Tutorial Tuesday: Paper Piecing

I’m quite excited about today’s tutorial.  My inspiration was drawn from Scrappassion’s awesome bookmark.  This looks like a lot of work, but you will be surprised how quickly it goes together.  I decided to do 8 bookmarks, so I cut, stamped, and sewed eight booksmarks at a time.  Odd Bird Planet has so many owls.  In fact, OBP was one of the first to produce the ever-so-popular owl stamps.  With 83 owls in stock, you’re sure to find something in your style.  Even if you do not have owls on hand, this technique is something that could be used many other ways.

Supplies:

Stamps, ink, leaf punch, circle punch (not in photo), eyelit and fibre

Stamp your image onto at least three different pattern and three different plain coloured cardstock.

Cut three sizes of paper:

2 1/4″ x 5  3/4″

2″ x 5 1/2″

1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″

On the back of your paper, run adhesive down the centre.   To prevent adhesive from gunking up your sewing machine, stay away from the edges of the paper as shown above.  If you do not want to sew your bookmark, then adhere the paper edges solidly.

Layer the paper.

Take two layers of scrap paper and place them back-to-back.

At this stage, you want to sew across the paper to see if your tension and line stitch is acceptable.  Remember, sewing on paper is a little different than sewing on material.

Once your tension is acceptable, sew around the edges of your paper.

Cut out various pieces of your stamped image and piece paper as shown above.

Punch and cut out embellishments.  Note how the moon has been sponge to add depth.  The branches were hand drawn.  It is easier than you think.

Once your bookmark is put together, the last step is to punch a hole, add an eye, and fibre.

Have fun with your bookmark.

BOOKMARK INSPIRATION

Felt bookmarks

Adorable paper bookmarks

Rubber stamped bookmarks

Handmade card and bookmark

Kimona bookmarks

Stamp’n Up bookmark

Martha’s hillarious bunny bookmarks

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Up For a Challenge?

Good Monday morning!  Did you have a nice weekend?

To help you out with inspiration jump-starting, I added many challenge sites.  Included in these are card sites, Cuttlebug site and even a Cricut site.

Have a great day.  Don’t forget to come back for Tutorial Tuesday tomorrow.

Stamp:  Rachelle Anne Miller; Ink:  Tombow markers and Twinkling H2O’s; Embellishments:  metal snowflake brads

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Faux Altered Designer Paper

I love the faux altered designer paper technique featured in this month’s issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.   I created a strong contrast by creating a soft and elegant background with a bold and outrageous flower.  Now that I am seeing this card on my blog, I realize I should have toned down the Pixie Pink flower.  But then again, would it really be “me.”  Those who follow my blog know the brighter the better.  A little eccentric like me

Designer Paper:  Basic Grey; Flower Stamp:  Bella Blossoms; Sentiment:  Stamp’n Up

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Technique Tuesday Follower

Beth Ullman is a good friend and regular visitor of my blog.  She completes challenges all around blogland, and creates many, many cards using different techniques.  Beth recently made two fabulous cards using my Adirondack Color Wash background and Paper flowers technique tutorials.  Don’t those flowers look real?  I’m sure you are anxious to see them, so here they are:

Adirondack Color Wash

Paper Flower

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Technique Junkie Sneak Peak

Yes, it’s that time once again to tease you with upcoming techniques from the soon-to-be-released Technique Junkie Newsletter.  This is just one of the cards that I made using the faux designer paper technique. Having fun with this card, I hand cross-stitched around the edges of the designer paper.  Not a subscriber?  Contact Pat and she will be happy to get you started on the issues.  With your subscription you receive a password to view the photo step-by-step tutorials, and you will have access to the Yahoo group where there are more great cards posted for inspiration.  There are 4000 subscribers.  Why not make it 4001?

Stamps:  Fabulous Flowers; Designer Paper and yellow paper:  Basic Grey’s Sultry

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Tutorial Tuesday: Paper Flowers

Prima flowers are all the rage these days as my sister discovered after viewing other bloggers.  I bring this up because she thought I could ‘lose the flowers’ on one or two of my cards.  Quietly I said, “no way!”  But now, Cathie is on the band wagon and likes flowers since seeing them on other blogger’s cards.  In honour of my sister’s love for flowers, I created this tutorial to make paper flowers.  If you are like me, you have loads of unused flower stamps.  Today we will layer and ink stamped images to create a hip and modern look.

