Paper Piecing Made Easy
Hello crafters! Julia here and today I have a card for you showing off the Camping Friends set with a fun technique.
The crafting world is full of mysteries and for the longest time, I wondered by people would pierce paper and why I wasn’t seeing it on their projects. My brain had played tricks on me and one day, I realized I had misread the technique – it’s paper piecing, not piercing. Time to give it a try :)
I am using the new Camping Friends set and die set for this card. In addition, I am creating a background with a stencil and some Distress Inks and my blending tool. That will help my tent pop right off the card.
My contrast color on this card is white, and that’s why I left the grassy border I had die cut with a Lawn Fawn die white. It’s such a lovely contrast against the sun.
You know I like to add extra sparkle to my cards, so I used my Perfect Pearls spray again; in addition I also used some Copics to add shading to my patterned paper which I had glued to the die cut tent shape – hence paper piecing.
Want to see how to create this card from start to finish? Click on the graphic below!
Great card Julia! Love that sunray in the background and the paper piecing is perfect!
Don’t feel bad. First time I saw “paper piecing”, I read it as ‘piercing’, too. But, it was on a blog showing how she made her creation so I got the light bulb early. It’s amazing how our brains will insert letters in text :)
Your card is lovely. The white grass and pretty pastel tent definitely doet stand out against that bright (dawn) sun. I love the papers you chose to piece. They lend a nice whimsy to the scene.
Cute and I just received this stamp set so time to play with it, thanks for sharing
Super cute, Julia!
The misreading of piecing happened to me too. I kept asking where is the piecing part? Then I reread it. lol, There are paper piercing techniques which is really what threw me and took me twice as long to figure it out. The card looks great. I enjoyed the video and gave it a thumbs up!
Oh wow! I love the backgorund!!!! Beautiful colours!!!