MFT Sweet Safari VIP Collection

It's here...your chance to get brand new stamps and Die-namics a full two weeks before they're released!!!

This month MFT is offering the Sweet Safari VIP Collection for just $33.95. It includes:
Pure Innocence Giraffe Girl stamp set
Pure Innocence Freckles stamp set
Sweet Safari Sentiments mini set (a VIP exclusive set - will never be offered for sale or be available again, a $9 value, FREE)
Large Royal Rose Die-namics die

Be sure to start at the MFT blog for a full list of participating designers showcasing the Sweet Safari VIP Collection.

First up I used Pure Innocence Freckles...she's sooooooooo cute! I just wanna pinch her little freckled cheeks!! And she's an easy one to paper piece, so that's what I did with papers from the My Mind's Eye A Beautiful Life 6x6 pad.

The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black then I cut it out with the oval STAX 2 Die-namics. I can't remember the last time I paper pierced around an image. I did it free hand, just using the embossed edge as a guide and eyeballing the spacing. The card layout is Card Patterns Sketch 160.

Wisteria felt was a perfect match for these papers so I used it to create the Large Royal Rose and added a few twine loops behind it. I can't get enough of my fishtail flags STAX Die-namics dies so I used them to cut out the chevron paper and layered it onto Hot Fudge card stock. The base layers are Fossil and Grape Jelly card stocks.

Next up is the equally adorable Pure Innocence Giraffe Girl. I also wanted to paper piece her top, but it's a little trickier to do so I took photos along the way, which I'll share as you scroll down this post.

I used the new Large Royal Rose Die-namics die to cut out the flower from Fossil card stock then added some plaid leaves which I cut out using the royal leaves Die-namics die.

The layout for this card is the My Time Made Easy sketch 56, and I used the chevron stripes Die-namics to cut out the three horizontal strips. Then I used the narrow banner from the first place award ribbon Die-namics for the sentiment, which is from the exclusive Sweet Safari Sentiments Mini set.

On the inside I added more chevron stripes, stamped Giraffe Girl with Memento Potter's Clay, then added a sentiment from the Pure Innocence Giraffe Girl set. I used the following MFT card stock on this card: Fossil, Hot Fudge, and Orange Fizz

Here's how I paper pieced her shirt:

First I stamped the image two times onto cream card stock and once onto the polka dot patterned paper (from the My Mind's Eye Mabel 6x6 pad). I coloured the parts of the image that I wasn't going to paper piece, including her upper arms (I gave the lower parts of her arms one coat of colour before I realized they'd be covered.

Next I glued on the polka dot shirt layer, which includes the giraffe and her hands, so she looks a little funny at this point.

Then I glued the last layer, the giraffe and the lower parts of her arms (which I coloured with copic markers), and now she looks much better!

Here's a side view to try and show you the three layers of paper piecing.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen