Spellbinders August Stitched Die of the Month

Hello friends! I am excited to share this month's stitched die of the month. It is a cute sailboat that would be similar to an origami fold. Of course no folding is done, but it looks that way and the sentiments coordinate with such a design.

Lets start with the background

• I used some of my pigment powders which are Procion Dye inks used to tie dying fabric to create it.
• I wanted to try something similar to the technique we use for alcohol inks, so I used a piece of watercolor paper and applied a lot of water to the bottom of the paper.
• While the water was pooled up on the paper I sprinkled some turquoise pigment powder and used my alcohol ink blower tool to move the water and pigment around.
• I continued this with a bit more water and a couple darker blues and blew the water and pigment up towards the top of the paper. Once I liked how it looked I set it aside to dry.

Once dried, I cut the panel with an arch die. Second from the largest.

Next the boat.

• I die cut white cardstock for all the main pieces and used white metallic dmc thread for all my stitching.
• For the flag banner, I tried a couple different colors, but landed on the white.
• For the sail and the flag I used Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass.
• For the heart in the center of the sail and the sentiment I used Gina K Designs Soft Stone. These 2 colors complement each other very well.
• For the sentiment I did pop it up with a foam strip.
• I used some double sided adhesive on the back of the waves and the arch panel to adhere down to the card base. And I used liquid glue on the back of the boat, the flag, the sail and on the two ends of the banner.