love and congratulations, amy and tim

My niece Amy and her husband, Tim, are expecting their first baby together. This was such exciting and hopeful news to receive and I wanted to send love and congratulations to the parents- and grandparents-to-be. To Tom and Mary Ellen, my brother and sister-in-law, I sent the card that I had made for the PTI July blog hop. I love that card (Are you allowed to admit that?) and thought it would be perfect for this occasion. I made a new card for Amy and Tim.

Back in May 2011, Melissa Philips wrote a post on love mail and shared some photo inspiration, including this envelope:

After visiting HensTeeth, I knew that I wanted to try adding some stitched flowers to a card. A year plus later, I’ve actually done so, though in a much different color palette than those I had remembered since the card needed to be gender neutral. The flowers are very sweet and work well with the Summer Fresh papers, but I do want to try this in the girlie colors that Viv uses in her Etsy shop.

For the stitched details, I am entering this into the Moxie Fab World stitching and sewing challenge.

nancy

supplies:

paper:  rustic cream c/s (PTI); Summer Fresh (Simple Stories)

stamps:  Mat Stack 2 Collection (PTI)

ink: onyx black (VersaFine)

dies and punches:  classic hearts (Spellbinders)

extras:  muslin (Jo-Ann Fabric); Nordic Holiday and Oxford glazed brads (Basic Grey); floss 304, 744, 800, 930, 963, and 3052 (DMC)