Jul 25 2008
And Sew On….
You know how I love to sew…It was actually my creative outlet for many years when I was first married. I inherited my grandmother’s ancient Singer sewing machine and stitched up a storm. As my children grew, I found myself being drawn back to photography and it wasn’t too long until I was immersed in scrapbooking and papercrafting. I love being able to combine both my sewing and papercrafting loves together.
This week on www.splitcoaststampers.com they are celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Dirty Dozen Design Team with a week full of great Dare to Get Dirty challenges for the Fan Club. I offered to host a stitching challenge and if you are a fan club member…be sure to play along! Here’s the link…just click on the Friday thread. 
If you’d love to start stitching but need a jumping off point…check out my All-Stitched Up tutorial.
Make Each Day a Masterpiece
For this design I started out by cutting out 1/25″ squares from Basic Grey Sultry paper and adhering them to my card base. Zig Zag stitching in lines around each square gives it a fun textured and quilted look. I wanted to add some stamping to the design without covering up the “quilt” so I decided to add in a clear layer. I cut a Clear Card Sheet to 4″ square and stamped my French Script Backgrounder on it in White Stazon. Sorry you can’t see it well in the photograph but if you look close…you may see it.
To add in more stamping and some added interest…I stamped the new Pinwheel Backgrounder onto my chipboard flourish. I’m just tickled with how close a match it is for the Sultry Houndstooth print. Tucked into my rhinestone circle…I added a darling little bird from the Kim Hughes Pretty Birds set. The sentiment is one of my faves…Make Each Day a Masterpiece. Too often we get bogged down with life and details and forget that.
Happy stitching! Have a fabulous weekend!
Julia
Supply List:
Stamps:
-sentiment from Motivational Centers (Mona Lisa Moments line) By CHF
-French Script Backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Farms
-Pinwheel Backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Farms
-bird from Pretty Birds set (Kim Hughes line) by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink:
-White Stazon ink by Tsukineko
-Lettuce Adirondack ink by Ranger
-Black Palette ink by Stewart Superior
Paper:
-Brown Suede Dark by Prism Papers
-Sultry 6×6 paper pad by Basic Grey
Other:
-Clear Card Sheets by Cornish Heritage Farms
-chipboard flourish by Maya Road
-flowers by Prima
-button by Autumn Leaves
-sewing machine
-rhinestone stickers by Me and My Big IDeas
-ribbon by Creative Impressions
Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team Coordinator
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This is absolutely beautiful, Julia. It just makes me smile.
OH MY gosh!! i LOVE this!! sounds like we have some of the same crafting “roots”! i love that i can combine all of it with papercrafting!! yay!!!
Beautiful card Julia! Lots of work and love went into that one. TFS
Just when I think I have seen my absolute favourite card from you, you just come up with better and better. This is just absolutely beyond AMAZING!!
Wowee, J!! Gorgeous! I love all those stitches and the clear panel!
OMGoodness!
I think you have outdone yourself! Beautiful.
Wow Julia, this is stunning!!!!!!! Thanks for the inspiration - which by the way just gets better and better.
Luv Sandie
Love all the details…the colors are great as well!
I love this card! It seems like I say that all the time but you really inspire me! I love the patchwork quilted look! Those flower with the little bird tuck in are awesome and I love the clear stamped with the white! What a great idea!
Wow! That’s incredible! Beautiful job and truly a masterpiece!
The clear piece stamped with the white script is brilliant.
Awesome! Love the patchwork and the clear layer!
Julia, that is soooo gorgeous. Love all the stitched detail and the little bird is very very cute.
I love this card. all the stitching is beautiful. there is so much to look at, i love the little bird!!
Absolutely beautiful card Julia…the whole thing is just amazing with all those colours, the patchwork, stitching, swirl and the little birdie hiding in there!
Wow!!! This is just divine, Julia! I absolutely love it!!!
All I can say is WOW
I so Love the quilted look, the stitching looks great, pretty colors and love the bling!