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.

Forever Young -- Dress Form

My very first card to post on Cricut Messageboard - May 30, 2010. This card was the beginning of my online posting-- got a little brave and joined the Cricut Community Message Board and participated in my first challenge.  I am so happy that I did! Now I have this blog and many new friends. I enjoy seeing all the beautiful work by all of you talented cardmakers and paper crafters!!

I saw a challenge to use the Forever Young dress form. I had fun using the challenge to make a Red Hat Lady's card!

Cricut Cartridges: Forever Young - dress form and hat

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots

Paper: Paper Studio, K&Company for Red Hat Society

Gemstones, feather, and tulle from my treasure chest.

Challenge: Bitten by the Bug 2

Hope you enjoy my Red Hat cards! This is all for now. We like to swap birthday cards so we do have several to make!!

Red Hat Attitude



Using one of the sketches from RAQ'S Challenge 6-30 - 7-6, I  made this Red Hat theme card. She has an attitude look!

Card measures 4 X 9 1/4

Cricut cartridges:

Forever Young - Lady, dress, hat, sentiment, and flowers

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots on hat, Textile on dress

Pop-dots and gemstones.

Happy Birthday Red Hat Society





Just a simple layout, but I was really pleased with this card! This was my first cut using Heritage cartridge.

Cricut cartridges:

Heritage - Hat and stand

A Child's Year - White scallop background

Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots, Happy Birthday

Martha Stewart - Scoring board, Daisy corner punch

Feather, pop dots, and red embellishments from my treasure chest!

Forever Young Lady and Purse

inside of card

I enjoy making cards for my Red Hat friends. My cricut steady chirps making cards and also for scrapbooking our Red Hat Society events. This was made for a friend's birthday.

Cricut cartridges:

Forever Young - Lady, gloves, hat, purse, flowers, words (accessorize and ooh la la)

Wild Card - It's your day, Happy birthday

Paper - Paper Studio