You Make My Heart Sing

I'm so glad that Melissa Phillips has started her Photo Inspiration Challenges.
She has posted her second challenge with this photo from A Creative Mint as the inspiration How wonderful it must be to compose and photograph such ordinary objects and create such beauty.


When I taught transcendentalism to my students, we would have great discussions of the Plato's idealism. We would have such wondeful talks explaining our ideal places versus what we experienced. I thought of those discussions when I saw this photo because this photograph is to me the ideal grandmother's catchall drawer. Bits and pieces of household items--buttons, thread, tags, twine, clothespins, scissors, and those keepsake letters with the beautiful manuscript. This is way that drawer would look; anything else is a pale reflection of that reality.

The colors and my bits and pieces came together in this card which is also for
this week's Crafty Secrets Challenge at SCS to use something old and something new on a card.
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For the something "old", I chose the bird from the stamp set Fairyland, one of the first Crafty Secrets stamps I bought. The "new" includes the initial use of the crown stamp, the stamp kissing of the notes from Altered Art, the plaid paper, and the tag made with my Christmas Cricket Expression.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cammie

Supplies:

Stamps:Fairyland, Altered Art (Crafty Secrets), Bird Watching, Background Basics:Hearts (PTI)

Ink: Vintage Sepia (Versafine), Pure Poppy (PTI), Antique Linen (Ranger)

Paper: Rustic Cream, Vintage Cream, Kraft(PTI), Vintage Valentine(Fancy Pants)

Other: Pure Poppy Vintage Button(PTI), Spellbinders Classic Hearts and Scalloped Hearts Nestabilities, chipboard flourish (Making Memories), pearls