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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Circles and Stripes and Gold Thread

Welcome

This is the first challenge for 2021 for Word Art Wednesday, 
 our sponsor is Taylored Expressions, and they are providing a $30 voucher for the winner.


The wonderful scripture was designed by Karen Murray, and is available free on the Word Art Wednesday blog site.

This month I decided to go with a tall and slender card format, no, not following the slimline trend, but rather making the most of the piece of patterned paper that was on my desk, and had been there waaaay longer than I can remember- well before I moved!!


I chose some card that matched, and folded the (half A4) sheet to form the card base.
As the edge was very plain, and I have no extra long embossing folders, I scored a random geometric pattern with a bone folder, and highlighted it by sponging on some tea dye DI ink very gently.


I printed out the scripture with a green background to match the paper, then die cut it with a stitched rectangle die, and mounted it over some loosely coiled, very fine gold thread


Below the feature panel I added some banners, cut from the snippet of paper that I had trimmed - it was two sided paper, so I could get the differing orientation of the stripes


26 comments:

Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...

Maxine, you've created a beautiful card with the gold cording and the awesome Scripture. Wonderful!

Mac Mable said...

That paper looks fabulous and I love what you did on the edge with the bonefolder. Such a beautiful card x.

Donna Walls said...

Lovely card and beautiful sentiment. Thanks for playing along in the challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies! Donna, DT

Jan Mahew said...

Maxine, Wonderful layered slimline creation with a heart warming scripture. Thank you for sharing your very soft spiritual creation with us at Jan's Digi Blog Challenge. Join us each month for a NEW challenge. Stay Safe and Happy crafting!
Hugs,
Jan
(Owner & Illustrator of Jan's Digi Stamp Shop)

Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...

Grest card Maxine, well dond on using your snippets... hope you've settled in well to uour new abode.

Thanks for sharing, and may God bless and keep you and all whom you love safe and well.
Prayer hugs, Shaz in Oz. X

{Wonderful Words of Life - Shaz in Oz}
{Calligraphy Cards - Shaz in Oz}

MiamiKel said...

Maxine - this is so wonderful - I love the soft colors and the beautiful design! I hope you are doing wonderful in the new craft spot in your home! BIg hugs! xx

Claire said...

Beautiful love the iage of scoring as an embossed effect

mamapez5 said...

A lovelt text to start the new year with Maxine. A clever way to add interest to a plain card too. Kate x

aussie aNNie said...

Maxine love the quote and this is gorgeous, great colours and designing. xx

cotnob said...

A fabulous card Maxine, you have created a lovely card with the piece of patterned paper that was on your desk.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
x

Brenda said...

Wow, what a great use for this piece of snippet! I love your slim card, I love that paper! I also love how you took your card base and added some geometric score lines, really adds to the card. The scripture sentiment looks so nice in the green, love how you placed the fine gold thread behind it. And what I really love is how you got so much use from this snippet of paper and added the banners. Now that is what I call using those snippets! Great job! Hugs, Brenda

Irish Cherokee said...

Very refreshing. Love this card Maxine. Originality is a special gift. Excellent. Love the sentiment. It fits our lives right now.

Love, Hugs and Blessings,
Jim

brenda said...

I'm very behind on my visit Maxine, but pleased I got here are this is such a pretty card.

Stay safe and well.

B x

Kelly Schelske said...

Great card Maxine! Love slimline cards-)

Thank you so much for joining our challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends!

Carol W said...

What a great card Maxine. You have done a beautiful job in it.

pearshapedcrafting said...

I'm used to those pieces of paper that hang around for ages! Your certainly put it to great use - such lovely combination of colours! Thank you for joining us at Try It On Tuesday! Chrisx

JD/ Jill said...

Wonderful card, Maxine, I like the color combo that you used...with this uplifting scripture. So needed these days!

Karen Page said...

Maxine, this is so pretty and I love the geometric touches throughout! Great way to put to use something hanging out on your desk that long! Thank you so much for sharing this with us at the Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge, and I hope you'll play along with us again soon!
~Karen Page, DT Member for Jan's Digi Stamps
Blog: MisplacedMojo.com IG: @misplacedmojo

cass said...

Lovely card, great use of shapes and colours. Thanks for joining us at A Place to Start this month for our "Anything Goes" challenge

Karen Dunbrook said...

so unique and lovely...well done.
xx Karen

Neet said...

'From little acorns grow big oak trees' is a saying that came to mind when I saw your card. From a piece of paper just lying there you have created a beautiful card. Well done Maxine.
Blessings, Neet xx

Marjut said...

Beautiful. Thank you for joining us at Try it on Tuesday.

Let's Art Journal said...

What a beautiful card! The circles and gold thread look so pretty with the wonderful wording that you chose - perfect 😁. Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Try it on Tuesday! Hugs, Jo x

Becca Sadler said...

Maxine: Your card is beautiful! I love the Bible verse and the soft green background for it which helps make it a focal against the large circular paper shapes behind it! You've balanced the coordination of all the different geometric lines and shapes very well! Wonderful card!

Chana Malkah said...

Very nicely done! I like the abstract approach! Thanks for sharing with us at A Place To Start!
Hugz,
Chana Malkah, Owner

Gerrina said...

Wow, I scrolled all back to here and thought that you didn't post for a while, but I think that your posts don't come in my blogrol...I have checked, but your posts should do that, don't know why they don't...
What a beautiful card this is! Love the colours and the way you made the texture and laters for the text! Hugs, Gerrina