Welcome to the Remarkable InkBig Blog Hop for September 2017. This month our theme is “Halloween.” You may be starting the blog hop here, Aromas and Art– Su Mohr, or you may have come from another person in the list. The full line-up below will help you stay on track, so you don’t miss any of the fabulous projects being shared today.

When I think of Halloween, I think of going to a pumpkin patch, and picking out a pumpkin. This led me to thinking about making a patchwork quilt; a paper one, of course! I’ll show you the end result of all that thinking, and then I’ll back up and fill you in on the details.

It was easy to zero in on the pumpkin print Designer Series Paper from the Painted Harvest collection. The back side of the paper had a print that would work well “stitched” together with the pumpkins. 

I’m not a seamstress, but I love making paper quilts using the Quilt Builder Framelits Dies. Can you see how I cut the star shape from the patterned paper, and the frame in Chocolate Chip brown? For the shapes around the pumpkins, I just turned the pieces over, and the tiny squares were revealed.

The design is basically the same as a card I recently shared using postage stamps.

Labor Day Quilts for Three Occasions

I chose a coordinating paper from the same, Painted Autumn DSP, and glued the frame to it. It’s really fun placing the pieces inside the frame, like a jig saw puzzle. Once all the pieces were glued down, I ran it through the Big Shot using the Quilted Texture Embossing Folder. Doesn’t it look like soft fabric?

I love the little spool that comes in the die set. I used Chocolate Chip cardstock, and wound it with Linen Thread. The needle was cut from Silver Foil.

Just in case there are any questions about this being a Halloween Card, I found “Happy Halloween” in the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set, and punched it out with the Classic Label Punch. I popped it up on dimensionals, and it serves a second purpose of holding the thread in place.

Would you like to peek at the inside? With the help of the Pick a Pumpkin stamp set, my pumpkins became jack-o-lanterns!

For a final touch, I embossed the envelope flap.  The quilting shows up nicely on the Very Vanilla envelope, don’t you think?

Thanks for taking part in our blog hop. Remember, you are currently at Aromas and Art-Su Mohr. Check the list below to see who is next. Happy Hopping!