Well hello there!
I truly didn't mean to fall off the face of the blogosphere, but it has been an eventful fall around my neck of the woods. I *think* I may have found a way that will allow me to blog with some degree of regularity, but we shall see.
So. This is a post that I have had composed in my head for over a month. It's not Christmas-y, but I wanted to share it with you anyway.
This fall, at my church, we have had this vase of flowers on display behind my pastor.

The color combination caught my eye, and every week I would look at it and think that I needed to design a card around those colors. (Yes, I was still paying attention!)
Here's the card that I finally got a chance to create:

Let's talk about how I was able to use the vase of flowers to come up with this card.
First, I determined which colors I wanted to use. It looked to me like So Saffron ad Pear Pizzazz were the predominant colors. When I got closer to take a picture, I realized that the big flowers are actually red, but from my seat they looked like Cajun Craze to me so that is the color I went with.
When you look at the display, the first thing your eye is drawn to is the yellow in the vase, so I knew that my card had to be predominately So Saffron. The next color that you see is the green of the leaves, so Pear Pizzazz became my secondary color. I decided to make the card base out of Pear Pizzazz with a So Saffron layer on it.
The flowers form the rest of the display, but only as a compliment, so I knew I needed only a little of the Cajun Craze to give the same effect. I carried over those colors into my stamping and added just a touch of Early Espresso in the form of the ribbon and candy dots. The overall effect when you look at my card is the same feeling as the colors in the vase.
How have you drawn inspiration from objects around you?
Happy Stamping,
Michelle