Quilted Cards

 I adore making sewing themed cards!  I pulled out the gorgeous October Afternoon 'Farmhouse' papers (from many moons ago...), and got busy die cutting.

The frames and squares are the Quilted Frames Dies from Waffle Flower - a little finicky to assemble (don't look too close!), but the result is so lovely.

I used the Needleworker Tool Kit dies from Spellbinders to cut out all the notions - using some brushed silver cardstock for the metallic items.

I had some already pressed sentiments using the You Are Everything Betterpress plate, done on cream cardstock with black ink, and added them with some foam adhesive.

Glimmered Thought You Knew

Pulled out my favourite new press plate, "Thought You Knew" - an exclusive to Crafter's Home stores.  This time I tried it glimmered with gold foil on a cream square, and it turned out beautifully!

I matted it with some gold cardstock, and adhered it with some 3D adhesive to a teal square.  The base paper is ancient October Afternoon paper - one of my favourite companies.

I used a couple of die sets from my stash to create the flowers, pulling out colours from the background, then used two pink Copic markers to colour in the heart.

You can find this plate at the Papercrafter's Workshop.

Gathering Stitches

I received the Gathering Stitches dies from Spellbinders as a Christmas gift, and decided to make a card (one).  Well, since the rainbow cuts out all the pieces in one colour at once... I ended up with a ton of rainbow pieces, so had to keep going - and ended up with five cards.

The best part, was after choosing and die cutting all of my pieces in this pastel colourway, I looked in my stash to find papers that matched - and immediately found Farmhouse by October Afternoon.  Even though the colours worked, I realized that there were several stitching themed papers in the pack, which made them even more perfect.

Once I saw these button themed papers, I knew I'd be adding buttons to my cards, which I haven't done in forever!  And of course, I have quite a stash of buttons.  I added some dark yellow thread to each of the buttons, to make them look as though they were sewn down to the cards.

I haven't added any sentiments to my cards, I'm going to wait and see how I want to use them, and I'm also waiting on the Needlework Tools die set, which I may add to my cards as well - but I didn't want to wait to post them.  Stay tuned!

All the Geraniums...

 Ta da!  All six geranium cards that I started this week are complete.  I'm posting the last four all together in this post, along with my original two at the end.  Super happy with how they turned out - and they're not as labour intensive as they look.  The fun part was picking out the patterned papers and colours for each card.  All dies are from The Greetery, papers are all October Afternoon.  Sentiments are Betterpress.

Pink Geranium

 I have a pink version of the Botanicuts Geranium card that I posted last week (stay tuned, there are four more on my craft table, so there are more to come!).  I was really happy with the design using the Hoopla Oval die as a background, so I am not reinventing the wheel... just switching up the colours and papers.  All dies are from The Greetery, papers are older October Afternoon, and I've used a Betterpress Sentiment.

The Last Pies

 For now.  I have a feeling these will reappear this fall, when pumpkin pie season approaches.  This is the last trio of cards I made with the Spellbinder's Perfect Pies collection by Tina Smith.  Once again, I pulled out my October Afternoon papers to create this set that has a bit of a country fair feel.

And More Pies.

 My pie card obsession continues!  I made a whole bunch of these over the past couple of months, and have finally got them completed and photographed.  These are all created with the Spellbinder's Perfect Pies collection by Tina Smith.

October Afternoon papers are some of my all-time favourites, even though the company is long gone, so I pulled them out to create these, along with some Pinkfresh Studio dies.

Enjoy your pie :) 

More Pies...

 Two posts in one day!  I couldn't stop making cards with my Perfect Pies products.  Since I had die cut so many pieces, they were fairly quick to assemble, and once I was on a roll...  I used October Afternoon papers that I've been hoarding for years - I always love creating with them:

Teachers Rule

Using up a few images that I had already stamped, and some older Schoolhouse papers from October Afternoon.  Here are a couple of cards for my sister, using Teachers Rule Set from Art Impressions:

 I love this sentiment!  Most teachers that I know do, too!

 Nothing beats October Afternoon!  One of my favourite companies.  Everything is coloured with Copic Markers.

And I have a spiffy new Ai signature to show off today!

Retro Christmas with Sketchy Saturday

Yay.  Two more Christmas cards for my stash!  Laurel always has great sketches for her Sketchy Saturday posts, so I hope to use them for Christmas cards as often as possible.  I pulled out some October Afternoon papers with a distinctly retro vibe, and put a couple of cards together:

Patterned papers are Silent Night by October Afternoon; Dies are Spellbinders, Heirloom Ornament; Pine Bough from Your Next Stamp & Stitched Circle die from My Favorite Things;  Sentiment is This is Christmas from Close To My Heart.

Coffee Card #3

Sneaking in a third coffee card before the hop ends tomorrow!  My niece sent me these cute coffee cup paperclips a little while ago, so I wanted to make a card to show them off.  I pulled out a Verve digi stamp from last fall, and some old October Afternoon papers.  I am using this week's Mojo Monday sketch as well.

Patterned papers are Woodland Friends, October Afternoon, Verve digi stamp, The Paper Store paperclip, Cardstock is Sapphire, Colonial White & Crystal Blue, Close To My Heart, Olive organdy ribbon CTMH.

Add a Brad challenge

The Art Impressions Design Team are helping to launch two brand new stamp & die sets on the Art Impressions blog today!  These are the COOLEST little Swiss Army knife die sets - a his and a hers.  You won't believe some of the amazing projects that the DT has to share today (they raised the bar!) so I came up with a little flannel cowgirl shirt with a stitched pocket to hold the new die cut knife.  Here is Utility Die Set Hers (Sku #4751):

 It doesn't show up too well in the photo, but I used my sewing machine to add some decorative stitching to the pocket, then stitched it onto the shirt; and I stitched along the edge of the collar & placket.  I sewed a couple of buttons down the front, and added a kerchief square to the pocket.  I even put a little flesh coloured cardstock in the neckline, to make it look like skin tone!

 And here is the knife all put together, and tossed into the pocket - this is how the recipient would receive the card.  Below are all the die cut pieces that come in the set - and you can see that there is a small sentiment for each of them:

 Assembly is quick and easy, since each piece is die cut with a hole, and you simply thread a brad through three pieces on each end, and you're done.

 Our current challenge is called "Add a brad" - so be sure to link up your creation over on the Ai blog, there are always fabulous prizes to be won.