Ornamental Plaid

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

I chose this card as my inspiration from the gallery of this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper!

LIST: Colours (red, green, yellow, gray, black, white) Techniques (stamping, colouring, die cutting) Elements (plaid, gems, branch with ornaments, lantern, scalloped mat, branches with berries, angled sentiment on mat)

INCLUDE: green, white, stamping, die cutting, plaid, ornaments, sentiment in top left corner, lots of mats

MODIFY: added pink and blue, stenciled/stamped plaid, round matted sentiment

EXCLUDE: branches, lantern, gems

I love the classic, rustic feel of the plaid, branches and ornaments in my inspiration, but I gave it a more modern feel with brighter almost-traditional colours and a custom stenciled and stamped plaid background.

I repeated the ornament portion of a postage stamp Christmas layered stencil set to create my row of ornaments. Then I created my own matching plaid with the same colours, and another layering stencil set. I stamped the coordinating stamp over top, and didn't get it quite lined up properly, but it still looks great - I think that's the sign of a well-designed product!

I was pretty sure I was going to change the location of my sentiment - that top left corner is unusual to me. I tried a few different ideas, and landed on this little stamped sentiment on a white circle with a black mat, and I think it looks just right - that's one of the things I love about this challenge - I often end up making something I would never have come up with on my own!