Casablanca Thank You

This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge was suggested by Laura aka lovesrubberstamps.  

I remember shopping at Kirkland's years ago at our local mall, but we don't have any where I live now … however, they have an awesome online store to inspire us all.

I chose this fantastic Casablanca Plaque crafted of textured metal to inspire my card design.  I loved the color combination, layout, texture and dimension, so I tried to incorporate all of those into my creation.

I started by picking out scraps from my stash to match the colors and then embossed with five different embossing folders that were as close as I could find to the texture in the plaque.

Next I punched out 1 3/8" squares from the paper scraps and distressed them first with coordinating ink colors to bring out the texture, and then with distress ink on the edges.

I attached the squares to a subtle texty background from Prima's Botanical Collection using foam tape under some of them for dimension.  I finished with a cool piece of American Crafts flair I got from my sister, and an SRM Sticker sentiment.