Have A Blooming Good Day

Happy Monday, everybody!

I'm in a good mood today because it's my

day off! Yay! I'm going to be getting all sorts

of crafty today, from a roast chicken and

corn casserole for dinner, apple crisp

for dessert, and I might even try my hand at

making freezer jam.

But first, a card.

Isn't she sweet? I just love these Pure Innocence girls.

My local scrapbooking store carries a few so

I just had to pick one up when I was in there

the other day. The minute I saw her, I knew I wanted

to try paper-piecing on her dress. It's a technique that

I've admired on other's cards, but had never tried myself.

Until today. :o)

So, I paper-pieced her dress using a pattern from

the Everyday Tango collection by

My Mind's Eye, then colored the rest of her in

with Copic markers. I'm still learning how to get

the hair to look natural, but I feel like this is one of

my better attempts, so I'm happy.

After I got her all colored up, I stamped her

sentiment and then decided to cut her out

using my cuttlebug and Nestabilities label die.

It was quite the close trim, as you can see.

Next time, I'll cut out the shape and

THEN stamp the image so I can be sure

to center it properly. Oh well.

I also added a bit of Stickles

to the center of the flowers on her dress,

her heart-shaped hair barette,

and the bases of the flower petals.

I took the next size up die and cut out another

pattern from that same MME stack pack

and used it to mat my focal piece.

I decided that my blue Bazzill cardfront

needed some dressing up, so I took

the Hero Arts canvas stripe cling stamp

and inked it up with Chipped Sapphire and

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

Spritzed it a little with my Mini Mister

and stamped it on the card. I used my

Fiskars stamp press to line up the lines.

After that, all that was left was to

make a slit in the spine of the card to

tie my Offray ribbon through

and mount my image up with

dimensional adhesive.

I hope you like it!

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Have a great day!