Stamp something...girly

This card is for the Stamp Something 'girly' challenge...All the border, text and image stamps are from the SeeDs 'Sophisticated Friends' set, inked with Versafine and ColorBox chalk 'Rose Petals' and coloured with Distress Inks (Tattered Rose, Fired Brick, Frayed Burlap), popped up on 3D foam. Flowers & buttons are from a Making Memories box, with scraps of paper and cotton ribbon on a pink card blank.

Cette carte est pour le 'de filles' challenge de 'Stamp Something' (tamponner quelque chose) - toutes rose, avec les fleurs...J'ai utilisé les tampons de See Ds pour la bordure, l'image et la texte. Encres: ColorBox Rose, Versafine noir, et les Distress (Tattered Rose, Fired Brick, Frayed Burlap) pour colorier l'image.

Paper piecing Birthday Sketch !

I don't usually combine challenges but this card is a combination of the sketch from Just Christmas and Birthday Cards, the technique of paper piecing on A Spoon Full of Sugar and the 'birthday something' on Stamp Something. Having had the issue of what paper piecing means when I was on the design team of Funky Fairy Papercrafts, I took photos of the process today and then smiled as I have just seen that Nikki has edited their challenge blog to explain what it means too. My reason for paper piecing today is wanting a particular football strip so it was plain rather than patterned paper that I needed: The Chris in question is a Bristol City fan! Process to make this is here.Used: Paper: Various scraps mounted on card cut with Mega Nestabilities Curved Rectangles, backed by Core'dinations Hocus Pocus which I sanded; Stamps: 'Creative Stamping' Footballer with Brilliance black ink and coloured with watercolour pencil on flesh parts and masked to create background with DOTS 'sand or snow' stamp and Shabby Shutters distress ink, also sponged on, and Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Ice Blue applied direct to paper for sky. I computer-generated and printed the sentiment and used Anita's Sticky Ribbon.