It's World Cardmaking Day and we have Challenges for You!!!!

It's World Cardmaking Day!!!

...and the Unity and {Ippity} design teams have put together a whole slew of challenges to inspire and get you creating. There is a list of all the designers hosting challenges over on the Unity blog. There is an individual prize for each designer's challenge and then there is one MEGA prize of an ENTIRE YEAR'S WORTH OF FREE KIT OF THE MONTH'S to one person who does ALL of the challenges individually. The requirements and deets for prize eligibility can be found on the Unity blog.

If you have hung out here for a few years, then you know that I love me a good inspiration challenge and for today's challenge I picked out a bit of home decor inspiration...

This image below came from the Late Summer 2010 issue of Country Home. 

Use it as inspiration for an art piece. 

Some ideas of where you could find inspiration:
*the color scheme from the flowers and wall
*use bits of metal on your project like the metal stand
*look at the texture of the pitcher
*if you look closely, there is a postcard in the photo...you could use Unity's postcard stamp for your project!

Here is the card that I created from the inspiration photo...

Supplies Used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Melody Ross Domestic Bliss

*Scenic Route paper collection

*Zig brush markers

*Nestabilities Labels Die cut

*Sizzix embossing folder

*corner rounder

*MM trim

*Jenni Bowlin (?) pins

*Martha Stewart border punch

*Bazzill cardstock

*watercolor pencil

For my stamped image, I inked it by coloring using my water-based markers directly onto the red rubber. I started coloring the entire image the golden yellow and then added the bits of color here and there over top of each other to get all the colors on the stamped image.

When you upload your project, use the keyword USCWCMD04. All of the challenges have a deadline of October 16 so you have a full two weeks to play. I can't wait to see what you do!!!