Quilted Leaves

Quite often I struggle with inspiration photo challenges - I can't seem to interpret them in any meaningful or artistic way - but this one at The Pink Elephant really spoke to me - I love grey and yellow and I was drawn to those leaves.  http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe189.html   So I combined their inspiration challenge with the Paper Players theme of "stitching" http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/paper-players-135-leannes-theme.html and this is what I came up with:

I used a couple of stitched stamp sets from Crafts Meow - Stitched Flowers and Stitched Sentiments for this card and just two shades of ink - Momento Dandelion and Grey Flannel.  I used the single stitched leaf stamp to create a repeat background pattern taking inspiration from the quilt and then I inked the edges of the panel with the dandelion to add some brightness.  I stamped and embossed the stitched sentiment onto some grey cardstock and mounted it onto some yellow embossed dot card.  I stamped a button flower from the flower set and coloured it with pencils adding a white button coloured grey with a copic to the centre.  I stamped the two leaf sprays again in grey and coloured with a copic to finish.  If only I could find this inspiration in every photo challenge!