Oooooh yeah! It's the March Blog Hop Challenge over at Papertrey Ink, and the goal for this month was to incorporate embroidery floss onto a project. I love embroidery floss. I have so much of it - my sisters and I used to make "friendship bracelets" all summer long as kids...did you do that? And eventually, I learned cross stitch from my sisters. Over the years, I have made some beautiful Christmas pieces for my mom and she hangs them every year in her house. I would love to find time to make one for ourselves one day.
Anyway, I came up with this card for you all today:
The inspiration for the layout comes from the Papercrafts Go-To Sketches call for submissions from a while ago. The card base is Smokey Shadow, and there are layers of true black and soft stone behind the patterned paper. I distressed the edges of the card with my scissors.
I am not gonna lie - lining up all of those beautiful sparkly stickers took a while! And I love using more than one strand of floss to make it stand out just a little bit more.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
Edited to add: Yes, that's me on the Papertrey Radio broadcast this morning. :)
Supplies {by PTI unless otherwise noted}: Stamps: Say It with Style (sentiment); Paper: Aqua Mist, Soft Stone, Smokey Shadow,True Black, patterned paper (? - will update when I get home, LOL!); Ink: True black; Other: Sparkly flower stickers, Nesties, banner die, white embroidery floss, doily (supermarket bakery section)
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46 comments:
Beee-yooo-tiful! I love these colors, the sheet music, the bits of doily peeking out, and kudos for such a perfect multi-strand floss bow!
I love these colors!!! Music to the eyes!!
Beautiful card Suzanne!! I love the layered paper, and the arrangement of flowers!! I love the way the DMC ties too!! The bows always look good, unlike ribbon!! haha.
Lovely card, you should enter it in this week's Create challenge to make a grid card. Love the bit of sparkle.
How creative and beautiful!!!
Love it! Your floss adds the perfect touch to this beauty. Love the colors too!
Fabulous! I love the colors and all the texture. Awesome card.
Very pretty and elegant at the same time...love it!
Suzanne...gorgeous!
Love the colors and the elegance.
Those little gems...
too adorable!
Truly gorgeous!
This is beautiful, Suzanne! Love your colors! Your patience in lining up the flower stickers paid off because it looks great.
Adorable!! Love how you used the floss and tied a bow! That is so cute! Love the bling too!
Wow Suzanne! I love these itty bitty flowers! All that effort of lining them up was sure worth it! This is such a fun color combo.....beautiful card!
Can't wait to meet up with you tomorrow!
So pretty! Love the pattern you made with those flowers!! And with the bling added, it's really stylish!
Very pretty! I love it!!
Lovely card. All the work was well worth the effort. Very pretty.
Suzanne, your card is beautiful, unique, and creative. Your lovely accent is a great way to use floss, and your floss bow is just PERFECT!
Yes, and yes, I did that too! Love the bling on the card, and wrapping the floss several times does make it stand out.
very pretty! i used to drive my mom crazy using all of her embroidery floss for my bracelets :)
Suzanne, this is really great! I love all the pretty little glitzy, blingy flowers, and your use of floss is wonderful!
Beautiful card.
Love all the little sparkles, I'm a big fan of glitz and glitter! Just made me think, there isn't a speck of glitter on the card I made for the hop, quite unusual!
such a sweet card, suzanne! happy weekend!
So pretty! Super take on the challenge! Love your color mix!
VERY pretty! Great colors and I love the sparkly little flowers and floss bow!
Pretty card! Love the bling and your added floss to 'tie' it all together. If it were not for card making, I'd be cross-stitching. Card making is faster though!
I like this - great colors and you're right about the additional floss - lovely card.
Pretty! Love the color combination and all the sparkle.
Yes, I totally made friendship bracelets as a kid! I had the floss from cross-stitching, too...I just couldn't picture you doing that! I am happily surprised :)
I love how the card turned out. I, too, wrapped my floss around several times, its funny that we both did that! Love the tons of stickers, what a neat idea, I wouldn't have thought of that.
beautiful card, love this color combo and all the little details as well. love the floss bow too.
What a sweet card! The music score is the perfect background, and I love the doily peeking out. Very pretty!
Sooooo sweet and beautiful!! Your card totally makes me smile!!!!
Love the glitter and bling! Funny you mentioned friendship bracelets. I had to steal my floss back from my daughter to work on this project. Great card.
This card is singing to me!
So pretty!
absolutely beautiful...and love the colors
Love those sparkly stickers, lol! I also love the little bit of doiley peeling out from the edges! Sweet!
This is GORGEOUS Suzanne! It may have taken a long time, but all of your petite sparkly flowers look terrific!
~Meredith
Gorgeous - definitely worth the effort of lining up all those glittery flowers!
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Suzanne this is adorable!! I love the glittery flowers but there is just something about that white floss! I love the multiple strands and the bow! So super cute!
Stunning! Love all that bling!
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Not sure how I missed this one. Very cool! Love all the different flowers and how you incorporated the embroidery floss too.
Very cute! I love how you did the floss: neat as a pin! And the way you folded the banner is very cool!
Wow! I don't know if I would have had the patience necessary to line up all of those flowers...love the look though! So elegant!
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