Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Paper Blooms Inspiration Challenge

This week's Paper Blooms challenge is to use some of Leah's gorgeous dishes as your inspiration. I was immediately drawn to the colors and large flowers and used those as my starting point.

I tried to go elegant with this card, since I thought it fit well with the pattern on the dishes.







I embossed this paper flower with the Swiss Dots folder, then added one of Leah's blooms, a stick pin (also from Paper Blooms), and pearls.

I'd love to see you play along with our challenge this week. Just link up your card to the Paper Blooms blog. You do NOT need to own any Paper Blooms to participate, although if you've got some, we'd love to see them. I can't wait to see what you create!
Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages (PTI)
Paper: Real Red textured, Certainly Celery, PTI white
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: crocheted flower & stick pin (Paper Blooms), paper flower (Heidi Swapp), pearls (Kaisercraft), Martha Stewart scalloped dot punch, oval punch, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

33 comments:

  1. Ann this is beautiful!!! :-)

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  2. I love it, Ann! I totally LOVE your style and your take on this challenge!

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  3. Love your card Ann, elegant is the perfect description of it:)

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  4. Nice card Ann! I do like this layout...tfs!!!

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  5. Wow, Ann, this is so pretty! Love the flower you used and the red and pearl center!

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  6. This is fabulous!!! I love those flowers and those pearls...brilliant!

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  7. ann this is a beautiful card i love the bloom of course ( actually both of them) but especially adore the little pearls you added. great job again this week :) have a great day! shelly

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  8. OMGoodness! This is just stunning! LOVE it...everything about it!

    (-: Heidi

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  9. Just beautiful! you really hit it out of the PARK! Just stunning!

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  10. Wow, what a simply gorgeous flower!

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  11. Oh so fun and love the pearls

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  12. Wow! Absolutely gorgeous! Love the embossed flower so much!!!

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  13. I so love the dots on the flower, it is perfect!

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  14. Absolutely Fabulous indeed!! Great card!!

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  15. Beautiful card, Love it all!

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  16. Wowza!! This is gorgeous! Love that huge flower! The center is beautiful too with the crochet flower with pearls and the Pretties stick pin! Beautiful work!

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  17. Just stunning! The pearls in the flower center is so elegant... TFS! Smiles Ann... :)

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  18. Wow...how fun! Love the embossed flower with the bloom in the middle!

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  19. soooo fabulous Ann....as usual :)

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  20. Wow! Ann, another really elegant card! I love the flower!

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  21. Gorgeous! Love that crocheted flower and stick-pin!

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  22. Absolutely gorgeous. Love everything about this card.

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  23. How fun to emboss that large flower and add the crocheted center.

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  24. Oh how pretty! I never thought of embossing a prima but I will definitely try it now! This is so sweet, you are like the challenge queen I swear! The pin is so pretty with it, I can never think of how to do that right. ;)

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  25. This is just gorgeous, I love this flower and all those pearls

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  26. Wow. Totally beautiful. I love those pearls in the center of the crocheted flower.

    This card is all about texture and makes you want to touch it!

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