Horizontal Striped Paper Pieced Card

A project from our live show Create Together Club - 5 Days of Creativity - Broadcast Friday 14TH Feb 2025 · 14/02/2025 · watch it from 19:30

Create a stunning card featuring a stamped poppy design with horizontal coloured stripes running through it. Cut your stamped image into thin strips and reassemble them with gaps to reveal vibrant pink, green, blue and peach stripes beneath. This paper piecing technique creates a modern, segmented effect whilst keeping the poppy image perfectly aligned across the card.

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Step by step

1. 

   Gather your four stamped poppy pieces on different coloured card stock: mint green, pink, pale pink, and blue.

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2. 

   Using a guillotine, cut thin horizontal strips from each stamped piece, keeping the strips roughly the same width across all colours.

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3. 

   Arrange your pink card strips in the desired order on your work surface. You can choose to arrange them from light to dark or in any colour sequence you prefer.

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4. 

   Take your card blank and apply the first pink strip along the top edge, carefully aligning it with the stamped flower design on the grey card.

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5. 

   Position the second pink strip directly below the first strip, aligning it so the poppy design continues seamlessly across both strips. Ensure the flower image matches up where the strips meet.

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6. 

   Continue adding strips in your chosen order, aligning each design element carefully. Hold the strip in place and smooth it down to ensure the stamped images line up perfectly with the previous pieces.

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7. 

   Place the stamped card with the horizontal striped pieces on your guillotine and trim down to create a neat rectangular card with clean edges around your design.

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8. 

   Stamp a sentiment from the stamp set onto the card front using black ink.

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9. 

   Adhere your finished stamped and pieced design to the front of a card blank to complete your card.

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Tips from the show

• Line the pieces of card back up like a jigsaw to ensure the design matches perfectly across strips.
• You can cut the strips at different angles or widths for variety, but straight cuts are simplest.
• Save all leftover pieces—they can be paper pieced together to create additional cards.

More from this show

• Stamped Poppy Card with Coloured Card Stock
• Monochromatic Black and White Segmented Card
• Ombré Paper Pieced Card with Graduated Colours
• Alternative Ombré Card with Rearranged Strips

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