Back during the Holiday catalog when the Quilt stamp set and Builder's framelits were so popular I constantly perused Pinterest for ideas to share with my customers and prepare for the Christmas card stacks. So of course my feed still shows me quilts on a regular basis. Well, guess what showed up? Just in the middle of Sale-A-Bration this cute panda quilt showed up. And of course I needed to make a card.
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There was a lot of 'how do I start this' whirling in my mind but then it was clear that I needed to stamp the panda from "Party Pandas" and find out what hole punch would work the best. Turned out the 1" got all of the head except the ears. Ahh, but the ears could be added later. Then, where do I start? So after laying out the circles it became clear that they overlapped about half of each. Working from the bottom I penciled in lines every half inch. My working diagram is below:
I laid out all of the pieces and then took this photo so that I would have my reference. The ears were punched out of black with the 1/4" hand held punch and glued to the back of the head with a dot of Tombow.
Starting at the top each circle was added with Tombow (gives a little more time to adjust) following the pencil grid. Any circles overlapping the edges were trimmed with my scissors by turning the piece over and following the edge of the cardstock. Any pencil marks were erased and then the piece was embossed with the Quilt embossing folder, added to a piece of retired DSP and then to the card base. I used Very Vanilla to stamp the panda and the card base. The background is Soft Sky and the circles are cut from the Bundle of Love DSP.
Hope you enjoyed my interpretation. Sorry it took me so long to share. Have a great day!
