Finally, here is the fun card I've been talking about! I wanted to challenge myself to use fabric on a card, and knew I wanted to do something I personally hadn't seen done before. I have to say it's a wee bit time consuming, but so worth the effort I think!
So, to start I cut out a piece of pink fabric, and machine stitched it to a piece of cardstock, then sewed a grid pattern, in the hopes of looking like a quilt or something.
It was much too flat for my liking. So I flipped it over, and used an exacto knife to cut X's into each square. I figured I would stuff them from behind to make it more "poofy". It was then really easy to stuff small squares of fleece into the pockets I'd made.
This picture is after I'd stuffed the fleece in. I just used an embossing tool to push it in. I had bought some cute pink fleece years ago when I was pregnant with Isaiah, and hoped to make something for my little girl. LOL.. 2 boys later I've given up on the fleece ;)
Here is what the front looked like after stuffing. I wish I'd taken a "before" stuffing picture, but really it was just flat fabric, nothing interesting. After stuffing, I also taped over the X's so it would sit flatter and attach to a card base.
AAAAaaaaaand, my favorite part, the finished card!!!
Supplies:
Fabric: Amy Bradley Designs
Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket
Round Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee
Border Stickers: Doodlebug
Element Stickers: Doodlebug
Stick Pins: Maya Road
Pearls: Kaiser Crafts
Ink: Distress Ink (Worn Lipstick)
Things I would do differently next time is attach the fleece to the cardstock and THEN sew the fabric over it. Would have saved some time stuffing in the fleece.
I really never know where I'm going when I start a card. It is really rare that I use sketches, or pull products before hand. I truly just go with the flow. Once I had the fabric base done it was about 10 more min to finish up the card. Usually my mojo takes longer than that though ;)
Hope that's a little bit of insight into how I go about crafting...
Lulu
22 comments:
WOW! This is FANTASTIC!! Thanks for the info on how to do this! I might have to give it a try!
What a cool idea! and a wonderful card too! TFS
This is so great! I'm glad I got to see it before I come back and see "Up for Publication" because I'm sure someone is going to snatch this one up! It's so cute!
Good idea!
And very pretty card.
hugs, moi
What a great idea! I love your card so much!
Ellen
What a great idea & it's beautiful. I'll definitely look for this in the March issue of Cards:)
What an awesome card! I have been making fabric cards lately, too. Nothing as fab as this though. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! This is fantastic!
beautiful card! LOVE the colors :)
I have done this before and I did find sewing after I put the stuffing behind the fabric was easier and faster, but that was the sewer in me thinking that.
How clever. Thanks for sharing your lovely card! Amy Tara
Great idea! So cute!
oh my word!! I love your cards, but this one is just rediculous!! (um, in a good way LOL) LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!
Lovely!!!
Thank you for the inspiration!
Smart idea! It made a really cute card!!
wowzer that is a fab card and really nice how you talked us through it's development x
Bravo! I love it!
Oh my goodness I think I love this card! it make sthe cutest effect!!!!
Amazing! It's just so interesting and different! I'm so glad you explained how you did it AND how you would do it next time! I was looking at the part about making x's with the xacto knife and was pretty sure I would cut through the cloth that way (I'm dangerous with that knife - use it very, very seldom because I want to keep all of my fingers!). I think I'll try it with the fleece adhered first. You do need to publish this one!
Excellent work!
This is amazing! really creative!
OH MY WOW! This is AMAZING! Fun stuff!
This is just amazing! Oh my gosh. Fantastic. Stunning. super cute. You take the cake!
SO, SO, SO CUTE!!!! I'm like you and have some pink material lying around the house...3 boys later, I might as well use it!!!
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