Woot woot! The first post on the new blog! I love being on the design team for The Inspiration Station. I love getting inspired and challenging myself and I hope you get inspired by the hop as well. It’s been so hot and dry here, this month’s inspiration photo was perfect!
Most of the time, I don’t really copy the inspiration photo. However, I really saw this photo in scraps, and I had to go with it. My project replicates the background of this photo, but was constructed with scraps of paper.
I literally began this project by taking my sleeves of orange, yellow and white scrap cardstock and laying some down on a piece of copy paper, to replicate the colors of the inspiration picture.
When I got the scraps layed out how I wanted, I had to carefully glue them down without moving them, so I set some boxed on one side while I glued down the scraps, then swapped the boxes over to the other side and glued the rest of the scraps down. I did set a heavy book over the whole thing and let it set up overnight.
The next day I layed out where I wanted to cut out an oval die-cut to represent the sun in the inspiration photo, and also layed out the Cross Weaves embossing folder by Altenew on the scrapped paper.
I cut out an area for the embossing folder and ran that through my manual crank machine (Pro tip: manual crank machines are best for 3D embossing folders because you can control how much pressure you put on them with shims. Then I cut ut the oval for the sun. I glued the embossed panel to a black cardstock frame and then glued that onto a red 6 x6″ top folding card base.
Next, I took the cut-out oval “sun” and ran that through the Decorative Florals embossing folder from Altenew. with all the warmth from the inspiration photo, I felt like it needed some tropical flowers. I also inked around the edge to smooth out the rough edges from die cutting.
I then glued the oval onto the embossed panel card base.
To mimic the silhouetted foreground of the inspiration photo, I die-cut the flowers from the Altenew Winter Rose stamp and die set, out of black cardstock. I then used the detail layer of the corresponding stamp set to emboss with black embossing powder.
I attached these to the base with adhesive foam tape. To finish this project off with a sentiment, I used my versa mark embossing ink pad to smoosh over black cardstock. I then poured black embossing powder over the spot and heat set it.
I used the Fancy Hello die from Altenew for the sentiment, cutting it out of this embossed area.
I hope you like this project and are also inspired by the inspiration photo.
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