Pink Elephant meets Virginia's View

We've been going through some serious parenting challenges at our house. Like a lot of crafters, I tend to create as therapy. The time it took to pierce & stitch this card was the perfect antidote to a particularly horrid day. The pastel colours & stitching make it a great card for both The Pink Elephant's pastel challenge and Virginia's View stitching challenge. 

Supplies: papers from MME; veneer from Studio Calico; letter stickers from Basic Grey; Colorbox Frost White pigment ink; Tim Holtz design ruler; embroidery floss & needle

I have just scraps left of this pretty MME paper, so I arranged a bunch of them to create a sort of faux quilt look. I used a small piece of Scor-tape to keep them all in place, and then pierced around the edges for sewing. The sentiment banner strips are part of one of the patterned pieces in the collection, and I trimmed between the words at various points so I could bend the ends up for dimension. I was a bit flummoxed to find  that I had ZERO matching letters to add the "you are" part, so I patted some white ink on top of red letters to get the effect I wanted. 

xoxo,

Jessi