Tonight I'm excited to be able to share a Mother's Day gift and card ensemble, PaperTrey Ink style. I found two of these frames on a clearance table outside a card store a couple of years back and added them to the stash, knowing that they would eventually come in handy. Having gotten this sweet picture of my mom and my little niece, and having a new PaperTrey Ink "Mother" set to use with it, it was finally time to let go of my last frame. . . Why?
My mom deserves it! She's a gentle soul, and I could almost feel her comforting my niece in this picture. She's talented, generous, gracious, diligent, kind, and altogether lovely. I am truly thankful for her and blessed by her. When I saw the sentiment about being comforted by her presence, my mind turned first to "comforter" and next to "quilt." Ah Ha--I have a quilt set or two!
For the paper-pieced quilt, I took one of Nichole's quilt squares from Quilter's Sampler, and made a larger version that would fill almost the width of my 4" x 6" opening. I saved it as a .jpg template and printed it on three different colors of 2008 Bitty Dot Basics paper, then cut, pieced, and stitched it all together. (Nichole is making a printable .pdf copy of directions for all of our projects available here on her blog.)
The sentiment over the quilt is from the new Mother set, stamped in Berry Sorbet and die-cut with a Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio die.The button is a PaperTrey Vintage button, and ribbon is Berry Sorbet Satin.
For the card, I used squares from Quilter's Sampler, again stamped on the 2008 Bitty Dot Basics paper and sewn together. If I were doing it again, I might try embossing them in detail white embossing powder rather than stamping them in black ink, because I think they would go better with the framed quilt that way. As long as I spent sewing those together though, I wasn't inclined to redo it--not just yet anyway!
I'm looking forward to seeing what the other girls came up with: Niki Estes, Nichole, Mish Wooderson, Melissa Phillips, Lisa Johnson, Lauren Meader, Heather Nichols, Geny Cassady, Dawn McVey, Betsy Veldman, and Becky Oehlers
I hope you get a chance to visit these blogs--I'm guessing that you'll come away with some great ideas. Thank you for visiting!
