Thursday, August 25, 2011

August PTI Blog Hop

It's blog hop time! This month was another photo inspiration challenge. Here is the photo that we were given to inspire our project:

This picture has a lot going on! But I immediately knew I wanted to focus on the jar, the girl's dress, the red of the suitcase, and the pattern on the inside. So here's what I created:

The ribbon represents the girl's blue gingham-looking dress. The contents in the jar represent the red of the suitcase in the picture.

The flowers are actually from the Friendship Jar fillers set, I just decided to cut them short and use them outside the jar :)

I chose this sentiment because I was actually giving the recipient of this card a jar of homemade peach salsa and homemade spiced peach jam to accompany it, so I thought the sentiment worked perfectly :)

I did not have the exact pattern, or ink color of the inside of the suitcase, but I thought that this half and half pattern matched pretty well, so I went with it. The blue strip also represents the girl's dress, the white strip the table cloth, and the green cardstock, the grass.

I'm really proud of how this card turned out, and the recipient loved it when she opened it :)

Everything on the card is from PTI except the clothespin which I purchased from a local stamp store. Hope you're enjoying your blog hoppin'!

17 comments:

  1. Very, very sweet Jessica! Great inspiration from the photo and perfect to go along with the gift!

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  2. So cute! Love the gingham ribbon.

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  3. Such a fun card! Love the colors and how it just screams late summer!

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  4. This is lovely Jessica. Nice to see the peachy colors pulled from the books!

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  5. LOVE this! Wasn't it fun to have sooo much to pull from that photo?

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  6. I like the use of the Half and Half set. Sweet.

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  7. Oh my goodness...
    so many fabby things that you pulled into this card from the photo...
    love the gingham ribbon and flowers...
    and I think it's perfect to go with a jar of peach salsa...
    not surprised than your friend loved it!!
    beautiful!

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  8. A beautiful, beautiful card! I love your take on the photo.

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  9. Lovely card- so many wonderful details that you were inspired by, and I love how you interpreted them!

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  10. So cool! LOVE the way you incorporated so many details from the inspiration pic!!!

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  11. Jessica! I love it, especially the mix of the plaid ribbon with the plaid half & half stamp. Great job coloring too!

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  12. Very lovely! The mix of patterns is pretty fab! Gorgeous card!

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  13. love how you were able to pull so many bits of inspiration from the photo and put them together so beautifully!!

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  14. Hi Jessica, me again! I wanted to let you know that I posted a tutorial for the packaging I used at yesterday's Blog Hop!

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  15. I love the way you put all of your elements together! Lovely card!

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