Inspired By the Little Things

Hello Stamplings!

My best wishes go out to all those in the path of the incoming hurricanes. It must be so surreal to be told to evacuate your home when outside the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and there is only the wisp of a breeze. I hope everyone heeded the warnings and got to safety!

As I mentioned a coupla days ago, I am filling in for Lesley Croghan as one of the Administrators on her challenge Inspired By All the Little Things in order for her to have more time with her new baby daughter, Maeley. 

This week it is my turn to host the challenge over on the main blog and I wanted to make a card, too, so I made this:

On a linen card base (from Handy Hippo), I layered a horizontal panel stamped with En Francais from SU. Over that I layered a panel of burlap to mimic the burlap peeking out from behind the boutonnieres in the inspiration photo below. The layered flowers are NBUS dahlias from The Ton, which were fun to ink up. The sweet little tag tucked in the flowers is from MFT and the sediment is from My Creative Time.

Here is the pretty photo inspiration:

Another fun part of being the challenge hostess is that I get to feature a guest artist and I've picked one of my besties! Please visit the Inspired By All the Little Things main blog for all the details of the challenge and to see who my fabulous guest is!! You'll also see what the talented members of the Design Team have made to inspire you!

Inspiration IS All Around.

You may have noticed that I used a gray flower on my card instead of a white one like in the photo inspiration. That's because I also used an additional photo taken by Lesley as my inspiration ~ and she doesn't even know it!

Not too long ago, Lesley posted a photo of her daughter Maeley on Facebook, which I've cropped. I couldn't believe how well Maeley's sweet little dress resembled the photo inspiration for this week's challenge, so I used it for additional inspiration!! 

Isn't that amazing? And isn't it fun being inspired by the little things?! 

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Challenges

• Freshly Made Sketches.
• HLS Anything Goes With Dies.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Stamp it.

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