The Library Challenge ~ Oscar

I love playing along with The Library Challenge ... I love books ... I love creating cards inspired by books.  The Challenge is to create a card inspired by The Cover, The Title, or The Story of the book.

When I stumbled across this gorgeous book cover for Oscar by Mauricio Segura, I e-mailed the challenge to see if they ever take suggestions ... turns out they do, and I'm joining the challenge this week as a Guest Designer.

I loved the composition of this book cover ... the bright colors and how they overlapped and contrasted with the bold black text. 

I immediately thought of creating with Distress Oxide Inks (Abandoned Coral, Squeezed Lemonade & Twisted Citron).  I looked for a solid image like the piano, but instead settled on bold solid words from Cas-ual Fridays Bomb Diggity Stamp Set.  I flipped the coral word upside down like the piano and overlapped the yellow.  My MISTI makes getting those solid colors stamped so easy.

 

Next I added black bold sentiments where the title, authors name, and translator information are located on the cover.  I finished with a Tim Holtz #hashtag to turn this into a birthday card.

I hope you'll come join the challenge ... I'd love to stop by and see how the book cover inspired you.  

Comments

[Marina]

I just love how you've interpreted the cover without any reference to the content or the piano image - just being inspired by the design elements and making it your own. It looks so fresh and modern and, with the upside down word,has just the right amount of quirkiness. Love it. Thank you for being the Visiting Librarian at The Library.

[Nora]

Wow!! You totally ROCK!! this is just amazing!!!

[Lynn Brown]

Love that book cover and your card just reflects it perfectly without being overtly about anything to do with the book! Just love the colours and the upside down text - genius.