Fancy Schmancy Fabulous Fabric!

 

Hi friends ~ Happy Friday! 

 Today is the day the Calendar Girls post our monthly card

creations with a chosen theme. 

I'm Miss February! 

That means, I'm hostess of this month's card group challenge ~ woot, woot! ♥
 

We girls have been together for a few years now and I thought
 it would be *sew* fun to challenge the girls to do something
 we've NEVER done before ~
Use Fabric!

 

I call it the:

 Fancy Schmancy Fabulous Fabric February Challenge! 

 I asked the girls to create a card using fabric – fabric scraps – fabric flowers, panels, and/or the whole card! Think flowers, trees, houses, even holiday ornaments, etc – BUT ....  no stamping our cards this month!

{sentiments are okay but the fabric/elements should be the focal point!}

 

Here is what I came up with this month ~ two cards!

and the fabric I chose: Burlap and lace!
 

I used burlap as my panel backdrop for my first card

with a panel of gorgeous 3" lace layered on the top.

I cut out a second piece of burlap to create the heart.

I wanted to keep the "rustic" look all through-out so I added

a wooden button and some jute string.

The inside is simple with a saying I chose for my dd19

(who inspired this card with her love of all things country!)

 

 

 

I grew up in a waste not, want not household

so I decided to make a second card with the cut-out of the heart!

I put the lace behind this one and used Really Rust

as a backdrop color. I also added some smaller hearts from

even more leftover burlap and a fabric orange button for some pop!

 

 

 

 

I'm tickled with how these cards came out :)  I plan to dabble with burlap again soon!   I love the rustic, romantic look this has. 

However, burlap is a tricky material.  It's finicky and unforgiving. 
If it starts to unravel, so will your project ;)  It will redefine the borders on your card if it starts to fray.  One trick I would say helped was having a small bottle of tombo all purpose glue on hand.  I placed a small dot of glue the palm of hand and rubbed to where it was not sticky but you could feel the substance and I lighted 'palmed' the edges all around.  Worked like a charm :)

 

Here is one last look at them together :)

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!  I hope you stop on in and see my other Calendar Girl friends and see what they 'stitched up!' 

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly



 

I'll enter this card into:  asyoulikeitchallenge (use 3d Texture - Love the country look!)
Charisma Cardz - Something not for crafting (Burlap paneling)
All About the Vintage - Use Lace