in stitches...

Hey friends!!  Well... summer is winding down and I'm trying to get back to crafting so I decided to play along with CASology.   This week the cue word is "stitch" and I had a few ideas as to what I wanted to do.  I have some stitching dies from PTI and I knew that I wanted to use actual stitching on my card.  I used four of the dies from the PTI Stitching Lines dies to create my stitching lines. The panel was then die cut with an AJVD Stitched Dot rectangle die. I used the colors from the current Color Throwdown challenge of yellow, blue, red and green.  I pulled out my huge collection of embroidery floss and found floss to match the Color Throwdown combo.   As I stitched each line I left a tail at the top and the bottom for s little added interest.  The sentiment is from the AJVD Quilt Quotes.  I die cut the smallest rectangle from the Stitched Dot rectangle die set and then stamped it with the sentiment.  Copic markers in the same colors were used to color in the word "stitches".   I adhered the sentiment to my panel and then everything to a light grey cardstock base and I was done.   Very clean and very simple!!  I'm also adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge to use stitching (real or faux) and to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Hope you have a wonderful day...   Lisa and I are both participating in the CASology challenge so please check out what she created here!


Supplies:  Cardstock:  white and SSS fog; Stamps:  A Jillian Vance Design; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and PTI; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Embroidery floss:  DMC; Copic markers