A card for a seamstress

Today I have been at the Julie's Jems all-day training with some of my lovely Stampin' Up! family.

We had lots of fun making some fab projects, and we laughed a lot as well!

We love to do swaps, and here is my card.



I used the Sew Lovely stamp set. I know I keep saying everything is my favourite, but they really are! I think my WI ladies will also like this one!

The sewing machine is punched out with the new Decorative Label punch and I also used this for the outer frame - I just chopped the shapes in half and stuck them round the outside.



Remember that old hand sewing machine I bought? Well I used that to stitch down some of the yummy Seam Binding.



And at the bottom I added a button using the Sweet Buttons Embosslit made from the Sweet Stitches DSP.

Such a cute card I think!

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The WI and vintage finds

Mondays aren't all bad! Today has been pretty good fun so far and a lovely start to the week.

I was up at the West Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes this morning for the membership committee meeting. I am all for getting involved and it's great to be able to help the WI grow. As usual, I came away with several tasks, so I will be busy doing my bit!

And on the way back I called into the antique shop on Armley Town Street. I keep meaning to go in and I'm glad I finally managed to visit today.

I bought a few books ...



The two little ones are for me. I will hopefully alter them and use them in scrapping and card making projects. The motorbike one is for my good friends Hayley and Flower as a bribe to get them to help me restore this ...



Mini sewing machine! I just had to have it! It does work but needs a bit of cleaning up and some oil. I keep meaning to use real stitching on my cards and scrapbook pages but it is such a faff getting out my big proper sewing machine. So once this is up and running I have no excuse!

And to top it all off, the sun is shining! Lovely!

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