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Challenge: "You Have Me in Stitches"

11/21/2016

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The Creative Carte Blanche challenge for November 2016 is to use sewing  stitchery, fabric or some combination of these i making a project. I decided to use fabric and machine stitching on a card.

​Given my lack of hand function, I won't say a whole lot here... I'll just share progress photos and a product list.

Here is my background, using fabric from my quilting stash and ribbon on a card stock base:
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I used the Woodlands die from Sizzix to cut trees in a pale green and a forest green from card stock scraps, I ran the pale green through my Xyron 500 sticker maker and stuck them to the background. I then used the negative space on those trees and matched the dark green pieces to fill them, resulting in...
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Finally, I die-cut a sentiment from "sparkly" red card, backed earlier with the adhesive from try Xyron Sticker maker... and mounted the card base to a refolded note card...
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Products used in making this card were:
  • Dies: Sizzix thinlits "Woodlands" (660978) and Handwritten Holiday" (660979)
  • Paper: "Distressed" ivory card stock and scrap pale green, forest green and sparkly red card; The Paper Company Value Pack Notecards "Ivory"
  • Embellishments:  Scrap fabric (acorns and holly); Ofray "Garbo" ribbon in dark green; Dark Green thread
  • Adhesives:
  • Scotch tape; Tombow Adhesive;, Multi Medium Matte; Xyron 500 Sticker Maker; Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape"
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12 Tags of 2016 - November

11/20/2016

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The 12 Tags of 2016, November edition, are a remix of two previous tchniques: The Remnant Rub Resist from the May 2013 tag and Dimensional Coloring from the November 2015 tag. I didn't go very original on this tag, given that I am working one-armed and am limited in what techniques I can employ (I broke my left wrist o October 18 had surgery to repair it on the 25th, and am still in occupational therapy to restore full function... it's remarkable how many activities require two hands so, needless to say, I haven't done any papercrafting since the 18th!).

So, since typing is one activity requiring two hands and I am trying to type this with a brace on my one arm which really limits my function (never was a great typist as it was... with only one functioning hand, typos are a real hazard!), I won't do a lot of description here but just show the tag as it progressed.

​The Remnant Rub Resist background, per the May 2013 technique:


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A Dimensionally Colored  leaf, per the November 2015 technique but without fun foam (I STILL don't own any of that stuff). I used a 'tover from an earlier challenge, which was a leaf cut from kraft card to which I added veins with a Pigma Micron #1 Archival pen, colored with Distress Markers and "shaped with a Ten-Second Studio embossing tool:
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The finished tag... I used foam dots to elevate the leaf from the background and tucked it under the die-cut sentiment:
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Products used in the making of this tag were:

  • Inks: Distress Stains “Carved Pumpkin”, “Fossilized Amber”, “Abandoned Coral”; Distress Markers “Squeezed Lemonade”, “Fossilized Amber”, “Wild Honey”, Spiced Marmalade”; Distress Ink “Vintage Photo”; Pigma Micron #1 Archival “black”
  • Papers: Creative Moments medium white tag; scrap kraft, black and gold card
  • Dies: Sizzix Thinlits “Friendship Words script “ (660225) and Friendship Words Block” (660213); “Fall Foliage” (660955) 
  • Embellishments: Remnant Rubs “Botanical” (TH93119); crinkle ribbon
  • Adhesives: Xyron 500 Sticker Maker; EK Tools 3D foam dots
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    Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci  in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971).
    Worked in environmental consulting for a little more than a decade and then seven years as an instructor in biological science at various community colleges in California and Texas. Moved to London in 1992, then Beijing (1996) and Saudi Arabia (1998), before returning to NW Ohio in 2002. I am currently living in NW Ohio with my husband and three Bombay cats.  I love to read (mystery, science fiction, history) and stitch (have done crewel, currently experimenting with free embroidery and needlepoint but blackwork and cross stitch are my main genres); have been known to knit; and now I'm heavily into papercrafting!
    Retired upon the return to the US so lots of time for our hobbies...

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