You know how sometimes once you get going, you can't stop yourself, and by the time you're done you wish you'd quit about an hour before??? This is that card.
The gingerbread man is stamped & then paper-pieced with misc. brown paper. His 'frosting' is coloured in with white gel pen, star buttons sewn on, and googly eyes glued on. OK.
While he's drying, I make the card base. The paper is not quite wide enough, so I leave a little white border on the top & bottom. OK.
I decide to paper-pierce these white edges. OK.
I use a cutter-bug piercer, which generally puts a dent rather than a hole. I go over these dents with my actual piercer....and rip a hole. OK. Dangit. Now what?
I used my teeny scissors to cut a 'fringe' of sorts from each pierced hole to the edge. Tedious, but not wrecked. OK.
Decide to put a French knot in the centre of each candy-thingy on the brown paper. There's only 6 of them, it should be fine. OK.
Lay the now-dry gingerbread panel on top. Decide it looks too plain. Cut two strips of candy-thingys from coordinating paper. Glue them on. Decide they should really have French knots too, to match the other ones. OK.
Get about halfway through sewing little red French knots when I realize - I am about to run out of that colour red floss. OK.
I have 12 other red flosses, but obviously none that match. FINE.
Take out some of the red French knots & start 'purposely' putting in some white knots to mix it up. OK. Back on track!
Adhere the gingerbread man with foam tape, and decide that it looks too plain around him. Decide to sew on buttons. (OMG, didn't the French knots cause enough grief!!!)
Sew on the buttons. Stab finger repeatedly.
Finish card. Hate it thoroughly. Get a bandaid.
Took about 2.5 hours to complete.
At least I'm not a quitter! (snort)
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 GMT Views: 292
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Wed, Nov 26, 2008 @ 12:11 AM
cute gingerbread man
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