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

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

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

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