Friday, October 15, 2010

Silk Ribbon Flowers/ Recessed Window Card


I am so excited to post a new card. It has been awhile! Thanks friends for bearing with me as I have been adding some of my older cards to my blog.

Wanting to enter a project at My Sheri's Crafts this week had me considering what could I do with stitching. The challenge is stitch something on your project- it can be real or faux and manuel or machine. I love both cross-stitch and ribbon embroidery and have done many projects as my walls are loaded with cross-stitched framed pieces. Knowing I would not have time to finish a cross-stitch project in two days, I am incorporating silk ribbon embroidery on my card. Stitches include decorative spider web rose,  ribbon stitch, lazy daisy, decorative lazy daisy, and split stitch. I am really pleased with my little bouquet!

I followed a great tutorial at Split Coast Stampers for making a recessed window card. I needed a way to mount my stitched piece. This is my first try making this window, but I will probably do this again. My piece of paper was cut 5 1/4 x 10 3/4, scoring at 5 1/4 and again at 5 1/2 as instructed in the video. The two scoring lines make a little spine to allow the card to lay flat.
Rather than making a frame for the entire front of card, I chose a frame from Cricut Lite Lovely Floral cartridge, cutting one frame at 3 1/2 inches from K&Company paper and the same frame again at 3 3/4 inches from a glitter page of My Mind's Eye Home Glitter Book.

The butterfly is also cut from Lovely Floral at 1 1/2 inch for all the cuts. Flowers were cut from Plantin Schoolbook using  1 1/4, 1, and 3/4 inches. Pearls, gemstones on butterfly, ribbon and lace are from my treasure chest.

Cricut cartridges: Lovely Floral, Plantin Schoolbook
Paper: K&Company double sided paper, My Mind's Eye Glitter Book
Martha Stewart: Ink, Scoring board

I will enter this card in following challenges.

My Sheri Crafts    ---      Stitching
Cricut Cardz Challenge - #46 Anything Goes
Paper Cutz Challenge -   #63 Anything Goes
The ABC Challenge -     F - Flowers
Cooking with Cricut -     Love - Things you love or people you love...  This card has many techniques on it - I love making something with ribbon embroidery.


Hope you enjoy the card! I appreciate your comments.




24 comments:

  1. What a gorgeous card! I love all the details!

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  2. Wow! how beautiful Love all the flowers

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  3. Beautiful Card! tHANKS FOR PLAYING ALONG WITH US AT ccc!

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  4. Gorgeous! Love seeing your creations! thanks for playing at Paper Cutz!
    Melissa

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  5. this is beautiful! I love the pearls! Thanks so much for playing with us at CCC!

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  6. Wow~ So pretty. I love this card. You really did a great job. I love all the flowers. Thanks for joining us at Cooking with Cricut this week.
    ~Madison www.funkycards.blogspot.com

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  7. Love the roses in the window. Lovely card. Thanks for joining us at for this challenge.

    Barb from Toronto, Canada
    CCC Design Team #2

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  8. What a beautiful card! Thanks for playing with us this week over at CWC for our first challenge :)

    michelle

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  9. Beautiful!! Thanks for playing along with us at Cricut Cardz Challenge this week!!

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  10. What a beautiful card and just perfect for the challenge, thanks so much for joining with us at CCC.

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  11. Gorgeous card Glenda, I love those silk ribbon roses, just beautiful! Thanks for joining us at ABC this time.
    Donna x

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  12. All I can say is GORGEOUS!!! This card is perfection!

    Thanks for joining us @ CCC.

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  13. Beautiful card! Thanks for playing along with us at CWC this week!

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  14. This is such a sweet card. TFS and playing with us over at CWC. Hope you can join us this week.

    Christel
    www.onescrappinsista.blogspot.com

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  15. oh wow is that ever BEAUTIFUL!!! thank you for playing with us at cwc I do hope you will join us again this week?

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  16. Glenda, this card is gorgeous.This is one of my favorites.

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  17. Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for participating in our challenge over at CWC! ~Valine

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  18. The roses are beautiful! Thanks for playing with us at CWC! ~Jenna

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  19. This is gorgeous! I love those beautiful roses! Thanks for joining us in this challenge!~Becky

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  20. oh wow glenda,
    this is stunning! thanks for playing with us at Cooking with Cricut.

    -- dalis

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  21. What a beautiful card Glenda! Thank you so much for joining us at Cooking With Cricut. I am pleased to announce that you were the winner of teh $10 gift certificate to Page-Kits.com. So please contact me at melin(@)scrapbookeden.com so that you can get details and collect your prize. Congratulations and we look forward to seeing you again at http://www.CookingWithCricut.com

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  22. Congratulations on winning at Cooking with Cricut. Your card was absolutely BEAUTIFUL

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  23. CONGRATULATIONS on winning cooking w/ cricut challenge! your card is just amazing!

    -- dalis
    CWC DT

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