LPS release day {I Heart} & {For You}

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This balloon cutie is one of the stamps in the Little Paper Shop's new
stamp set {i Heart} It's perfect for
paper piecing...so I did a little quilted paper piece
with catalogue scraps...

The words on the two backgrounds are all from
the other new LPS set {For You}

1...new & nifty LPS sets release today!
2...quilted paper piecing
3...two types of embossed backgrounds
4...cheap tricks: DIY custom chip board (from stamps/digis paper & glue)
&...Copic coloured mats

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Today is an LPS release day!!!

{I Heart}

{I Heart} Gallery

+

{For You}

{For You} Gallery

And there's a big sale on sale too!
Read all about it HERE on the LPS blog, if you like:

:o)

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...quilted paper piecing

Stamps: new LPS stamps: {I Heart} & {For You}

• Paper Temptress Cream Velvet Touch cardstock
• Patterned paper scraps (or catologue or magazine bits)
• 3/4" square punch (by Paper Shapers)
• Tombow monomulti & Scrap cardstock
• Black Pigment & Versamark ink, clear embossing powder, heat gun
• Light Turquoise ink & a sponge
• white pigment ink & white embossing powder
  
• Sharp scissors
• Cosmo Cricket Everafter paper (Something Blue) (red round mat)
• Copic markers (browns & a red)
• Book paper, Siver gel pen & Sakura stardust glitter pen
• Dotted paper is (GCD Party it Up collection)
• Cream ribbon is May Arts
  

Step 1} punch some squares. Enough to cover a section (and a little larger) than the stamp you want to paper piece)

Tools: I used a 3/4" square punch (by Paper Shapers) Of course, any square/rectangular... punch or cuts made by hand will do nicely.)

Cheap trick: This is a handy way to use up wee scraps or magazine pages. This is the Cosmo Cricket Summer 2009 catalogue again. ;o)



Step 2} Spread some adhesive on a piece of paper (in a section larger than the stamp you want to paper piece.)



Step 3} Stick your squares on it in a pleasing pattern



Step 4} Stamp (or emboss your image)

Digital TIP: This would work with digital images too. Just make sure you start off by gluing the bits on a full sheet to fit your printer & have no excess glue to gum things up, of course.



Step 5} Cut out your image. I also stamped the cute little basket for the balloon (on the left) over text paper & coloured it with Copic markers...

...and added little silver gel pen stitches to the balloon as well :

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two types of embossed backgrounds:

Create the round thrice-embossed background:

A) Cut a white circle of cardstock
B) Heat Emboss the {i Heart} balloon in black ink & clear e.p.
C) Heat Emboss the sentiments from {For You} over that in clear....and.....

....then...
D) Sponge on light turquoise ink
E) Run it through a Cuttlebug folder to dry emboss it

Make an embossed sentiment background:

A) Cut some cardstock to fit your card (this is Cream Velvet Touch--it's like fabric paper!)
B) Stick sentiments (these are all from {For You})
C) Emboss the sentiments using white pigment ink & white embossing powder

Finishing the card off...

• Doodle & cut out some clouds onto paper from an old book.
• Add silver gel pen & Stardust glitter to the cloud outline...

• Pre-Layer everything onto the card to decide on the layout...
  

• Adhere the two clouds & bead the edge of the mat (if you like)
• Cut dotted paper (GCD Party it Up collection) & May Arts ribbon
• Glue it all together :o)
  

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Homemade Custom chipboard:

(with stamped/printed images)



The balloon & the clouds are all layered using this
ultra affordable way to get dimension:

Homemade Custom chipboard:

A) Stamp & embellish your image however you like.
B) Adhere a couple of layers of scrap paper together (a little larger than your stamped image.)
C) Stick your stamped image on the layered cardstock & cut it out
D) Adhere it to your project:

What I like about this sneaky chipboard:

• It's couldn't cost less if it tried!
• It's really easy, & really speedy to make
• It uses up scraps of cardstock (any colour)
  
• It feels nice & dense (though it does have a little weight to it)
• You can make it as thin or thick as you like
  
• Adds dimension that costs way less than foam tapes
  
• More pleasing aesthetically than foam tape & more durable
• It's also acid free (assuming your paper & adhesive are acid free)
• You could make it any colour you like by gluing that colour of cardstock or....
  
• You can colour the sides of the "chipboard" with a marker (match backgrounds)
• Makes great gifts: card/scrapbook candy ornaments, pendants, magnets...
• It's easy to glitter or embellish for funky custom looks
• You could even stitch/ bead it by working up your first image layer & then gluing on the layers to hide stitches

and an old cheapy...

colour patterned paper with a marker
to get a custom colour mat to
match your image or patterned paper just-so.

Thanks so much for flying by today!
Hope your day is a lovely lovely lovely one,
:o)
mel