Stitching and patterned papers

This card I made ages ago but never got round to sharing … better now than never!

It’s one of those stitched flowers I have had in the pouch of ready stitched elements and on the day I put this together I was in a use patterned paper kind of moods! So I grabbed papers I thought worked ok together and worked with the colours in the flower I had stitched. I actually trimmed this flower as didn’t want the stem to be as long.

I added ink to the edges of each of the panels of paper to give them a frame and stuck them down. No dimension just flat with the inked edge worked fine.

I added the Kraft back panel to tie in the colour of the flower and the stem.

I added the sentiment which I stamped in the Hello Honey colour as I thought that worked well with all the elements in the card.

I trimmed down the card blank so it’s about 6×5 rather than the usual size of 7×5 as that worked better with how the layers looked.

Finishing touch was to add those three card candi on the edge of the middle panel of patterned paper … this pulled out the green of the leaves and from the patterned paper.

Cute card and quite different from the other cards I have made with these stitched flower dies.

Happy crafting!

Catherine