hello,baby card...

Making these "paperpiecing" cards brought to mind some very pleasant memories.     My mom was the absolutely most accomplished seamstress for her times.  She could look at a picture and make such beautiful and fashionable creations.   We were poor growing up, but you wouldn't know it by what my mom could pull together.   In addition to her sewing skills, she could knit, crochet and she was also a great cook, even though she had so little to work with.   When ladies of the community were "expecting" and the time to hold a shower was drawing near, she would get what she call "outing"...in appropriate baby colors and white and make the cutest little layette items as her gift....and she was very particular with her seams she always "pinked" them...in her words "the inside needed to look as good as the outside."   So for FreshlyMade Sketch # 323 I got it in my head to "pink the edges" of the paper I was piecing together.   The pinking went fine, using a die cut...but piecing it together was another story altogether--and the bottom card shows how that worked out..........So for the 2nd card which is above I just pieced the paper together like a quilt.  Great sketch and I will be using it again.   I took the very bottom picture to show how much the pieces looked like "fabric swatches" after I ran them through my xyron.   Mother loved fabrics and was always quite proud of her "stash."   If she was living at this time she would have been an avid card maker, WOW she would have been a hard "act" to follow!       Thanks for stopping in!   kathy

Supplies:
pre-cut die hello colored with pool party SU marker
precious little one---to the Moon  Verve stamps
Kimono and booties (digital Cuddly Buddly Crafts) Colored pool party
sequins - tutti fruti  SU current Occasions catalog
ice cream parlor Paper Studio (gray stripes, gingham)
oval stitched dies SU
pink colored pencil and Verve pink sequins
welcome baby die cut from Simon Says