Thursday 3 November 2011

For Your Inspiration Guest DT

Today I have a Guest DT spot over at For Your Inspiration, which is a great fortnightly photo inspiration challenge if you haven't come across it before.

The current challenge is to use the following photo to inspire your project


I decided to interpret the colours, shapes and reflective surfaces and create a Christmas card.  Now I know the photo with the invited pool doesn't scream Christmas but the golds and shimmers (and the fact that I've been in Christmas card mode for a while) all lead me down the Christmas theme.


I started with a black pearl 6 x 4 base card and cut a black, cream and gold spotted shape from DP from Papermania using a Spellbinders Label, and then I drew around the outside on some shiny cream card and cut it out by hand to create a thin matt.  This echoed the colour of the building and the spots the lights.  I took a gold oval (again cut with a Spellbinders die) to represent the shape of the building and the reflective quality of the pool and stamped a Christmas sentiment from Waltzingmouse and embossed that with pewter embossing powder.  The reflections made the photography difficult but the sentiment reads "to aid in the attainment of PEACE on earth".

I hope you like the card and are inspired by the photo - can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!

Tara (aka Craftilicious)
x

8 comments:

  1. Love your interpretation Tara, this photo would have me scratching my head! Brilliant Christmas card :)
    Jenny x

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  2. If you've clicked the link and noticed a suspicious lack of my card, then I assure you I haven't made it up - something went wrong and my DT bit has been missed off :-(

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  3. Lovely card! I like the gold piece with the embossing. Apologies for the tardiness in adding your card, but it's up now.
    Steph

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  4. Great interpretation Tara and it certainly is inspirational.

    Anne

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  5. great card you made here with the inspiration photo! It's very elegant!

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  6. So elegant Tara - love it!

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  7. Beautiful, elegant card Tara! ;)

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  8. Tara - I absolutely love this card - so elegant, so beautiful. I think your interpretation of the photo is brilliant. I'm still thinking about my card!

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