Stitches of Joy Card

A good friend of mine is as passionate about quilting as I am about cardmaking, so I was excited to create a sewing-themed card for her birthday using Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Stitched with Love project kit. It's such a fun set of products! I combined it with papers from Your Paper Insider's Box #14 to create this birthday card. 

For my card, I started by trimming a piece of Light Blue Via Felt Stationery to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. I used this piece of lightweight paper to do my colorblocking on. I added glue tape to the panel and then adhered the following papers to create the three "fabrics" I stitched together for the card: Dahlia ColorWheel Spellbinders, Beeswax ColorWheel Spellbinders, and White Hemp Flower Tissue adhered to Touche Saffron for stability. I trimmed off the excess of each color so that my panel was the original 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch size. 

To create the look of stitching, I used 2 of the long stitching stamps in the Stitched with Love kit in Altenew's Stampwheel 2.0. Then I die cut the pieces for the buttons, needle and thread, and scissors. I added them to the card and decided where I wanted my sentiment. I die cut "celebrate" using Altenew's Timeless Sentiments 2 die set and Glama Natural Clear for the sentiment shadow and more Dahlia ColorWheel Spellbinders for the word. I die cut the word 3 times and stacked them together for dimension. 

To finish the card, I stamped "sending you stitches of joy" from the same set and trimmed the sentiment to create a strip to place under the "celebrate" sentiment. I used Altenew's Instant Dimension Foam Tape to adhere the small sentiment strip. 

All papers used for this card are from Your Paper Insider (YPI) box #14 (which is currently shipping with a subscription to YPI's quarterly mystery box of specialty cardstocks). If you'd like to subscribe to Your Paper Insider's quarterly box of mystery papers or shop for any of their specialty paper collections, I'd be so grateful if you shopped with my affiliate link: Your Paper Insider. And if you're interested in doing some crafty shopping at Altenew, I'd really appreciate it if you used my affiliate link here: Carrie's Altenew Link.  I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Altenew carries many wonderful Craft-Your-Life kits like the Stitched with Love project kit I used here. 

Challenges I'm entering: 

Crafter's Cafe: ATG (ends 3/11/26)

Ellibelle's Corner: I spy with my little eye: Something you love: I birthdays! They are one of my favorite occasions to make cards for! (3/5; ends 3/16/26)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of Animal Magic (6/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with optional twist of Small Critters (6/8; ends at the end of the month)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG or pastels (6/6; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 3/4/26)

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Use dies or punches (ends 3/3/26)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (1/5; ends 3/4/26)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges**********: ATG (1/3; ends 3/2/26) C10

Crafty Catz: ATG (1/3; ends 3/12/26)

No more challenges. 

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

 The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

--Numbers 6: 22-26