January Sisterhood

Hi there,

have I told you that I'm a part of a wonderful group of ladies who swap cards every month? And while swapping we grew to a group of friends who support each other in all situation of life. I just love you ladies!!!

But anyways ... we are taking turns by hosting the swap each month and for January my friend Michelle chose the theme "All about you"- create a card that is inspired by e.g. your birthstone, birthflower, the color of your "birth month" ... - Miche, did I explain that correctly???

Well, I'm born in August: peridot, poppy or Gladiola, lion, .... I saw a wonderful poppy stamp from hero art but it was released Jan 8th - too late for me :-(. So I went with the color of the peridot and created this card.

I stamped the flowers from Taylor's "Discover your wings" set with white craft ink onto DP and embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I distressed the edges with a distressing tool and then matted it with very vanilla cardstock.

Another attribute of my birth month is Happiness - so I went ahead and sewed happy-ly on my cards. I tried a couple of different stitches but I like the regular one the best.

Added a sentiment from the same set in old olive ink - glued it on certainly celery card stock, threw in some rhinestone stickers and punched out butterfly .... et voilà!

I hope the ladies will like the card even though my sewing went a bit crazy *smile*

Thank you for visiting me today and for your support through my journey of trials and errors here.

Special hugs

Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: "Discover your wings" Taylored Expression

ink: whisper white craft, old olive

paper: certainly celery, very vanilla, Bali Breeze DP SU, Teh Crafter's Stack from DCWV

others: white EP, sewing machine, threat, rhinestone stickers, MS butterfly punch