Tuesday with Tara {take 54}

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you’ve had a great week and found some time to create- I’ve been a bit short on creative time lately, but am taking time today to work on creative projects which I hope to share with y’all over the next few weeks!  Today I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest again, this one featured a stack of colored blocks behind a floral die cut.  My card doesn’t really resemble the one I saw there beyond that basic concept, but that’s half the fun of inspiration- seeing where it takes your projects 🙂

I had a one inch strip of watercolor paper with a bit of color on it from trimming something else, so I decided to add bits of yellow and green (a combination of Color Burst, Distress Crayons & Distress Ink!) and trim it into 1″ squares.  I cut several wildflower dies out of a pearly white cardstock and selected the largest one to go on this standard A2 sized card.  I played around with the placement of the squares until I was happy with them, then snapped a photo with my iphone so I could refer to it once I removed the flower & was ready for glue!  I decided on a pale yellow background and added a lightly inked (Lucky Clover Distress Ink) background stamp by Tim Holtz to give it a bit of texture.  Once it was all dry, I pulled out the glue and adhered my blocks and my flower over them (I used multi matte medium for this tiny detailed image & the sentiment).  A white word and a bit of bling finished off my card.

I had a few extra pieces left so I put together a little tag with them- it gives a more modern, crisp look on a simple kraft background.

It’s always nice to have a bonus project that takes less than 5 minutes to finish up 🙂

Hope the week ahead is filled with JOY for you… and peace for our world.  We could use some of both right now!

Inky hugs,

Tara