It's a couple days late but here you go. This month Tina and I are hosting our SBS22 Blog Hop Challenge. So we are to post a challenge on the first of the month for our fellow blogging sisters...at the end of the month you can pop around and visit their blogs to see all the awesome creations. If you'd like to play along feel free, the more the merrier.
So for my challenge - I challenge you to make a card with Paper Piecing, now if your not sure how to do it I've taken some pictures of my card as I was making it to give you the general idea. Paper piecing works best with images that have large open spaces, if not you will have to be really good with the scissors :-)
So you stamp your image on white paper and patterned paper.
Cut out the pieces that you want to be from the patterned paper. It is best to cut as close to the lines as possible.
On the white image you colour in any sections that are going to be left original. In this one I am paper piecing the hat and cape. I realized when I was putting the paper piecing on that I forgot to colour her tail and hair, hehe.
Then you can glue your patterned pieces to the coloured image. I recomend a glue pen and applying the glue to the white image first. I opted to cut out the whole image after and apply to my card with pop dots.I also paper pieced the cauldron with the same patterned paper. All images are from the SU set Haunting Halloween. Except for the little spider which is from Studio G.
Come play along.
Edited - I just thought of so much more to add. Like the inside of the card to complete the saying and I have a close up of the cauldron. I added crystal effects to the bubbling potion.
Happy Stamping!
Sarah
Sarah
It is getting pretty cold out her in Southwestern Ontario. We actually had to turn the heat on tonight. I kinda like it because I like to bundle up in a nice sweater or even cuddle on the couch with a warm fuzzy blanket. Hope everyone is keeping warm.
Okay so the first one is a large coaster with a To Do list that hangs on the wall. The coaster is an odd size (around 5 3/4 or something like that). I took some green cardstock and wrapped around. It isn't glued down in the front so that when your paper pad is empty you can just slip it out and slip in a new one (oh yah, I'm smart!). I added in a cute little saying from SU, some Prima flowers and a pearl brad from K & Company. The little pageant girl is coloured in with my prismacolour markers and the crown has some added glitter with a Sakura Gel pen.
And the second part is a little stand up calendar. It is made with two 4" coasters covered with paper and hinged with some cardstock. Once you get the calendar on there isn't much room to play around so I just added the flowers and pearl brad to keep the theme going.
The blue paper is from Magnolia and the green cardstock is Bazil Bling. They matched really good with the calendar.
The first card I have for you is a great ExpectaFellaBella card. I absolutely love the way this card turned out. I had coloured the image ahead of time with no idea what the card would look like. The background paper is from my recent trip to Hobby Lobby, my mom and I bought 4 12x12 paper stacks that were all awesome glitter paper (unfortunately I can't remember the brand and my mom got the packaging that gives the deets). The turquoise and green stripes are full of glitter and it looks so awesome. The pink swirl on the side is from making memories and is an acetate accent, on top of that is a prima flower and a rhinestone brad. The saying is from SU.
Next is this super cute Pirate card from High Hopes. The only thing I have to say is that I really need some pirate-y sayings. The images were coloured in with my prismacolour markers and the sails and shirt of the pirate are masked and sponged with SU inks. Oh and the water too!
Can't wait to colour some up and make some awesome cards.
Sorry there was no post yesterday, I was until 1am sorting out Bella's for an image swap that I am hosting on SCS. There were 6 groups of 10 ladies, and each person had to stamp 22 of their chosen image. So all together there were 1,320 Bella's to organize, repackage and send out in the mail :-)
PS - Bella loves the Bellas - the ladies in my swap were very lucky to get them back, I had to fight with the wild cat to get mine back, lol.
Don't you all want I-Wish-I-Could-Look-so-Good-on-a-Bikeabella!!
You can see the little white spot in the bottom left hand corner, that would be where the paper is torn, lol. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have something much nicer to show you.
I chose Sketch #22 from Katharina's blog as I've always wanted to make a card with a layer that is a circle (in this case scallop). I had purchased these large scallops from my local stamp store and didn't know what to do with them, just really liked them. Usually how most of my supplies end up in my craft room, lol. I decided to accent the card with my fav irridescent flowers from Creative Impressions. And of course the image is coloured with my Prismacolour markers, I'd have to say that they are my number one colouring tool :-)
