Saturday 23 June 2012

LIM - Paper Piecing

This week LIM challenge is Paper Piecing. What a great idea to use those scraps!

This fitted in very nicely with the Sizzix kites framelet I'd just bought from ebay for under a fiver! In our house we have an assortment of kites in our loft - my daughter and husband like power kites (well until hubby broke a rib flying his kite).  However, we still occasionally have a family outing with dogs to go fly a kite.



The card blank is a mottled pale blue (7cm x 21cm) - and was something I acquired from a friend of my mum's - its one of those that until now, I've not really known how to make the best of.  I lightly sponged the shape of a couple of clouds, and stuck on the kite with some dimensionals.  The Happy Birthday is also die cut from the same card as the kite.

My daughter (18) was rather taken with the kite, as she raids my stash of cards for her friends, I made a couple more in different colours.  The one below uses an off-cut which is deep pink, the DSP part of 1 sheet of HOTP paper (just cut from different parts).  I'm going to enter this in the CAS-ual Friday Pretty in Pretty in Pink Challenge. 


21 comments:

  1. Simple lovely and love the crisp clean design~perfect!

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  2. Love your dotty papers! A super card. xx

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  3. What a great card, love the kite.

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  4. What a great kite and love the layout :)

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  5. Kites make fabulous cards Anna and this is gorgeous!

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  6. Hola Anna, beautiful and clever idea your kite card, your papers piecing are gorgeous.
    A hug from Palma de Mallorca

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  7. Super card Anna
    Gosh, that your hubby broke a rib flying a kite, had no idea it was that dangerous!
    Thanks so much
    mandi
    "Less is More"

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  8. So sweet. Love all the wonderful die cutting. So glad you could play with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  9. Lots of fun with this kite. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving the sweet comments. Hugs

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  10. Super card, great papers.
    Lynne xxx

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  11. Beautiful paper piercing and the subtle sky really makes the kite pop out!

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  12. Great card. Love the design and the papers you've used are perfect.xx

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  13. Great card. Very well done.

    Daen'Ys

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  14. Love this one!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  15. Love this design, really whimsical! M x

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  16. Such a happy and cheerful card!! I broke a finger while vacuuming once! so I guess I shouldn't be surprised your hubbie broke a rib while kite flying!

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  17. That kite is beautiful! So pretty in pink! So glad you could join us this week at CAS-ual Fridays!

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