Maricopa is a community just south of Phoenix, AZ partially surrounded by raw desert and American Indian tribal land where wild horses still roam free and John Wayne worked his sprawling Red River Ranch and Cattle Company in bygone days. My husband photographed this horse sculpture near our subdivision’s entrance.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Papertrey Ink March 2011 Blog Hop: Embroidery Floss and CR84FN20 Color Challenge
Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop challenge this month is to use embroidery floss in a fun and inventive way on
your project. I kept my spring project fairly CAS, but had fun creating a much-needed birthday card for my stash in the process.
I chose Lavender Moon CS, stamping Background Basics: Petal Power in VersaMark Ink on the right side and added Bitty Box Basics in Lavender Moon on the left. After punching small holes in the points of all my Beautiful Blooms II die-cut flower petals, I laced DMC Floss #3836 through the petals and added a floss star burst to the center. A tiny purple gem completes my flower. The stem and leaves are die cut with the rickrack border die and my Everyday Button Bits sentiment is stamped on a Spellbinders die and secured with embroidery floss.
Enjoy the hop -- I cannot wait to see what everyone else came up with for this fun challenge!
ETA: Due to a couple sweet suggestions from friends/commenters (thanks, Ladies!), I am also entering this card in the following fabulous weekly challenge: CR84FN20 Color Challenge!
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How cute! Love your pretty flower!
Love the stitching on the flowers- looks great with the stamped polka dots!
Love the flower and stitching!!
Your stitching on the flower is really attractive, Marge! I can see myself copying, I mean CASEing this idea, LOL! I love your part PP, part background stamp background, and your ric rac stem too!
I'll have to think of that sorta of sentiment placement, that looks great.
So many fun elements on this! Love that flower, just fabulous!
very creative !
Oh how cute!! I love your flower, and the center is just perfect.
Too cute!
Very creative and pretty!!
love how you've used the thread-very cute card, marge:)
love how you used the floss on the flower petals...
very cute!
I love the stitching on your flower petals! Thanks for leaving some love over at my blog too :) I am a Seattle native but lived in Tempe for college :)
Oh! I love what you did with the floss. I think I use floss on every single card I make, but I'm not very creative with it. Yours looks awesome!
Great job! Love how you used the floss!
Love that starburst center. Great card.
Such a pretty way to give those flowers some accents! Great card, love the colors as well, makes me happy!
Hugs, Wendy
love the stitching on your flower! so pretty!
Marge, this is FABULOUS! LOVE how you use the floss to create the starburst in your FAB flower! LOVE the colors and the ric rac stem! GORGEOUS!
How fun is that flower center?? Love that accent!! You need to send this over to CR84FN challenge that ends today!
So pretty and clever!
Very pretty! Love how you added the floss to the flower. It looks so awesome. And your ric-rac stem is genius! :)
So pretty. Love the added fringe for the flower center.
Very cute,. Love your use of the embroidery floss,
Gorgeous card, love the contrasting checked dp, looks fabulous!
Beautiful colour combination, and I like how you did the flower too!
Cute! Love how you tied all the flowers together! Thanks for sharing!
The 'fluffy' center is really cute. Such a creative way to use the embroidery floss.
Pretty card! Love the different patterns you used to make it. Lovely flower too!
love the stitched flower, especially the center!
Marge, so glad you linked to CR84FN with this FAB card! LOVE the stitching on the flower! The papers and the ric rac stem are so GREAT, too! THX for playing with us at CR84FN!
Marge, this is just my kind of card. I love the design of it and the papers you chose for it too. I love the ric rac for the flower stem. The stitching really adds a nice touch to the flower itself too.
Beautiful card. Loved the colors and the stitching as well. Very pretty.
Super cute card Marge! Love the flower embellishment and all your embroidering! Thanks so much for playing along CR84FN :)
What a fabulous card!!! Love that flower - great use of the embroidery floss!
Love your colors and the stitching looks great!
Awesome idea! I love hitting multiple challenges!
Super cute!
Clever and CUTE CUTE CUTE stitching on that flower!
Beautiful Margie! I love the purple and the flower is brill! I am putting it here: http://sharethemojo.blogspot.com/
So much to like about this one--love the colors, the ric rak stem and your fabulous flower! What a clever way to use the floss!
Love the stitching on the flower and the fun ric rac stem, too.
beautiful card, awesome stitching and love the color choices, purple is my fav. :-)
Your flowers are absolutely beautiful!!!! I just love the special touch the embroidery floss adds!!!
I love what you did with the thread on the flower. Really unique.
Ohhh what a pretty floss flower! Love your creation.
this is FAB!!! great card! :)
The stitching on the flower petals is awesome! What a great card!
Wonderful card, Marge - I love your flower!!
How cute and sassy! I love the idea for the stems and leaves- a new idea to me, thanks!
I really like the colours you used!
Love that flower!! So glad you linked to the challenge - a perfect fit! Thanks for playing along with CR84FN this week!
Beautiful card, Marge! Love the layered flower and ric rac stem! Thanks for joining us at CR84FN!
This is so pretty Marge!!! Love the flower and ric rac stem! Such pretty patterned papers too! Thanks so much for playing along with CR84FN! Wonderful take on the challenge colors!
Great use of floss! Love this sweet flower!
love it!
oh my goodness this is beautiful! Love your attention to detail on the flower with the floss! :-) Amy
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