Saturday, August 7, 2010

Very still

Cathy Walters' art is our inspiration for this week's Etsy Inspired Challenge.  I am really drawn to Cathy's art; she uses lots of nature themes, lots of music backgrounds, script, collage work.  Here are another 2 examples that I have fallen in love with:




The 2nd picture is an example of how she finishes the back of her pendants.  Here is my entry based on these 2 examples:


I stamped a Martha Stewart cardinal on red paper, and cut it out, then put it over a script background by Hero Arts (G2141 Manuscript Background), adding grey ink to half of it first.  The sentiment is computer generated again.  The card is 3 3/4 inches square.

11 comments:

Barb said...

Another reason to love Saturdays: Coming to your blog two or three times to be inspired! Love this one too, Lin! The half grey background was a fabulous idea!

SmilynStef said...

We love cardinals at our house ... love the pop of the red cardinal against the soft texty background ... another great inspired design.

Suzanne C said...

Another beautiful card. Love how you are piecing together her beautiful charms into a beautiful card.

Alice said...

love the red cardinal!! very pretty card!

Tiffany Ervin said...

So pretty, the vibrancy of the red bird really says it all! Love the text background!

Mags said...

So cute! Love the red and black contrast. Great job

Queenie said...

Oh my!!! The cardinal is precious on this fantastic card!! Great idea for your design from the inspiration pendant!! YAY! Thanks for playing EIC!

Ashley Newell said...

Your cards are so on point for this store! I really love what you are going here! It's awesome! I'm so glad you found that this store speaks to you so much! You've inspired me to make a few more cards for this store. Thanks so much for playing along, I'm really glad you found the challenge!

Ashley Newell said...

Eeek, I forgot to mention that the titles of our blogs are super similar, how cool is that?

Virginia L. said...

Aw... so beautiful and poetic!! Love this, Lin! Thanks for playing with us at Etsy Inspired Challenge #100! GOOD luck :)

78thistles said...

This is a beautiful card Lin! Great take from the inspiration pieces, which are fantastic. Love the script behind the cardinal. And of course the black, white, and red combination is classic.