Saturday, 4 January 2025

Best Wishes to You

I made this card for a friend's birthday using a preloved stamp I've recently bought as it's perfect for paper pieceing.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Woodware 'Bold Blooms - Vivian' stamp
     Versafine Onyx Black ink
     Lili of the Valley 'Heartfelt' paper
     Snippet of white matt card

I put a piece of white matt card into my MISTI and stamped the flower onto it before setting it aside.  So I could ensure the leaves (which are separate stamps) were in the right place, I cut a scrap of paper to the same size as the white card and stamped the flower again and then stamped the leaves.  When I was happy the leaves were in the right position I removed the scrap of paper and replaced the card into my MISTI to stamp the leaves.  The panel was trimmed, layered onto green paper and attached to the card blank.  I stamped the flowers onto a snippet of pink paper and the leaves onto a snippet of green paper.  These were fussy cut and paper pieced onto the card.  I stamped the sentiment onto a small snippet of white card, stamping a couple of times to get a good depth of colour.  This was trimmed and attached to the card with foam tape.  

I am entering the following challenges:
     Allsorts - Anything Goes
     Ally's Angels - Anything Goes
     Krafty Chicks Challenge - Birthday
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - Something New (my new Woodware stamp)
     Triple B Challenge - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies (I have chosen Blooms)

Kath x

10 comments:

Sarn said...

A great pre-loved stamp purchase, which, like you say, is perfect for paper piecing. It's a lovely card. xxx

Liz said...

Beautiful card Kath, great paper piecing.
Liz xx

crafty-stamper said...

Beautiful card and stamp-perfectly paper pieced.
Carol x
Thank you for joining us at Love to Craft.
Carol DT x

Ellibelle said...

The large petals and leaves really make it perfect for paper piecing and you made a gorgeous card with it! Thanks so much for sharing at Allsorts challenge!

Pat said...

That's a wonderful bold bloom using this new to you pre-loved stamp Kath, and love the papers you chose to use for the paper piecing and love the coordinating green matted layer and sentiment strip you added...a beautiful card. x

brenda said...

It's a lovely clean cut image Kath and certainly does lend itself to paper piecing, many thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge.

B x

Diane said...

A beautiful floral card, what a fun image!!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Triple B!
Diane TB Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Triple B}

Darlene said...

Oh WOW! So, so pretty! Fabulous design & paper piecing!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Simply Clean & Simple and Triple B challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Simply Clean & Simple Co-Owner
Triple B Co-Owner

Linby said...

Beautiful paper piecing on this lovely CAS design. Thanks for joining us at Allsorts.

Elaine aka Ellapu said...

Wow this is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing over at Simply Clean and Simple this month, hope to see you in future challenges.
Elaine DT

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