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? 🙂