Knock One Out of the Park

This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge was suggested by Jo (Reddyisco).  She was sitting at home on a Saturday night with her laptop on her lap browsing the galleries, while her husband was watching Hockey Night in Canada.  She was watching TV out of the corner of her eye, when Coach's Corner with Don Cherry came on.  She looked at his jacket and thought ... that would make a pretty card.

You know we've all done that ... I've even been known to snap covert pictures of outfits I see for later inspiration.  So Jo does what any inquisitive creative soul would do ... she goes surfing to see if there's a website featuring Mr. Cherry's fabulous attire, and sure enough there is ... and an Inspiration Challenge was born.

I chose this fabulous baseball tie and black jacket Cherry wore in recognition of the Canada-USA game at the World Baseball Classic.  While I've been known to enjoy an occasional local Roughriders hockey game, baseball is king at our house ... particularly the St. Louis Cardinals.

I picked up this baseball pennant on one of my travels, and decided to use the tie's design to create a baseball-themed background on which to feature it.  Turns out I have three different sizes of baseball stamps in my collection (if you don't count the middle size that I apparently liked so much, I bought it twice). I stamped them multiple times in Pure Poppy ink on white cardstock and clear embossed.  Then I sat down, turned on Pandora, and used my detail scissors to start cutting out some baseballs.

I arranged the baseballs on a navy background with a red card base and adhered my Cardinals pennant.  I finished with a sentiment from The Kitchen Sink's 3 Step Baseball.

I hope you find inspiration.

Comments

[E.T]

wow! this is one COOL card! I like I like!