We love to craft, and I expect we wish we could do it all the time! But we’re all human and now and then we might lose our crafty mojo. Therefore creating a card from inspiration can really help get those creative juices flowing. Of course, you don’t have to lose your crafty mojo to create from inspiration either. There are so many photos out there that have beautiful colour schemes which can challenge you to create beautiful cards. I took the Color Your Day class on Altenew academy and it spurred me on to create a card with this month’s Inspiration Picture from Altenew Blog.
The image above is the current colour palette and picture for July’s inspiration. If you want to see the blog post on Altenew, check out the post HERE.
PRODUCED AS PART OF MY DESIGN-TEAM WORK FOR BUMBLEBERRY PAPERCRAFTS - SEE END OF POST FOR MORE DETAILS
Deciding on your inspiration
To start off, decided how you want to incorporate inspiration from the photo into your card. Whether you use the photo as a sketch layout for the design of the card, use the subject matter to create a card around a theme or use the colour palette from the photo. For this inspiration challenge, you’re challenged with the colours scheme.
Next, decide how to incorporate the colours. For this card, I used coloured inks from my stash, but you can use cardstock, pencils, pens or paint. To create the background, die-cut the Altenew Gradient Lines Cover Die out of white cardstock. Next, using the Altenew blending tool, ink blend one of the colours over the die-cut, fading this out to white up the top.
Adding the colour
For the focal point of the card, use the Altenew Sophisticated Wreath stamp to stamp a selection of the stamps with your MISTI stamping platform. Try to stamp these in all three colours. The colours I used here are Over Coffee, Polished and Hot Tub Catherine Pooler Ink.
One thing I tried to keep in mind which I picked up in the class is to try and keep the ratio of colours in your card to 70% (main colour), 20% (1st accent colour) and 10% (second accent colour) to get a balance between the colours in the card. For this card, the brown colour occupies the most colour on the card and I would not normally have so much brown on this card – this challenged to push me out of my boundaries!
Assembling the card
Once all stamped, use the coordinating dies to die-cut the stamped images out. Next, adhere the cover plate die-cut down onto white card base. After, add the stamped images to the card, clustered in once corner. When doing this, add foam pads to create varying depths in dimension for interest.
For the sentiment, heat emboss in white onto black card a sentiment from the Altenew Sentiment Strips 2 stamp set. I used two sentiments from the stamp set and trimmed these down into thin strips of foam mount onto the front of the card. To finish the card off, add a selection of clear drops to the front of the card with Gina K connect glue.
Supplies
Creating a card from inspiration
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All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP) and WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US).
 Sentiment Strips 2 – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Sophisticated wreath stamp set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | BP |  Sophisticated wreath die set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | BP |
 Sophisticated wreath die set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Hot Tub Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  Hot Tub Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |
 Hot Tub Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |  Polished ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  Polished reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |
 Polished ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |  Over Coffee Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  Over Coffee Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |
 Over Coffee Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) |  Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Premium White Cardstock: 8.5″ x 11 – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |
 Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: SB | BP |  Original MISTI – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP |  Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |
 Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Ink blending tool large – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) |
WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) |  Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn Shop at: BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
 Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: CPD | SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Color Your Day – Altenew Shop at: ALT |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for Bumbleberry Papercrafts have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Bumbleberry Papercrafts to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
4 thoughts on “Creating a card from inspiration”
This does look quite different from your regular style of work but it is still gorgeous as ever!! or entering your work to the AECP assignment gallery.
Aww thanks Erum!
Your card is stunning Verity, love how you have used the colour palette!
Thank you so much ?