Blogger Challenge: Week 221

This week’s blogger challenge theme is “who’s got the button.” With inspiration like that, I had to come up with a sewing related card. I used the On the Mend set from Clear and Simple Stamps along with one of the matching Simple Cuts dies to create this feminine card.

I die cut the dress form from kraft cardstock, then stamped the matching dress form image on the die cut in brown ink. To get the dotted pattern, I pressed the top part of the solid image stamp on the dotted background builder image from the Dots & Lines set before stamping the image on the die cut piece—a simple way to add interest to a solid image. To bring in a little more of the sewing/stitching theme, I stamped my own patterned paper strip for along the bottom of the cardfront, using the set’s stitch image to repeatedly stamp across the strip.

I die cut a heart from a piece of plaid fabric, then machine stitched it to a cream panel. The dress form is set in place over the heart with foam tape. I added a cluster of three buttons, threaded with twine at the side of the heart. The set’s “stitched together with love” sentiment is stamped on a kraft panel and attached to the bottom of the panel with a few machine stitches at the end as an accent. After inking the panel’s edges with a little distress ink, I layered it on to a soft pink card base.

For more ideas using this theme, check out the links below. If you join in the challenge, feel free to add your link to the list.

Materials Used:
On the Mend and Dots & Lines stamp sets, Dish All the Dirt Brown and Paint the Town Pink inks, I’m a Princess Pink, Paint the Town Pink, Kraft Like a Rockstar, and On the Catwalk Cream cardstock, On the Mend Simple Cuts dies, Paint the Town Pink buttons (Clear and Simple Stamps); Tea Dye distress ink (Ranger); linen thread (The Cat’s Pajamas); fabric; sewing machine; foam tape