Inspiration Artwork & Kusudami...?

Time flies when your being creative...!  I was very inspired this weekend when I attended our Creative Hearts training.  Michelle Snyder shared some fabulous ideas of where to pull inspiration from.  I like to think that I tend to create outside of the box but when Michelle did some pages and cards for her Holiday Extravaganza, I never would of thought to look within my own wardrobe not just for colors but also patterns when creating from them.  There were several projects she created that I uploaded to our Team Training Album on Facebook.  The one I loved the most and re-created with her inspiration was the one she did using a really cool hounds-tooth patterned hat.  

This was hers & the gorgeous hat I so want! 

Here is My Design: 

Here Are the Pages I created from her bases:

Then of course prior to Friday I had wondered around YouTube.com for some ideas to play around with.  Since I've become a flowerholic a dear inspiration Dawn Griffin posted a video tutorial on how to make these really adorable flowers.  Of course true to form I wanted to learn more about how in the world I could put these flowers into an ornate gift.  So I dug further to find a really neat technique of orgami called "Kusudami", which in turn got this as a result: 

You can also turn it upside down and utilize it as a center piece for your table.  

You can also create it in many different ways with all kinds of centers, papers, and ribbons.  I admit that this one took approx. 8 hours to create from start to finish.  I couldn't find a video specific in putting the pieces together so I just layered them using the gluing technique Dawn showed in her video, I suggest using a low heat glue gun and you can use an emboss dryer to melt the stringy parts.  In total it took 50 flower petals to create this Kusudami.  Many thanks to Michelle and Dawn for their inspiration contribution to my Creatique post this week. 

**NOTE**I find it so important to provide credit for where I get my inspiration from, therefore within all my posts I do highlight with a link that are different colored words that will link you back to whom and what it is that I'm referring to. 

With that I wanted to express a deep gratitude for those of you who follow my blog, Creatique Live classes and FB Fans.  I appreciate all of your patience, guidance, suggestions, and more!  With that I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be resuming my online live classes after this holiday season.  Till then please keep tuning in to my blog as I will have candy to give-away on my weekly posts.  So without Further ado...Erin Grotegut is the Creatique Winner of Dr. Suess Surprise!  Congrats Erin, please contact me for delivery of your Creatique Candy.