Apr 24 2008
A Happy Birthday Princess
Hi! Time for Julia’s WT challenge at Splitcoast! Today’s challenge is to use your scissors. I know this will come as a shock to some of you 
but the first thing I thought of was paper-piecing. I used the Once Upon a Time set by Lizzie Anne Designs.
Happy Birthday, Princess!
Lots of cutting here! First I stamped the castle onto the white paper, then I stamped it again onto the shimmery pink paper. I cut it from the pink paper and adhered it to the white paper using pop dots. I cut out the tiny flags and attached them.
Next I stamped the girl twice onto white paper (not the big white piece you see here) and once more onto the pink. One of the white images I cut out and colored (raised on pop dots) and the other white image was just for her arms (which I cut out as one piece). The ‘arms’ piece had to be cut separately because the hands are over the dress but I wanted the top of her arms tucked under the sleeve poofs. Clear as mud?
When I adhered the dress to the girl, I rolled a pop dot to place under each sleeve. The rolled dot gave those parts the perfect amount of lift.
I cut out the hat from the pink paper (even the strings…I know–insane) and raised it on a pop dot as well.
Thanks for looking at my crazy scissor/paper-pieced card, and I hope you have a great day!
Cardstock: SU Chocolate Chip, Papertrey Ink (white) Patterned Paper: SEI Jolie Chocolat “Papillon” and “Éclair” Stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs “Once Upon a Time” Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black Accessories: Copic markers, black SU marker, Hero Arts Gemstones (2mm), pop dots, glue dots. Card size 5” x 5”.
What a sweet and adorable card, love all the gems
Ok, I would be totally blind if I tried to cut the hat strings! Kudos to you! I just love the corners with bling and who wouldn’t want a beautiful pink castle!!??? I love that background paper too! What a great card!
OMGOSH! This is SO cute! I lOVE the colors, bling, just darling M!
CUTE!!!! I love the piecing and the bling! You have waaaaay more patience than I do!
This is soooooooooo sweet! Love every little detail M!
I love how you did her arms under the poofy sleeves — you are SO creative with all your piecing ideas! (I just bought this set and used it for the first time a couple weeks ago — I had fun with it, but it’s nowhere near as cute as your sample here!). Thanks for the continued inspiration!
I cannot believe you cut the strings on that hat!! AAAAAACK!! SO cute, M!
This is so cute!!! You are crazy…but fabulous! I absolutely love this little princess! I haven’t inked my set up yet as I have no girls
or maybe 
j/k! You did a great job on this!
Very sweet card, and I love the colors!!!
Very pretty.
This is just too sweet a card! A ton of work, but it was definitely worth it. I love the background paper and the flourishes you used for the corners of the white piece. It is so lovely. I like the mix of pink and brown that is just wonderful! All in all, love it!
Oh my gosh, Michele!!!! This card is totally FABULOUS! I love all the paper piecing. Wowza… it’s truly fit for royalty!
What a fabulous card… I love you work!!
Luuuuv-ly!
LOVE it! I think it’s just adorable.
Goodness…that’s a lot of work, but it’s oh sooo cute!! I LOVE it Michele!!
So pretty princess card!
xAndrea