Aug 21 2007
Believe in Your Dreams….a color challenge design
I’ve been wanting to make this card for a few days and today’s color challenge seemed to be the perfect time. This design is for my SIL Jane who is going back to school this Fall to follow her dreams. I’m so excited for her! I’ve been following my dreams and it is so exciting to see them coming true. Today’s color challenge… CC128 Groovy Skies…features Soft Sky paired up with Groovy Guava. I threw in two neutrals, whisper white and Kraft and had some fun!
Believe in Your Dreams
This design is pretty simple. I started off with my 5.25″ square card base and added a strip of Groovy Guava. I then stamped Tres Chic in Close to Cocoa over a piece of Kraft cardstock and sponged and distressed the edges. using my sewing machine, I freestyle stitched around the layer. I find that free-style stitchign goes really well with the distressed look.
For the main sentiment panel. I stamped the Journaling block onto a piece of white cardstock. Using the spiral punch, I punched the top edge to look like notebook paper and then sponged the edges. To add a little Soft Sky to balance out the colors, I stamped the large flower onto this layer as well. The sentiment…Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them…comes from the Happy Harmony Sellebration set. I love this set but it is unfortunately no longer available.
The large flower from the Office Accoutrement set was stamped twice and then cut out before attaching to the design with a large pewter brad by Creative Impressions. I love this May ARts ribbon and couldn’t resist adding a little touch. I stitched it on with a zig zag stitch and then added a little blue button on top.
Hope you have a fabulous day! I hope all your dreams come true as well! If you feel like sharing…i’d love to hear about them…leave me a comment! 
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Gorgeous card - love the layout and details.
This is just too great!!! What a beautiful, thoughtful card — it has all your trademark details!!
Simple, but Chic! Love the stitching, and ribbon.
Oh this is so pretty! Love it!
So beautiful Julia! I love how roughed up/curled the paper is around your stitching. TFS.
How cool J! LOVE the layout and colors. Super cool layout too! Great job!
I love the sets you combined and the dyed twill!
great card and layout, J! It cracks me up how alike we are with our stitching, LOL!! Love the distressing, too!
WOW! I am loving this card and everything about it!
Great card! I like the sewn detail and the button.
Just beautiful! I love everything you’ve done with this, and the stitching is perfect with the distressing!
Have I told you that you amaze me?
Love this card! The colors are so great.
Fantastic, J! Love the distressing and stitching!! Gorgeous!
I’ve missed you the last few days….love this card…love your scrapbook page! He is such a cutie pie!
Just gorgeous! One of my favorites!!
barb
This is FANTASTIC!
Another beauty! Love this!
Well deserved; living your dreams is so joyous!
Congrats on making the cover!
Thank you for sharing the all of you…
Lynn
Now this is awesome! Never would have put dreams with office accrouments but they look great together.
[…] As I mentioned above…the following card design was one of my entries for that challenge. I also created another card that I shared with you earlier… Believe in Your Dreams. I’m so excited that I was one of the winners for the challenge with that design. If you missed it, you can check it out here. […]