Partial Piecing- A tutorial

With paper piecing being all the rage, I wanted to show you how I was able to piece just part of an image for a whole new look.

Now, you may be thinking, well why don't you just color the bears? But take a closer look.
See how the background is all yellow patterned paper? I wouldn't have been able to make the Mommy bear pink against that yellow. And see all that gorgeous texture in the Mommy bear? Let me show you how I got there.

I love this image by Melanie Muenchinger. It's from the "Cuddles & Hugs" stamp set. I began by stamping the image on to a piece of Basic GreyTwo Scoops 6X6 patterned paper in pink. Then, I stamped it again on a piece of the yellow.



You can see that I carefully trimmed our the Pink bear. 
Next, I used a Koh-i-noor brown pencil and added a little brownish fur to the baby bear.



I blended the pencil using some Gina K. Designs Odorless Mineral Spirits and a blending stump.



Then, using mono-adhesive, I pieced the pink bear and her claw to the yellow picture.



If you look around the baby's face, you can see that I used a little bit of pink pencil to fill in the part of the Mommy bear that was missing. I tried to piece it but it didn't look right against the baby bears cheek and this looked so much better so I went with it.

I added some machine stitching and then I hand-sewed on three Basic Grey buttons from the Two scoops collection.

Card details:
Stamps- Cuddles & Hugs
Paper- Patterned paper- Two Scoops 6 x 6 paper pad by Basic Grey, Stampin' Up-Not Quite Navy
Ink- Black Stazon
Other- Koh-i-noor pencils, OMS and blending stumps, Basic Grey Two scoops buttons, Janome Sew-mini sewing machine with navy-teal thread, fiskars corner scissors.
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On a personal note, I'm so excited! Alicia, Jessica and I are going to Milwaukee next Tuesday to get Copic Certified. I promise I will share everything I learn with you guys.

Concerning our Copic marker club. The B, C and D final marker shipment went out today for group two with the storage boxes. If you owe a paypal payment, your box is sitting hostage in our office waiting. LOL! We are still waiting for last month's and this month's box A markers. I've been told that they should arrive by the third week of July. So, for those of you who are waiting for last month's shipment, you will receive your storage box with 12 markers, (this month's markers and last month's markers.) So sorry for the delay. We are still waiting for the huge order to start the next club. When they arrive, I will post something here.

Anyway, I hope you liked today's tutorial. I would love to see some of your paper pieced cards using Gina K. Designs stamps. Feel free to post your Gina K. pieced links here.

Have a great day!
Hugs,
Gina K.

Posted by Gina K at 7/8/2008 3:59 PM
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