Crafty Animal: Paper Piecing

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Japanese Lady

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 132
Q is for Quartz colour palette

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :) do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

For my DT creation I have used JAPANESE LADY B/W and I coloured her with Copic markers. The backing paper is plain pink paper which I stamped and then heat embossed the fan design. I am so cross with myself as the sentiment looks squiff - trying to be so careful to have everything lined up and I must have blinked and I can't do anything about it other than add a sentiment tag layer on top.

Ingredients:-

image - JAPANESE LADY B/W by IKEsART
colouring medium - Copics
other items - fan stamp, gold stamp pad, clear embossing powder.

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Floral Birthday

International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :). Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #31
Paper Piecing

This fortnights challenge them has been chosen by DT Maggie. I know paper piecing has been around for ages but it is something I have never tried before so thank you Maggie for this awesome challenge theme, I had a ball. I guess the reason I have not done it before is due to lack of stamps (I have a huge collection of digital but only recently started using rubber and cling more often). I know our lovely printed craft paper can be used in the printer but I find is a nuisance to have to use a new sheet each time and I hate that lol so don't do it hahaha.

For my easel card I used a fusion stamp by Sheena Douglas which I thought would look really cool for paper piecing. The stamp is Folk Chrysanthemum Stamp. 2 types of purple patterned paper were use and one patterned green paper. The background was created simply with distress inks and the same was used for the writing area on the card. To finish off I added 3 mauve crystal gems and then decorated the envelope to match.

Close up of the paper pieced flowers.

I have some lovely Birthday ribbon in cream and it holds the Promarker ink wonderfully retaining the text in a different tone. I coloured the ribbon with a suitable green and added it to the inside of the card to help reinforce the height to hold the card shape when opened.

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (M, P1) April - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
Paru's Card Making Challenge (M, P1, Cards/Tags only) April - Flowers
Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #201 Happy Birthday (W1 of 2)
Paper Shelter Challenge - W, 3E, SIO - Flowers

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Skelly Cup

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 32
Paper Piecing

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :) do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, just remember, you must use and IKEsART image to be eligible for the prize. Why not pop on over to the store too :), Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

For this fortnights inspiration I used the awesome new digi 'Skelly Cup' which Ike designed for me to use :) Thanks Ike, you are a superstar. I do love these tea bag boxes and this digi was just perfect. So here we go on what I did.

I seem to have deleted the first few pics off my camera but I started with cutting the template for my box. I then printed the image 4 times for the paper piecing. The first layer was the whole image as usual, second layer the saucer and cup, third layer just the cup and the top layer was the front section of the saucer.

Next I cut the front, back and side panel toppers and stamped these then embossed them with Silver Dollar embossing powder. I also did the same with the handle section of the box.

The silver was way to bright, I thought I had Gun Metal embossing powder but alas not. To get around the problem I airbrushed the embossed areas with my black Promarker. The image is showing this as a bit rusty but in real life it is more a metallic black.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and then used a die for the bottom section. The sentiment just came to me as I was about to print, I did have something else in mind but my fingers did the typing and they came up with 'Time for a Brew' hahahaha. Both the label and the image background were then distressed with black chalk.

Here you can see the paper piecing, I used 3D glue dots as I did not want to much of a gap between the layers.

To finish off these sections I use Black mica (Frantage) and some super strong sticky glue to attache the bits.

The panels, image and sentiment were glued to the box and tea bags added :). Three buttons were added to the right hand side just to help balance out the front view of the completed project.

Front view of the tea bag Skelly Cup box