Inspired by {Ethan Allen}

 This week Kia is sharing the Ethan Allen site for inspiration. And I seen this Hem stitched table runner and I kept coming back to it. What I thought was interesting was the shade of blue. Some how I tend to lean away from Blue things in card making. I have no real reason why and the hem stitched linens I own are all white so, I thought why not.

 So I cut the layer with the Spellbinders hem stitched rectangle die from some thin blue cardstock and it ends up being slightly under A2 in real life. The other colors that caught my eye in those photos were the brown table, the white dishes and that there was a pine sprig on the plates so, I seen it as "Christmas" and blue for Christmas is also something I don't do much of so, I had this previously embossed piece of printed wood grain paper and thought OK. so I used the next size down rectangle in the Hemstitched die set to make it fit inside the stitching layer. I was messing around with the idea of adding sprigs to this some how because of the sprigs on the plates but, ultimately discarded them.

The ribbon here is from the Stamp Simply Site. The Photo corners here are from the Frantic Stamper Chevron Dies. The sentiment die is from Penny Black and I did cut three layers of it so that it would pop better on that brown background. The matelasse embossing folder here is from Anna Griffin. I did use a white gel pen on some of the clusters of dots in the embossed panel and then over the top of the white with a stardream sparkle pen over the top of that and in a few little spots of the sentiment diecut as well. 

I keep thinking maybe I should work the springs in for one more white space maybe some how dangling under or tied on to that knot of ribbon but, so far this is how it looks when I stopped.  I do not know who makes this blue cardstock but, the cream here is from Simon Says Stamp. I don't remember who makes that wood grain print but, its double sided and it has a black and cream sheet music print on the flip side of it. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.