Quilting a background

Hi everyone, hope you had a great 4th.  I love this time of year, the weather is perfect, the days are long and life is a bit more relaxed.  We stayed home, had a barbecue and watched our neighbors shoot off some pretty impressive fireworks.  All in all a very nice, relaxing time.

This week we were challenged to create a patchwork background on our cards with real or faux sewing stitches, this is what I came up with:

From 2010-07-05

The stamp is from Elisabeth Bell (Sampler 4), and I absolutely LOVE the image!  To make the background I cut out two inch square pieces of paper from the Basic Grey "Green at Heart" collection, glued them onto cardstock, then covered the pieces with a very thin layer of  modge podge  .  I then used a tool for tracing when you are sewing to get some holes in the background, then used  a dimensional gel pen to make the "stitches."

The image is colored with copics, and the dimensional gel pens.  I used the Viva Decor Transparent pen to make the centers of the flowers, then covered with glitter.

Hope you like the card today : )  Have a fantastic week, and see you next Tuesday.