Pootlers Design Team- Lovely Stitching Week 4

Hello bloggists, and thank you for stopping by.

Can you believe it?  The final week of my stint as part of the Pootlers Design Team.   Wow! That’s gone so fast!

I’ve made no secret of the fact that the Lovely Stitching set wasn’t at the top of my wish list, and I had a moment of panic when I saw what we’d been asked to use, followed by total crafter's block.  However, I have found that needing to produce SOMETHING by a particular date is a great way of getting me going and after four weeks I think I've got to grips with it.

Today's card has a surprise inside - it's a pop - up!

This kind of pop-up is one of the easiest to make.  It's called a V-fold (because the bit that makes the pop-up happen is folded in the shape of a V.  One thing that you need to be careful of when making this sort of pop-up is that it doesn't show when the card is closed, so the V needs to be set high enough up on the folded card.  I think I was overly cautious when designing this card though - I could probably have placed my pop-up a bit lower down.  If you look up my YouTube channel you can find the tutorial I made.

And that's it from me for the Pootler's design team.  I've enjoyed my turn, but next week four new team-mates will be showing what they can do with a new set of stamps.  Thank you very much for stopping by!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Pootlers Design Team - Lovely Stitching Week 3

Hello bloggists, thanks for visiting.

Wow, week three of my stint as part of the Pootlers Design Team already - how time does fly!

I'm having so much fun playing with this stamp set!  It reminds me of  being a child learning to embroider.  Knitting and embroidery were the first crafts I learned.  When I was a child it was considered perfectly acceptable to teach girls how to do needlework.  I wasn't too keen on knitting - I didn't really begin to enjoy it until I was much older - but I did like embroidery.

Here's the card.

The wonderful thing about photopolymer is that you can see where you're stamping, so building patterns is a breeze.  

I hope you like it and if so, you'll think about adding this stamp set to your stash.

Thanks for joining me and I hope you'll come back again soon.

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Pootlers Design Team - Lovely Stitching Week 2

Hello bloggists, and thank you for visiting.

Well, my second week as part of the  Pootlers Design Team and Lovely Stitching is growing on me, figuratively speaking. Today I've used some of the stamps to decorate  a little gift box.

I used Soft Sky card and made the roses on top from Peekaboo Peach Ruched Ribbon.   The base of the box is stamped all over and the lid has a border stamp all along the edge.  It was really easy to do because the stamps are photopolymer - which means see-through.  

I CASE'd the box - which is made using the Gift Bag Punch Board - from Claudia Christensen.  There'll be a tutorial on my YouTube channel soon, but meanwhile here are the measurements I used -

Thanks for visiting - come back again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Pootlers Design Team - Lovely Stitching Week 1

What's black and white and red all over?  No, not a penguin with sunburn!

It's my card for the Pootlers' Design Team.  

Each Thursday in August I, and three of my team-mates (you can find out more about us at Pootles.com) will be making something using the same stamp set - Lovely Stitching.

I have to be honest, this wasn't a set that caught my eye in the annual catalogue and I had a few minutes of "what am I going to make with THAT?" before the ideas started coming.  The word "Lovely" caught my eye, and then I associated it with the phrase "Lovely as a tree"...then remembered the tree die that's in the Thoughtful Branches set...which I decided looked good as a silhouette so I decided I'd make a card in black & white...then decided that a pop of colour would be good...and the old joke "what's black & white & red all over?"  came into my head - and there we are.

As well as the die from Thoughtful branches and the stamps from Lovely Stitching I used some of the letters from the Labeller Alphabet, Real Red and Whisper White card, and Real Red and Basic Black ink.  (If you want to see the card being made, there'll be a tutorial on my YouTube channel soon- there's a link over to the right there).

Thanks for visiting - come back again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren