CCEE: Sewing Machine Day!

 Hi friends!

You are SEW awesome!

Lois is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers for the month of June
and tells us that today is National Sewing Machine Day!

  She asked the team to make a card with some stitching on it --

 either actual stitching, faux stitching or stitch-edged dies.
I've not yet ventured into real sewing on my cards!

It's funny ~ my mum spent YEARS as a seamstress
and has created beautiful gowns for many ladies.
She said she learned to sew as a small child,
and as a teen in a small shop on the outskirts of London.
Foom wedding dresses to bridesmaids, proms, quilts and dolls for charities.
She handmade all of my dresses and rompers when I was growing up
and just is so VERY talented!

Me?

I can't even sew in a straight line with a handle needle and thread!
So, I took the route of using a die with stitching 
and a sewing theme, LOL!



I ran to Hobby Lobby this week 
and was lucky to find a small sewing machine stamp set for $1.60!
I've used just the sewing machine from the Stampabilities set on this card today,
and the Sew Raggedy doll and button jar stamps from Craftin Desert Divas.
The stitched die is from My Favorite Things 
and I waited a long time to add this to my collection!
It's one of MY favorite things :)
  I set aside my normal prismamarkers and colored with promarkers
and really love the soft look they have.

You can see what the DT created this week ~
it'll have you in stitches! ♥
You can find them on the CCEE blog ← here
as well as link up your card, too, if you'd like to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

I'll enter this into:  Passion for Promarkers:  Use Pink (the hearts!)

OWL be there for you ......

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 When the rain starts to fall ...........

Hi  F.R.I.E.N.D.S!

 Oh, I do miss watching this show!

I think one of my daughter's was binge-watching it for the first time 

recently, and I caught myself once or twice watching!  Again! :)

Mondays are always fun-days since I post a card with a stamp/die set

from The Project Bin stamps!

So OWL be there on The Project Bin blog today, too!

For this week's card, I'm heading back into fall :) 

I've used one of the festive autumn sets from a previous stamp release

called New Leaf.

  I was inspired by the sweet little owls that often burrow into a small hole, 

making homes out of the nooks and crannies in the tree.

I used my circle stitched die to cut the areas in the cardstock,

and used a fall inspired paper to peek through the back.

Once that was in place, I glued it down and assembled the base layers. I chose this colorful designer paper to create a woodland feel.

One of God's most beautiful creations is the changing of the leaves ~

the crisp and crunch and vibrant colors!

Here is the inside of my card:

 

 Before you go, here's  a little musical entertainment

 for about 50+ seconds or so!

Happy Day!

Here is the stamp set in it's entirety ↓

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly