Sewing-inspired Friendship Card

I shared two sewing-inspired cards on the Want2Scrap blog today. Both cards use stamps from the The Craft's Meow's Sew Happy set, which coordinates with Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies.  

Here is one of them using Want2Scrap's Beautiful Bling Borders-Fancy Waves! on the side. 

The bling strip is just the perfect accent, along with some lace and buttons.

Please check out the other card on the Want2Scrap blog. Thanks, friends!

I'm still here! And summer highlights...

Hello, friends. Have you missed my posts? I know I have. I've been traveling and hosting all summer that I had to take a break from blogging. After a busy June and July traveling, hosting guests and doing outreach camps, my family and I went to visit the US to celebrate (though belatedly) my in-laws' 50th anniversary. I was away from my craft table pretty much all summer, but being with dear friends and family made it worth it :). I had hoped I would have time to do some work while in the US, but we don't go there often and always have more friends and family to see than we have days there.

I have missed creating and blogging, but I hope I'll get back on track quickly. I find that when I take a long break from anything, it takes me a while to get used to it again. My card today is something I made for my NinaB Designs blog hop that I had planned on Aug 15th, but an uncle passed away during that time that I had to postpone it. We will still have one in the near future, so don't worry :). This is a little preview.

I used my Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies, which coordinate well with my The Craft's Meow's Sew Lovely and Sew Happy stamp sets. The papers are Crate Paper.

I used my usual favorite embellishments like seam binding and lace (from Ribbon Carousel), button and twine.

Here are some highlights of our summer. Our girls' introduction to professional baseball. Atlanta Braves vs the Padres. The Braves won!

Bible Camp in Pag, Croatia

English Camp

Visiting Vienna, Austria with some dear friends

Conference at the Aegean Sea, Greece (photo courtesy of Rich Hall Photography)

So how was your summer?

 

Sewing-inspired Happy Birthday

Hi, friends! Today's card is for The Craft's Meow's June Sketch Challenge. I had so much fun coming up with these sketches for TCM. There are so many fabulous sketches available online, so I wanted to do something a little different (at least for me).

Here is my card, using TCM's Sew Happy stamp set and Spellbinders' Sewing Elements dies.

The papers are Crate Paper's Pretty Party. The pin cusion was die cut and paper pieced.  I die cut Spellbinders' Romantic Rectangle for my tag. The colors were inspired by the Shabby Tea Room challenge this week (also include fabric elements, for which I used twill, lace and seam binding).

I hope you can play along with us for this challenge! Have a great weekend!

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The Craft's Meow Previews: Sew Happy

Welcome to day three of The Craft's Meow's May release previews. I hope you've been enjoying the projects the team has been showing to inspire you all. Today we're showing my second set called Sew Happy, which coordinates with Spellbinders Sewing Elements dies and my previous set, Sew Lovely.

I stamped one of the Sew Lovely stamps and die cut it with the coordinating Spellbinders die with brown ink. I stamped the sewing machine from Sew Happy and it fits perfectly inside the Spellbinders Sewing Elements coordinating die.

This set also comes with dress forms, bobbin, pin cushion and matching sentiments in a cross stitch pattern as you can see on my card. The papers are October Afternoon's Farmhouse.

Please make sure you check out the TCM blog for more inspiration and giveaway info. Speaking of giveaways, make sure you check out the NinaB Designs blog hop where there are 5 prizes up for grabs.

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