PTI April Blog Hop... stitched hello

Hello, hello!!  Wow... it is April 25th and that means time for the PTI monthly blog hop.  This month the challenge is to take inspiration from embroidery.  To be honest when I first started reading Nichole's write up I wasn't exactly sure where she was going with the challenge and thought we would have to put together projects with embroidery on it.  Thankfully as I read along further I saw she wanted us to be inspired by embroidery.  Because I'm not on Pinterest and kinda lazy I took my inspiration from one of the photos in the graphic that Nichole provided.

As I thought about what I would do I thought I would use the Fancy Folkart set, but as I started to work on my card (on Thursday afternoon) I decided to go with Rosie Posie because the flowers from that set more closely resembled the flowers in the photo.  I stayed with the bold colors, as well:  deep red, green and yellow.  I stamped the border image using the red, green and yellow.  I then used the "hello" from the Quick Stitch Sentiments die set and die cut the word.  I went through my extensive collection of embroidery floss and found a yellow that was a good match for the yellow ink and added the stitching.   Die cut and stamped the flowers and leaves and then layered everything up.  Finished by adding the word "friend" from the Wet Paint set.  Mounted the piece on a bright green cardstock base.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stampin Up! Gumball Green; Stamps & Dies:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! & Memento; DMC yellow embroidery floss