Hello everyone and welcome to another blog post with me, Kim.
Do you sometimes look at some of you new crafting purchases and just sigh because you cannot seem to find the necessary inspiration? It can be frustrating if you are stuck and are just hoping for anything that may trigger your creative process.
Well here is how I usually snap out of it:
Take the papers that you have decided to work with and just lay them out in front of you.
More often than not you will find a recurring dominant colour scheme within your papers, in the case of the Watermelon Gazpacho line from Jillybean Soup the blues and greens stuck out to me the most, so I decided to go with blue as my main colour and add a touch of green. To help kickstart my creative juices I went to search for images on the net, via Pinterest and found these two beauties
Browsing for the colour combination "blue and green" and looking at the pictures - which my search returned - got me straight into creative mode and this is the result.
**click on image to enlarge **
Once I started there was no stopping me and I was pleased with myself that I managed to even come up with a little embellishment money saver along the way! See those flowers on the right bottom corner, the ones with the twine and buttons?
You could spend a pretty penny and buy them ready made (which incidentally may leave you with a pack of flowers in a colour you don't really want to use again), or you can grab some of your older stash such as American Crafts Greenhouse Lucy Flowers
and some WRMemory Keepers Bakers Twine in coordinating colours
and just wrap this across the flowers (which are actually scored along each petal, so it makes it super easy to fasten the twine).
Finish it off with a button on top and you have a very unique embellishment.
The other rosette flower on the left bottom corner was created from the cut off-strip of paper which I usually have left over from trimming the 12 x 12 papers to my favoured size of 8.5 x 11.
I love those rosettes, as they are really easy to make. Recently I have created a step-by-step tutorial on my personal blog on how to create the rosettes. Hop on over and have a look if you don't know yet on how to make your own rosette flowers.
Additional products used
- Stickers: Jillyeban Soup - Watermelon Gazpacho Cardstock Stickers
- Mist: Cosmic Shimmer in Twilight Black
- Stamp: Kaisercraft Grid
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