Saturday 16 February 2013

Tatty Button "Just Swingin'"

Apologies for being A.W.O.L. for a few days. We have been really busy getting ready for the Stitches Trade Show in Birmingham. Tomorrow will be my first visit to the show so I am really looking forward to that.

Today's blog post shows one of the new Spellbinders die sets, called Just Swingin'.



It is a really pretty die, which incorporates its own frame. I cut the image first in a dark brown colour and then cut a second image in a bright green card. I snipped the leaves sections from the brown tree and paper-pieced the green leaves in their place. The set comes with two dies to cut two lengths of rope, plus a seat die (which I cut in brown card) and a rubber tyre shape die. I used bakers twine instead of cutting the rope shapes. The character is Tatty Button from Creative Expressions. I stamped and coloured the image and then cut it out. It was a perfect fit for the seat of the swing. I layered these pieces onto a piece of white card, which I had lightly inked using Distress Ink pads and a piece of torn paper, to create a background of sky and rolling countrywide.

The base of the card was made from the same dark brown card (as used for the tree trunk and frame) and two co-ordinating pale blue papers from the Creative Expressions Foundations paper range. I edged the polka dot paper with a Spellbinders edgeabilities die, so that I could thread some blue and green American Seam Binding ribbon, adding a bow, with a pale blue frosted Dazzler in the centre.

The fence was cut from a piece of metallic pewter card, using the Spellbinders D-Lites die called Wrought Iron. 

The sentiment comes from the "Tatty's Text" stamp set in the Tatty Button range.

The card was completed by adding a couple of the metal corner embellishments from Creative Expressions.

I hope this project inspires you - it was great fun creating it.

Happy crafting!

15 comments:

  1. Great Card Tracey! Love, Julia xxx

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    1. Thanks Julia - you were quick off the mark! 1st person to comment today. See you at the show tomorrow xx

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  2. Fab card, those spellbinders are fab x

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  3. Great card fabulous doe and lovely paper piecing!!
    xx

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  4. Fabulous card loving the dies. Chris xx

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  5. Great card, love the frame and swinging Tatty Button.

    Sylvia xx

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  6. love how the light area is framed and draws the eye. Lovely card :)

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  7. This is great, like the way you used the fence die.
    Enjoy the show.
    Linbyx

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  8. Hello, Fabulous card and image, she is adorable. Great colours and love the ribbons. Holpe you enjoy the show. Lisa :)

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  9. HI Tracey what a beautiful card love the new spellbinders dies you have used thanks

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  10. Great card - that image is lovely and fab set of dies. Helen x

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  11. What a lovely card, Tracey. The new dies are great, and the Tatty Button image is so sweet x

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  12. A great card, a lot of thought has gone into the making of it. Can't wait to get the 'Just Swinging' die

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  13. Great use of the spellbinders - fabulous card.

    Joan x

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