"let it snow" card by lauren bergold

here's a card i thought was DONE before i added the stitching. it had the sage green panel with a border of the fabulously nubbly "lost and found" trim. it had the strips of prima and echo park patterned paper and my computer-generated sentiment. it even had the fun layered die-cut snowflake surmounted by a prima flower. it looked *good* ...and yet...somehow... i didn't love it.

i set it aside and came back the next day. i used a scrap of green to try out a few background treatments. stamping? not quite right. spray ink? nope. bit of stenciling? uh-uh. finally it hit me: i would hand-stitch a flourishy swirl, as if a little gust of wind had just blown the snowflake onto my card. one hand-stitched swirl. (just ONE!)

half an hour later i was still at the sewing machine, swirling and flourishing... flourishing and swirling... and my little gust of wind had somehow become an arctic gale. but *NOW* i love the card!!!

Kirsty's note -

Wonderful card with beautiful stitching! Another lovely creation using Pixie Dust Papeire's November Kit "Snow Shoe"!

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