Smocking

According to Wikipedia, "Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch..." or made for a really cute outfit for a little girl. My mom had made the cutest pale yellow dress with a smocking detail and pale pink flowers across the bodice for my cousin, over thirty years ago. My aunt saved the dress and just a year or two ago, my cousin put this pretty little dress on her own girl.

I'm entirely delighted to being doing a Carbon Copied post today with the talented Trinh Arrieta from Cardediem! We are playing along with CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: Put Your Heart Into It and using Iconic Images from Papertrey Ink.

Since Iconic Images didn't have any hearts as stamps, we both had to get creative with this challenge. I kept thinking of the dress, and how entirely way too cute my cousin's little girl was in the dress when making this card. I used the sweet flower images which reminded me of the flowers from the dress, stamped them onto the card base and then die cut a heart and stamped flowers onto that as well, after a bit of inking the edges. The heart was sewn onto the card base and then I stamped the sentiment.

I can't wait to see Trinh's take on the challenge! Have you checked out her blog yet? As mentioned previously, she is so talented! I love her clean and simple style and creative use of stamps. Oh how I admire her work!