Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Stars & Stamps and Michelle Perkett Studio


Michelle Perkett Studio and OWH's Stars and Stamps blog joined together to challenge cardmakers to create birthday cards using Michelle Perkett's images. This digital stamp, Mary Margaret, has an apple in her hands but I gave her a birthday package to hold for this card. It is an old stamp from The Cat's Pajamas. The clothes were paper pieced which was a little bit of a challenge as one has to run the papers through the printer. I used solid origami papers which I tacked to a base of text weight paper before running them through the printer. The bits and pieces were cut out and glued to a previously colored print of Mary Margaret.
Thanks to Michelle for the challenge and the freebie of Mary Margaret she offered to the Stars and Stamps blog recently. How kind! Check out the Michelle Perkett Studio blog. http://michelleperkettstudio.blogspot.com/

7 comments:

Jan Hunnicutt said...

I love what you did with Mary Margaret, I noticed the present right away! Very cool! It's kind of scary running the patterned papers through the printer isn't it? I always say a little prayer that it doesn't jam in my printer!

Thanks for playing along with us this week at Michelle Perkett Studio!! You can enter this card in the OWH Midweek Throwdown challenge too, it's a birthday card challenge too. ;)

Michelle said...

Martha, this is the cutest!! I love how you colored Mary Margaret and that you put a present in her hand! I love the background paper, so fun!! Thank you for joining us at MPS this week Martha!!

Marilyn Webb said...

Hi Martha!
What a great idea, giving Mary Margaret a present. I love your paper piecing, its perfect for the image, and done to perfection! Thanks for joining us at MPS this week, hope to see you next week.
hugs Marilyn

Marilyn Webb said...

Hi Martha!
What a great idea, giving Mary Margaret a present. I love your paper piecing, its perfect for the image, and done to perfection! Thanks for joining us at MPS this week, hope to see you next week.
hugs Marilyn

Tammy said...

Awww this is adorable Martha!! I love how you added the present...perfect for a birthday card! Thank you for joining MPS this week!
Tammy x

Unknown said...

This is great!! I love how you colored her & the gift! Thanks for playing with us at MPS!
Shelley :)

Mari Harpham said...

Martha, how clever to put a gift in Mary Margarets hands. I love it. Thank you for joining us at MPS. I hope you join us again soon. I can't wait to see what you do next.