Sewing Card

I haven't done any cards for almost two weeks, must be a record for me, and now I am back in production, I have loads of design team and magazine commissions to catch up with that I can't share with you - yet. So here is a quick card I made for a recent issue of Papercraft Inspirations magazine, the brief was to make a card with a sewing theme. I cut up a tape measure for the side border, the scissors are a negative part of a peel-off, and the needle is a real one with a blob of glue on the end so that the recipient doesn't stab themselves

I pleated the paper to look like fabric, and all the little background squares are stitched to look like a quilt. The words 'it seams' were done on the computer, and the little birthday sentiment is by Hero Arts. Be sure to pop over to the Papercraft Inspirations blog, there are always lots of freebie downloads on there
Talking of magazines, my friend and teamie from Funky Hand and Polkadoodles, Kath Stewart, was crowned the winner of the Cardmaker of the Year last year by Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine here in the UK. This months issue has her first published cards, and they are simply gorgeous, be sure to pick up a copy. Way to go Kath, hoping we see lots and lots of your stuff in the future. I dashed (well, hobbled is more accurate) to get the magazine yesterday, and decided to have a coffee and read it in the sunshine. I sat outside Costa, and a woman asked if she could sit at my table. Of course I don't mind, come and sit down and be bored witless by me, I burbled on and on and on, showing her the cards Kath had made, rabbiting on about the craft world. In the end she escaped, saying apologetically "I only came into town to pick up the sunday paper".......poor woman