Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Ad Day For Daisies It's a Twine Thing and My Craft Spot 'Sew' Much Fun Challenge


First I need to apologize to my bloggie friends for not visiting regularly this month. To be honest, I'm just totally out of gas. I bit off more than I could chew in August...WAY more and I've been scrambling to complete my DT and guest DT projects as well as a comission (that I can't show you yet), but Thank GOD! it's finished and in the mail. (Just in the nick of time, I might add. Did I mention I'm the world's WORST procrastinator and slowest crafter on earth?) Also, being on a design team means commenting on the challenge participants entries and there have been LOTS!!!!!

I wasn't even sure today if I had it in me to craft. But I WANTED to, so I decided to do a sweet simple card for the A Day For Daisies Twine Challenge. I loved the free image provided for joining the challenge and since there wasn't much coloring... The image was colored with Copics and cut and matted with Nesties. All I needed was to add some twine.

But the My Craft Spot Challenge this week is "Sew" Much Fun. HHmmm...I've been dying to try my Sew Easy Stitch Piercer so I used the Scallop wheel. At first I tried stitching with 2 tone baker's twine but I didn't like how it was turning out, so I dug around in my fiber drawer and found this delicate hemp twine. The neutral color was the inspiration for the kraft paper and fairly monochromatic color scheme. Once I'd done the stitching, it was too late to run it through the computer to add a sentiment and my confidence in my stamping ability is pretty darn low (I would have DIED had I mess this up after all the hand stitching) so I used the Cuttlebug Friends Forever Card-Making Combo. The delicate font was just perfect. I don't do CAS very often, but I LOVE how this turned out!

20 comments:

  1. I love the way you used the hemp twine for the stitching! Very cool. Great card.:)

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  2. Donna, how cool is the way you've used that twine on this really adorable card!!! Another "I love this" card!!!

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  3. Donna, this is just such a sweet card. I love the little child, and the stitching is sew-fine.
    Hugs
    Carole

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  4. Oh Donna.. we still love you.. I can't wait to see what u have been up to.. This is beautiful, love the gold around the image and you did a great job using that sew easy (I brought it awhile back and haven't had time to use it yet.. :-(
    hugs

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  5. Hi Donna,
    What a beautiful layout. A fabulous card. I love it.
    Hugs,
    Fiona x

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  6. You might not do CAS often, but you can definitely rock it!! Fabulous card, LOVE the twine stitching!

    (-: Heidi

    ps. I hear ya about being busy!

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  7. Awww... Donna, how sweet! Love the simplicity of it. :)

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  8. Oh and P.S. I know what you mean about running out of time! You take care of YOU - we'll be here. :) xoxo

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  9. Well I'm sure glad you found some time to play cause this card is just adotable. Love the kraft and white and that stitching it so pretty. Thanks so much for playing the ADFD challenge!

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  10. This is so pretty Donna... Love that sweet image !! Glad you had time to join us at My Craft Spot !
    Joy

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  11. Great card and I love how you stiched the twine onto the card. Thanks for joining us at ADFD.

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  12. This is gorgeous Donna! I love the CAS look of this card and the image is darling.
    Love your sewing too, like Sandy I have had the sew easy for a while and not yet used it! Now I just need to find it lol!
    Hugs
    Juliexx

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  13. What a sweet little stamp! Love the simple design...just perfect, as always. And GO DONNA with the stitching! Been wondering if I need that gadget...whaddya think?

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  14. oh donna, sweet friend....i know you know how much i love your creativity but i have to say the freak show one made me laugh so hard....so darn cool! where do you get all the ideas? men oh men....just crazy about it. :)
    lots of love!
    hopefully i will be around more :)after this month.

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  15. I really, really like this card. So clean and fresh, chic and elegant. Just gorgeous. And don't worry, you'll get your ooomph back. xxx

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  16. i just love it! i also liked how you made the bow where you made it, lol.
    way pretty.

    how are you liking the stitching tools. i think i am buying a set next month.

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  17. Great choice for the stitching. I remember when you first got your sew easy you commented that the paper creased in too much, but you seemed to have worked that out just fine. It is perfect! LOVE the CAS style. Suits he image perfect.

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  18. Great card!! I love th neutral colors with just a pop of color. Thanks for joining us at My Craft Spot.

    Hugs,
    Amy
    Scrapping Mommy

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  19. This is so sweet, Donna! I love the stitched hemp, too! I need one of those Sew Easy Piercers if this is what can be done with them!
    Thanks so much for playing along at My Craft Spot!
    Kate
    Small Bits of Paper
    PS You are not the slowest crafter. I am. I wish I could hand over the title to you but it simply cannot be done. There is no possible way that anybody can be slower than I am when it comes to card creation...

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