Happy Monday ya’ll! I hope you had a great weekend and look forward to stamping fun this week! I actually finished my holiday decorating yesterday and now this place looks more like Christmas. I’ll share photos later, I know Mallory is probably interested on what I’ve done this year! There is a garland or two Mal, so don’t worry!
FYI – I’ve been asked about my distressing and sponging, again! What I’ve decided to do, is show you what I do here on my blog. I need someone here to help me with photos first, but hopefully in the next day or two I can talk my sister and/or Kate to give me a hand.
Let’s move onto today’s stamping. What a fab Try a New Technique Challenge on Splitcoast today – Paper Piecing a Gift Card. I’ve only done this technique maybe once before, so I couldn’t wait to try it again. For a gift card, the only thing I could think of today was a stocking. For years now at Christmas, by parents (now my mom), pass out little red stockings to each of us. Those little red stockings are the highlights of the year – we really love receiving what is inside! My sister has had the same stocking for years – she put her initials on it with glitter – can’t miss which one is hers.
Anyhoo, I had the perfect image to use today. The larger stocking from Rubbernecker Stamps. I stamped the image once on buff cardstock, and then on a piece of Daisyd’s Snowflakes & Holly paper. I trimmed both images out, but only the stocking part of the designer paper (which I sponged the edges of with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink). The DP was then sewn to the trimmed image of the buff stocking at the heel and toe. To make the gift card pocket, I traced the stocking image on another piece of buff cardstock, and then painted outside the traced area with Distress Crackle Paint. Once the crackle paint was dry and starting to crack (which I sped along the process with a heat gun), the stocking was sewn to the background layer. The stocking was sewn leaving the top open so that there was a pocket to either put in money or a gift card.
This top panel was attached to another background panel of the Daisyd’s Snowflake and Holly paper. Now when I went to sew this panel, the paper buckled and wrinkled on me. But I liked it, and kept it as it was and did a bit of distress sponging. The lace is some I’ve had in a stash, and thought that it went with the feel of the card. To keep it from being bright white, I sponged some of the distress ink on it. The pocket panel is attached to the background panel with the corner brads (it leaves a little play in the card for what you might be adding inside the stocking). For the stuffing, I tied a bow around a roll of money and tied it off to hang on the outside of the pocket. This way, all you have to do is pull on the ribbon to get to the contents. Once the card was finished, I masked off the area around the top of the stocking, and applied Tulip Puffy Paint. Instead of letting it set for hours to dry, I took the heat gun and went to work. Once again, to achieve more of an aged look, I sponged on a little of the distress ink and reheated the puffy paint.
I was so taken with the look of the crackle paint along with the puffy paint, I had to take a closeup to show you.
Stamps: 53-09 Grand Stocking from Rubbernecker Stamp Company
Paper: Buff; Daisyd’s Snowflakes and Holly
Ink: Adirondack Raisin, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Tulip Puffy Paint, Tim Holtz Old Paper Distress Crackle Paint, Tsukineko Oblong Sponge Dauber, Brads, Lace
Once again, I decided to post a photo of the products that I’ve used. I get so many questions, I thought this might be helpful to you. Let me know if you like this having this extra information and if it helpful to you. All products in the photo except for the Tulip Puffy Paint are available at Rubbernecker Stamp Company. The Tulip Puffy Paint I found at Meijers on clearance – WOO HOO! The Daisyd’s Snowflakes & Holly Designer Paper used today is from Jacksonbelle Embellishments.
