Mum Birthday

I try and make something different for my Mum's birthday but this time I went with a technique I tried years ago, I don't think I was as successful as I was before and I totally forgot to colour the bottom image but I did enjoy making it and of course the cats look like hers lol.

 

Inspired by

Last year I tried the paper piecing/ tolling technique that Mariska and Debby both use. I really enjoyed it and decided to use it again for this gorgeous image from Wee Stamps called "Wee One".

It is time consuming but very therapeutic and it helps that Mariska puts the pieces you need to colour and cut on her blog, think the hardest part would be working those out, even though that is done for me I still sometimes put them on in the wrong order so have learnt to build it without glue first then assemble.

Ingredients
Image: "Wee One" Wee Stamps
Papers: "bundle of joy girl" echo park at Jessica Sprague
Cardstock: "sweet blush" Papertrey Ink
Dies: "eyelet" Martha stewart punch, "flagstak" MFT stamps, "baby wonderful words" Papertrey Ink
Sentiment: "baby wonderful words' papertrey ink

Copics:
Hair: E53, 51, 50, 34
Skin: E11, 00, 000, 50, R00, 02
Bird: E74, 71, 70, R05, 02
Pram Pinks: R22, 21, 20
Pram Brown: E44, 43, 42, 41
Wheels and handle: YR24, 23, 21
Horse: R22, 21, 20, BG13, 11 10

Merry Christmas Mum

I have delivered this card now so it is safe to show on here. I made this card for my mum and used the paper piecing/tolling technique again and I think this version is a bit better as I used the template on Mariska's blog to show me which bits to cut. Mariska has recently started showing the bits all coloured ready to assemble and she takes the hard work out of trying to guess which bits go where. I haven't followed exactly but close enough. This looks very time consuming but actually it is very therapeautic not something I will be doing on every card but I will be practising again.

Ingredients

Image: "Holly" Wee Stamps

Papers: "Winter Fun" Carta Bella at Jessica Sprague

Cardstock: Recollections Kraft

Mat; Cut on cricut with "Lacy Labels"

Brads: Stash

Sentiment: "Gingerbread Lane" Papertrey Ink

Dies: "Sentiment Strips" & "Open Bracket border" MFT

Edited to add Mariska's blog link