Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Papertrey September Blog Hop & Moxie Fab General Craft Challenge

I probably haven't mentioned this on the blog before, but I LOVE making wreaths.  It is one of my very favorite kinds of crafts to do.  Needless to say I was super excited when I saw that this month's theme for PTI's Blog Hop is wreaths...a perfect combination of two things that I love.  I've also been watching all the fun challenges at the Moxie Fab World to celebrate the release of Handmade Cards, and decided to enter this one into the General Craft Supplies Challenge.
I kind of feel like anything is fair game when it comes to cards these days, so I purposely pulled out supplies that I bought for other crafts to make sure I used something from my "general crafting" supplies.  The beads are from some necklaces/keychains I made with a church youth group I used to help with and the embroidery floss was originally used on some hand puppets I made a few years ago. 
The idea for the wreath on my card was inspired by some wreaths I've seen floating around Pinterest.  I love the argyle and have been wanting to make a wreath very similar to this for my front door.  I created the wreath by hand-cutting the diamonds from PTI's orange zest and true black cardstock, glued them on, and then wrapped the black floss around to create the argyle pattern.  Then I added the beads and the leaves (die cut with PTI's Happiness In Bloom Leaves Die).  I wanted to balance the shininess on the beads on the wreath, so I embossed the sentiment from PTI's Bountiful Banners.  Oh, and I added a little texture to the card front with PTI's Linen & Canvas Impression plate.

21 comments:

  1. Very cute. Like this a lot. Clean, simple and striking.

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  2. Superb!..stood out in the gallery!

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  3. This is such and fun and creative use of your crafting supplies. Love the way you made the argyle pattern with embroidery floss. Very cool look!!

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  4. This is very pretty! I love the wreath!

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  5. I am totally in love with all three of the wreaths you did for the blog hop - but the argyle on this one is amazing!! What a cute idea!

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  6. LOVE your Halloween Argyle wreath, Lindsey! It really caught my attention. And it also reminded me of the wreaths I've seen on Pinterest, although I wouldn't have thought to make one for a card. It turned out well!

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  7. This is such a cute wreath, I love it!

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  8. Oh, this is so pretty and eye-catching, Lindsey!

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  9. Well , I can see how this is your thing ...what a great argyle wreath love it! I had many ideas too ...but I wanted to use all my non PTI dies so I struggled a bit. Looks like this is your knack!

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  10. These are all so wonderful. Boy, were you busy. I think this is my favorite. It's so very different and whimsical.

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  11. really like the argyle pattern on this one. so fun and creative!

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  12. Argyle?! Apparently it's been too long since I've been on Pinterest! This is really eye catching.

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  13. You are one crafting queen! This is so trendy and cool, Lindsey.

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  14. Lindsey I love your wreath! Love the argyle and pretty beads! So striking!

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  15. You really went to town with this challenge---another fab card!!!

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  16. Wow! So unique!!! Really love the pattern you created! Great job, Lindsey!

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  17. Linz, I am in love with all of your "wreath themed cards"! They are all so beautiful and unique. I would love to have any of them made into real wreaths to hang on my front door. My favorite has to be this Halloween Themed Wreath. You are pretty amazing!!! I really do think you should recreate it to hang on your front door. :)

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  18. Lindsey, this card is unbelievable. The layout is wonderful and what a great job combining PTI items. All the little details that make this a stunningly 'simple' card - just amazing.

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  19. Lindsey - great card! I love the color scheme, and how clean and precise everything is! Your work is beautiful! I'd love for you to apply for our Design Team at Scrapping Everyday Miracles! http://scrappingeverydaymiracles.blogspot.com/2013/10/we-are-having-design-team-call.html

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  20. Hey Lindsey! Thanks for linking this up to the General Craft Supplies Challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)

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