Bellaholicsanonymous Anything Goes Challenge

Happy Black Friday everyone! I hope all of you survived and enjoyed your Thanksgiving yesterday! Today is the last Friday of the month which means its my turn to issue a challenge as one of the Challenge Queen's for the Bellaholicsanonymous Yahoo group. Sooooo, this is the challenge: Create a Stamping Bella card or project that uses Paper Piecing. That's it, your card must have something on it that has been paper pieced and for quick step by step, you can follow my first ever mini tutorial.

Step one: Choose your image and paper. I used Stella because she has a larger open area for her dress in order to really show off the designer paper I'm using. Stamp your image onto your white card stock (you can see I started coloring her skin), then stamp your image again onto your desired pattered paper (smaller patterns work best). As you can see I stamped Stella a few times before getting the right flowers for the inside of her dress.

Step two: Take a fine pair of scissors and cut just around the outside of the black line of your stamped image (in this case I want just the inside of Stella's dress).

Step three: Color your image (yes I colored Stella's hair purple, after all it's my coloring book and I can even color outside the lines if I wanna, lol).

Step four: Take and run a line of glue around the outer edges of the back of your cut out piece and carefully glue in place.

Step five: Cut image to desired size, mat and use on your card or project. As the final step for my wacky Stella card I then added purple Stickles in Stella's hair and Spica glitter pen to her crown, wand, dress and shoes.

I'm so excited for all of you to participate in this challenge and can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! This challenge is for anyone, not just Bellaholics members so please feel free to play along! If you create a project for this challenge please leave me a comment on this post and link to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, I'd love to see what you created!

Thanks