Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Be Inspired # 71 - Loads of stitching!

Our challenge for you this week at Cuttlebug Challenge blog is to use loads of stitching on your card. You can faux stitch, use a sewing machine, or hand stitch...or any/all of the above :)

I do not own a sewing machine, but I have admired my friends' creations who do sew on their scrapbook LOs and cards. I often faux stitch (using a paper piercer and a black fine point marker or a white gel pen). For today's card I used a paper piercer and I hand stitched. I have these teeny tiny buttons that I thought would be perfect as "sprinkles" for a cupcake. I also knew these buttons matched my BasicGrey Marrakech papers. I think the Cuttlebug Moroccan Screen embossing folder is perfect with this collection of papers.

Sew what are you waiting for? Go make a a card, incorporate any form of stitching and include any Cuttlenbug product to create your card. The prize this week is 6 European folders by www.CropStop.com.

About CropStop: If you are passionate about scrapbooking memories and paper-crafting projects then CropStop is your one-stop solution. CropStop offers an extensive selection of paper-crafting tools, dies, ribbons, embellishments and embossing folders from the most popular manufacturers. They have recently become the only US store to sell Crafts Too embossing folders and are proud to be one of the few stores with the exclusive European Cuttlebug embossing folders. CropStop also carries an array of storage solutions to keep everything organized. Their selection of accents and adhesives is continually expanding and they're the home of the colorful Ribbon Candy™.

Supplies:
Cuttlebug embossing folder: Morroccan Screen
BasicGrey 6x6 Marrakech papers
All Sorts of Things buttons
DMC floss 310 (black)
Spellbinders Nesties Labels 9
Fiskars border punch

15 comments:

Anjou Krelovich said...

Gorgeous June! That stitching must have taken forever -- but the result is worth it. Lovely card! Hope to see you today at the card camp!

Kay said...

Oh my goodness, June! Such beautiful hand stitching!! LOVE the cupcake with the tiny buttons. The time you took to make this amazing card was well worth it!!
♥♥ Kay

Leslie Hanna said...

Beautious! I might have to try this one. ;-)

WV: untryper. One who removes trype.

lauren bergold said...

oh wow♥WOW♥wow!!!

loads of stitching indeed, and SO...or rather...*SEW* beautifully done! i love EVERY bit of this from the papers to that perfect bit of embossing in the nestie frames and ESPECIALLY the teeeeeeeny tiiiiiiny button sprinkles!

(on the down-side, i am now totally CRAVING cake!) :)

Shantaie said...

Ahhhh June...here I am staring at your sweet cupcake...my tummy is quite happy with the special K cereal, but my eyeballs are telling me to "go make cupcakes"...its all your fault :)

Those teeny tiny buttons are perfect!!!!

Windy Hills said...

I love to stitch, and your card looks like it was done on the sewing machine. Another fabulous creation!

Anonymous said...

Yum Yum I love your beautiful card
sweet June....Perfect stitching TFI
Have a lovely week:)xxx

csroyal said...

Way to go with the hand stitching, June!! And I love the buttons! I love buttons on cards!

Anonymous said...

I love this card! I love the colors and the stitching.

Rebekah Williams said...

I want to just eat up those teeny button cupcake stitches!

Kard Queen said...

Wow, the stitching adds so much to the card. The cupcake looks good enough to eat too.

Deb said...

wowza!! Love the card, what gorgeous colours & fantastic stitching!!

2muchpaper said...

What a fabulous card and stitching. Great job!

America said...

lots of beautiful stitching!!! an Adorable and very sweet card. :)

Anonymous said...

I have been drawn in here numerous times to comment on this card...June, it's absolutely lovely. This card MAKES a person wanna buy those BG papers! Oh wait, is it just doing that to ME? Nah, can't be! =)