Paper Piecing

Evening!

This afternoon I put together a thank-you card for one of my friends who cam to our rescue and looked after our children at short notice this evening as myself and my husband who never have a social life both had things to do this evening! I've been at our WI meeting and had a great time with a self defense lesson.

I had a go a paper piecing - I've been meaning to try it for a while and I wish I'd done it earlier - how fab is it?  I'm definitely going to do it again - it looks amazing.  As I mainly use digital images I wasn't to sure how to do it as all the tutorials I'd seen were for rubber stamping.  However the other day I saw this tutorial on the Card Crafter's Circle blog which explained how to do it with a digital image really simply.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Something New (New Technique!)
For Fun - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Spots and/or Stripes
Card Mad Fairy - Thank-you
Stamping For The Weekend - Out with the Old (It's all been lurking in my stash for a while!)

Thanks for Looking

Julie xx

Gift Tag

Another day - yet another thing I'm trying.

Just a quick one here to show you something little I've made for no reason other than to have a go a paper piecing. I've seen some beautiful examples people have done recently showcased on their blogs and I decided to have a go.  

This was my attempt and I mounted it onto a little gift tag:

I think the stamps were a bit small really to show this technique off properly, and the photo really only shows up the glitter I added to the cake toppings.  They are patterned - really they are! 

I also attemped some fake stiching round the edge of the stamp but that didn't work out too well really - I think I put the holes too close together.

I've got some bigger christmas stamps that might work well with this and possbily some fairies that may work - but would be a big faff to cut out!  Looks like I'll have to invest in some more stamps!

Thanks for reading! x