Be Inspired Wednesday #71

Hi everyone!!  Are you all ready for another fun challenge?  This week's challenge over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot is all about stitching!!!  The Design Team has some gorgeous inspiration to help get you inspired!  Please play along with us!  And while you are visiting the blog, add your name to the followers list!  We are on a mission to 4000 followers!   Maggie and the team always have something to show you to spark your creativity!  And we love having you all join in!!!

This week's Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot sponsor is Crop Stop!!!  Are you passionate about scrapbooking memories and paper-crafting projects? CropStop is your one-stop solution. CropStop offers an extensive selection of paper-crafting tools, dies, ribbons, embellishments and embossing folders from the most popular manufacturers. They have recently become the only US store to sell Crafts Too embossing folders and are proud to be one of the few stores with the exclusive European Cuttlebug embossing folders. CropStop also carries an array of storage solutions to keep everything organized. Their selection of accents and adhesives is continually expanding and they're the home of the colorful Ribbon Candy™.

For my card today, I used both sides of a piece of K&Co designer paper.  I simply used my piercing tool to place holes along the stems and flowers design on the paper.  Then I used DMC floss to do my stitching.  A long time ago, before scrapbooking and cardmaking took control of my life,  I did quite a bit of cross stitching and embroidery so I have lots of floss that I haven't used in years!  I cut out several other flowers so that I could layer them for dimension.  The flower centers are french knots!  That was always one of my favorite things in embroidery!!!  I love the sweet homespun look that stitching gives to a project.  Can you believe I didn't use any stamps for this card? Anyway, come join us, we would love to have you!  Have a great Wednesday!!! 

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

Neenah paper for the base card

K&Co designer paper

Cuttlebug Damask Combo, With Gratitude Combo and Butterflies Combo

Pearls

DMC floss

Sponges and Piercing Tool

SU! ribbon and Sage Shadow and Ruby Red Inks

Copic marker

Bow Easy