When your down and troubled / And you need a helping hand / And nothing, whoa nothing is going right...Winter, spring, summer, or fall, / All you have to do is call / And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah. / You've got a freind. (Lyrics from You've Got a Friend sung by James Taylor)
A clean and simple card created for the Aspiring To Create Challenge where we were to use a photo as inspiration as well as a supply or tool that you own but have not used before. A while back I found a tracing wheel at a local thrift store to create the faux stitching technique and can't believe I hadn't tried it out until now. So much fun! (By the way, Teri Anderson's tutorial is here!)The polka circles were stamped with the polka hexagon from Schlosser Design's Hexagon-A-Thon set and simply punched out. Love that these stamps can take on a different look and even shape.
***If you are up to a challenge or need some inspiration, try out the challenge I issued on Yvonne's blog! Copy your blog post's link into the comments field for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to Limelight Papercrafts!***
Supplies Used:
Cardstock: (White) Georgia Pacific
Stamps, clear: (Sentiment from Key to my Heart) Practicing Creativity Designs, (Polka Hexagon from Hexagon-A-Thon) Schlosser Designs, (Butterfly from Woodgrain Silhouettes) Wplus9
Ink: (Antique Linen Distress) Ranger, (Teal Chalk) Colorbox, (Onyx Black) Versafine
Other: (Pink Acrylic Paint) Apple Barrell
Tools: (Circle Punch) Creative Memories, Tracing Wheel
Absoultely gorgeous!! Love your inspiraion (he is ADORABLE!!). I just love visiting your blog, Karen !"You've got a friend" was one of my favorite songs back in the youthful days!
ReplyDeleteOh I love the effect you've got from that seam ripper! Also love your take from the pic!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for giving me the link for my last bloggy post - so happy to realise I didn't imagine seeing it! LOL!
Hugs,
Aimes
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love love this! how did you get the faux stitching? is it a little wheel with teeth on a handle? it looks amazing, you should to a tutorial, yeah...you should ;)
ReplyDeleteI just love your eye for colours and design. This is another gorgeous creation :D
ReplyDeleteLove the card, love the techniques! I will have to try the tracing wheel thing because the result is so fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating!!
Love it! That faux stitching is perfect and there you go again, teaching us how to use our stamps in differet ways. Soooo creative with the circles.
ReplyDeleteGreat song! And although JT is in my top 10 favorite singer/songwriters of all time, he didn't actually write that one, Carol King did!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors on this one Karen, and your tracing wheel stitching is so fun! What a great look.
Beautiful card dear.
ReplyDeleteThis is super cute! Love your design! I just found out about this challenge yesterday and would LOVE to get in on it! Hopefully, I can find a little time to create later today. Wish me luck! And thanks so much for the sweet congrats you left on my blog. It means so much to me :)!
ReplyDeleteYou never cease to amaze me! This is stunning. Absolutely positively stunning.
ReplyDeleteHow you manage to make simple so fantastic always amazes me Karen! I love every single detail of this fabulous card!!!
ReplyDeleteLove it. I especially loved your butterfly and am wondering how you got the image to pop like that! Love it!
ReplyDeletefun, and I love your fairly literal take on it (w/ of course a Karen take, but...). Great card.
ReplyDeleteOoohhh me likey! :-) Love the colors and butterfly!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this. LOVE it!!! That tracing wheel border seems to hold it all together perfectly! I remember Teri's post on that- still haven't given it a try- but the look is so fresh!
ReplyDeletei love doing this! doesn't teri have the best ideas! your little b-fly is darling, karen:)
ReplyDeleteAnother winner Karen. I have a tracing wheel too. It's brilliant for faux stitching as you can pierce the paper where the wheel has indented it and the spacing is perfectly even. Looks like you ran yours thru' ink. Fab idea.
ReplyDeleteJust a fabulous card girl! Love it
ReplyDeleteThis is AWESOME! Great idea to turn your hexagons into circles via the handy dandy punch!! And I love the effect of the tracing wheel!
ReplyDeleteAdorable! I love the faux stitching!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card, love it. :) :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteFaux stitching is amazing...and I love, love, love that song...one of my favorites with my high school friends...our church youth group had this as our theme song! So many fabulous memories!!
ReplyDeleteLove the design and that pink stitching!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Friend - GREAT card!!! How fun that you multi-purposed the hexagon!! I'm loving that idea. Why do I never think of things like that??
ReplyDeleteThat's why you're the real artist and I'm the imitation.
Hugs!
This is so pretty, Karen! I love the layout and colours. The faux stitching is awesome, too!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous, Karen! LOVE this color palette and those cool stamps. And wowza, that stitchin' rocks!! It's love at first sight!!
ReplyDeleteHope all is well with you, Sweetie ... I'm here for you 24-7, okeedokee?!? Stay safe ... sending hugs and smiles!
Very sweet card, love the colors! I just left a comment over at Yvonne's blog with a link to the two cards I created for your Clean & Simple Challenge! I had lots of fun creating my stamped grid background! Thanks for sharing the technique!
ReplyDeletewhoa!! totally gorgeous. The colours are just fantastic in this - I especially love the touch of distressing. And a great prompt to try out a new tool :-)
ReplyDeleteso pretty! those faux stitching looks fabulous! i thought they were real! LOVE the wonderful design as always! fabulous card!!
ReplyDeleteYou really rocked this challenge! Your interpretation of the photo is PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteYou have absolutely nailed this inspiration challenge!
ReplyDeleteLove this card, that stitching technique and the versatility of that stamp set never ceases to amaze me!
Lovely card, love this!! :) :) :) :) :) So pretty!!
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