Sugar Creek Hollow - Fabric Challenge

It's Saturday and time for another challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week our challenge is to use fabric on your card other than ribbon. This is a fun challenge - there are so many beautiful fabrics out there and they add texture and a rich feel to a card. Here I've used three different fabrics but they all coordinate wonderfully into a pink and blue Valentines theme.

Even the flower embellishment is made of fabric and of course the felt hearts sort of qualify as fabric too.  The medallion image is a new one at Sugar Creek Hollow - just released this week for Valentines Day. Actually for any day - this would be a perfect anniversary image or even for Mother's Day this spring. 

I colored the digi blue in my photo editing software and printed two copies. I cut out the center circle of one and sponged it with pink ink and mounted it with foam tape on top of the second printed image for dimension.

The best way to use fabric on a card is to apply iron-on interfacing (the stiffer kind) to the wrong side of the fabric first before you cut it out with scissors (here I used pinking shears on the background and blue/white side panel) or try to use a die cut (here a Nestie Label 17 was used with the floral fabric). From there you work with it like any cardstock really. It's that simple and yields a wonderful look.

Did you know that 100% of the proceeds from the sale of Sugar Creek Hollow digi stamps goes to charity?

Now it's time for you to try fabric and enter our Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week. Everyone is invited to enter a card challenge. You are not required to use an image from Sugar Creek Hollow, but if you do, you will get two entries into the random prize draw. (There are lots of freebies at the Sugar Creek Hollow Shoppe) The winner of that draw will receive a digi of their choice from the Sugar Creek Hollow Shoppe and a badge to display on their blog. Once we reach a minimum of 10 entries, the Design Team will select a Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a special badge to display on their blog. Every month there will be a Guest Designer chosen from the Cards of the Week and that person will be invited to join the Design Team in a challenge. There are lots of reasons to play in our challenges so we can't wait to see your fabulous fabric creations this week!

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team fabric inspirations at the Sugar Creek Hollow blog and leave a little love along the way.  Thanks for stopping by!

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges (What fun!):
Southern Girls Challenge - "Totally Loved Up" theme
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - "Love is in the Air" theme
One Crazy Stamper - "Love" theme
Scrap-Creations - "Love is in the Air" theme

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 86

It's been a couple months since I've played in the Midnight Madness sketch challenge and I'm finally back at it again this week. I've loved Priscilla's sketches and it feels good to be playing in her team's challenge again.

Here's this week's sketch - isn't it fun?! I thought so too and decided to use one of the new Valentine digi stamps over at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This birdhouse image is beautiful and has just been released by SCH and it fit the shape of a tag perfectly.

If you look closely you'll see that I've used fabric as the background panel.

This darling birdhouse was colored using Copics and embellished with a glitter gel pen around the heart and the vines.

Thanks for a great sketch this week Priscilla.  And I welcome back the MMSC DT to my blog!  It's been way too long and I've missed you all!  Thanks for stopping by!

I'm also entering this card in the Scrapbook Sisters card challenge #18 - "Hearts Desire" is theme of the challenge this week - fun one too! I welcome that design team to my blog as well - hope you visit often!