Paper Piecing at Phindy's Place

This week's challenge on the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog is Paper Piecing. I never think of paper piecing without thinking of Katie Boshart. I remember the cards she turned out doing paper piecing, cutting her stuff out while holding a wee baby.  I have a hard enough time cutting with both hands free and just holding the scissors and image. I do however love the look of paper piecing, so thanks DT.

For my first card for the challenge, I chose this image from the Phindy's Place Store called Unwrapped. The only thing that's colored is his hands, feet, head and belly. The rest is all paper pieced. I even had fun tearing up the wrapping paper for him to toss.

The papers are from a kit from Raspberry Road Designs called Big Boy Design. I decided that train paper was just too perfect for his pajamas.  The sketch is this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches.

The senitment was created in Photoshop, and you're welcome to it.

Two for Anything Goes with a Phindy Image

I did it. I got my second card made for the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog's Anything Goes as long as it's a Phindy's Image.

I took off in one direction and ended up totally in another. I didn't plan on the glitz, it just happened.LOL This adorable image from the Phindy's Place Store is called Chocomonster, and I have to confess to being one myself. She's colored brightly with Copics. You will notice that she's very neat with her chocolate eating.

The papers are from a matstack called The Glitter Sweet from DCWV( I think that's the way the letters go), and the background paper is from My Mind's Eye Party Time. The flourishes are a sissix diecut that I added glitter too. The ribbon as well as the My Mind's Eye paper were a gift from a dear friend, and I'm loving the green, pink and brown combination.

Like I said, I ended up going in a different direction than planned. I had the perfect Word Art (I had this on a T-shirt at one time), but it didn't seem to fit with my glamor look(she doesn't look like she's concerned with chemistry at all). I'm adding it just for you to grab if you want.

Giddy Up!

This week's challenge over at the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog is a wonderful sketch furnished by Anne-Marije. I absolutely love working from a sketch and especially hers. I am always amazed how the same sketch can produce cards that truly are different. The difficulty for me is always narrowing down my choice of images. All of Phindy's images are fabulous, and I can't imagine not using one for the challenge. My problem is finding enough time to enter more than one card. Possibilities are endless.

For this card, I chose this adorable image called "Giddy Up". My grandson is all about cowboys, but he has a huge stuffed horse that he rides. When I see this image, I see one of my nephews. His parents own a riding stable, and he didn't much care for real horses. He did have a stick horse whose name was Broomtail, a most appropriate name, and he rode that horse all the time.

Image: Phindys Place - Giddy Up

Senitment: mine created in Word

Papers: Nitwit Collections Giddy Up Kit and

Embellishments: Iron on Stars and metals

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She May Be Blue, But She's Not Blue!

I finally finished the invitations and the directions/registry cards. The envelopes are addressed, stuffed, sealed and ready for mailing. WOOHOO!!!!! One more project down before I leave for AZ on Wednesday. I have to say that I colored 6o of the Something New images by Phindy O'Neill and I still love the image.

Sequed right into my card of the day didn't I? This week at Phindy's Place Challenge Blog, the challenge was "Got The Blues?" Good thing that that meant color and not emotional state, because, I don't think there's a Phindy image out there that looks sad or blue. I'm so hooked on the summer cuties(found here), that I'll be using them for a while to come. Phindy added the cutest little image called Catch Something this week, and much as I love him(and I do own a copy of the image), he wasn't my first choice for my challenge card. Instead an image called Little Swinger did?

Do you remember the sheer joy of swinging on a hot summer day and creating your own breeze as you pumped to make yourself go higher and higher? I think that explains the look of sheer bliss on this little cutie's face.


One of my favorite fabrics to smock little children's summer outfits out of was micro-checked gingham. I found a free printable microdot paper on line(can't find the link), and it was perfect for paper piecing her dress and hat. I also decided I wanted her swinging from a tree, so I found a tree shape to go by and cut it out and colored it up with Copics. I mounted the limbs of the tree with foam adhesives along with Little Miss Swinger and the clumps of leaves for a 3D effect. I tied a knot in some twine, shredded the end to give it a rope look and tied it to a limb to make her look like she's really swinging. The grass was a piece of scrap paper and the blue of the sky is the base of the card. I cut the smaller violet blooms off a package that I had purchased from the Dollar Tree, and voila' I have a challenge card. The sentiment simply says "Happiness" and isn't that so true?

Now close your eyes and think back to those hot summer days of your childhood. Do you remember that feeling of being on a swing, with your feet extended and pointing to the sky and looking down at the ground as you pumped harder to go higher and higher. Oh, what a feeling!


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Fun Time with my Sister

Yesterday was an incredible day. My younger sister(and we ain't young) is on vacation this week. I met her for shopping and lunch on Tuesday, and yesterday she drove down to play in TM with me. She brought a whole passel of colored images, and we spent part of the day putting them into cards.

My talents with Photoshop Elements isn't too great with editing pictures, but I have figured out how to do Word Art from a tutuorial that WAS on the internet. When DS went to watch it the second time, it was gone, so I shared my knowledge with her, so that she can make her own word art.

Today is the final day of the Phindy's Place 3D Challenge card. I've had a plan for several days, and had my image colored. I finally got to make the card last night. This is my first easel card.

Isn't this image something we are all familiar with? One cookie is never enough, you need at least one in each hand. Phindy catches childhood memories so well in her images. He's colored with Copics and papers are cardstock I had on hand and scraps out of my scrap box. The ribbon is from Walmart. I decided to cut him out and raise him up off my Spellbinders scalloped circle. When I saw this Word Art by Create with TLC, I knew that it was just the PERFECT sentiment for my card. Then I got to thinking about what to use for the stop on my easel card.

NO, the cookies aren't real. I'd have eaten them if they had been. When I go to Hobby lobby, I shop the WHOLE store. I couldn't find any cookie embellishments to use in the Scrapbooking department, but over in the aisle with wooden crafts I found these perfect little wooden hearts. I painted them with acrylic paints that I matched to the color of the cookies in the image. I then covered them with Alene's Paper Glaze and sprinkled the tee-tiniest glass beads on them for a sugar effect.

Then I remembered cookie eating by every child I've ever known that included sugar EVERYWHERE and "sprinkled" some sugar on the cookies in the image, a few on his face and of course down his overalls. He VERY much reminds me of MonkeyM00, my grandson.

Tomorrow is the grand tour of TM as it is today. Off to prepare for WW Thursday. Have a great day.

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