Happy Hello

 Happy Monday!!  It's my turn to share my Pick of the Week for The House That Stamps Built.  I am continuing my Inspired by Pinterest series.  This is the card I chose to be inspired by (it was created by Theresa of Crafting the Web):

I've been in love with this card for a long time and, today, I decided to recreate it for myself.  I started by die cutting my main panel.  The die cuts a gorgeous frame and leaves a large negative piece that I inlaid back into the frame after I had inked it with some distress ink.

The color I ended up with was actually a happy accident!  I was inking blending with Old Paper Distress Oxide, but some red ink from my scrap paper mixed in with it and created this beautiful dusty peachy color.

I didn't have a large sized die to mat my panel like Theresa did, so I cut a plain square, inked the edges up with the same inks (including the extra red!), and embossed it with a script embossing folder.

To make the embossing pop even more, I swiped the Old Paper ink directly from the inkpad onto the raised portions.

I layered everything together onto a white card base and added my tulips image ("Vase of Tulips").  After I colored the image, I used my ink blending brush to blend the same "Old Paper" oxide ink over top to help soften the colors and bring it more in line with the rest of the card:

Rather than add a sentiment strip, I chose to stamp my sentiment ("Happy Hello") directly onto the focal panel and I finished the whole thing off with some clear drops.  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope this inspires you to look at your supplies and see how you can use them to recreate projects that inspire you.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Vase of Tulips" and "Happy Hello"

Dies: Spellbinders 

Challenges:

Unicorn Challenge #63--make it feminine

Pattie's Creations #180--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #56--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--feminine

Craft Rocket #79--use dies and/or spring (I used dies and spring as tulips are beautiful spring flowers)

Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes

Moving Along with the Times #128--spring is coming

Penny's Challenges #491--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #153--anything goes

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

Creative Moment's #210--anything goes

CRAFT #590--feminine

As You Like It--favorite way to cut out your image (if I am leaving my image on a panel, I prefer to use a die, but if I am cutting the image out then I definitely prefer fussy cutting.  For one, I don't like to spend money on things--like coordinating dies--that I can do myself.  It saves the money to use on fun things like more stamps!  Also, fussy cutting is relaxing and allows to you leave a border or not depending on the image and the look you are going for.)