Wednesday, 22 August 2012

You brighten my life

Good afternoon, it's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and our theme this fortnight is 'STITCHING REAL OR FAUX'.

This week we have three fab sponsors:

and

I spent ages browsing their shops, but there were so many gorgeous images I just couldn't make up my mind which one to choose, so I decided to use one of my own.

This is my card:


I have kept it really simple again, I'm really getting into this style of card at the moment.  I used one of my Joanna Sheens's Wordy Stamps and added my hand stitching to the sun's rays.  For the top half of the background I embossed some lines onto a piece of linen card that I had in my stash and the bottom is some Papermania paper.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of my card that has been decorated to complement the front:



CARD RECIPE:

Image:  Joanna Sheen - Words One
Papers:   Docrafts - Papermania Lemon Sorbet Capsule Collection
Card Stock:  Crafter's Companion - Core'dinations, Create and Craft - Linen
Tools:  Spellbinders - Pinking Circle and Classic Circle
Embellishments:  ribbon from stash

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:
Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our 'STITCHING REAL OR FAUX' challenge.

Thank you for calling this afternoon, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline
x

25 comments:

Sue said...

This is gorgeous Pauline, I love the stitching

Sue

rachel said...

gorgeous card Pauline - fab stitching xx

Vic McGuckin said...

What a very simple but effective card Pauline.. love the subtle colours...

Vic x

Zoechaos said...

Lovely card, love the clean crisp lines and linen colours while your stitched sun is fabulous. thank you for sharing with us at Tanda Teaser XOXO Zoe

Desire Fourie said...

Pauline I just love this. The colours and layout are just perfect. Hop on over to Doing Life and stand a chance to win some lovely DigiStamps4Joy digi stamps of your choice to the value of $20 Hugs Desíre Doing Life Digistamps4Joy DT Member Tammys Scrapin Corner DT Member

Carol said...

Loving your CAS cards Pauline, this one is beautiful. Carol x

Victoria said...

Oh it's beautiful! LIttle rays of sunshine!

Sassy Raggedy said...

Wonderful Card Pauline! Thanks for sharing with us this week at Tammy's Scrapin Corner. Hope to see you again next week and good luck in the drawing. joann sassy raggedy

kelly ledder said...

Gorgeous Pauline, I love simplicity x

sallysbitz2 said...

This is stunning x
Very elegant looking inside & out x

hugs sally x
sallysbitz.blogspot.co.uk

Mandy said...

Absolutely beautiful Pauline, very elegant indeed.

sue law said...

Glad you went for your design! Lovely card!

Thanks for joining in with the Tanda Teaser!

Suex

Unknown said...

The Best Part of This challenge is all of the wonderful Entries.
This is a great Card.
I love the image and the design.
Best Of Luck in the challenge.
Hugs
Tammy Ortiz
Founder of
Tammy Scrapin Corner

PinkyLisasInkyCrafts said...

Thank you for joining us in our 'words only' theme over on the CraftyMess challenge blog.

What a really lovely simple looking card that has had a lot of work put into it. I love the stitching with the words on the topper. That mixed with the black and the pale yellow looks gteat!

I hope you will join us in our next theme over on our blog.
Hugs Lisa xxxx

Crafting Vicky said...

Really like the CAS look you have! Great way to showcase the sentiment.

Thanks for joining us as Tammy's Scrapin Corner this week. Hope to see you again next week. DT Crafting Vicky

debby4000 said...

Fabulous, beautiful card Pauline.
luv
Debby

jem (jane elizabeth middleton) said...

simply perfect. janex

Eret said...

Wow! So beautiful card. Less is more. I love your simple design. It's gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing your card with us at The Emerald Faeries Challenge Blog. Hope to see you back again :)
Hugs, Eret

rachel said...

just popping back Pauline to say well done on being joanna Sheen's pick! Hugs xx

Unknown said...

Just beautiful!! So simple.. and simply gorgeous! I don't know what to say.. your attention to detail is amazing.. Its just stunning! Thanks for playing with us at Tammy's Scrapin Corner!! I hope to see you again next week :)

- Susan, DT @ Tammy's Scrapin Corner

Manderly said...

Wow! I think it takes a special talent to do simple and have a card turn out as lovely as yours. Very, very nice. Thanks so much for entering our A & T Emerald Faeries Challenge. Hoping to see more of your talent!
Manderly
xxxooo

Jac’s Playground said...

Fantastic card, very elegant, thanks for joining us at the Emerald Faeries Challenge this fortnight.

Mona Evy said...

Wonderful card! Thank you for joining us at Creative Inspirations Wedensdays Challenge

Jules said...

Love it, love it, love it, beautifully clean and simple. Thank you for joining us at A & T Digital Designs (EFG). Good Luck xoxoxo

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous card hunny love your hand stitching too xx