Stitched With Love

  I have a few friends and a ton of family who love quilting. I did a little bit of the stitching by hand when I was growing up but I haven't tried the cutting and piecing that goes into making the quilt top. My Grandmother rocked quilting and I have a number of her quilts in my home. My favourite is what I call my "Memories" quilt because the material used on it is all from clothes I had when I was younger - so cool! 

I have a number of aunts who love quilting too so when I got a special request for a birthday card for one of them, I knew "Kathy Quilting Angel" from High Hopes would be perfect! 

After stamping "Kathy" and colouring her with Copic markers I hand fussy cut her and left a thin white edge around her. 

Next I glued her on matching card stock and cut her out again leaving a thin border. I added her to the card using pop dots and added some Star Dust Stickles to her wings. 

 Patterned Paper from the Twitterpated collection from Stampin' Up worked perfectly for my card. I cut out stitched squares with a die and set them aside. I laid out my stitched squares in a quilt type pattern on card stock, glued them down when I was happy with it and hand cut a thin edge around it to help them pop off the background.

Next I created a sentiment on my computer and cut it out using a stitched fish tail banner die and die cut a small heart in it just for fun. I masked off the Pirate's Birthday stamp to include a Happy Birthday sentiment and added a die cut spool of thread with a heart. Some cotton lace ribbon and enamel dots finish off my card.

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Kathy Quilting Angel - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiments: Pirates Birthday  - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Twitterpated - Stampin' Up

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, stitched fish tail banner die - YNS, mini hearts die - YNS, spool of thread die - AI mini sewing, cotton lace ribbon, pop dots, stitched square die - YNS, Star Dust Stickles

 Copic Markers:

Skin - E00 E21 E11

Dress, Hat - BG72 BG75 B99 C0 C2

Quilt -E50 D51 E53 E55 R30 R32 R56 R59

Hair, Shoes- E23 E25 E27

Chair - E34 E35 E29

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Sew Sweet

Happy Thursday High Hopes fans! It is officially summer - whoo hooo! 

I used "Kathy Quilting Angel" and the Sew Sweet sentiment, both fun, older stamps from High Hopes. I personally am not a quilter, I've tried it and honestly it's not my thing but I have a ton of family who love to quilt. I have also been blessed with a lot of quilts made by my Grandmother and there is a ton of love in every stitch. 

I wanted my card to look like a quilt piece in progress. After colouring my image and cutting it out, I edged it with some matching turquoise ink. I created my background by using some left over pieces of paper and cutting them into 1" squares. It is not noticeable in the photo but the wings have clear Wink of Stella on them for a bit of glitter and Star Dust Stickles was added to the flower centres for a bit of bling. Sparkly gumdrops and a piece of ribbon finish off my card. 

Card Recipe

Stamps: Kathy Quilting Angel (R049)-  High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Sew Sweet- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: We Are Family - Simple Stories

Dies: Classic Circle - Spellbinders

 Clear Wink of Stella, White Gel Pen, Star Dust Stickles, Flowers - Recollections, Dusk Blue Ink - Martha Stewart

Spectrum Noir Markers: FS1 FS2 TN2FS8 GB10 EB5 EB8 GB4 GB5 GB7 TN1 EB1 EB2 DR5 DR1 DR7 GB4 GB5 GB7 BT4 BT6 BT7 CG2 CG4 1G1 1G2

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