"Inspiration Mosaic" Blog Hop with Melanie

I'm so excited for Melanie!  Tonight Melanie is having a blog hop. She'll have some blog candy. Hope you  can join in! I made this card with the blog candy that I won on Melanie's site (see her signature in the supplies photo!!).  I have a few of her sets. I really dig her style of design.  Here's how I made this card:

1. Stamped several images from happy harvest on luxury card stock. At that moment I wasn't sure which ones I wanted to use - I like them all. :o)
2. I narrowed it down and colored some with Copic markers.
3. Stamped mosaic inspiration image two times - once on luxury white card stock and once on patterned paper.
4. I trimmed the outside of the complete image on white card stock and cut out the smaller full rectangles from the patterned paper. I pasted the two rectangles on the white card stock mosaic. 
5. I laid out the happy harvest images for placement over the mosaic. Once I made a final decision where I wanted the images, I stamped the images over the mosaic.
6. Next I stippled some brown ink over all the white to tone it down.
7. For the sun flower leaves that were stamped directly on the white card stock, I colored those with markers. I adhered the rest of the cut out images over the stamped images. I added a few black dots to the center of the flowers.
8. I adhered a piece of patterned paper over the base brown card stock and adhered the mosaic piece over that.
9. As an after thought, I added the flowers in the upper left corner.  I had already colored them and that corner was too plain. :o)

Stamps: Gina K's Happy Harvest & Inspiration Mosaic
Paper: Gina K's pure luxury base weight chocolate kiss & pure white, and patterned paper
Inks:  Stampin' Up! chocolate chip, Brilliance graphite black
Accessories: Copic markers, Faber-Castell artist pen F, stipple brush

Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

Trena

Comments

[sandy M]

You are going to make me have to get that mosaic stamp! Stop showing me how useful it is. It's turning into a gottahaveit for me. whine.

[Donna Baker]

so pretty, Trena!!

[Melanie Muenchinger]

thanks for spreading the word! your card turned out great i love the images with Gina's digi paper!