Paper Pieced Love

This week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge was to use paper piecing on your project. Paper piecing's one of my favorite techniques and I had fun making an adorable paper pieced monster for my card.

The monster's a non-scary one from the Paper Smooches Falling for You set. I stamped it on pale pink cardstock, then again on a dotted paper piece. The dotted piece was cut out and set on the pink monster, leaving its horns exposed to show the original pink. I used the same pink for the monster's eyes and tooth. A warm gray Copic marker added a little shading to the image around the arm and near the feet.

It's set on a grass strip, created with a border punch and a piece of very subtly patterned paper from the same paper pad. I added a pair of balloons above the monster, also paper pieced with a dotted pattern. To add dimension, I attached one balloon directly to the cardfront and the second overlapping it using dimensional dots. The balloon strings were drawn in with a black multiliner pen.

I ran a piece of green baker's twine across the grassy strip and secured it with a white button. I used parts of two sentiments from the Paper Smooches Smoocheroos set to get the "love you" sentiment stamped beneath the grassy strip.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Paper Smooches Falling for You and Smoocheroos stamp sets, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic marker (W-1) and multiliner pen, My Mind's Eye Dwell 6x6 paper pad, Divine Twine green apple baker's twine, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Pink Pirouette cardstock (Stampin' Up!); grass border punch (Martha Stewart); white button (Michaels)