Thursday 14 July 2011

Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge

The card I made today,  I am entering into the
Their theme this week is "Use Stitching Challenge".

    I intended making an easel card for this challenge originally,  but then I was messing about and made a couple of card blanks and when I looked at this one, I had an idea.
I found some black card, and some silver thread, and remembering a pattern I used to do at school I started to sew a pattern on to  it. Then I found a lovely image I've had for a while, and coloured it with Rose Pink, Mint Green and Red Promarkers.
The card I used was a cream pearlised card which I scored using my Hougie Board, then I used a nice striped but subtle paper to matt onto the card, and found a silk flower in my collection, then used a pink sparkly brad to fix it to the card.  
I fixed some ribbon onto my card with double sided tape, and then I made a bow with the same ribbon and stuck it onto the card.
For the sentiment, I printed out the words Happy Birthday using the Quiggly Wiggly font, then cut it out. 
I then  cut another piece of white card, slightly bigger than the piece with Happy Birthday on, and coloured it with my Rose Pink Promarker.  Then I matted and layered the Happy Birthday piece of card onto it, and then fixed it to the card with double sided foam pads.
I finished the card off by cutting out the image of the girl, and stuck it onto the black stitched diamond shape with foam pads. Then I finished it all off by adding gems to the corners for a little more sparkle.

I hope you like my card, thank you for looking.


3 comments:

  1. This turned out great Karen,the stitching is really striking and looks lovely with the cute image. Thanks for joining us this week at Crafty Sentiments Designs.
    Kim xXx

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  2. Fab creation, love the different folded card & the image is great!

    Thank you for sharing with us at Crafty Sentiments this week, good luck!
    Hugs Shell xx

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  3. Lovely Card Karen, thanks for playing on our stitching challenge on Crafty Sentiments this week, Hazelxox

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