Gathering Stitches

I received the Gathering Stitches dies from Spellbinders as a Christmas gift, and decided to make a card (one).  Well, since the rainbow cuts out all the pieces in one colour at once... I ended up with a ton of rainbow pieces, so had to keep going - and ended up with five cards.

The best part, was after choosing and die cutting all of my pieces in this pastel colourway, I looked in my stash to find papers that matched - and immediately found Farmhouse by October Afternoon.  Even though the colours worked, I realized that there were several stitching themed papers in the pack, which made them even more perfect.

Once I saw these button themed papers, I knew I'd be adding buttons to my cards, which I haven't done in forever!  And of course, I have quite a stash of buttons.  I added some dark yellow thread to each of the buttons, to make them look as though they were sewn down to the cards.

I haven't added any sentiments to my cards, I'm going to wait and see how I want to use them, and I'm also waiting on the Needlework Tools die set, which I may add to my cards as well - but I didn't want to wait to post them.  Stay tuned!

Rose Tapestry

Here are two more cards using the Rose Tapestry stencils from The Greetery, along with their Embroidered Blooms dies.  One card has the Starshine Background die from Spellbinders applied to it, as it gives the look of embroidery cloth.  

I used the Gathering Stitches die from Spellbinders to create the embroidery hoop, and then created my floral groupings from all the die cuts.

At this point the sentiments are not adhered, just placed on for photos... and I probably won't use the 'I'm So Sorry' sentiment, as this is too cheery of a card for a sympathy card.  The sentiments that I've used, are Everyday Sentiments for Betterpress, from Spellbinders.

The gold pearls are by Pinkfresh Studio.