MFT Square Windows Trio

Hello, hello and welcome! Today I am blogging about a fascinating class I took at Altenew Academy called Mission Inspiration. Nicole Watt was our instructor and instead of focusing on technique, this class was all about finding inspiration for our creations.

For this post I wanted to use a combination of color and layout inspiration for my cards. I envisioned a trio layout with color selection coming from Pinterest. Nicole had great ideas for searching for \”color combos\” and I found this quite fun! I also decided to work on staging and styling my photographs and I am pleased with the result.

I loved the graphic below and used the red, orange, citronella green and teal as the color inspiration for my card.

I hand inked the background because I thought the result was more vibrant than the colored card stock I tried first. The center of the flower is a fun enamel dot.

The second card is very similar but I used three flowers from the same stamp set and a different color inspiration graphic.

Here is the inspiration swatch for my second card.

Again, I ink blended the background and then colored the blooms in melon and pink. The centers are enamel dots which adds a fun detail to the card.

Here are the cards together and I think they are a bright and happy duo. Inspiration is everywhere and I will be drawing on these six classes as I create in the future.