Traveler's Inspiration 2#

I love the photo that Tina has picked for her challenge this week. It was taken by the very talented Anthonette Chavez and is a picture of Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico. Visit Anthonette's blog to read all about it... and to see the pictures of her visit there with her family. I have to say that I am totally smitten with her gorgeous little boy, he is such a cutie!

I decided to use the colours from Anthonette's photo, but also to use the shapes. I added the middle panel to mimic the shape of the pueblo. I wanted to use blue card to match the vivid blue sky, but it didn't look right. Instead I went for tone-on-tone, using kraft after seeing Kristina Werner's stunning tone-on-tone card. I've also taken inspiration from Anthonette's card here. It's such a simple, beautiful card and really echoes the embroidery on the slippers in Tina's photo.

I wanted rectangles on my card to reflect the doors and windows of the pueblos, so opted to use my stamp punch. Kristina created this great card over on her blog using a stamp punch. She bought her punch sometime ago, but hadn't got around to using it until now.

My punch has a similar story: my hubby bought it for me a few years ago. Although I liked it and have made a few 'joke' stamps to go on envelopes, I couldn't really think of what else to do with it.
Kristina challenged everyone to use something that had been hanging out in their stash for a long time - so I decided to use this punch!
Needless to say my hubby is delighted that I have finally used it!