Yesterday I sat down to work on a final Valentines project and I made this card while waiting for various parts of the other project to dry.
I know the stitching is not going to win any awards, but given that this time last year I couldn’t use a sewing machine… it’s progress. I still haven’t mastered “tension” and I think my machine probably needs dismantling and cleaning because it bangs each time the needle comes down. Someone asked me if I had oiled it and I laughed, (because I thought it was a joke)!! Okay I better shut up before someone calls the sewing machine police!
Quick, I’ll distract you with a close-up! 😉
I die cut a grungeboard heart from the movers and shaper mini hearts set and covered in fired brick distress ink, fired brick distress stickles and glossy accents.
The most difficult part was leaving it alone to dry. Hands up anyone who has impatiently stuck their finger into not quite dry glossy accents?!
It didn’t take long until I had found another excuse to break open my cracked pistachio again. The paint works beautifully as a patina, I think I even prefer the patina effect over the evergreen bough, (sorry eb).
The background was done by stamping the small hearts from the new Tim Holtz watercolor stamp set using picket fence distress paint onto kraft cardstock. The paint smooshes to the edges of the stamp when you press down and leaves a really cool border. I covered XO alpha parts with picket fence distress paint and then weathered.
Thanks for taking time to look at my card and stop by tomorrow to see my Valentines Matchbox Collage.
I am playing along with the “Love is in the Air” challenge over at Inspiration Journal.
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supplies: tim holtz; surfaces (kraft cardstock, grungeboard core-dinations kraft core)/distress ink (vintage photo)/distress paint (picket fence, fired brick, cracked pistachio)/distress stickles (fired brick)/idea-ology (arrows adornements, alpha parts)/stamps (#217 watercolor)/dies (mini hearts, stacked words: valentines)/tools (paper distresser, blending tool)
other: glossy accents/sewing machine
So pretty Zoe! Love the Cracked!!!!!
Thanks Nicole. 🙂
I think your sewing looks amazing and your card is beautiful. I wish I could make something like this whilst waiting for project parts to dry! It really is beautiful. Anne x
love this
Such a BEAUTIFUL Valentine’s project! LOOOVE your heart! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at the Inspiration Journal! Hugs, Karin
this is beautiful too! I too always forget I’m suppose to oil my machine. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Love the card and all the darling hearts!
If the music’s loud enough, you don’t hear the squeak. Right Paula?! 😉
the tension on my machine is totally out of whack, and i have no clue how to fix it.
i am seriously debating throwing it out and buying a new one. o_O
i know, i am horrifying! 🙂
NOOOO Mara! Don’t do it!!! Surely there has to be an online video out there to help us! 😉
i have no faith in my ability to fix it. i asked [at my local sewing store] for a quick lesson on how to fix thread that was “looping up” from the bottom. i came home and followed their advise and made it worse. oh so much worse. *no words*
but then, i am a mechanical moron. i firmly believe the “E” on the gas gauge means Evacuate. *nods* ….
LOL “E means Evacuate” funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Thanks for making me laugh so hard tea came out my nose. 🙂
😉 could have been worse. you could have laughed so hard that tears ran down your leg.