Mass Producing Quilted Cards

I hope you all had a great holiday weekend. Today, I have a tutorial for you. If you're a frequent visitor to my blog, then you know how much I'm loving the quilted backgrounds on my cards lately. This tutorial shows you how I mass produce them quite easily. The new Cosmo Cricket Material Girl collection with its sewing theme is just perfect for this technique. The pieced backgrounds make these cards perfect for the current Moxie Fab Challenge.

Here are the finished cards:

Supplies List:

3 sheets of coordinating double-sided patterned papers (I used Cosmo Cricket Material Girl collection)
1-1/2 sheets of cardstock for card base (Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet)
1 sheet of coordinating cardstock (Gina K Designs Ocean Mist)
Sewing machine
Cream or white fabric
Buttons (Berry Sorbet buttons)
Twine or floss
Paper trimmer
SRM Stickers (square shaped stickers will work best):
Sticker Sentiments - Birthday, Thank You and Thinking of You

Step 1: Cut 3 panels (3-7/8" x 5-1/8") of coordinating, double-sided patterned papers.
Step 2: Cut up the 3 patterned paper panels together to make smaller rectangles.

Step 3: Make 3 A2 card bases and 3 panels (4" x 5-1/4") of coordinating cardstocks.

Step 4: Arrange the smaller rectangles of patterned papers onto cardstock panels, making sure you leave a narrow border around. Adhere patterned paper pieces

Steps 5: Sew zig zag stitches on the seams and running stitches around each piece.

Step 6: Finish the quilt backgrounds.

Step 7: Adhere sticker on a small piece of cloth. Trim around.

Step 8: Pull fibers to make frayed edges.

Step 9: Adhere cloth to quilt background. String buttons and adhere.

Step 10: Mount piece onto card base.

I hope you will try this technique. It's so much fun and the possibilities are endless. Don't forget you have 5 days to enter my First Blog Anniversary Giveaway. And join us all week at the SRM Sticker blog for a special Spring break blog hop. There will be lots of inspirations and giveaways, too!