynn, of L W Designs. Lynn's pocket card is absolutely gorgeous! I thought it was a great idea and so I had to try it. I added a tab punch and flower punch outs with a rhinestone brad to finish off the seed packet.

Thanks for looking, hope you'll check out Cindy's challenge and be inspired to create! Happy Stamping!! :)

Oh and by the way...
My fellow design team member Melissa is offering up some fabulous blog candy and when I say fabulous, I mean fabulous! Check it out! :)

15 comments:

Heather Huggins said...

Wow... Really pretty. I love how you colored the stamp different colors. Really pretty..

Samantha said...

Oh Denise! This ab gorg! I think I would hang this on my wall!!!Please can you suck out your creative brain and send it to me via snail mail so I can inject it into my very not creative brain?? Please? :) LOL

I went over to Lynn's site- your sbs sis and her site rocks!- Do you have a lotta good ones- like hers- WOW!?


And your DTM buddy Melissa's is great also!

I will be posting my Stamp Something Challie today!

Have a great day! Love you card- GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEAT!

elibeegifts.co.uk said...

This is beautiful.The colours work really well together.x

Diane said...

How sweet this is!! Love your idea of putting flower seeds in the pocket...brilliant!!!
It's gorgeous!!

Lauren said...

Great job with this Denise. I love the front. It's so detailed! Fabulous job.

Andrea, said...

This is so pretty, I love the images you have used and such gorgeous colours

Anonymous said...

This is so pretty! I love how you colored the same stamp with so many colors! And I love the seeds, too!

Becky Carafa said...

Wow, Denise, I am so impressed with your coloring! I don't have the patience for that, lol! This turned out gorgeous!

Annie said...

what a stunning and beautiful card and a great idea for giving a gift of flower seeds!

Erin... said...

fabulous!! the whole thing...idea, coloring, layout, everything just fantastic!

Cassie said...

this is absolutely gorgeous!

Maren said...

What fabulous colors!! So gorgeous!

Lynn said...

WOW Denise! I love your pocket card! The colors are just gorgeous! I'm glad that you found some inspiration from my seed pocket card. :-) thank you for the nice comments.

Jo said...

Oh Wow Denise this is gorgeous and everything I love about your work.....so inspirational!!

Anonymous said...

Denise,
When I first saw your card it absolutely took my breath away! I love the way you colored the stamp and the fab colors you chose. The seed pocket is a great idea and your every detail makes it so, so special!