Patchworks

Hello

Today's card reminded me of a cozy patchwork quilt, so good for this cold winter we are having.

I had a bunch of pieces left over from doing the Bargello technique a few weeks ago, so I decided to use them and make another card.

So, here's what I did.

• I began by looking through my scrap papers that I never use and found 4 that I thought would work together.
• I cut them into 3/4" strips and glued the strips onto a piece of white cardstock side by side of each other being sure they were all touching. 
  
• I let the piece dry, then cut the strips in the opposite direction, again 3/4" wide so each strip had the patterns on them. (hope that makes sense)
  
• I glued them, one at a time onto another piece of white cardstock, offsetting the pieces like putting together a quilt pattern. There are many different ways you can create a pattern by just moving the strips into different positions.
• While the glue dried, I die cut the black frame and then glued that over the patchwork.
• I glued the finished card front onto a piece of patterned paper and then onto a 4 1/4" white square card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with some black and added it over the middle to finish my card off.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Time Out- FAV CARD MAKING TECHNIQUE

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW (frame die I got for Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Papers- miscellaneous dp's scraps found in my stash

Accessories and Tools- frame die (Amazon); Hello die (Amazon)

Patchwork Christmas

Good Morning

The weekends seem to fly by and at this time of the year, there is less time to create.

That being said, I really wanted to try a technique featured over at Splitcoast Stampers called

  Disappearing Nine Patch.  

Super simple to do and a great way to use up some of you paper scraps.

I chose some holiday themed paper in red and green for my card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my dp's until I found some papers that I liked.  
• Following the tutorial on SCS, I cut my paper into 1" squares and then glued my papers onto a piece of white cardstock that was 3 x 3.
• I cut them as per the instructions and glued them onto another piece of cardstock.
• Using a postage die, I cut a piece of white cardstock and glued that onto a card panel that was 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 square.  
• I glued a piece of red cardstock over that, then pop dotted the patches onto the red.
• I die cut the 'Merry' from some white and some red, glued them together off setting them a bit and then glued them over the patches.
• I stamped the sentiment strip and pop dotted that over the die cut.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sweet Stampin- USE RED

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING GOES

Dragonfly Dreams- CHRISTMAS/ WINTER

Christmas Kickstart- CHRISTMAS SNIPPETS

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white cardstock (Scribes Nook-Waterloo, Ont.); dp from my stash

Accessories and Tools- Merry die (The Stamp Market);  Postage stamp die (Spellbinders); TH paper cutter; pop dots; Nuvo glue