holly in the garden

The gals over at Dottie's World gave such a friendly response to me last week when I joined in with their challenge, that I couldn't help but come back again.

The theme this week is 'A stitch in time' where the challenge is to use real stitching ~ hand or machine. Well, my entry uses both!

Looking around for a sketch, I came across a brand new, for the very first time, challenge blog at Truly Scrumptious.

Here is the sketch.

I must say, FAB sketch, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this, even though it took me forever!!

The cardstock I used was all from the We R Memory Keepers ~ Hoopla range and I used Delight and Gala.

All plain cardstock is Bazzil.

The ribbons used are all from the same WRMK range as is the chipboard flower through which the ribbons are threaded.

I used the Gala paper to cut out circles and distressed the edges before layering and finishing with a button. All buttons are sewn on by hand.

The floral paper has been machine zig-zag stitched to the bazzil cardstock.

The buttons in the centre have been layered one on top of each other before stitching through to the ribbon it sits on.

The image is from Dottie's World and is Holly in the Garden. I coloured her up with my copics.

Thank you for looking and I appreciate any comments you may have.

kat

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