Seamstress

Hello and welcome, 

Today I will share a Birthday card for a colleague who turned 60. She has an education in sewing, so I choose that as theme on her card.

I absolutely love these stamps from Tim Holtz. They are just gorgeous. 

I stamped the images on watercolor paper and colored the stamps with Black soot Distress ink. I splattered red acrylic paint, and used my sewing machine around the edges. 

I put a needle with a red plastic head in a piece of Ruler ribbon. I also used a piece of Ideaology Stitched scraps basics. 

Both stamped images are mounted on a black and a red piece of cardstock. I hand stitched a cross with silk thread on the small image card. 

I decorated the card with red half pearls, and a piece of fabric that I inked with Distress inks to get that old worn look. I sewed two buttons onto the fabric. The buttons is from an old shirt from the brand we both work for - Haglöfs, you can see that the hole’s in the buttons shaped as an H. Haglöfs is an outdoor brand founded in Sweden 1914.  

I made a cardbase from thick black cardstock.

Products used:

CMS012 Pattern pieces

COM008 VOGUE 

Acrylic paint (red)

Watercolor paper

Distress crayon (Walnut stain, to color the Ruler ribbon)

Ideaology: Ruler ribbon, Stitched scraps, Tiny attacher 

Distress inks

Silk thread 

Buttons from an old shirt

Needle with a red plastic head 

I will try this card over at Simon says stamp Monday  challenge - Mother’s Day/Feminine. 

And what is more feminine than this beautiful stamp set? 🙂

Birthday card for my collegue’s Mother

Hello and welcome, 

I made a birthday card for my collegue’s Mother. She own’s a French bulldog, so I decided to use that as the theme of the card.

Products used are Tim Holtz, and the stamp is an old digital from Kenny K design.

I made a brick wall as the background. I used a 3D embossing folder and followed a tutorial from Zoe Hillman, link here Brickwork. 

I stamped one of the stamps from CMS238 Crazy thoughts on the brick wall with Distress embossing ink and then used Black embossing powder. Then heated with heat gun. I inked all the edges with Distress ink Scorshed timber. 

The fence is diecut from Distress Woodgrain cardstock with a really old Tim H die called 657030 On the fence (an on the edge die). I colored it with Distress spray stain, Oxide spray and when dry I applied Distress paint lightly with a brayer on the raised areas. (From a tutorial by Tim Holtz). I used Mini fasteners and a Hitch fastener on the fence. 

I colored the Bulldog with Distress inks. 

I used Glossy accent on the glasses, his eyes, the clock and the buckle. 

The pipes are from a die set called Vault industrial, 666874. I used texture paste through a stencil and then used acrylic paints and made some rust. Technique’s I have learned from Andy Skinner. 

Nr “60” is cut from Alphanumeric 660056 from black sanded Kraftstock and white cardstock. I glued them together a little bit offset to get a “shadow”, then highlighted with a white Posca pen.

The bones are stamped with CMS271 Crazy dogs, embossed with black powder on watercolor paper, cut out and then I picked a hole in them and put them on a swivel clasp.

I mounted the card on cardboard, then made a cardbase from black thick cardstock.inked the edges on the cardboard with Scorched timber Distress ink.

I will try this card over at Simon says stamp Monday challenge - 4 Legged friends. 

Thank you for visiting, 

/Susanne