Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Fitted Sheets


This past weekend I was helping my grandparents out with a bit of cleaning at their house. My father's sister also came and it was there at their dining room table I saw some magic. She folded a fitted sheet so prim and proper, crisp and square that I was amazed. Then she began telling me of the Homemaker class she took shortly after she was married where they were taught the secrets to folding fitted sheets, how to polish silverware among many others. Where is a class like that now? Do they offer them? Sign me up! (Perhaps not the polishing silverware, but I sure could use a lesson in folding fitted sheets!)


Time for another fun Skipping Stones Design Sketch Challenge! Details about the challenge and prize, along with amazing samples from the guest designers and design team, can be found at the Skipping Stones Design Blog! I started by stamping one of the butterflies from Healing Wings twice onto patterned paper and after trimming them, adhered them just at the base to a stamped panel with flowers from Beautiful Botanicals. I used some patterned paper from the cute Picadilly collection from Basic Grey (inspired by the Basic Grey Challenge Blog), and the colored strands from Lemondrop Twine from the Twinery to finish my design.

(Good news! There is a currently a PMS (Purchase More Stamps) Sale going on over at Skipping Stones Designs from Monday, May 14th through Tuesday, May 22nd: 5% off 1 set, 10% off 2 sets, etc. Codes can be found on the blog!)

Oh, and my mother is a master at the folding of fitted sheets as well, but she lives so far away that I might have forgotten how she does it!

38 comments:

  1. Amen to the fitted sheet class! Love that gorgeous butterfly.

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  2. This is so beautiful, love that butterfly!

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  3. lovely butterfly. Fold sheets? I wad them up and shove them on a shelf...

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  4. Absolutely STUNNING card, Karen!

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  5. Beautiful card- love the colors in the background "scene." I actually learned how to fold them from Martha Stewart... yeah. Scary. ;) They're not as great as hers but it gets the job done- I just fold it in half, tucking 2 elastic ends into the ones they fold next to. Repeat, tucking one of the elastics into the other, and continue to fold. Not perfect but oh well. :)

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  6. Such a beautiful card!

    PS I saw something on pinterest about folding the perfect fitted sheet ;)

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  7. This card is so pretty! you make some amazing things happen with that butterfly set! I personally use Martha's tutorial for the folding of fitted sheets- works like a dream!

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  8. Love this layout, Karen and lovin' the gorgeous butterfly!
    Hugs!
    x

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  9. Gorgeous card, Karen. I am with you about fitted sheets.

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  10. Very classy and beautiful Karen!
    Thanks for sharing~

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  11. Gorgeous Karen! that butterfuly looks so real :)

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  12. Yes sign me up too!!! I wish I could run a house like my grandma and a Homemaker class sounds AWESOME!!!
    Your card is just darling as always...You really know how to use white space to make colors POP!!!

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  13. GIRL this is AWESOME...i have to say one of my favorites..I so so love this...you are a great designer..

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  14. Classy Elegant and beautiful card Karen!!!.... Hugs..xoxo

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  15. Love that sentiment, so true. Sheets, yeah I know a thing or two about folding sheets.

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  16. Oops, that was the wrong account... still lovely card.

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  17. Gorgeous card! Love the butterfly and use of BG paper! I hear you about those good old housekeeping lessons....(nobody does anything the old-fashioned way any more, sadly).

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  18. Your card is amazingly beautiful!


    If you find a class on how to fold fitted sheets, I'll go with you! I have the tutorial from Martha and mine still don't fold right. Oh well, life is too short to worry about it. :)

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  19. when you lean to fold the fitted sheets pass it on!! never got that down! lol
    i hope to never polish silver again! spent 6 years doing it for the woman i was a caregiver to and let me tell you she had LOTS!! UGH

    ok on to your beautiful card ;)
    that butterfly is stunning!!!!

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  20. Hey I say take the sheet out of the dryer and put it right back on the bed...no folding!! GORGEOUS card Karen, so peaceful. Love it!!

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  21. That butterfly is striking! I would love a class like that, sign me up.

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  22. I always love your card designs, Karen. You have a wonderfully distinctive style! (Wish I knew how to do perfectly folded corners for fitted sheets!)

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  23. Gorgeous! I love the side view of that butterfly and the way you paper pieced and adhered it is lovely -it just pops off the page!
    You must find out the secret to folding fitted sheets and share it with us! Mine always look so mangled! LOL!

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  24. Your inking on this is beyond gorgeous Karen! Love it.

    And...I need the lesson on folding fitted sheets :)

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  25. This is gorgeous! I love the vivid colors and the feminine simplicity!

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  26. Hmm...I wouldn't call what I do with fitted sheets "folding" so much as "wadding up". Wish I knew how to make them nice and neat! :)
    I love the rust colored butterfly and twine on this card--they really pull out the orange flowers in the patterned paper.

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  27. this is so beautiful! love it, Karen!

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  28. So serene and pretty! I have watched Martha Stewart fold fitted sheets and I sort of follow her technique; usually not patient enough to make it look as "perfect."

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  29. Um, you don't want to see my linen closet....oy

    Your card is l-o-v-e-l-y!!!!!!!

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  30. Striking card!
    As for sheets, the ball method works for me ;>)

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  31. you crack me up! It is a challenge to get those darned things folded, isn't it!
    Love this & just made a note of the sketch- hoping to play along with my lovely SSD stamps! :)

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  32. Um yeah I need a lesson on folding fitted sheets. LOL! I start off so strong folding and then it just ends up being rolled in a ball and thrown in the closet. LOL!!! I think I saw my mom fold one nice one time and I keep trying to do what she did but it never works out. Love your card and the image, delightfully beautiful!!

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  33. I would love to know how to fold fitted sheets!!! This is why I try my best to move them from the dryer directly onto the bed! Lol

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  34. this is gorgeous! you make such beautiful cards...

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  35. I sure wish those classes where still around. A 'homemaker' is becoming a lost art. :)

    Gorgeous card Karen. That butterfly is so pretty.

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  36. FAbulosu card, so classy!! Thanks for joining us at Basic Grey Challenges this fortnight! Juliexx

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