Hope- new McMahon Five Designs BCA freebie

 I have Blog candy HERE- it ends tonight- I will be home from work ~ 9PM EST, so By 10 PM.....

  I have been inspired to make cards for Breast Cancer Awareness this month. McMahon Five Designs   new BCA freebie is released today, so I used it for my card.

   Such a fun image, isn't it???  You can find it HERE in the McMahon Five Designs store in the Breast Cancer charity. I used Mountain Rose cardstock- love the color and ohhh so shimmery- it is one of my absolute favorite cardstocks.....!!!  For the next layer- I want to show you a sewing tip- you can use your straight edge punches around curves- just like you are sewing in a sleeve or around a neck line.......
  First, I drew a circle for my Sketch from Card Patterns:

 Yes, I traced around the masking tape and cut out the DSP.......

Next, I punched out the straight edged punch. I liked how this design goes with the tail of the bird:

 This will go around the circle......seriously.......
 How you ask???

 Cut notches in the edging of the punch- come up to ~ 1/8 inch from the decorative edge.  Notice the Rt end of the punched strip......if the punch is wider, you will want the notches wider on the bottom too, so the punch will curve smoother- so can you see the difference between the notches on the Rt and Lt end???
 Next is the test.......you may need to practice a few times if this is new to you.......

 Sorry the picture is a bit blurry- I have applied tape to the bottom side of the edge of my circle, and have started slowly easing the punched edge to it.

 There you go- what do you think???

 Next, I colored my image with Copics and added shimmer with a Sakura Gelly Roll Pen.  The bird die is a Tim Holtz and is cut out of more pink cardstock- love the pink and the Kraft colored cardstock together! The cardstock is Safari Brown and it is texturized in columns- looks awesome IRL as a birdcage too....... I added some pearls to the birdcage and added a row of Cluny lace with a Zig Zag. 
  I added pink silk ribbon and more lace to the side with a Zig Zag stitch and added more pearls.  I added one more little embellishment- I made a decorated Pretty as we call it in the Technique Junkies- that is the flower which is colored with Pink Copic markers.

  My tutorial showing a straight edge punch as the outer border of a card is HERE.
The technique also works with lace- that tutorial is HERE

If you would like to see more samples- the technique was the Monday Technique on Splitcoaststampers- you can look at the technique gallery TLC320 for more inspiration HERE

For basic information regarding sewing on cards, HERE is that tutorial.

Challenges for today:
Card Patterns- Sketch 138
Craft your passion- Kraft
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet- anything goes
Outlaws- greeting challenge- Pink Awareness
Scrappy Frog- something that flies
ODBD- Geometric shapes
Clearly Inspired- Pink
Frosted Designs- Friday- use fancy trim- I have Cluny lace and the altered punched trim
Inspire Me Fridays-anything goes
Paper Cutz- Pink for BCA


Thanks for stopping by!
Shelly

Fun with punches!!!

I recently wrote a TUTORIAL for using your straight edge punch on a curved or circular edge, and it is the theme for the try this technique on SCS today!  It is a wonderful way to be able to use your tools that you already have in another way.  I showed the technique to my friend Kim, and she made this card for a workshop that I recently attended:

 Kim and I met in a sewing/Smocking guild years ago- the technique is really a sewing skill- you attach lace to a curve, you snip it to lay flat.  So, Kim added a touch of snipped lace between her circular layer and the scalloped edge. 
 (If you do not have a fabric border on your lace, just gently gather it and work with it until it lays flat- the wider the lace, the more gathered it will have to be to lay flat on a curve.)

 Here is the lace laying flat.  You can snip it like this, or cut out little triangles.  If you do just snip it as above, as it goes around a curve the snipped edges will overlap and will add bulk under the curve. It worked out OK with this tiny lace edge, but if it were wider or thicker, the snips would have to be little triangles instead of straight snips into the edge.
 The background is Versamark resist, then we sponged over that with Sahara Sand ink.  Of course, I love this set, so had to buy it......!

Thanks for stopping by! Shelly