Faux Stitched Aperture

Hi blog friends!  Ho ho ho is getting closer, are you all ready yet?  I'm not, but I have made some headway at least.  Christmas trees are decorated (yes, I do a big one and a small one). I love decorating the Christmas trees once I have untangled all the lights, what a chore!  I was thinking about all the different trees I have done over the years.  If I can find the pictures of them all, I will post them for you to see.  I think you will understand my need to craft when you see these! Enough waffling, on to the subject at hand, today's post.  I had this decorative paper leftover from the last time I was at my Mom's and I was looking for the right card to use it on.  I thought it would look really nice behind an aperture from one of the Grand Label dies.  I decided to use Grand Labels Eleven for the card.  Using a white inksentials pen from ranger, I did some faux stitching all the way around the edge of the aperture and the mat layer edges too.  I made two flowers using the Spiral blossoms one die. One flower was made from matching card and the other was made from black felt.  I like the different textures together as I think it adds more interest sometimes.  You can see the close up of the flowers below. 

I stamped the sentiment all in one line by cutting it out of the rubber set and mounting it on my block as a single line (it was originally designed as two lines).  I cut the ends of the strip into a forked V and adhered it to the card in a diagonal fashion.  I also gave it a bit of shape with a little bit of mounting foam under a section of it to raise it up.  Finally, I used the Fancy Foliage dies to add several different styles of leaves for my flowers.  Definitely love my teal tones, I hope you aren't tiring of them!  All for now, Sue x