Going to Pieces with the Crazies

Jessie is the hostess with the mostest for the Crazy4Challenges this month.  This week she challenged us to use paper piecing.  Well, I have not had much time for stamping lately, so when I do get down to the stampcave, I try to use some of those 'unused' 'toys' I just had to have.  Well this pincushion stamp and the sentiment were some I just had to have from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I paper pieced the pincushion with two of the designer papers I used in the border quilt, the dotted and striped ones. 

Be sure to check out the piecing skills of the rest of this fabulous team at the Crazies Blog.

The CCEE'ers Are Around the Block

Sabrina once again issued the CCEE Stampers a technique challenge.  We were to use blocking.  The style she wanted us to use was blocking with paper, not just stamps.  I sort of broke the rules a bit as I did not use a variety of colors.  Instead, I stamped background patterns on various pieces and the large sentiment on a last piece.  However, my blocking is in the correct style.  I used a new flower die I have from Memory Box along with some black bling.  I'm not sure why I don't use paper blocking more often as I do love the simple drama of that style.

So....now it is time to visit the CCEE Blog and see what my fellow 'blockheads' created.