Create Together with Marcie Sharp -- Take Two

As I shared two weeks ago, I was invited by Marcie Sharp, to play along with her

Create Together -- Creative Collaboration Challenge this month.
My cards that I made for the first challenge are here.

Marcie chose the inspiration last time and 

said that I could choose our inspiration piece for this week.

Here's what I picked:

(source)

Isn't it fabulous?

I decided to use my Essentials by Ellen Mondo Hydrangea stamp set 

and some Papertrey Ink text patterned paper to make my card.

I stamped it in dark chocolate onto my aqua mist cardstock background,

as well as onto the text patterned paper.

Using my craft knife, I cut out the hydrangea stamped on the text paper,

starting with the pieces on the inside and finishing with the outside edge.

I did the same for the leaf and adhered the fussy cut pieces to my card.

It's had to tell in the photo, but inspired by the white leaves in the inspiration photo,

I coloured in the flower centres with a paintbrush and white acrylic paint.

I stamped my sentiment (from PTI Songbirds) in dark chocolate as well,

and adhered my panel to a vintage cream base.

And, then, when I was typing out my piece, I decided

that I really wanted to make a second card -- this time using a tree.

So I pulled out my PTI Mighty Oak cover plate and some

of the same PTI text paper...

I diecut the tree and leaves from the text paper and some white cardstock.

I diecut the banner from dark chocolate cardstock using PTI's 

double-ended banner dies and heat embossed my sentiment

(from PTI's KIS: Birthday) in white.

Don't forget to hop over and visit Marcie's blog to see what she created 

for the Create Together -- Creative Collaboration Challenge.

Thanks for looking!

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