Inspiration OLL Design team

I have been a bit quiet on here of late - due to a faulty internet connection, which having reported and been passed back and forth from Orange to BT they finally managed to get fixed. The upside of this was it let me get ahead with some of the design team stuff, and at least I am back in time to post for the fortnightly challenge which starts today at Ooh La La creations challenge blog. We had a huge number of gorgeous entries for the 'Be My Valentine' Challenge congratulations if you were a winner. This week we are working with this photograph as inspiration.....

I just love the bold colours and interesting shapes of the flowers. I decided that the new 'Shoes in Bloom 2' CD had the perfect images and papers for this challenge and chose the Hellebores design. Not only do the colours work perfectly but Hellebores were my Mum's favourite flowers and I have a large patch of them in my garden which I am allowing to naturalise. So here is my card.

As you can see I have taken my colour scheme from the photograph - I decoupaged the shoe and then mounted it on orange card and bright pink miricard that I have had in my stash for ages and been unable to find a use for it. The frame was made by stamping around the edge of a piece of white card using Momento green ink and a lovely corner stamp that was free with a recent issue of  'Cardmaking and Papercraft' I coloured it in using promarkers and then I cut away the inside of the white card to form a frame. I used the card from the centre section to stamp and colour more flowers which I decoupaged at the corners and finished off by highlighting with glitter glue in neon pink and orange. The two butterflies are peel offs, which I stuck to white card and coloured with the promarkers before covering with a thin layer of glossy accents once this was dry I cut around the butterflies and stuck them to the sides of the frame. The tag was made from off cuts of the orange and Pink card and a pink ribbon and glittery peel off were added to make a sentiment. I added a organza ribbon bow to mirror the one in the photograph and two stick pins which I made using translucent orange beads.

Because the papers on the CD are so lovely I wanted to show those off too so this card has a bit of a twist - well it's actually a twisted easel card ......

I covered the base of the easel with a gorgeous basket weave design from the hellebores collection on the CD and made a stopper by embellishing a square of the orange and pink card with a single hellebore bloom from the decoupage sheet.

It is quite difficult to see the detail on the basket weave paper so here below is a close up it really is vibrant just like our inspiration photograph.

I hope you liek it and if it has inspired you then take a trip to the Ooh La La Creations Challenge blog and use the linky tool to enter your card in this weeks challenge.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ - favourite things - The Hellebores, and ribbon and beaded pins
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com - Anything goes
http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com - ribbons flowers and glitter