Before I started using this journal I'd look at it and ask myself "What on earth possessed you to get a BLACK journal?" The answer is simple really I love trying new things, experimenting and being different!
So today I wanted to do some Paper Piecing in a CAS style, as you do. Once in the craft room I decided to use a black background. Then I decided to use the journal not make a card.
A stroll round blog challenge land had put some of these ideas in my head. Blank page open I got out an un-used stamp set Rose Stem Script from Chocolate Baroque, white ink and white ep. Stamped and heat embossed the main image, stamped it again onto some coloured paper each time using inks that corresponded with the paper colour. Then the bloom and the leaves had to be fussy cut.
Now there are 2 ways to successful fussy cut. 1 if you are cutting out a stamped image to use in a project you will probably want the outline so you have to carefully cut along the outside edge of that. You don't want a white border around it if you can possibly help it. This is also the approach you will likely take if you are making a decoupage project or a 3D decoupage project. 2 if you are making a mask to cover a stamped image, or as here paper piecing. You will want your fussy cut to sit inside the outline already stamped. To achieve this you have to cut very carefully along the inner outline, by doing this your mask or paper layer should fit exactly, again without white borders. I have practiced my fussy cutting over the years and feel I might be getting proficient at it.
Fussy cutting done and paper pieces glued in place the frame was drawn around the image and inside the rose stem with a quick glue pen. Once the glue was ready silver foil rubbed over the glued areas. White tag die cut and stamped with black ink, the sentiment is from the same stamp set.
Result another black page completed further proving that getting a black journal was actually quite a good idea, hahaha
Challenges
We love Chocolate Baroque - Hand Coloured or Paper Pieced Image.
613 Avenue - #6-2021 Anything Goes with the option of Paper Piecing
Stamping Sensations - I Love ..... (please refer to the second sentence of this blog post)
A Place to Start - Create your own Challenge. Journal, Encouragement and Mixed Media
CAS on Friday - #207 Flowers
Little Red Wagon - #605 Make it CAS
The Flower Challenge - #57 CAS
OK thats enough fun! Stay Safe, Keep Well oh and yes HAVE FUN
I love your sentiment and your paper piecing is beautifully done! Thanks so much for a lovely response to our challenge at 613 Avenue Create!
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Well it has certainly turned out very well, the image looks really great against the black.
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Kath x
Rose Stem Script looks rather lovely on the black card Zoe, if it's any consultation I bought the black Timmy one then wondered why, presently ripping it apart page by page as needed.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing your creativity with us at We Love Chocolate Baroque and Stamping Sensations challenges.
As for the Butterfly card, I clearly had a very senior moment when I did those two posts, rather like Lewis on the re-start last week.
B x
Really fabulous ! Thanks for sharing at 613 Avenue Create xx Please join us again.
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Fabulous cover! Loving that background stamp. Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon.
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous rose, Zoe! Love the scripty background - and YES you are a professional fussy-cutter!
ReplyDeleteBlack, or white, you've left plenty of blank space to be perfectly CAS - thanks for joining us at The Flower Challenge!
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Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining Stamping Sensations and We love Chocolate Baroque, good luck.
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Tracy x
Striking with the pretty flower against the black Zoe....creative and unique x.
ReplyDeleteWell done for trying something new, worked out great. Love the fussy cutting. Thanks for joining 613 Avenue Create and Stamping Sensations. Anesha
ReplyDeleteLovely done. The roses pops up beautifuly. Thanks for joining at A Place To Start. Vesna
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, you were selected as a June, Week 1, TOP ROCKER at 613 Avenue Create. Thanks for sharing your project with us! Your project was inadvertently left off our week 1 listing, so you will find your project listed with the TOP ROCKERS for Week 2.
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That is such a beautiful cover for your journal!! Thanks for sharing what you love with us at Stamping Sensations.
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