Let's Celebrate with Stitched Greenery - ChatnCraft with Lorraine

Today I am hopping with the Stamping with Friends Blog hop. We are a bunch of card makers from around the world that are hoping to inspire you to make and send more cards! Our theme for this post is Stand Alone dies. There are actually quite a few dies that are not associated with a specific stamp set. I absolutely love the Stitched Greenery die so I thought I’d highlight that one today! You can see a photo of the die below the instructions. There’s the bonus of another set of stand alone dies- the Stylish Shapes dies in this card, too! It seems I use one of those shapes on almost every card.

I did not use a lot of dies on this card as the tone on tone stamping with Versamark and the Stitched Greenery add lots of texture and interest. I did not want to cover any of that up!

This card features a color combination I have not used before.

Crumb Cake

Petal Pink

Pool Party

I have always loved Crumb Cake but I sometimes find Pool Party and Petal Pink to be challenging colors. IS Pool Party blue or green? Is Petal Pink really pink or is it coral? Those questions remain unanswered but I do like this combination. What do you think of it?

Instructions for Let’s Celebrate with Stitched Greenery

Cut a Petal Pink Card base 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and score at 4 1/4″.
Use Versamark ink to stamp the leaf pattern along the left edge from about the middle to the bottom and the right edge from the middle to the top.
Next cut a square of Pool Party 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″.
Run this square through your Cut & Emboss machine with the Stitched Greenery Die. Admire the beautiful stitching after you remove the die!
Cut the square in half (1 7/8″) horizontally and then in half (1 7/8″) vertically. Be sure to keep the 4 squares in the correct orientation so the stitched pattern lines up when you adhere them to the Crumb Cake background.
Adhere the 4 squares to the 4″ x 4″ square of Crumb Cake card stock, leaving a small border around all 4 sides of each square.
Adhere this to the Petal Pink card base slightly to the left of center.
Cut a small circle of Petal Pink with the 3rd smallest circle from the Stylish Shapes (another stand alone die set) and adhere this to the front of the card.
Put a bit of Seal or a glue dot on the left side of the circle and press Linen Thread onto it to form a “bow.”
Stamp “Let’s Celebrate!” in Soft Suede on a scrap of Pool Party card stock. The greeting is from the Simply Fabulous stamp set.
Cut with the 2nd largest banner from the Stylish Shapes dies. Adhere with dimensionals over the circle and slightly off the edge of the Crumb Cake card stock.
Add 3 Opal Rounds.
Run a 1″ x 4″ scrap of Crumb Cake through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine with the Stitched Greenery die and adhere to a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White.
Adhere to the inside of the card.
DON’T forget To send YOUR card!

Stitched Greenery die with the Let's Celebrate card

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