Backyardigan Halloween

Here is my son as Pablo Penguin from the Backyardigans. The LO is inspired from a 2007 pagemaps. Cardstock is standard and Moxxie. I used rickrack from Hobby Lobby's little 99cent spools and ribbon from Michael's. I frayed the ends of the rick rack, then stapled the two in place. I stamped the leaves and acorn from Stampin' Up's Day of Gratitude set in Timber Brown, Blazing Red, Cactus Green, and Forest Green Staz-On. I cut them out and crumpled them to give them an aged and dried out look. The pumpkins are pieced from SU's Pumpkin Pie with the Wide Oval and circle punches, then inked in retired Only Orange. Pablo is the paper piece from the previous blog entry and the title is cut with Cricut's Don Juan font. Thanks for looking! April

Pablo Paper Piecing

My son loves the Backyardigans, so I decided to do a special piece for one of his LOs. (It will be in the next posting.) I found the image on Yahoo! images, then dropped it into a document to resize it. After printing, I used a pencil to trace the image on the back side to have a sort of carbon transfer, then traced the needed pieces on the selected cardstock. I used retired SU colors Brilliant Blue, Yo Yo Yellow, Bordering Blue and Barely Banana. For his propeller, I used thin satin ribbon, made a bow, then cut the tails. The image on the left is the printed image and the one of the right is the finished paper piecing. Thanks for looking! April