Faux Quilted Pumpkin
Faux Quilted Pumpkin Featured in my September Fresh Ideas Newsletter Just in time for Fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving Day projects! I’m not a seamstress or quilter, but I like the look of Faux Quilted Cards. This faux quilted pumpkin is easy to create using scraps of various card stocks and designer papers. It’s a great […]
Quilt Cards to Make-Oct Fresh Ideas-Fall Leaf Quilt Card
Quilt Cards to Make! Leaf Quilt Card for Fall I have said many times that I love working with fabric but don’t enjoy sewing. Although I have a sewing machine, it rarely gets used. I don’t quilt, but I appreciate the beauty and time it takes to create one. I discovered the Faux Quilting Technique […]
Quilt Cards to Make-Quilted Leaf Card for Fall
Quilt Cards to Make! Leaf Quilt Card for Fall I have said many times that I love working with fabric but don’t enjoy sewing. Although I have a sewing machine, it rarely gets used. I don’t quilt, but I appreciate the beauty and time it takes to create one. I discovered the Faux Quilting Technique […]
Faux Quilt Card using Pansy Petals
Faux Quilt Card Using Pansy Petals! I have said many times that I love working with fabric but don’t enjoy sewing. While I have a sewing machine, it rarely gets used. I don’t quilt, but I appreciate the beauty and time it takes to create one. Discovering the Faux Quilting Technique, using paper instead of […]
January Fresh Ideas Faux Quilting Technique-Come Fly With Me Quilting Pattern
January Fresh Ideas Faux Quilting Technique-Come Fly With Me Quilting Pattern Dandy Garden Faux Quilt Card-Come Fly With Me quilt pattern was my inspiration! I have said many times that I love working with fabric but don’t enjoy sewing. I have a sewing machine, but it rarely gets used. I don’t quilt, but I appreciate […]
Oct Fresh Card Making Idea-Bargello Faux Quilting Technique
Christmas Pines Bargello Faux Quilt Winter Woods in Green Bargello Faux Quilt Bargello Faux Quilting Technique Bargello are quilting patterns made up of strips of fabric. These strips of fabric are pieced together to create a sense of movement in the design. This technique translates well into paper-crafting. It’s a great way to use […]
Friend Pierced Hearts-Sunday Stamps Color Challenge #119
Love the colors for the current Sunday Stamps color challenge! Here’s my contribution: This card came together pretty easy. I was going through some of my retired designer series paper in an effort to clean things up a little and found a packet of Season of Style from a Christmas or two ago. The paper […]
Stencil Cut Flower Patch Cards
I recently made up a bunch of thank you cards using the Big Shot and Flower Fair framelits. I cut out the flower and stem on Whisper White card stock using the framelits and then slipped different patterned designer paper underneath. I layered the stencil pieces to coordinating card bases and stamped a simple “thanks”. […]
Faux Quilting Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day from Me to You! Supplies Used: Stamp Sets: Good Greetings Ink: Strawberry Slush Paper: Smoky Slate, Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush, Basic Gray, Confetti Creations Designer Series Paper Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Hearts Framelits, Dimensionals
Folded Star-Nacho Average Color Challenge #128
We have a soft color palette for this week’s Nacho Average color challenge: Blushing Bridge, Pink Pirouette and Smoky Slate. Here’s my contribution: For this card I used the Folded Star Technique using Smoky Slate card stock and Designer Series Paper and Pink Pirouette Designer Series Paper built on a piece of 3 3/4″ x […]
Paper-Pieced Sleeping Cat-Nacho Average Color Challenge #114
Paper-Pieced Sleeping Cat-Nacho Average Color Challenge #114 We have a soft and subtle color challenge this week over at the Nacho Average site: Baked Brown Sugar, Pool Party, and Very Vanilla Here’s my contribution: I’ve been in an Iris Folding frame of mind lately. I came across this fun sleeping cat pattern by Maureen Sparrow […]
Use up those Paper Scraps-Recycle and Reuse!
Use up those Paper Scraps-Recycle and Reuse! If you are a paper crafter, then I can guarantee you have a collection of paper scraps! The size of your collection depends on how picky you are. Me, I can’t bear to throw any paper away. That can lead to serious storage problems as your paper bins, […]
Mom Paper Pierced Cross Stitch
One of our Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew challenges this month was to showcase paper piercing. I decided to combine paper piercing with cross stitch embroidery. The two go hand in hand! Outside of the card: Inside of the card: Supplies Used: Ink: Pink Pirouette Paper: Very Vanilla, Island Indigo, Tea for Two Designer Series Paper Accessories: […]
Paper Pierced Cross Stitch
One of our Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew challenges this month was to showcase paper piercing. I decided to combine paper piercing with cross-stitch embroidery. The two go hand in hand! Inside of card: Since I didn’t feel comfortable free-handing the “Mom” cross stitch pattern for this card, I did a quick internet search and found www.bettercrossstitchpatterns.com, […]
Leaf Block Faux Quilting-CASology Leaf Challenge
Just in time for autumn, this week’s CASology challenge is “Leaf”. CAS stands for “clean and simple” and is my kind of stamping! I’d also like to submit this card to Patrice’s 52 Card Pickup request over at The Old Back Porch. One of my all-time favorite techniques is faux quilting. I immediately thought […]