welcome back for day three of the countdown to the papertrey ink april release. for today's take on my new set, modern cross quilt, i decided to focus on the coordinating cover plate and babies. quilts are great for anyone, but images of babies and cribs come to mind pretty quickly when i think of cute quilts. first up, i created a pale gray and white quilt with touches of yellow based on this quilt. i used only the cover plate here without any cross pieces. to get a little texture on the squares, i stamped a cross at an angle on each one and clear embossed them. for the yellow, i simply colored the thin sections between the crosses with a copic marker to mimic the inspiration piece. a little white pen stitching around the edge and a couple of blue enamel dots finish it off nicely. clean, simple, modern & sweet!
next up, one of the first things i thought of when i began playing with the cover plate was to layer rainbow colors of washi tape under the cover plate and i love how it turned out! i don't have any 3/4" washi, which is the size of the full crosses, so i just started lining up what i did have, placing the die cut cover plate over it every now and then to make sure i liked the placement. the good thing about washi tape is that it's removable, so if you decide to rearrange anything, it's easily done. the hardest part was figuring out where and how to add the sentiment!
and last, but not least, a card with the more expected use of the cover plate - filled with crosses for a full card front quilt. i didn't want it to be too pattern heavy, so i alternated my blue and yellow stamped crosses with plain pale gray ones left over from the first card. in searching for inspiration, striped edging on many quilts caught my eye, so i took the time to try it out here. i used the grid on my desk pad to keep it somewhat even and i really like how it finishes it off. the sentiment on all three cards, as well as the little circle details on the last two are from another new set being released this month, initial thoughts. three days down, two more to go - what do you think so far? let me know and come back tomorrow for another look! until then, be sure to visit nichole's blog - you'll be seeing stars on this group post day! lizzie's also running more plays with her new set as well...
happy saturday!
:) lexi
