Purse-onally I Love Paper Piecing

I'm back with another Mojo Monday sketch.  This has to be my favorite sketch challenge.  I've been organizing my stamps this week; putting sets into clear cases and so forth.  Tedious work, but now I see all the stamps I've been neglecting.  (Shhh... don't tell the DH)  Anyway, I ran across Retro Boutique by Gina K. Designs & had a lightbulb moment.  Instead of coloring the purses, why not paper piece them?  One of my favorite dp collections is Urban Prairie by Basic Grey.  I thought the patterns would look fantastic on these modern handbags.  I deepened a few of the dp colors slightly with my Copics.  All of the handles, trim & buckles are done with gold gel pen & gold Spica.  I used my Making Memories Slice to cut the outline for the main image.  I think the card looks much better in person than I could capture on camera.  Too overcast today to get a great shot.  I'll see if I can get a better one this weekend.

It's been a busy week at our house.  School is back in session & ET was thrilled to get on the school bus Tuesday morning.  LT had his first day of preschool yesterday.  He was such a big boy hopping off to class.  He told me he had lots of fun, too.  It's strange to think my boys are slowly growing up.  My baby talks (constantly), asks questions and converses with his older brothers.  When I think about it, I can really see how much our family has evolved over the summer.