Hi everyone! Are you ready for some more paper piecing ideas? I have lots of paper piecing goodness to share with you today (plus a video) so let’s get right to it!

To kick things off, I bring you Laura Griffin and her adorable skating mouse card. Mr. Mouse looks so cute all dressed up for winter! Here’s Laura with more: “When it comes to paper piecing, only your imagination is the limit! You can stamp your own textures, use patterned paper, or just stamp elements onto plain cardstock for a fun layered look. When Tami asked me to create a design for this week’s theme, I knew I had to use Hero’s new Dancing Mouse image. I think he looks a little more like a skater, don’t you? He’s been dying to go for a spin around the local pond bundled in his favorite winter scarf and sweater.”

Supplies:

• Dancing Mouse
• Clear Design: Holiday Sayings
• Prisma Glitter
• Winter Mixed Notecards
• Winter Chalk Ink Queue (French Blue)
• Diamond Stickles
• White Embossing Powder
• VersaMark
• VersaColor Bamboo Ink Cube
• Other: Copic markers, patterned paper (Making Memories), black ink, white cardstock, McGill retro word window punch

Now, watch Laura’s video below to learn more about paper piecing, as well as creating your own free-form elements like the icy pond shown on her card.

Next, I created a card with the same sentiment as Laura’s and decided to pair it with the tree from the Clear Design: Holiday Dolls set. The “zig-zaggy” nature of this tree is great for piecing. Just trim right along the dotted garland sections and reassemble. I thought it would be fun to give the tree some personality, so half of the tree is pieced with green grid patterned paper and the other half is pieced with a design I stamped — the Antique Flower Background. I ended up creating another tree with the leftover pieces, couldn’t let them go to waste!

Did you notice the other bit of piecing here? It’s the scalloped rectangle from the Clear Design: Large Christmas Tags, which makes not only a great tag, but a great image frame as well. I stamped the image once in Broken China ink onto white cardstock and again in black ink on kraft dot paper to capture the inner frame portion.

Supplies:

• Clear Design: Holiday Dolls
• Clear Design: Large Christmas Tags
• Clear Design: Holiday Sayings
• Antique Flower Background
• Distress Ink - Broken China, Shabby Shutters
• Memories Black Ink
• Citron Gemstones
• Other: cardstock, patterned paper (stripe - American Crafts, kraft dot - Making Memories, green grid - Colorbok), Bazzill Dotted Swiss white cardstock, white pen, paper piercer, Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Last but not least, I invited Kelly Rasmussen to come play, and here’s the super sweet baby card she came up with. She pieced both the boat and the Write Your Own stamp — double the piecing, double the cuteness! She again shows how stamping the pieces onto small-scale patterned papers can give great results.

Supplies:

• Clings: Write Your Own
• Clear Design: Baby
• Clear Design: Precious Baby Boy
• Clear Mixed Gemstones
• Other: cardstock, patterned paper, buttons, scallop border punch, brown ink, pop dots

I hope you’re feeling inspired to try some paper piecing this week! I’m impressed with the wonderful paper pieced cards that are popping up in the Flickr group. Awesome! Remember, you have until this Sunday at 11:59pm PST to submit your creations for the challenge.

Shari will be here tomorrow to announce the winners of her ATC challenge and I’ll be back on Friday with more paper piecing ideas…with a twist!