Our demonstrator get together this month featured a swap with a general "summer" theme. If it says summer to you, you can use it. I always think of little girls in pretty sundresses and white daisies when I think of summer, so that's where I started for a slightly simpler version of this card.
I added a fabric spiral flower onto this one, made with the new Jumbo Sticky Rounds that are in the upcoming 2012 Holiday Catalog. It is SO much easier to make spiral flowers from ribbon or torn fabric like I used here (Designer Essentials Fabric pack) with the new jumbo rounds. And of course, they're another one of those flowers that are quite addictive once you learn how, so you'd better plan on buying two packs of the rounds when they come out August 1st!
I had one strip of this fabric left and one random swap card leftover, so I used an actual needle and thread (I know, GASP, right?) and made a gathered flower and sewed a button on for this one. Come to think of it, I need to go add some thread to the middle of the smaller button on the daisy, too, because it looks goofy to have one with thread and one without. Does stuff like that bother you? It does me!
Love the sewn flower card. It certainly shouts summer to me. Thanks for sharing it!
Posted by: Mary Lou | 07/12/2012 at 06:46 PM
love daisies and yellow. cute card. I didn't even notice the thread on one button but not the other. =)
I've been reorganizing my craft room and find some stuff is hard to figure out how to store. Have you done or could you do a post on your organization? I'd love to see how you store everything.
Posted by: Tamra | 07/14/2012 at 06:55 AM
Hey Lyssa, do you just tear the fabric and then roll it and stick it down starting in the middle or the opposite way. As I am typing this I am wondering if I can find something on the demo website about it. I hope you have a great time at convention as I can't go this year. Hugs, Bev
Posted by: Bev Gomez | 07/15/2012 at 05:04 PM