Since it's been such a long while that I've put some effort into a card, I thought I would participate in a couple of blog challenges to get the creative juices flowing again. This one was challenging for several reasons, including not wanting to stick to the foam I have it mounted on using my tried and true tape runner. So I decided to use gel glue to hold things in place and that changed the colors of the inks on my stitched panel and ornaments which I then had to go back and touch up. I'm still relatively happy with how it turned out.
I started by stenciling and then stitching the Taylored Expressions Beautiful Baubles. I poked the stitching holes with a needle, trying to mimic the spacing of my background die. This set did not originally come with matching dies so I fussy cut them along with the little hanger/toppers that I heat embossed and then finished off with jump rings and baker's twine.
Next, I ran my A2 white panel trough my die cut machine with the PaperTrey Ink Cover Plate: Stitched Florals die. I then inked my background, stitched with 2 strands of DMC floss and then spattered with water and bleed proof white.
The vellum banner was stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with black powder. The lower left bauble and panel are bumped up on foam and mounted to coordinating background paper from my stash.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmaker Group: Sketch #50
Fans of Taylored Expressions FB Group: Colors: Jalepeno, Cherry Pop + Your Choice
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas
