Inspired by…

Needing a card for my Great Aunt’s birthday coming up in a couple weeks (and having an afternoon of no children!) I decided to combine two challenges again – MojoMonday and Kristina’s Color Challenge.  I’ll show you my card first (for a change) and then give you the inspiration pieces.  Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!

So the details… card base is Ruby Red followed by a 5-1/4" x 4" layer of Old Olive and then a 5" x 3-3/4" layer of Brocade Blue that I ran through my Big Shot with the Stampinp’ Up! Background Texturz Plate.  I used a stampin’ sponge and some Chocolate Chip ink to highlight the dry embossed areas on the Brocade Blue background to make them pop a little more.  The DSP is a retired one (Fall Flowers, maybe?) and is 1" x 5".  I put a thin strip of Pumpkin Pie on top and layered some 1" circles on the bottom… yes, I could’ve used my trusty scallop edge punch but for some reason I felt this needed a bigger scallop.  The main image is stamped on Watercolor Paper (3-3/4" x 2-1/2") and I colored directly on the Inspired by Nature stamp with my Watercolor crayons (Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie, & Old Olive), then added a little water to the stamp with my aquapainter, then stamped on the Watercolor Paper. (Do I sense a need for another video tutorial?  LOL)  Then I used Brocade Blue with the aquapainter for the background.  The Ruby Red layer of CS is 3-7/8" x 2-5/8") behind the main image.  I punched out a 1" Chocolate Chip circle, a 3/4" Old Olive circle, and one Ruby Red flower from the Flowers Three punch and layered them all together after cutting the circles in half.  The brads used are More Mustard but I thought they pulled out the Pumpkin Pie colors nicely.  The happy birthday is from Goody, Goody Gumdrops; I used my Chocolate Chip marker to ink that up and stamped it on the Watercolor paper and punched out with my small oval punch.  That is layered on a Pumpkin Pie large oval and that’s it! 

So the colors are probably obvious now:

And the layout came from a past Mojo challenge.  I didn’t follow the sketch layout to a "T" but for all intents and purposes I think it’s pretty obvious this is where the layout came from!