Feeling Inspired? Play along with All Things Unity & Unity's World Card Making Day challenges

 
 

Our challenge this week for All Things Unity is open a magazine for our inspiration.  I found this gorgeous ad in one of my magazines. I thought the soft purples were really pretty for fall.  The flowers are made from the pages of a book (I bought a book of really bad poetry years ago at the thrift store, it had a gorgeous binding and while the poems were hideously bad - the pages make really pretty flowers!). 

Here's the ad that caught my eye and inspired my card:

 

The basics for making the flowers:
Punch: Punch (or die cut), I like to use 8 if its thick like cardstock, 9 if its paper
Sponge:  The color of your choice onto the edges, I love to use dye based ink because it softens and blends beautifully when you mist it.
Pierce:  Stack them together and then pierce in the middle (thumb tack or piercing tool), this is for a brad you will use later.
Sprtiz:  Spritz or mist these water, use enough to get them wet.
Crumple:  Crumple them up like a spitball
Uncrumple:  that's right, very gently pull them back apart
Stack:  place them all together
Brad:  Place a brad through that whole you pierced in the middle of them
Crumple:  Crumple them back together, working from the very top layer.  Keep playing with the layers till you get the flower as you like it (its okay to add a bit more mist to them if they're getting dry).

Let dry and place your masterpiece on your card.

 

 
 

Play along!!!!! Simply make a card - anything goes as long as you use Unity or Ippity stamps.  We have an awesome sponsor this month, Through the Craftroom Door, a digital magazine.

1. Create anything (i.e. card, scrapbook page, altered item, etc.) using your stamps by Unity or Ippity ****Please use only Unity and Ippity stamps in your creation.****

**Be sure to mention ATU in your post. **NOTE:: Please be sure to link to your specific POST about ATU not just your blog! 

3. If you load your creation up in an online gallery, please use the keyword ATU41.

4. This challenge will end on Saturday, Octber 15th at 11:59pm EST. So be sure to link up before by then!

5. You can link up as many times as you would like!  But make sure that each entry is new card using Unity/Ippy stamps. 

I'm also using this card as inspiration for Unity's World Cardmaking Day #4 challenge!  I was inspired by the flower and purple on the hats.

Comments

[StampinCathy]

OMGosh Rebecca! This card is just stunning and love love the colors! Beautiful flowers with that sentiment. Love your inspirational piece too!

[Maureen]

The texture and dimension are fabulous! What a wonderfully beautiful piece of art. TFS

[Sav O'G]

OH MY! Rebecca--this is a fabulous inspiration page--and I LOVE how you made all those beautiful flowers! What a fabulous creation! LOOOOOVE!

[Sarah]

That ad totally cracked me up! LOVE how you were inspired by it, and those fabulous flowers you made! I did some a while back and forgot how great they are; thanks for getting my mojo back for them ;-) Your colors are just so pretty and that sentiment stamp is AWESOME (I am a huge Kate Hepburn fan!) Thanks for sharing your wonderful card!