Paper pieced From Your Teacher

Actually today's card has been paper pieced FOR one of my youngest son's teachers, but the set I've used is called FROM your teacher and features the cutest little smiley apple! You can't see its smile in the card though as I've been doing a spot of paper piecing in response to today's Less is More challenge. Come and have a look:

This is a very CAS design as I was being hassled encouraged to go out with my family! I stamped part of two sentiments from Perfect Pairs onto a panel of Very Vanilla card stock, using markers to pick out the bits I wanted and my stamp-a-majig to stamp them where I wanted them. Then I stamped my apple - again using markers to colour different bits of the rubber different colours. The panel was then mounted onto a Very Vanilla card base using dimensionals. Now, here comes the paper piecing part...

... I stamped the apple on the back of a bit of striped designer paper and cut it out. It was then turned right way up and overstamped with my Solid Stripes background stamp to create this gingham effect. I stuck it over the stamped apple on my card and finished with a gem.

Here's what you'll need to make today's card:

Stamps: From Your Teacher, Solid Stripes, Perfect Pairs

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso (all in marker form)

Card stock: Very Vanilla

Other: Real Red paper from the Patterns designer paper stack, Basic Rhinestones, Stamp-a-majig

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Tonight my husband will be making pizzas and I shall be curling up in front of a girlie film. This is a concession because tomorrow our household will be gearing up for some serious football-watching as England plays Italy in the European Cup. I shall join in with that too because I'm finding it so amusing: my husband and eldest son are properly manly about watching football but my youngest son and my daughter are hilarious. Last week my daughter disgusted the menfolk when Rooney scored. "Oh look at them!" she said, as the England squad crowded round Rooney. "Aren't they adorable when they celebrate!"

See you later,