Stampotique Birthday

This week's Inspiration Challenge at SplitcoastStampers is to go back through your Forgotten *Favorites* Gallery and find a card to inspire you.  

Before the days of blogs (hard to imagine I know), SplitcoastStampers and magazines were my primary sources of creative inspiration.  It was interesting to go back through my gallery and try to remember why I had saved some of the cards … and others were still very timely after all of these years.  I chose this card by UKJem as my inspiration … I loved how she created the tiny layered tiles to feature a small flower stamp.

I started by stamping and cutting apart 3 Flower window from Stampotique by Maryse Carrier (one of the first stampers I saw on the Carol Duval show years ago).  Next I found my vintage crimper and started creating my tiles (I'm doing a lot of hand-cutting lately since my paper cutter is on the fritz, and I'm waiting for repair parts to arrive).

I combined three shades of purple with light blue and added some enamel dots to decorate my tiles.  The sentiment is vintage (aka discontinued) Hero Arts.