Nina's Southern Accents: Beautiful You and Paper Piecing

Hey Y'all!

How many of you ever played with paper dolls? If you ever did, then this technique will be a breeze! I have had this card in my mind for a while, and it finally came to fruition!

I used the Beautiful You and Lots of Love stamp sets, but the focus of the card is that beautiful Whole Lot of Lovely DSP. I want about 100 sheets of just this pattern, what about you? I even added it to the envelope flap to tie it all together. To "Paper Piece", all you have to do is stamp the image on the cardstock, then stamp the image on the DSP and cut out the part to "piece" over the image, in this case the dress and hat.

To make the hat, I stamped the Burlap Background stamp onto a piece of Crumb Cake, then stamped the image, and just cut out the hat. I added a small piece of Basic Black Cardstock and a piece of gold baker's twine (retired). That's what I used for the necklace as well. To make the necklace look like it goes around her neck, I made small slits in the paper and pushed the cord through then taped it to the back. Her "bangle" is a small piece of gold foil. Now this card is not for the faint of heart because that was alot, and I mean ALOT of tedious work! But it was well worth it! It came out even better than I imagined!

I gold embossed the sentiments, and I have to confess I used contraband on this card. Contraband is anything that is not Stampin' Up! The embossing folder is one I had in my stash, but I loved the elegant look. It is Paper Studio if you are wondering. Hey, y'all know you have contraband in your stash too!

The flowers on the inside of the card are from Lots of Love. I stamped the middle flower full strength in Calypso Coral, then stamped off the other two. Don't you love that you can stretch your ink colors that way? I was able to get 3 different colors from 1 stamp pad!

Thanks for stopping by, and if you haven't already, please subscribe to my blog. If you are interested in purchasing any of the items (except the contraband) click on the pictures below and it will take you to my online store.

March is the last month of Sale-A-Bration, so be sure to take advantage of that! Purchasing the stamp sets and the paper will get you a Sale-A-Bration item. If you don't already have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, I would love to be yours!

I hope you enjoyed today's project, leave a comment below and let me know what is one of your favorite card-making techniques!

Love,

Nina

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