Today is the last Friday of the month so this will be my final Frugal Friday Tip! I hope you have enjoyed them! Today's tip is to purchase a heart-shaped piece of Plastic Canvas like so:
Now I do not remember how to do counted-cross-stitching, but I picked up one of these at Walmart a while back. You can get any shape but I like the hearts because you get lines going straight across, curved and angled (like for a square). This one template will let you take your piercing tool and create a perfect line of holes for paper piercing. After punching holes in your cardstock, run a white gel pen, or any marker of your choice along the lines and it looks like you stitched your card! So fun!! I love it when one product can do so many different things!Now if you tuned in yesterday you will recall that Donna asked me to GO GREEN! I shared a card that had a lot of green in it. She asked me to see how many shades of green I could get on one card. Well guess what? I did it again, only this time the entire card is green! The only exception is the doodle dots and they are shimmery and the flowers are yellow. Here was my inspiration:
You see that little square pillow in the photo? Well I wanted to create a card using that as my inspiration. I got a good start and then got stuck so my right hand (wo)man, Christina, inspired me. So here is my card just as green as it gets:
I used VersaMark on each panel to stamp an image from the Sprigs stamp set. The sentiment was from a special stamp set that was offered in January, I believe. I love buttons and wanted to use them on this card. So here is how it turned out! I hope you all like it!!!Angel Hugs,
9 comments:
Great tip, Bridgett, I use plastic canvas for piercing all the time, but I hadn't thought about how versatile the hears ones would be
Wow! I love it. Looks so fresh and summery. I just bought some daisies. I'll have to try some version of this. Thanks for the inspiration.
LOVE LOVE IT! You even included my favorite embellishment BUTTONS! perfect summery pillow perfection! Say that 5 times fast!
Canvas rocks for piercing... I have a big rectangle, circle, and a star... so many neat ways to use them. Awesome card, So pretty!
Bridgette: Ifound a design challenge at this site: http://www.papertreypaperdolls.blogspot.com/ It reminds me of the card you made so I had to get busy and do one too. Like you I have bunches of scrap paper that needs to be used. You can see mine on my blog.
I love plastic canvas ... I use it to line up my brads or eyelets.
Great tip! I like how you stacked the buttons, going to have to remember that and use it soon! TFS!
I've played with square and circle plastic canvas but not heart shapes! Great idea. And I love your "green" card... great flowers!
I Love plastic canvas for stamping. Wonderful ways to use the buttons and I like the sprigs, nice touch
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