MAKEESHA’S INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

I had a go at Makeesha’s Inspiration Challenge for this week.  I have to say it was a hard one. I wasn’t sure how to tackle it.  I knew I wanted to incorporate the circles from the soup mugs somehow.  I was flicking through the 2007-2008 Stampin’ Up! catalogue the other night and came across a card on page 86 that I thought I would work with.  It was a little bit fiddly, but it was fun to do.

Here is the photo we had to work with.

This is my end result.

To punch the circles I used the 1 3/8″ circle punch.  I punched some out first on scrap paper and used the 2-way glue on certain celery cardstock.  This is great repositional glue to use.  If you add some to the card and let it go clear before you fix it to your piece you can then take it on and off until you are happy with the position.   I then traced around these circles and punched out on the marks with the punch.  I placed a piece of whisper white card under the certain celery card.  I punched out some circles with the 1 1/4″ circle punch from scrap paper again and lined it up within the circles on the certain celery card.  I marked these circles in pencil and then punched them out from the whisper white card  with the 1 1/4″ circle punch.  One of the circles I cut from a scrap of chocolate chip card.  All these circles were quite fiddly to do.  I don’t know if there is a simpler way of doing it, but it worked out ok.  I used the ’embrace life’ set and stamped the blossom in chocolate chip onto pumpkin pie card.  I inked the words one at a time in the chocolate chip marker and stamped them on pumpkin pie so one word ran under the other.  I inked up some white taffeta ribbon with my pumpkin pie marker.  I punched out a slit with the slit punch and tied the ribbon through.  I had curled the edges of the celery card with my bone folder to give it a distressed edge. I adhered this piece to chocolate chip base and then pierced holes down each side.  This is a bit hard to see in the photo.  I think it is missing something though, what do you think?

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