Stitched Mandala Pattern

Hello friends happy Monday to you all. We are on a school and office break for the Chinese new Year, so it feels like a weekend to me. Everyone will go back on next Monday to school and work.

I am sharing this card, which was made 3 days back, and as I don't really blog during weekends, it has been sitting.
I chose a Mandala pattern from printmandala, they offer free printable for coloring. I used fine tip pens for coloring, as the design has very fine line. After coloring I used a shaded yellow embroidery thread to add the stitches. For me piercing holes on this design was more of a work than stitching.
I used HLS - mix mash, circles to stamp the background using squeezed lemonade ink. I added the sentiment on a black strip using white ink.
Forgot to mention that I added some rhine stones for the bling on the mandala.

 The free printable mandala pattern

 This was after coloring , and piercing the holes, I clicked the picture of the back to show how many holes are there.

 Deciding the design elements

 After the stitching

 The dimension is great on the card, this picture is clicked after I assembled the card

  I hope you like this card, a lot of thinking went in here, and I wanted to highlight the mandala here so the background is kept simple. But since it is a Sun Mandala, I wanted to use yellow to show the sunshine.

I am linking this with:

ICR tic-tac-toe Febraury challenge

I had chosen stitching, sentiment and bling, and also the twist - Mandala.

Seize the Birthday
Playing with anything goes

HLS Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!