Riley and Company + Calendar Girls = 1 card, 2 challenges!

                                         Hello friends!

 

Do you remember playing with Spirograph as a young child?

Me, too!

It kept my brother and I busy for hours playing with it,

creating intricate designs and zig-zag pictures in a variety of colors.

I was so nostalgic when I saw the TLC Spirelli challenge on SCS

 and just knew I had to play along ♥

 

My finished card is actually a two-fer ....

The Calendar Girls and Riley and Company built into one!

 

Barb is the hostess for our Calendar Girls this month

and challenged us to make a card using Black and only one other color

(white in the image base was acceptable!)

and ....
Kerin is the hostess for the new Riley and Company Challenge this week,
which is create a pink monotone card in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness.

So in order to create this card,
I chose pink as the color to work with and nestled the Funnybones
sentiment into the Spirelli inspired floret.
(you can find the tutorial on SCS here:)
The sentiment really resonates that any battle,
especially one with a life changing diagnosis of cancer,
takes courage.

Here is my finished card, inside and out -
 

 



 

Here's the wonderful beginning to the Spirelli technique ~
embroidery twine and a scallop edge.

 

The finished floret!



 Isn't this a fun technique!

I know I'll be using this again and again :)

 

Please be sure to check out the Riley and Company DT creations -

you can find them listed in my sidebar!

Also, if you want to upload your card to play along to a gallery,

please use the keyword Riley2214.

 

And of course stop on over and see what my Calendar Girl sisters

 have created, too!

 

That's it for me!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly