Celebrating my pretty July garden with Paige’s Butterfly Wreath cut file and several lovely collections.
Can you spot Blooming Wild, Garden Shoppe, Splendid and Bloom Street? I always love mixing Paige’s collections together to make my projects unique. I hope you’re enjoying these summer days. While the heat has been too much for me here, my garden is blooming beautiful.
I cut Paige’s Butterfly Wreath from white AC Cardstock. All the backing pieces where planned in the Silhouette Studio. Watch the first part of this video to learn how.
After paper backing, I used a combination of the chain-stitch and straight-stitch on the entire cut file, always stitching with four strands of DMC Floss. Why only four? Because, some of the spaces are very small and I didn’t want to entirely cover up the paper. It took about 20 hours.
Before adding the stitched wreath to the background, I cut the cardstock down to 11.5 inches square and matted it on Blooming Wild Paper 3, then added a running-stitch all around. I struggled at picking a colour of DMC Floss, so I took two strands from each of the four colours I used to stitch the wreath and mixed them together. It turned out so pretty and chunky, kind of an opal colour.
To finish the background, I stencilled a brick pattern in the corners using Distress Oxide Inks. I made my own stencil and offer it free for your own personal use. Click here to download it! It downloads an 8×8 inch stencil, you can up-size or minimize it to work on your own pretty projects. If you’d like the .SVG version, email me at Kellymadeit.wordpress@gmail.com and I’ll be happy to send it along (unfortunately, I can’t upload an .SVG to WordPress).
Floral Die Cuts, from the Garden Shoppe collection emphasize the diagonal format. A couple of Garden Shoppe Cardstock Stickers provided a sub-title. The paper tags on my photos hold my title, ‘OH MY’, spelt out with Thickers from Paige’s Bloom Street collection.
What colours do you love in your garden? This year, I went with Pink, white and yellow. Oh my, it looks so pretty.
Kelly Made It 
That is beautiful, Kelly! I love all colors in the garden, but especially the reds, golds and orange shades in summer, blue and white and purple in spring.
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Hello lovely Lavinia! Your garden has always been so abundant. Hope this summer was no exception! We’ve had a bit of a wild year. It rained all June, then got very smokey for the first part of July followed by unbearable heat. Just now, I find it pleasant. The days will get cooler, then winter again. Winter might become my favourite season if this year is on repeat.
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