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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sew Thoughtful

This is entered in the Papertake Weekly Challenge - Grow Your Own,
where you were to use a flower that you had made yourself
Card is made from a recycled pattern from the thrift store.
A piece of the pattern was cut and distressed and matted with brown cardstock

Inside strip is a twill measuring tape with you buy by the yard

The flower is made with the Sizzix 3D flower die and distress with Vintage Photo

Thread spool is a die cut and the thread is baker's twine

8 comments:

  1. Patti you are soooo creative and talented! This is gorgeous!!! I love that big, beautiful flower and that you used an old pattern!! Absolutely fanfreakingtastic!!! hugs, Sharon

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  2. Oh! and thanks so much for joining us over at Papertake Weekly! :)
    hugs, Sharon

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  3. Super card! I love how you recycled the paper pattern, and your flower is fab!

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  4. Hi Patti, Thanks for your sweet comments. My flowers are just rolled roses. You draw a spiral onto paper/card, cut it out and just roll them around. There will be tutorials for them on YouTube. Hope this helps - Sasha x

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  5. Cute card and fantastic flower, thanks for joing us at Papertake weekly
    Louise

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  6. Hello again, Patti, It's not an embossing folder, its a die, from Cheery Lynn Designs called Tropical Flourish. You can purchase it from here...
    http://www.joannasheen.co.uk/craft-supplies/cheery-lynn-cutting-dies/misc-dies/

    It's free P&P worldwide. But unfortunately it's out of stock at the moment.

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  7. Oh, what a lovely card. Beautiful colors. I like it a lot. Wonderful detail. A great week for you. Thank you for playing this week PTWC
    Hugs August GDT Marika

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