Springtime Home Decor for Heart2Heart Inspiration Challenge

This week's challenge at Heart2Heart is a photo inspiration challenge!  Its always fun to see what people pull from an inspiration photo - whether its the color, the composition, the overall feel of the piece, etc.

I loved the fabric bunting at the top of the inspiration photo, the coral pink color and the outdoors theme.  I started this piece on a blustery cold and rainy day here in Seattle where the only thing I could think about was how nice it will be when winter fades away to spring!

Here is the inspiration photo from Heart2Heart Challenges:

 I put extra layers of foam tape under just the middle of the banner so it looks like it is rippling in the air.  The layered bunting was created by misting cardstock and shaping pleats into it to make it look more like fabric.

Close up of the tree and flowers.  To get a larger tree canopy I stamped three of the tree tops from Splendid Day and pop dotted them in layers.

I used lots of little paper flowers and leaves, bitty sparkles, bitty pearls and buttons to make my scene.  I love these kinds of project because you can pull things from your stash to use up!  

Our inspiration photo is just so full of details!  I hope you'll join the fun and post something you create to the Heart2Heart Challenges site!  Can't wait to see what you pull from the photo!

If you'd like to make this project, get these supplies:

Paper:  Smoothie CS, Sky CS, White Daisy CS, Sunny Yellow CS

Stamps:  Spendid Day (tree, plane), American Celebration (the stripes on the blue circles), Bohemian Alphabet

Ink:  Sky, Topiary, Smoothie, Dutch Blue

Other:  Liquid Glass, Bitty Pearls, Bitty Sparkles (some were colored pink with a Sharpie), Red Assortment Buttons, Paper Flowers (retired), Ultra Fine Tipped Black Sharpie, Watercolor Pencils (coloring leaves on the tree)

Art Nouveau Button Flower Card with CTMH Footloose, Art Philosophy

This card shows a completely different side of the Footloose paper pack.  My last two projects focused on the ocean feel of this paper but while I was playing with it I kept thinking that some of the papers had an almost Art Nouveau feel.  I started by cutting the flower shapes and vase from the Art Philosophy Cartridge and then added some stacked buttons to bling it up.

Here's a close up of the button stack using the fabulous Blue Button Assortment and a new Bling button from the Bohemian Collection.

If you'd like to make this card, get these supplies:

Paper:  Footloose

Ink:  Olive

Stamps:  Card Word Puzzle (for Happy Birthday)

Other:  Color-Ready Seam Binding, Blue Button Assortment, Bling Button from Bohemian Collection, Corner Rounder

Elegant Thinking of You card with CTMH You're Adored and Noted Backgrounds

I have my lovely playgroup ladies coming over for a crop night tomorrow night and have to do all my cleaning today as I volunteer in my youngest kiddo's class room tomorrow morning and have physical therapy with him right after school.  So while I should be doing all my cleaning and a bit of baking I'm up here playing around on my computer instead.  Ah well, I guess I'll just have to speed clean later...

This is a lovely card I lifted from my copy of Card Creations: Start to Finish, Volume 2 that I won (yipee!) from the Paper Crafts Connections blog along with a Technique Tuesday stamp set!  I was so excited to win this prize as I love Paper Crafts magazine and their books are always full of fun ideas.  I pulled this card from one of pages as I needed a "thinking of you" card for a friend whose mother is ill.

The second shot shows what the inside card looks like (I made another one as I wrote on the inside of this card before I took a picture!).  I really like the simple elegance of this card and am looking forward to including it in my "friendship" cards workshop coming up next month.

Materials Used:
Paper:  Brown Bag and White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Noted Backgrounds, You're Adored, Thinking of You (retired) but Say it in Style would be good too
Ink:  Black, Brown Bag (stamped image under the clear buttons)
Other:  Clear Buttons, Liquid Glass, Ribbon (from Michael's Crafts), Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch