I’d like to cover an oldie but goody - paper piecing. It’s like punch art but only bigger and we get to create with Spellbinders™’ die templates!
Today, Design Team Member Christy Farneth-Kerr shares her layout showing her beautiful girls in their cute outfits. Notice the poodle on their shirts?! This was Christy’s inspiration for her poodle paper piecing - isn’t it just darling!
Another great idea for using our die templates is how Design Team Member Kimberly Crawford did when making her strawberry motif for her card and box duo! So cute and who wouldn’t want to have this thoughtful gift!
She used three different dies for her strawberries! Kimberly started with two different sizes of the S4-140 Petite Ovals, Small and top it off with S4-072 Flower Creations die template. To pull off the rest of the project, she included My Mind’s Eye Penny Lane Collection, Taylored Expressions “A Year of Sweetly Stamped Sentiments”, Hero Arts “Four Leaf Grid”, Clearsnap Inks & Chalks, some buttons, twine and cardstock.
Will you be putting some pieces together of your own?
Share with us…we would love to see them!
Here we are on the brink of Mothers Day and I get to share with you some projects made with Mom in mind, by our fabulous 2009 Design Team.
To start us off, Karen Hunsaker made this candle and card with S4-163 Daisy Borderability Petite. We saw this the other day, but it’s worth a second look. I love that the envelope flap is embossed, and the edge of the card is cut and embossed, as well as the wrap for the candle.
Today’s Savvy Saturday features the recipe for my cake. A good mom lets you lick the beaters, a great mom turns off the mixer first. That one always cracks me up. Anyway, on to the cake:
I started with a set of round boxes from Darice. I tossed aside the lids; I decided not to use them. I painted the set, sides and bottom, with white acrylic paint, then covered that with Pearl Ranger Paint Dabber, with a brush not the dabber tip.
Layered Flower Creations
To make the flowers, I used cardstock from WorldWin: Deep, Dark, Medium and Light Lovely Lilac ColorMates. I used the Flower Creations, Flower Creations 2 and Flower Creations 3 Die Templates. I cut and embossed each Die Template from the four colors of cardtsock. For the Flower Creations 3 Die Template, I separated out each die and set them on the new Magnetic Spacer Plate.
When all the flowers were cut and embossed, I airbrushed them with a few Copic Marker colors (some smooth color, some splattered color). I used newspaper to protect the table and repositionable adhesive to keep the flowers in place. I wiped on some white Glimmer Chalk from Craf-T Products to add sheen to the flower petals. I added detail to the center of the smaller flowers with a Lavender Atyou Spica pen.
I assembled the flowers, each different, with a long brad. If you feel the flowers are looking a little flat against the cake, curl the petals up or down, to give them a little bulk, or add some dimensional adhesive dots between the flower layers. It’s all very subtle but it makes a difference once the cake is assembled.
Die Template sets used.
To make the frosting swags, I assembled 3 sets of ovals, mixing and matching from the
Clasic Ovals, plain and scalloped. I needed 3 of each size, so I taped them to a piece of scrap paper. The tape keeps them in place and I won’t have to realign them once I get the inside die template centered. Then I can cut and emboss as many as I need, all the same. I used the Medium Lovely Lilac paper. The ovals were then cut in half, the long way.
Nested half circles
Each strip of paper for the ribbon on the bottoms of the cake layers was embossed in the Wizard using a Fiskars Texture Plate and the blue mat from the Charm Embossing Kit.
Add texture to the cake ribbons
On the ribbon and swags, I rubbed White Sparkle Luster Rub-ons from Craf-T Products. It added some extra highlight to the embossed areas.
Give Beth three "tiers" for this amazing cake!
We’re working with the boxes turned upside down, so the bottom of the box becomes the top. I glued the embossed ribbon to the bottom edge of each layer. I secured the swag ends with a brad, using a Japanese hole punch to make a small hole through the paper and box. I punched more small holes in each layer for the flowers on the sides and secured the brads from the inside. The flowers on the top are attached to a small triangle of paper.
Cake topper brilliance
As suggested in the comments the other day, the cake can be made for any occasion, with any shaped box. What’s the best part? No dirty dishes! I’d love to see your creations, give us a link in the comments! And don’t forget to rate the blog entries by clicking on the stars below.
Hey, we got some help from our Techies and we think this will work…
Hey all my paper crafting friends! It’s a party!!!
Welcome to Spellbinders™ Blog. We are so excited to be with you starting today. It has been a long time in the making and we couldn’t be more thrilled…Oh, by the way, I’m Stacey Caron, President of Spellbinders™ Paper Arts and Co-creator of the Wizard™ Embossing and Die Cutting System.
We have so many great things in store for you that we can barely stay quiet about but I know we can’t give all our secrets away on the first day. But let me tell you about our blog: Our blogging babes are Eli Harlan, and Beth Pingry. They are great women with tons of knowledge about the Wizard and all our Die Templates. You’ll learn a lot from them.
One of the exciting features we’ll be having is Spellbinders’ Savvy Saturdays. Beth and Eli will be bringing you some fantastic techniques for the Wizard. I can’t wait to see all that they create. We’ll also have prizes, challenges, special guests and all kinds of things to offer. Like I said, I am thrilled.
To get things going we are going to offer some Blog Candy. [It’s a Template Mystery] All you need to do is offer a comment about your favorite Die Template in the comment box below and on Tuesday, we’ll be picking a winner. Make sure you leave your e-mail address so we can contact you when you win… :-p
Come back “early and often”. Cheers and happy creating, Stacey.
