Challenge Entry: You're Fabulous Stiletto Card

My take on the latest sketch over at The Sweetest Thing.

Zoom in on the embellishment details.

Cardstock: American Crafts
Patterned Paper: Echo Park
Rhinestone: Zva Creative
Stamped Sentiment: Hero Arts
Punches: EK Success, Daiso
Ribbon: American Crafts

Here's the sketch.




This may also fit the challenges at 365 cards. My second entry for...
1. Day 229 - So Sophisticated
2. Day 228 - Absolutely Fabulous

And a third entry to Craft Your Passion's All Occasion Card challenge.

And a second entry to Tuesday Throwdown's Think Pink challenge.

LO Project: Birthday Cards Overload

Inspired by many July birthday celebrators in my circle, I quickly put together these two pretty birthday greeting cards.

Pink Birthday Greeting Card
Embellished with a paper-pieced 3 tiered cake.

Green Birthday Greeting Card

More cards to come so please watch this space. :)

LO Project: New Cards with Paper Piecings

Remember my paper pieced hot-air balloon project? 

I have finally used it on a Bon Voyage themed card.  Here it goes. :)

And for the paper-pieced sofa, here is what I came up with.  A New Home themed card.

LO Project: Paper Pieced Sofa

Here's another paper piecing project I worked on recently - a sofa.  It can be used for a "New Home" card, or as an embellishment on a scrapbook page.

1 - It starts off as a sketch which I grabbed from a crafting magazine.  I printed out 2 copies of the image on a white cardstock which will become my templates.  I prefer printing them out on cardstock so I can store and reuse them in other projects later on.

2 - Cut out the essential components from the printed out image.  For this project, I just need the body of the sofa, one circle, and one rectangle with the rounded corners. 

  

3 - Trace the template cutouts on the back of a patterned paper. For this project, I used a page from Prima's Reflections Paper Stack set. Trace out two circles and three of the rectangles. Cut out the pieces.  Ink the edges of each piece.

4 - Put the cut out parts together as in the original sketch.  I used foam tape to adhere the pieces to the sofa body to achieve a 3-D effect.

Presenting, the finished product! :)

 

Acknowledgment:
     Sofa sketch from the Paper Crafts Inspiration magazine February 2011 issue

LO Project: Paper Pieced Hot Air Balloon

I learned a new paper crafting technique, and I've been addicted to it the past few weeks.  It's paper piecing!

Basically, this technique involves cutting pieces out from a design and layering them onto paper.  Paper pieced designs can be used on cards and scrapbooking projects to add more dimensions into them.

Well, I have done a few pieces from patterns I have downloaded for free on the internet and used them to embellish cards and envelopes.  Here they are. :)

Baby Boy Booties

Baby Girl Onesie

But this latest one I did I am really proud of. I think I outdid myself.  Really. :)

I looked up printable coloring pages on Google, then picked out a simple image of a hot air balloon.  And made a paper piecing pattern out of it. Cool, right?

Here's the original coloring page (Sorry I forgot to note of the web link I downloaded the page from).  And beside it is my paper pieced version.

Yes, those are actually strings! :)

I have yet to decide where to use it on.  But most likely, I'll put in on a card.  Maybe a "Bon Voyage" themed one.  What do you think?