STARS & STAMPS JANUARY ODBD CHALLENGE

Hello all my dear crafty friends! I hope you are having a FANTASTIC FRIDAY! I know I am going to have a great day. You know how sometimes you wake up and just feel a great day coming? OK, that is my day today.

And to start it out I am submitting this card to the Stars and Stamps January ODBD Challenge (Use THREE patterned papers on your card!) as well as the Splitcoaststampers (TLC359 ~ Best of 2011 ~ (1/9/12)) where I chose TLC304 Sewing/Stitching as my “Best of”……and here is my card

I actually ended up with 4 patterned papers, but I hope that is ok.

I chose these gorgeous papers from MME Lost & Found collection and then added a butterfly stamp in burgundy on the inside to tie it together.  The sentiment is one I printed from my computer just using a word processing program.  The burgundy panel is cut using Spellbinders Fancy Tags and just using the negative so the base panel can show through. 

I do like the way this card turned out and I hope you do too! Please let me know what you think.

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….

hugs,

Ellen

PAPER

• MME Lost and Found
• 5 1/4 x 4 
• 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 for negative die cut
• 5 1/4 x 1 for border punch
• scraps for heart and butterfly
• sheet with birdcage and bird
• Burgundy card stock 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded to make card base

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders
• Fancy Tags
• Sizzlits heart, primative #2
• EKTools Butterfly Stamp
• Sewing Machine
• Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch

ACCESSORIES

• Seam binding
• White pearls
• Crochet flower
• Bakers doily

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Use Big Shot and cut Spellbinders die cut and Sizzlit heart
3. Print sentiment on MME paper
4. Use butterfly punch on 3 of the papers
5. Use scissors to fussy cut the bird panel 
6. Glue the burgundy negative panel to the base panel
7. Glue the border to the burgundy panel
8. Use sewing machine and stitch around burgundy panel
9. Adhere baker’s doily
10. Use dimensionals and adhere the fussy cut panel.
11. Glue the butterflies together.
12. Adhere heart and butterfly to fussy cut panel
13. Add sentiment, small bow and crochet flower
14. Add pearls