Asian Garden

Good morning everyone!! I hope everything is OK in your little corner of the world!!! Before my Dad was admitted to the hospital last week I had taken everything out of one of the bedroom closets. My plan was to sort the toys, sack up some of the clothes for the church garage sale, and do a real good cleaning, however, it's all still sitting there all over the room waiting patiently for me to get my rear in gear...LOL!!! Since I have to work today and tomorrow  it will just have to sit there till next weekend...unless the good fairy decides to pay me a visit....I can only hope...LOL!!!  Anyway....

It was my turn to host the TLC challenge on Splitcoast this week and since the challenge landed on my birthday (yesterday), I decided the challenge would be my favorite technique...paper piecing!!!

The sweet little Geisha Girl from Hero Arts Japanese Garden set was  paper pieced with Konnichiwa papers from Basic Grey. The shading and black details on the kimono, the face, hair, hands, and shoes were all colored with Copics. The background paper is also from the Konnichiwa collection and the paper pieced lanterns are from My Cute Stamp's NiHao set (I noticed they are having a 50% off sale on all their stamps....whoohoo!!). The felt *grass*, sewing, ribbon, and button finish it off.

This is also for a few other challenges:
1.Desert Islands Crafters - use 3 of 10 (I used bright colors, button, twine)
2. A Gem of a Challenge - pink, green, and blue
3. Crazy 4 Challenges - gardening or in the great outdoors
4. Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturdays - ribbons and bows
5. Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - stitching

Thanks for stopping by...have a great day!!!!