Patchwork cards

Hi! thought I would share with you some 

new "patchwork" cards I have made. 

I just thought these were a bit different and 

something I have been wanting to try for a while.

This first card is a regular pattern patchwork card...

 

It is made of 9 squares of paper, cut from Pink Petticoat papers. 

Each square has been inked around the edges and a little faux-stitching

has been added with a fineliner pen. 

I dry embossed a simple line around the edge of the squares.

I stamped the sentiment and added a couple of punched butterflies,

with a little sparkly gem on each.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The sisterhood of crafters - sentiment  focal point - 8 Sept

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 Sept

Crafty Calendar - atg - 1 Sept

Di's digi challenge - lots of squares - 30 Aug

Creations in pink -  mainly pink - 15 Sept

This second patchwork card is more of an irregular patchwork, made for my friend.

She loves these muted, neutral colours. 

I took a couple of papers that worked well together 

and careful cut a different sized piece from each paper. 

It was trickier than I thought, to get all the pieces to match up 

while making a patchwork effect. 

Like the last card, I inked the edges of each piece and used a brown fineliner pen to 

draw some faux-stitching around the edge of each piece. 

Again, the sentiment was stamped and punched butterflies were added. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon says stamp - atg - 3 Sept

Paper funday - atg - 2 Sept

Sparkles - use at least 3 patterned papers - 15 Sept