Hello! A quick post this morning before the doors close at Papertrey’s SAF … this is the last of my cards … it’s for the Threads Challenge … inspired by Laura’s loosey goosey thread nests! Here’s my take …
I cut the Papertrey cover plate (Modern Cross Quilt) in watercolour paper, ombré washed it in Distress Inks, split it to draw the eye to sentiment (and to fit our standard 10 x 15 cm cards!) and adhered it flat to the card base. The sentiment (from Reasons To Smile) was white heat embossed onto a black panel, I sandwiched the thread nest between it and the card base using foam tape, and finished with a scattering of bling.
I’m joining in at …
Papertrey SAF – Threads Challenge … use Laura’s loosey goosey thread nests
SSS Wednesday – Anything Goes … my fifth and final entry
Seize The Birthday – No ‘Weather’ topping
Addicted to CAS – Blue
SSS Monday – Trio of Colours … mine are the watercolour Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire.
Finally, a picture of me (well, my pointing finger!) with my SAF cards, that I’m linking up for the Red Carpet Challenge …
It was such fun to spend even a little time being inspired by the team at Papertrey during SAF. I made three cards … fewer than I’d hoped … but three more than last year … and I have ideas galore for more! So I’m a happy little soul! Hope you have reasons to be happy today! Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
Loving the loosey goosey thread, really adds shazam to your fab card!
Beautiful, fabulous & fun cards! You always design outstanding projects Anita 🙂
I do love the embossed sentiment and thread combo-still have no luck doing this x
What an amazingly graphic card Anita – love that punch of black with white embossing……fabulous.
Hugs.
Karen xxx
Love this Anita! The sentiment is great. Thanks for joining us over at ATCAS!
Love your blended trio of blues! The sentiment treatment is gorgeous, love that white embossing on black. I think black on blue is always so striking :))) I also loved seeing the Runway photo! I only got one card made for the SAF this year…but plenty of ideas and inspiration like you! Have a terrific day! Hugs and Bisous XOX
You’ve given me three more reasons to be happy this morning … gorgeous blues – why have I convinced myself that I’m not a blue kinda girl? LOve those string nests and hope they never, ever go out of style! xxoo
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The colors of blue are beautiful in your intricate card. Love the sentiment. A beautiful trio of Anita cards. 🙂 B
so cool and graphic… wonderful!
All three cards look so crisp! This one I like most because of the clean graphic design, but the circles on your first look great too! Hugs, Gerrina
Love the blue ombre coloring on your die cut background ! I haven’t tried making a thread nest yet, but you have inspired me to give it a try! Thanks for joining us at ATCAS.
Such a pretty pattern and I love the ombre effect you created with your inks! Stunning bold white sentiment against the black, too! You’ve done an amazing job on your SAF projects, Anita! All three of your cards are beautiful!
I smell winner in your future. They are all so lovely. Just looking at them makes me (and others, I’m sure) happy. You really have an eye for design.
My apologies, Anita…when I was here earlier, I meant to add ~ Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at Addicted to CAS! We always enjoy seeing your beautiful cards in the gallery 🙂
Gorgeous cards Anita, love this sentiment, I’m smiling! Cathy x
Gorgeous ombré card! Love the die and the way you have split it to focus on the sentiment is fab! xxx
Seeing your card definitely made me smile! GORGEOUS ink blending and sweet, graphic design! I’m definitely calling a podium finish or two…or three… for the Red Carpet Challenge!
This is just delightful, Anita, and since I own that die I may just case this card. At least the ombre’ and black sentiment banner. I’m so proud of you for getting those cards done. I wish I had had the time to check out SAF this year.
Anita…looks like you had so much fun playing along on Saturday for PTI’s SAF. All of your cards are wonderful and this one is just as amazing as each of the other ones. I love all that beautiful blue!
Excellent card and excellent portrait of you, Anita! Well, your beautiful finger! This card is so striking. You did an great loosey-goosey thread nest, something I still haven’t tried to do!! I love this card!! Miss you!! Hugs, Darnell xxoo
Three beautiful cards for the Papertrey’s SAF, Anita. Your graphic card today is so beautiful. Love the design with the ombre technique and dies. Thanks for playing along at ATCAS. xx
Well done you! I’m so glad you plucked up your courage, gathered some bits of time and made these three sweet cards. I love ’em all. This last one is bold and beautiful too. The bright blues draw your eye right to the sentiment with its sweet silver nest. Darn nice card. I do like this one. I like them all, though. Still missing you….
Your so good with your blending and love these colours together. You know I love blue and white as much as you do, so to me this card is geometric heaven!!
Really love the ombré background! You added just the perfect details!
Thanks so much for playing along with us at Seize the Birthday!
Anni
Fabulous idea to give that embossed background an ombre effect! Gorgeous combo of blues. Thanks so much for joining us at Seize the Birthday!
Oh, I love that cover plate you used, Anita!!! And again your beautiful subtle sponging!!!! Love the idea to have the white strip underneath the sentiment!!!! The sentiment looks great embossed in white on the black and with the thread nest underneath!!! The scattering of bling is just soooo perfect!!!
Love your cool background with the beautiful shades of blue. The sentiment is also great!
Your sentiment has impact: I’m smiling at seeing your GORGEOUS ink blended graphic work of art. The shades of blue, with the black/white sentiment, is truly classy…
Hugs~c