A Good Friend is like a warm quilt gift set

Hello my blogging friends!  Today I want to share a gift set I made with this month's Our Daily Bread designs release, Flower Border, Sewn with Love and also a previous release from the Garden Series,  Dahlia. 

I put my sentiment on the inside of this card, stamping the Sewn with Love sentiment with Memento Ink, and softly stamping off the Dahlia image before stamping all around the background for the sentiment.  I matted this with dp from the K & Co Julianne pack I used for the rest of the set. 

For the card front, I used the Flower Border which is made to fit the Spellbinders Labels Eighteen to frame my little mini quilt.  This tiny quilt and the one in the top of the box were made with 1 1/4" squares of silk fabric from a decorators book to which I adhered shipping labels to the back side, so they had some ridigity and would not unravel while I worked.  Perhaps some of you remember the "folded star" quilts many of us made in the 80s.... a great way to make a quilted project without actually stitching patches together.  Well, I used the same principle to make this, folding each square in half diagonally and adhering to a square of shipping label, sticky side up and folded side toward the middle.  I began with the center square and just added layers moving out and keeping it square as I could.  When I had completed it, I used fabric glue to secure the edges and cut my backing to size.  I was then able to add a paper frame which I wrapped around the quilt, and added adhesive to the back of the paper shipping label I built this on, and adhere that to my card.  I wanted to show this gorgeous floral frame in a different way, because it's so beautiful in it's own right that it really can be a show stopper even without a focal stamp inside of it.  I colored it with Copics, highlighted with Spicas and sponged with Distress Ink (Brushed Corduroy).  I also lightly stamped the same Dahlia image as a background print.

The card itself is made with 5/8" squares punched from various dps from the K&Co pack and carefully placed around the outside border of my blue mat after sponging each square.  I added the SB Label 18 with the quilted element, then pierced a pattern around it.  The card is finished off with May Arts Ribbon and Prima Flowers, along with some MS Punched boughs.

 

The box is a chipboard box that I covered with the dp and simply made another little quilt element for the inside.  I decorated it to match.

I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I did making it!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Heart Song Inspirations - Shabby Chic style and/or use Pearls, Karens Doodles -Use Your Punchers and Die Cuts, Make it Monday - always Anything Goes, Paper Creations Ink - Flowers, Paper Playtime -  Anything Goes, Paper Pretties -- Colours: Blue, Brown and Choice, Stamps R Us -  Anything Goes, Woodware USA -  Try a New Technique (fabric folded quilt), Allsorts - You've been Framed, Designed 2 Delight - Anything Goes, Crazy 4 Challenges - #C4C101 Bingo* (diagonal: square card, die cuts, 2+ DPS), Fussy and Fancy -  use three or more of your favorite embellishments flowers, ribbon, MS punched boughs), Inspire Me Fridays - always anything goes,  Phindy’s Place -  something new ( ODBD flower border stamp and fabric quilt technique), Poodles Parlour -  anything goes, Simply Create -  distress (used distress inks), Paper Crafting Journey -  Anything Goes

Have a blessed week!