inspired + retro + love

if you're getting slightly tired of seeing papaya art's glittery "muses" stickers on my cards, then i feel a bit bad because the lovely miss stephanie gave me a whoooooooole bunch of 'em and i love them to bits!!! i've teamed this particular lovely lady up with some rather fab tape, fussycut paper and vellum, plus various stickers, to wind up with something that looks a bit like this:

  (patterned paper: amy tangerine, pink paislee; vellum: dear lizzy; "muse" sticker: papaya art; other stickers: october afternoon, crate paper, EAD designs; chipboard stars: october afternoon; rose washi and dotty fabric tapes: love my tapes; pink lace washi tape from the lovely linda brun (takk!); dogwood flower: prima; rub-on sentiment: pink paislee; star stencil: julie balzer; pink glitter glue: michaels; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape, gluedots)

here is this week's glorious photo goodness over at laurel seabrook's inspired by challenge (#31):

you can see i've used the colors most prominently, but i've also worked in the flowers, the stripes, and a bit of the grid design on the cupboards. oh yeah and i've put it all atop a bright white background!

retrosketch #19 is rather fab, and after rotating it ninety degrees, i've used it pretty faithfully, if you allow for the fact that-- me being me-- i also embellished all over top of the "bones" of the sketch:

finally, the july challenge on the love my tapes blog is to include stars (in addition to washi tape) in one's project. my stars are quite a small element-- both in terms of size and theme-- but they really add something, i think! btw, two of the three tapes on this card were from the amazingly gorgeous and very friendly booth that fine company had at scrapbook expo when it came to somerset new jersey last month. after which, they had a bit more money, and i had A LOT more lovely deco tape!!! (i'm pretty sure we both thought we'd got the better end of that deal, which is always the mark of a happy sales transaction, eh?!)

hope you are having a fun week, try to make sure that there are one or two treats in store for you... even if you have to make them yourself! :) :) :)