Tammy's Scraping Corner Challenge #51 - Paper Piecing

I have the pleasure of being your Guest DT today at Tammy's Scrapin Corner!  

 Paper Piecing Challenge!

I will honestly admit to ALL of you that I have

 NEVER 

done Paper Piecing before and 

actually had to watch a few tutorials and look for examples.

  I'm hoping that my interpretation of this is correct. 

 I'm learning that this IS a learning process for me and

 I'm grateful to everyone who posts instructions and 

step by step photos to

 help the rest of us create the best possible

 art that we can.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

  Bugaboo Stamps 

and Tammy sent me a couple of great images

 to work with her Paper Piecing Challenge!

I just adore Jesse Bear Angel - Cloud Sitter!

Originally I wanted to distress the 

cloud "background" paper

 (which is actually just parchment paper)

 and I crumpled it ripped the edges and took a nail file to some of it. 

 I liked the look of it 

until 

I attempted to distress the edges and 

used the wrong color ink. 

 No match - 

back to the drawing board!

Try number 2 

 Plan  "B" - ended up getting a coat of 

Goosebumps

 for added texture and shine and 

I was happy with that plan.

I embossed and cut out my image and

 repeated the same mistake with the

 wrong color ink and ended up cutting out 

ANOTHER 

Jesse and using the cut out as my base to add my layers (pieces)

This worked,

 (Thanks Goodness!)

Now I'm getting ready to put it all together.

By the way, the reason Jesse is

 "BLUE"

 is that I just received my very first set of

 Spectrum Noir  markers

(I've only ever had some 30 year old

 watercolor pencils that I've been using). 

I bought the 4 pen set (Christmas Bundle) from 

Crafter's Companion 

and I had lots of blue, red, green but very little browns in the

 Essential pack that came with it,

 (next purchase or hopefully WINNING them somehow)

 will be some browns and yellows and pinks and purples and.....

The sentiment is from a VERY old 

(15+ years) called

 Celestial Projects from

 The Rubber Stamp Factory 

which was purchased at WalMart.  

I love the sentiment and use it on quite a few of my cards. 

 I embossed it with

 Zing

 Brown Sugar Opaque Powder

 and once it dried I applied a layer of the

 Goosebumps

 (texture spray) to it

I added some Crystal Sparkles (Tulip Productions)

on the bottom edges of the sentiment and

 randomly on the background.

Gold glitter on Jesse's halo and the starts and some clear on his wings and the cloud.

I'm eagerly awaiting comments on 

whether or not the 

whole process was done correctly, 

so let 'em fly ya'll!!!

Now get out there and win some freebies from Tammy!

Good Luck!

Blessings.

Trudy

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