Hi there! I have something special to share with you today. As you know by now, I'm a HUGE Phillies fan. Well, I happen to work with other huge Phillies fans and they happen to have nephews who are also Phillies fans...as well as Red Sox fans. So I was asked to play around and come up with a set of cards using the nephew's favorite players. It was easy for me to get my hands on Phillies pieces to use for the cards...not so easy for me to access Red Sox items. That's where I had to get creative.
Luckily the Phillies and the Sox have the same colors, so there was some continuity throughout the set. All use the same basic layers, but the Phillies cards were actually sewn using my Sew-Mini. The stitching on the Sox cards is faux (primarily because I didn't have that baseball stitch on either of my sewing machines!) and I used an opaque pen I had lying around.
I only had three Phillies pennants available, so I used a sticker *gasp* for the Rollins jersey. And as you know he was last year's NL MVP so I had to put that on there! And seeing as Hamels is a pitcher I threw on a baseball. 
The edges of the blue layer were all distressed on the Phillies cards, and I used my new Spellbinders labels die to cut and emboss the white focal pieces. The names were individually stamped using Papertrey's Simple Alphabet set and the numbers were die cut using a retired Sizzix alphabet set called Doodle Tags. Gosh I love that set. Oh - I used my little Xyron to turn the numbers into stickers so I could adhere them.
So here's where I had to get creative. I found this picture of a Red Sox parking sign online and shrunk it down and printed it on glossy photo paper. Then I cut it out and mounted it onto a piece of white cardstock using foam dots. (By the way, all of the white focal pieces on the Phillies cards are popped up on foam dots, too.) 
Here's a side view of the Sox piece. I didn't have a corner rounder that matched the scale of the focal piece so I had to hand-cut the white layer for each piece. Bummer. And I couldn't fit Matsuzaka's full name on his card, so at my husband's suggestion I went with his nickname, Dice-K. 
I created the baseball stitched background with an opaque white pen and by tracing the lid of one of my mason jars. Oh how I wish I had that stitch on one of my machines! Doing it by hand wasn't ideal.
I used the Doodle Tag set again to die-cut the numbers and I used the Simple Alphabet stamp set to add the Sox names. And check out that white ink for the names! It's the new fresh snow ink from Papertrey. It really is as good as advertised.
Here's a random card I made with another downloaded picture. I've learned that the Sox won both the 2004 and 2007 World Series but wouldn't you know I could only find a 2004 graphic? And Josh Beckett and Dice-K were not on the 2004 team, so I had to use the parking picture above on the specialized cards. I couldn't have the cards be factually incorrect!!! But I really liked this circular graphic so I made a card anyway. The stitching is faux and I cut out the photo and propped it up on foam dots for effect. Thanks so much for stopping by and letting me share these cards with you. I had a blast making them!
Until next time...M
Supplies:
Ink: Papertrey pure poppy and fresh snow
Cardstock: Papertrey white and pure poppy and SU not quite navy
Stamps: Papertrey Simple Alphabet
Other: Sizzix Doodle Tag alphabet set, sewing machine, various MLB stickers/pennants/downloaded pictures, opaque white pen, Xyron sticker maker, distressing tool
