OLW99 - We're Inspired!

This week's One Layer Wednesday challenge is hosted by Susan at Simplicity.  Like most of you, I spend an enormous amount a little time browsing around Pinterest and can find lots of inspirations.  Susan's challenge to us this week is to browse her Pinterest inspiration board and to create a card from something we're inspired by.  I'll just insert here - Susan's inspiration board is full of fabulous inspiration!  Here's my cards for this week. This photo was the inspiration for my first card.

I used a Kraft card base, stamped some leaves on the card with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink (masking leaves when necessary).  I colored the leaves with Prisma color pencils.  I drew a gold line and then highlighted it with a black line to make the strings to "hang" the leaves.  I also added just a little shadowing on the right side of the leaves to give it some depth.  The leaves are from Flourishes and the sentiment is from PTI.

I was inspired by so much of what Susan has pinned on this board!  This next photo was the inspiration for my second card.

For this card, I use PTI's Through the Trees stamp.  I stamped the image using Memento cocoa brown, added a little red bird, then made a frame using a Spellbinder square die to emboss the frame.  The sentiment is also PTI and is stamped in cocoa brown.  It's difficult to see on here, but I also added a bit of stickles on the branches to resemble snow.

This photo was the inspiration for my third and last card.  

First I masked off the small rectangles and sponged a little green and brown ink inside the rectangles.  The "plant" is a PTI stamp.  The sentiment is also PTI and the brown border is from Flourishes. (You might notice that the sentiment I used is also the words on the wall in the inspiration photo....how cool is that!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Your comments are truly appreciated! Until next time...

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