April Inspirations

We're already into April, and no foolin', the Dream Team has a spectacular month planned for you.  The month is filled with news and inspiration for all your crafting dreams.  The exciting news will be announced in the Dream It Up! blog on April 17th, but the "April Inspirations" challenge will continue through the entire month.  Each team member will post what inspires them in their creative life...maybe a Pinterest pic, a magazine, a quote, a book, a place, an artist, a crafter friend...along with their inspiration.  We are hoping that you will feel inspired as well, and link your projects (and inspiration) to the inlinz tool on the Dream It Up! blog.

Here is my inspiration:

Here is what I made:

First I cut out a rectangle from a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" text weight paper.  Then I placed it over the white card stock.  I used the Copic Airbrush to create my colored block using YR04, YR18, E25.  Then I removed the mask and pasted the sentiment over the card with Black Matte Paste.  Then on a separate piece of card stock, I used black paste over the Cattails.  Once the paste was dry, I then used the Cocoa and Ivy Garden F/X powders on the cattails.  Finally, I cut out the cattails and popped them up over the card and stamped the flying birds from Northwoods Rubber Stamps.
 
Check out what our Guest Designer and the "A" team has been inspired by for this week:

Dream It Up!

Janelle Stollfus (Guest Designer)

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

An InLinkz Link-up