For Your Inspiration - Challenge #1

I am so excited to bring you this very first challenge for For Your Inspiration (FYI)! Did you read the bios of the design team members on FYI? I am so blessed to have this opportunity to work with each one of these talented ladies!! Every first and third Thursday of the month, there will be a new photo inspiration. You can create whatever you'd like using whatever craft you'd like! So without further ado, here is the first photo inspiration along with the canvas I created.

This is a plain 6x6 canvas that I picked up at Dick Blick. I lightly misted it with Tattered Angels Moonlight Path from the bottom left corner to the top right, but I don't know if the photo will pick that up. I pulled out one of my favorite stamps from CTMH, Key to My Heart (retired), and stamped the flourishes in opposite corners with Versamark. I embossed them with silver embossing powder. I went on to silver emboss the sentiment, hearts, and key. If you see a little sparkle in the embossing, it is because I always add a touch of prisma glitter to my embossing powder.

I wanted to show you the flower more closely.  Heidi Swapp makes mistable crepe ribbon for Tattered Angels.  I cut a 12" piece in half lengthwise (it is about 2" wide).  I glimmer-misted the pieces with Moonlight Path, and then gathered them together with black embroidery floss.  I topped them off with silver filgree and mini blue roses.  It's really very quick and easy!

I grabbed another filigree and mini rose to compliment the blue bow and key.

Now what can you come up with?  Remember, it can be absolutely anything!  Does this picture make you think of a lovely piece of jewelry you'd like to create.  Or maybe a meal with fancy place settings?  How about a sewing, knitting, or paper craft project?  The possibilities are endless!!  I hope you have the opportunity to play along in the next two weeks for your chance to become the Lovely Lotus!!

I am also going to enter this canvas in the challenge over at There She Goes Clear Stamps.  They are asking for a card made form something other than cardstock, and I think this fits the challenge perfectly!