Yummy

After a long and quite unexpected break from everything, I'm back here in blogland to post my long overdue project for the "Yummi" challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog. No need to feel inspired as said challenge is closed already - feel free to add your "Zoom" (fast) projects though!

I certainly thought that I'll be able to have an uneventful spring, but at some point in March everything just went downhill. I'm still not able to function on my own, at least not properly and on the long run. And the more things come my way, the worse it gets. My pain issues intensified in the past weeks, and there are days on which I can't make it out of bed due to exhaustion. 

Anyway, I've been thinking about something to activate your taste buds for the "Yummy" challenge, but I simply couldn't decide whether I should bo for a tasty food or a beverage. In the end, I decided to combine both. The reason being that I had this piece of cross stitch in my stash forever. I stitched it years ago to make one of those explosion boxes for a man, but I never used it for the occasion. I now decided to give it another chance with another project: a masculine card that features the motif of grapes. 

I created a rather simple card, using a purple card base with an oval window. Fortunately, the opening was big enough to feature the stitched motif, and small enough to allow me to adhere the fabric on the inner side of the card (it was a tight match, but it worked). As the stitched image is quite delicate, I opted to leave the card just like that - no additional embellishments whatsoever.

To cover up the inside of the card, I used a piece of patterned paper with purple blooms - if you look closely, you may see how some of them shine through if you look at the front side of the card.

A little contribution to the collection of hand-stitching at made with Blümchen.

challenges:

- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a place to start: ATG

- allsorts challengeblog: ATG

- C.R.A.F.T.: ATG

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty catz: ATG

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- love to craft: ATG

- morgans artworld: ATG
- my time to craft: rectangle shaped card

- path of positivity: Embracing the unexpected through decluttering (decluttered my stash to use this cross-stitched motif of grapes)

- pearlysparkles: monochrome
- pennys papertake: ATG paper

- male room: geometric (oval = geometric figure)

- wortartwednesday: ATG