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.