simon says stamp monday challenge: inspired by an artist

Happy Monday crafty friends! It’s time for another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge…thank you to all of you who played along with us last week and I hope you will join us this week for the Inspired by An Artist Challenge…

This week my card is inspired by the art of Ellsworth Kelly. I love the clean lines and colors in his paintings and also bought a ton of the postage stamps when they released, and thought it would be fun to create a card to match one of the stamps. This week’s card was inspired by the Colors for A Large Wall painting, which is featured on one of the stamps:

To make my card, I started by pulling all the colors of cardstock I needed to create a similar look and cut them out with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Stacked Squares dies. There are 5 sizes of squares in the set, and 5 dies of each size square, so it made the cutting super simple. I arranged the squares onto a panel of cardstock that I had covered with an adhesive runner and built out the pattern. Once I was done, I trimmed two of the rows of squares off to create a rectangle card, but you could leave it as a square.

To finish the card I kept it super simple so it would not compete with the background. I added the CZ Design Swoopy Thank You, a Sentiment Strip and a few Studio Katia Clear Drops.

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog 🙂 All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!!