Friday, March 8, 2013

Friends with Flair ~ Unity Inspiration Color Challenge

Oh wow, Unity has started a new monthly Inspiration Challenge!

The choice is yours, you may use the sketch or the colors to create a card, layout or mixed media project...and boy, are the entries gorgeous!

I'm linking to both that challenge and Friends with Flair this week...and hopping around to look at the other entries is leaving me in awe of the talent that people have!

I chose to use the colors as inspiration for this card ~ although some ideas are starting to form for the sketch...we'll see if I can make another project in time to enter for this month!

I love the red and turquoise, and the picture of the pinwheel really caught my fancy, plus the stripes on the chairs...so I sponged on some sky over a few cloud masks, then turned to my silhouette cameo to cut some pinwheels from patterned paper. I love how I can resize the file to any size I want. So fun!



I trimmed some scraps for 'sticks', then found the perfect sentiment to fit. 



Don't the pinwheels make you happy too? I didn't like the look of the plain white as the reverse side of the pinwheel, so I mirrored the pinwheel in the software and cut from a second paper then just formed the pinwheel with the two papers wrong side together, easy peasy!


 All in all a pretty, happy card that will hopefully brighten the recipient's day!




Supplies:
  • stamp - Unity Itty Bitty - This is a Happy Life
  • cardstock and patterned paper - scrap pile
  • brads - The Paper Studio
  • punch - EK Success
  • cut file - Silhouette America
  • ink - Ranger Distress Ink - Broken China

Thank you for stopping by!

Meredith

31 comments:

  1. Love this! The colors & pinwheels make me happy!

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  2. Those pinwheels are SO FUN! Love the bright colors!

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  3. Awesome pinwheels they look amazing on the card! Great job with the challenge!

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  4. awesome pinwheels , and great color choice.. such a happy card : )

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  5. Oh wow this is such a fun card, takes me back to my youth!

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  6. Love the pinwheels! What a perfect sentiment you chose! Thanks for participating in the Unity Challenge!

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  7. i am loving the pinwheels! So cool ! The sentiment goes so well with it.

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  8. Just love those colors! Don't pinwheels just make you happy? Love them.

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  9. Love this card. You did an amazing job with the colour scheme.

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  10. Love your pinwheels...beautiful card and sentiment!!
    Hugs
    Tracy
    xoxox

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  11. Oh, now that is a HAPPY card! I love it!

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  12. I love what you did with the color challenge! Pinwheels rock!!! Great card!

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  13. Fun and happy card!! Makes you feel like a kid again!

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  14. Great cards, I love the pin wheels

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  15. So bright and fresh! will surely be appreciated by the lucky recipient!!

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  16. Yes, pinwheels do make me happy, lol. Such a cheerful design with these great colors. :)

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  17. A very happy card. Hope your weekend is too.

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  18. Meredith Pin wheels are so suggestive of fun and that's what your card is --Fun!

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  19. I love your card! The pinwheels are so fun!

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  20. yeah! love the pinwheels!!! so great with that sentiment. thanks for playing along.

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  21. Love the pinwheels!! What a fun, fun card, Meredith!!

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  22. Love the pinwheels! Goes great with that sentiment!!

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  23. How fun! Love the colors and design.

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  24. those are some awfully cute pinwheels and you found the perfect matching Unity sentiment. thanks for playing in the Unity {be inspired} Challenge.

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