Paper Piecing Technique with CrafTangles Products

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Today, I’m  using the new Hello Baby stamp set together with the Pretty Plaid paper pad to show you a technique called Paper Piecing.  I’ve done a step by step tutorial as well.

Step By Step Tutorial on Paper Piecing

1. To begin you need to stamp out the image on your choice of cardstock.  I have chosen the CrafTangles Hello Baby stamp set and CrafTangles Desert Sand.

3.  Stick the star and the bear’s tummy onto the original image with a little glue.

4. To finish the card I used star punches in 2 sizes.  After punching out the stars I went round them with a black marker and added a sentiment in the large star.

5. To finish I added some CrafTangles wooden star shaker embellishments to finish.

Once you’ve had a go with the technique you can use different colours and elements.  Here are a couple of other examples:

So for this one I’ve used the same image but I’ve paper pieced the body of the bear and the ears as it reminds me of a child’s sleep suit.  I’ve added stitched dies and cloud punch outs to finish together with a sentiment.

For my final card, I’ve used a number of colours to paper piece the image and the cutest of sentiments from the same stamp set.