Friday, May 10, 2013

How to Make a Faux Quilt Card

I recently need a thank-you card for a friend who is a quilter.  She does such amazing work, I love getting projects from her. So this thank-you note needed to be something really special.

Since she gave me a quilted project 
I decided to make her a "quilt" card.

Here's how you "quilt" a card.  There are 2 details on this card that add to the look of a quilt:
     1.  the "piecework"
     2.  and the texture

When I made this I was feeling a little "scrappy", trying to clean my work area. I have so many scraps of designer paper in my work room that I just can't seem to throw away. They are all so pretty.  Well this is a really easy way to use up some of them - and it makes a pretty project too.

The piecework wasn't too hard.  These are 1-1/4" squares of paper. I used a punch to make the squares but you can just as easily cut them with a paper trimmer.

I do have a tip about adhesives - I used a glue stick instead of the tape adhesive.  It was easier to re-position the pieces as needed to make the pattern square.

Its so great that Stampin'UP!'s Designer papers are printed with a different design on each side of the paper.  I could get 2 designs from one sheet and I was guaranteed that the colors would match.

The texture comes from embossing with the square lattice embossing folder. One more reason to love my Big Shot.

Did you know there are Designer Papers On Sale?   Stampin'UP!'s Designer Printed papers are great for a project like this.  And we have lots of retired papers on sale so be sure to check the Clearance Rack

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Happy Stamping
--Katie

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