Today, I have another card I made during last week's Girl's Night Out!
Using Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl cardstock stickers as well a border from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime element stickers (pink polka scalloped border) on a kraft card base made for some really simple elements. So, for a little fun, I pulled out my embroidery thread again.
This time I simply wound the golden embroidery thread into looped petals, sticking the ends of the loop to the back of the cardstock sticker as I went. I used two layers of foam stick tape to pop up each thread of spool up for some dimension.
Do you want to know what these embellished thread spool pieces remind me of?? Old bare wooden spools who have long ago unwound their last stitch of thread. My Mom has quite a few of those and she let both of my kidlets use them as building blocks when they were toddlers. The kids loved them! Not only can you build with them, but you can roll them, stand a crayon up in the middle of some of them, like a proudly waving flag heralding their wee hands' accomplishments in manipulating those old wooden spools.
Isn't is amazing how a wonderful, but simple little cardstock sticker can send you down memory lane??!! What are your memory triggers?
love how you created the petals with embroidery floss! very creative!
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ReplyDeleteTHIS card PHOTOGRAPHS sooooo beautifully! Goodness, gracious - it's SEW lovely! This is a CLEAR demonstration that we simply MUST get out just a wee bit MORE OFTEN and get together for some terrific girl "twalk" and CRAFT! Yipppee! Delighted to see you get your craft ON, sista!
oh, i love this!! your embroidery thread flowers are fantastic! thanks for your sweet comment! hope your week is going well, too!
ReplyDeletewell, I'm lovin' your cards girl...great idea with the embroidery thread!
ReplyDeleteGreat card! Love the loops of thread. Oh how I wish I could see some of those old spools in their glory now, I used to remember my grandma having some and I think she chucked all of them. They truly are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis is really cute! Love the loops! :)
ReplyDeleteSongs are my memory triggers...I associate the songs I love with the memories I hold dearest to me! :)
Great cards! Thanks for visiting my blog! It's been a while since we've "talked". I have been more of a lurker than a commenter lately!
ReplyDeleteKaren that string is genius! I love it!
ReplyDeleteSo now I need to go save all those old spools my Mom has in her sewing box from my grandparents! Also, need you to help me create quilt labels. I can follow a pattern, but your creativity amazes me every time!
ReplyDeleteOh sew pretty Karen! Love all those colorful spools!
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