for Baby

I made this baby card for the Queen for the Day Challenge from last week!  Just getting the card made tonight!  You can come play along with the Queen for the Day Challenge here.

I paper pieced the duck (stamped on yellow and cut out and glued onto the white stamped image).
I used two types of patterned paper, both razzleberry and some wisteria twine to match the base color.
I can't believe I didn't even texture anything, although I did use my Big Shot for the Top Note piece.

Pieced and Pierced

 

I made this card for Creative Crew SU! challenges on Splitcoast.

 

One challenge was to use the soon-to-be-retired 2011 colors.  Focus on your least favorite.  My least favorite was Calypso Coral.

 

Also the challenge was to use piercing in a different way.  I pierced a heart behind my sentiment.

 

The snail and flowers are stamped and cut out (paper pieced) on white, limeade and coral.

I inked the zigzag embossing folder with brown ink before running the calypso coral paper through.

Fresh Congrats

This layout is from Freshly Made Sketches.

I want some more baby cards for my stash.  I decided to use Easy Events and the sentiment from Something to Celebrate.  The duck image is stamped 3 times, once as the base, once punched out in a circle and popped up and once on blue.  I cut out and paper pieced the hat and umbrella.

I chose the colors based on this piece of patterned paper and I wanted to add yellow to match the duck and my ribbon.

Birds for Sketch

I used this fabulous set for today's sketch.

This is also for the Twisted Tuesday Challenge - birthday + ribbon

I stamped the image on Sahara sand, then again on Island Indigo and Pool Party and cut out the birds to glue overtop.

I arranged the 3 colored panels in my embossing folder so that it would look like a continuous pattern.

PP and PP

Paper Piecing and Patterned Paper!

This layout is from Diva Coffee Break Designs.
I used a retired SU set "And Many Mower". It's my favorite set to paper piece! I used designer papers - To the Nines and Kraft. The whole golfer panel is popped up with Stampin Dimensionals.


I paper pieced the whole golfers outfit. How you do this?: Stamp the image on the piece of paper you want to be your main image (in this case Kraft). Stamp the same image on any other colors/patterns you want for part of the image (Kraft grid and chocolate chip). Cut out the parts of the image you want in a different color and glue to the main image (hat, shirt, shorts, shoes).

I also used a white gel pen to highlight the golf ball.

Hope you enjoy my Paper Piecing with Patterned Paper! Thanks for looking.

Abundance of techniques

Not sure what type of card fold this is called. It's very simple and easy to do. Maybe not as easy for the receipient to figure out?!

The above picture is the card closed. I thought the colors Not Quite Navy, Rose Red and Black looked really stunning together. Not sure if the Sahara Sand fits, or if it's just the dots I don't like. Anyways...


This shows the card with the flip up. That piece isn't glued, it's just attached with a brad. The rest of the card is glued shut, so the only opening you see is this little bit where I put the saying and flowers (in silver)


Here's the close up!

I did a few fun techniques with this card.
1) Faux Denim - just ink the paper directly with the ink pad. I really love how this looks with Not Quite Navy ink on paper.
2) Rock n Roll - The main image is actually 3 stamps put together, from the set Simply Said. The solid heart stamp I inked with Regal Rose and stamped off. Then I inked the edges again with the Rock N Roll technique and stamped.
3) Paper Piecing - I stamped the flower/heart stamp again and cut out two little flowers to glue on top of the original one.
4) Medallion - I used two different edge punches to punch all 4 sides of a 2-1/2" square and layered them. Fun look I think!
5) The card fold - whatever its called!

This is the second card my card club will be making at our next meeting. Thanks for looking!