Team 2 is up this week with the very first Picture Perfect Paper Smooches Challenge. We have a fantastic inspiration photo that will be sure to get your creative mojo flowing! I know it sparked some ideas for me. Here is how I interpreted the photo. It was funny but all I kept seeing was the stunning color of the piano and how it reminded me of the ocean. The floor beneath the piano was even the color of sand—in my mind. Then I began seeing the decorative plates hanging on the wall as bubbles in the ocean. So that’s when I grabbed my Surf and Turf and Whirligigs stamp sets by PS. I quickly sketched out an underwater scene and then began stamping away.
I had the idea to make this card into an encouragement card so I could enter it into the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2012 Challenge. So I looked through my PS sentiment stamps and saw a few possibilities but settled on “I Look Up to You” from the Zoo Crew stamp set because I wanted the cute little crab at the bottom of the ocean to be praising the sweet little goldfish. Maybe he’s proud of the little goldfish or the little goldfish is feeling discouraged and the cute little crab wants her to know he idolizes her. You can make up your own scenario. I think a card like this would fit many circumstances where you might want to encourage someone in your life.
Wow, that was a long post if you’ve made it this far please go a little further and stop by the other Sparks Designers blogs. Check out the awesome creations they have to share with you today!
Love your bright and cheerful ocean scene! So fun!
The post may have been long but well worth the read, I love the way you have described what the photo inspired in you, so interesting. The card so reflects your words and Ijust love the smiley, kinda smug looking fish!
I will soon have my own PS products to play with!
Great job Jackie. I’ve always shied away from “tiny” stamps and never could figure out how to use them on a card. You certainly don’t shy away from anything! This is a beautiful card, well designed and inspirational. And I love the colors!
Fantastic Jackie!! Love those ‘bubbles’ in the water and that fun sentiment. Good luck with the Idol Challenge!
oh goodness!!! I love how you interpreted the photo. fabulously fun.
Jackie! I absolutely LOVE where you went with that inspiration photo.
This is so cute!
Good Luck with Gallery Idol!!
So, so, so, so cute Jackie! Love it!
This is amazing – so completely unrelated to the inspiration, and yet so MUCH the inspiration – that takes real talent!
That is SO adorable, Jackie! Those little sea creatures couldn’t be cuter, and I love the little scene you created. Fun!
This is so fun! Love the way you created the bubbles and the pierced design across the top. So cute!
Hee hee. That is terribly cute, Jackie! I love the sentiment with the scene! The wave at the top and the paper piercing is such a fab detail! Awesome, girl!
LOOOOOOOVE! I love those little fishes and your use of those circle stamps! YOU ROCK:)
What a cute card, I love the little fishies, but that crab rocks!
what a cute fish scene…great card…love the little crab at the bottom…
Adorable ocean scene, Jackie!
I LOVE this card Jackie – just gorgeous
What a cute little beach scene! I love everything about it. Good luck for the Idol Challenge.
Fun card! I love how you used Whirligigs on this card!