Inspired by........SWEET!

Inspired by Food!  Wow, that is a dangerous place for me to go! There's not enough paper from CTMH to scrap all the breads, pastas, burgers, coffee, peanut butter treats, mochas, and ice cream I have eaten over a lifetime!  I've been thinking about a card or layout over the past week and too many ideas came to mind.  I suppose I should add at this point the challenge at Heart 2 Heart has been "Inspired by......"  all month and this week it was FOOD!  Yum!

So, I went into my photos and found this one from Katie's wedding last summer.  Hmmm.......two cuties eating cotton candy.  Cant' go wrong there!  Next I went in search of some fun cuts in Cricut DS.  I chose elements from:  Kate's ABC's, Paper Lace, Country Fair, and of course one of the CTMH cartridges, Artiste!  Next, I laid it all out in DS using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts.  It really did look more like this sketch until I got my grubby little hands on all the embellishments!  I hope you can see some similarity!

Since I was scrapping a wedding pic, I decided to get out some of the blue satin ribbon that is still hanging around -- and will be for generations to come -- along with some of the left over blue gems.
I gathered lots of other embellishments from CTMH along with pigment inks, embossing powder, glitter, seam binding, washi tape, glue, tulle from the wedding, Create a Shade Pearl paint, CTMH papers, homemade texture paste and stencil, etc.

Before placing any elements, I glued my piece of paper from Balloon Ride (retired) onto a piece of heavier cardstock.  I knew I wanted to use some glue on this project and texture paste, so I wanted it a little more substantial than normal.

I started by gluing down the ribbon a little at a time and wrinkling it.  The glue darkened where it contacted the ribbon, but that was ok with me.  I glued in the second ribbon to make the inverted V and wrinkled it a bit.  I left that to dry and prettied up my elements with inks, paints, glitters, etc.

I did a little background stamping with the CTMH Sweet and Lovely stamps and the sentiment is from CTMH Huntington Scrapbooking Workshop.  I used a stencil I cut from Artbooking with my texture paste.

I honestly can't tell you names of all the embellishments; I'll give you a guess:  Base and Bling, Color Ready Seam Binding,  Chantilly,,,,,, hmm, I think that' all I can name!  Some of the packaging was gone.

Only a few more days in August to check out the Inspired by...... at Heart 2 Heart and only a few days left to get that cute Owl stamp of the month from KatiesCorner!