I also wanted to incorporate Odd Bird Planet, so I used one of my favourite stamps that simply states, “Believe.”

Supplies:  Flower stamps and sponge

Stamp out your image three times.

Cut out the flowers and ink the edges with a coordinating colour.

Ink up all three flowers.  Ink some of the petals, not just the edges.

With a pair of scissors, curl the flower petals.  I curled two downwards and one upwards.

Layer flower with pop dots.  Place a brad into the center.

Stamp and cut out three large flowers and one small flower.  The small flower will be for the center so use a different colour than your three larger flowers.

Ink all the edges in coordinating ink.  Rub some colour onto the flower petals, not just the edges.

With a white pen, create dots on your petals and/or flower edge.

Layer flowers with pop dots.

Now you have pretty little layers.  Finish off your project by adding stamped or punched leaves.  Add a sentiment to your project as well.

PAPER FLOWER LINKS

Paper flowers made with punches

Paper flower headwear

Scrappy Habit’s punch tutorial

A Wild Flower Melody of Flowers

Paper Flower Covered Eggs

Cupcake Flowers

Potato Stamp Flower Tutorial

Paper Rose Tutorial

Grunge Paper Dahlia

Accordian Fold Flower Tutorial

Rose Tutorial

Martha Stewart’s Large Flowers

Martha’s Blue Pom Pom Flowers

Stamps:  Odd Bird Planet, Autumn Leaves, Cornish Heritage Farms; Paper, unknown source; White pen:  Sukura; Frame:  Stamp’n Up new die cut.

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I’m a $250 Winner

Good morning.  Are you having a nice weekend?  I am!  Before I went to bed last night I checked my e-mail and found out that I was the winner of a $250 blog candy prize package.  Remember the Odd Bird Planet cards I made to donate to Never Enough Rubber Stamps (they are being distributed to the elderly to cheer up their day)?  Those cards helped me win the prize package.  Needless to say, I am so excited.  See that flower stamp on the bottom left?  I’ve been wanting a stamp like that forever.  Stay tuned for a tutorial using that stamp.

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Kitchen Reno

BEFORE

AFTER………….

This pub height set is now where the kitchen sink was as seen in the top photo.  I got to pick the table bottom, top, metal colour, wood stain and fabric.

Here is where the wall was knocked down

AFTER……

I found the dangling lights in the green and blue over in Michigan.  Gotta love border shopping!

See the fish tank?  Donnie’s boys just bought him a salt water tank for his birthday and I’m so excited–we’re getting sea horses.  How cool is that?!

The poppy painting is something I painted about four years ago.

We just couldn’t resist.  Are these chairs me or what?!

Whew, that was a long eight weeks.

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You Make Me Smile

Lots of layers on today’s card.   Inkadinkado has lots of cute kid sayings.  You can’t help but smile in your heart when you read them.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Tutorial Tuesday: Adirondack Color Wash ATC Background

This week’s tutorial uses Adirondack’s Colour Washes.  I thought it was time to give you a background technique to use on your cards and ATC’s, so I played around and came up with this background.   You can get similar results by using alcohol ink refills, but Adirondack Color Washes  will give you a brighter, more vibrant, background.  I think you will agree that the results are very pretty.

Supplies:  Adirondack Color Wash is a variety of shades

Glossy cardstock

Cottonballs

Dab colour wash onto a cotton ball.  Pretend this is the purple I used in the photo below.  Long story

Rub colour on 8 1/2 x 11 glossy cardstock.

Continue adding colour.

Continuing adding more colour.

When you add colour to your glossy cardstock, you will notice that colours will appear different when overlapped with another colour.  This adds interest to your background.  Keep playing until you are satisfied.

Cut 2 1/2 inch strips and emboss gold images over stop of the 2 1/2 inch strips. Next, cut the strips into 3 1/2 inch lengths.  ATC’s are 2 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches.

Each ATC has a unique background.  Just like snowflakes–no two are alike.

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