OLW59 - Inspiration Challenge and a Layout

I'm running a little behind on my entry for the OLW challenge which is hosted this week by Susan at Simplicity.  This week Susan has given us a photo to inspire us...yeah, right!  I have the worse time with inspiration challenges....don't know why, but I do!  Anyway, here's our inspiration photo:

Cute little yellow flowers in a jar...nothing!  My poor brain finally hit on an idea and then I couldn't get it to work out like I wanted it to.  This is the 4th and final effort (well, of course it's the final effort....I'm not still making the same card! LOL!).  I used Asian Fusion stamps from Papertrey Ink.  I tried the vase in blue, red, black...and finally yellow before I liked what I saw.  The flowers are individual blooms that I stamped several times over the top of the vase, then I added the greenery with a Memento pen. [Just so you know, there's a fine line between getting too much greenery and not enough greenery].  

I scored a couple of lines.  One under the vase and one on the bottom edge of the vase.  The sentiment is also a PTI stamp from one of the birthday sets.

I'm also sharing a layout with you today. I made this a few weeks ago and just forgot to post it.

This is my daughter, Kimberly, when she was about 15 months old in 1978. Background is white card stock with a red border. The large loopy border was cut with a die from Lifestyles...and it goes perfectly with the MS loopy punch! The word priceless is a rub on I've had forever. The banner was cut with a die that's also from Lifestyles. The die set includes the strip for the flags, and three different sizes and two styles...it also includes a flag with a different shape. The title work is some old sticker letters from my stash. I added some red doodled lines around the outside border and some white and black doodling on the punched edges. Papers are just some old papers from my stash.  Journaling is tucked behind the photo and the top edge was punched with a MS edge punch. Letters on flags are rub on letters.  Journaling reads:

It happened every day. You climbed on everything and I would have to rescue you and put you back down on the floor. There wasn’t a table, a chair, a shelf, or a bed that you didn’t climb on. I guess you started early reaching for new heights and no matter how often I warned you that you were going to get hurt…you still climbed with abandon…absolutely NO FEAR! Now that you are grown with children of your own, I thoroughly enjoy watching you chase after your little girl - who loves to climb just as much as you did at that age! Kimberly – 15 months old."

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