Sewing and reading

 

I'm here with a mid month reminder with my DT cards for two challenges We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations. 

My first card is for the theme of Stamp of the Moment /Favourite Stamp at We Love Stamping. I love anything sewing related and this card actually has two stamps of the moment. As in the background I have a AAL stamp set and the main image is from Crafters Companion. 

I decided to make a background using the stamps and some splattered paints. I then randomly used a stitched die with no cutting edge over and over the card to look like stitching.  The Daisy Mae rectangle die set then came in useful for mounting. I have struggled for years to find rectangles that are not wide and I love this set.

My second card is for Stamping Sensations where the theme is "I love..." Reading. I'm also a book reviewer if you didn't know and this is my blog Books In My Opinion (BOOKSIMO).

This little lady is from the same range as the first stamp above. I paper pieced her and the chair using some very old SU papers. I couldn't resist using the die from Hunkydory and a sentiment from a MFT set and a Embossing folder from a magazine. 

I made a second version by cutting away the outline of the die and using the left over part from the paper piecing for the chair.

Our winner at We Love Stamping will receive a Santoro collection from Craft Stash and at Stamping Sensations three prizes of Penny Black stamps.