Morning all!
This week’s challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog puts the spotlight on stitching.
I had high hopes of using a Spellbinders stitching die for this challenge, but I just didn’t have time to stitch the coverplate background.
But fear not, faux stitching is the next best thing and I have plenty of dies to fit the bill!
Digital papers: Crate Paper – Gingham Garden
Stamp: The Stamp Market – Spring Greetings (r)
Dies: Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Circles, Mama Elephant – All Prettied Up, The Greetery – Hoopla Mini, The Greetery – Hoopla Mini Inserts, The Stamp Market – Easter Egg Shaker, WPlus9 – Spring Wreath (r)
This card was a perfect opportunity to use some of the digital papers I’d recently purchased and test printed from the Gingham Gardens collection.
I bought this paper collection mainly for the Spring-friendly patterns (it’s also currently bundled with two other recent Crate Paper collections in a special deal on AC digitals). I’m still trying to tweak my printer adjustment settings to get the perfect colour representation – I actually bought the floral pattern used here as a 12×12 sheet and hope it’ll help me work out the perfect setup for my printer to print what I’m seeing on screen more faithfully. But there also comes a point where just printing papers that come out nice is FINE even if they aren’t a perfect match for the manufacturer-printed results.
Anyway, back to the card!
It’s a very simple affair with a circle aperture cut in the stitched All Prettied Up frame so that I could use the Spring Wreath die from WPlus9 as a frame.
To create the wreath, I cut it from a scrap of sage cardstock and blended two tones of ink on it to just get a more spring look. The little flowers are cut from Pale Rose scraps of Cardshoppe. I shaped the flowers with a stylus and added white Nuvo drops to the centres.
For my sentiment I stamped a greeting from The Stamp Market on one of the Mini Hoopla dies from The Greetery, adding one of the wreath blooms to the corner along with some dainty leaves from the Easter Egg Shaker die set.
And for this week’s super vintage crafty touch – out came the jar containing this lovely yellow chevron ribbon.
It’s been a while since big bold ribbon ended up on a card.
So this card will definitely need to be handed out in person.
Make sure you check out the rest of the design team’s projects here, and play along if you can!
Happy crafting!
 The Stamp Market – Spring Greetings stamps (r) Shop at: MISC |
 Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Circle dies Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Mama Elephant – All Prettied Up dies Shop at: MISC | SHC (UK) |
 The Greetery – Hoopla Mini dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Hoopla Mini Inserts dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Stamp Market – Easter Egg Shaker dies Shop at: MISC |
 WPlus9 – Spring Wreath dies (r) Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Fern ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Forest ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Crate Paper – Gingham Garden collection Shop at: MISC | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Gold metallic cardstock Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Bearly Art – Precision Craft Glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: SBC |
 Waffle Flower – 6.5 x 8.5 Grip Mat Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Crafter’s Companion – Gemini machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Thermoweb iCraft – Purple tape for die-cutting – 1 1/2″ Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
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