I can't blieve we're bidding an official goodbye to the catalogue today. I am really excited to introducde the new catalogue, but there's always a little twinge of sadness to see some of my favorite products go.
One of them is the cute Neighborhood wheel, which I used on my card today. The PPA blog is celebrating its 100th challenge today and they are challenging us to use one of our favorite technique, so I selected paper piecing. It's a great way to add colour or texture to an image. Paper piecing the house involved a LOT of cutting and let me tell you, those details on the house are small! But wouldn't you agree that it was totally worth it? I think the house turned out so cute.
I was trying to think of a patterned paper that would work well with the house theme and I kept thinking a brick pattern would be cool. I don't really have anything quite like that but then I remembered the diamond pattern in the Presto Patterns paper pack and got this idea that I could use my markers to color each of the squares individually! This turned out to be another time-consuming idea, but seriously, how cool does that look!! As I was looking at the finished piece, I kept thinking it'd look cool with a clown or circus theme as well. Another idea for another day...
Then as I was looking at my sentiment binder to find something fitting, I decided on one from the retired set Pour l'amitié because I could paper piece the bubble to tie it to the rest of the card.
Two pieces of ribbon, three brads, the Teahouse background stamp, the scallop ribbon punch and some stitching finished the card off.
I hope you like it! The new catalogue will be launching tomorrow - keep your eyes peeled for it!
Retiring items:
- Neighborhood wheel
- Teahouse background stamp
- Presto Patterns Designer papers
Stampin' Up! Supplies
Stamps: Neighborhood wheel, Teahouse, Pour l'amitié
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red, Tango Tangerine,
Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White
Designer papers: Presto Patterns, Greenhouse Gala
Inks: Early Esppresso
Punches: Scallop Ribbon, Wide Oval, Scallop Oval
Accessories: Ribbons (blue grosgrain, riding hood red taffeta), brads, Markers,
Stampin' Dimensionals, white gel pen, needlework floss
So sweet! Love the highlighted house - and yes the squares do look cool :)
Posted by: Linda Callahan | June 30, 2011 at 16:50
Cindy this is such a cool card. I absolutely love it, and thinking back to others I've seen with this wheel, it's probably the best card of it's type. Did you colour the house elements or clouds or "paper piece them".......... from the picture they look like paper piecing, and very well done at that. I also love the border punch with the stitching and the 3 color matching brads......a WOW card for sure!
Posted by: Penny Hanuszak | July 03, 2011 at 11:27
Adorable card. Thank you for playing along with Pals Paper Arts this week.
Posted by: Melanie C | July 03, 2011 at 19:06
Isn't this ADORABLE! I love the houses and how you colored in just one. And the colored background is so good I thought it was DP! Thanks for joining us this week at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge.
Posted by: Corinna | July 07, 2011 at 22:35