"Patchwork" Frame

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is "Patchwork", so time to put on your thinking caps and let your imagination run wild!  No thinking cap?  Well, put on that brown knitted one, you know the one I mean, it's in the bottom of your wardrobe.  Remember?  You must, you wore it last month to that farmers market, I said it brought out the colour of your eyes.  Ah, now you remember :)  Make an entry for this week's challenge and you'll be in the draw for a $50 shopping voucher! :)

I decided to decorate a cheap-as-chips basic wooden frame from my friendly neighbourhood Swedish furniture superstore.  I didn't want to present an empty frame so I stuck this Russian lady in it.  Strictly speaking she's just an innocent bystander and not really part of this project, so don't pay her any mind!

The width of the frame was the perfect size to make a patchwork of inchies to cover it.  There is a slight gap between them so I gave the frame a coat of Black Soot distress paint first.  One of the inchies is covered with some ruler ribbon from Tim Holtz and the rest were stamped and coloured with Distress Inks.  Of course any patchwork needs stitching, so that was the last job to be done.  I made some faux stitches with a black Distress marker to finish it off.  I must say I'm really please with this piece and will definitely have to find a place for it on a wall somewhere!

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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