Sewing Up a Card

Hello!  It's been a while since I played with The Library Challenge.  But when I saw the most recent challenge, I knew I must take the time to make a card since I have the perfect stamp to create a card for this book The Sewing Machine.  I dug out a old stamp set from a company no longer in business but I love the set.  I stamped the Sewing Machine with black ink on White CS (wish I had used ivory). I highlighted parts with Silver Metallic pen.  I trimmed the image with a rectangle die and distressed the edges with Distress Oxide inks. Placed the image on a Brown Mat also cut with a rectangle die.  For the background I found an old Patterned Paper from Graphic 45 that related to the story of the book which includes old notebooks and handwritten note that tell the tale of a family history, one stitch at a time from 1911 through 2016…The pattern paper shows scripted notes from the 1910's.  The sentiment from the same set was stamped with DOI.  Kind of ties in with the story line of the history that goes on and on through the years. 

I have not read this book but have checked out the Kindle book and plan to read soon. 

Challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper

The Library Challenge: Challenge #46-The Sewing Machine

I'd like to share a picture of an old Sewing Machine that I have. Very similar to the one on the cover but not a Singer.  Also showing another card below made with this stamp.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa