Punch art sun card

This one of the cards that we made at my workshop last week.  I just love the sentiment!  The card base is Pool Party.  The grass is Wild Wasabi cut with the fringe scissors.  To make the sun, I  embossed some Summer Starfruit cardstock with the Big Shot and the Distressed Dots embossing folder.  Then I punched out a 1 3/8" circle.  The rays are made using the banner punch and Sweet Sorbet DSP.  Then I added a few sequins for some sparkle.

Happy stamping!

 

Owl punch rose

One of this month's Creative Crew challenges was to recycle something. I turned an Altoids container into a gift card holder. This also continues my personal quest to use all of my Jolly Holiday DSP! You can find the tutorial for the owl punch rose on Valita's blog here.

Here's a better view of the container. The ribbon is vanilla grosgrain.

Happy stamping!

Christmas card from Mama

Here is the Christmas card that Mama sent me. She was inspired by my poinsettia punch art card, but she decided to just use the bird wings. I think she told me that she punched out 35 wings! Isn't it beautiful?
Happy stamping and Merry Christmas!

Punch Art Poinsettia

This card is a CASE of a card I saw on Dawn Olchefske's blog.  It's a poinsettia made from the bird punch!  The main parts of the flower and leaves are the bird's body, and the top part of the flower is made from the wings.  The centers are punched with the retired 1/4" circle punch.  I don't think I did a great job on spacing the petals, but I love this flower!

For the sentiment, I got the idea of lengthening the decorative label punch from LeeAnn Greff's blog.  Her measurements didn't work for me though; I had to make mine smaller (unless of course I wrote down her measurements wrong).  The white part is 1 1/4" wide, and the Cherry Cobbler piece is 1 3/8"  You turn the punch upside down and slide one end of your cardstock into the punch from the center so that you only punch one end.  She had a great tip to stamp your image after the first punch so you know exactly where to punch the other end.  Her other great tip is to punch one end of the red piece then adhere the white piece to it before punching the other end.

P.S.  I had this scheduled to post yesterday, and it didn't for some reason.  Sorry for the delay!

Supplies: Stamps: Contempo Christmas; Paper: Shimmery White, Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green; Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green; Accessories: bird punch, decorative label punch, 1/4" circle punch, sponge, cherry cobbler seam binding Happy stamping!

Friday is Chocolate Caramel Day!

Wow, who knew such a fabulous holiday existed?  What a week: St. Urho's Day, St. Patrick's Day, my birthday and Chocolate Caramel Day all in a row!  That might be better than Christmas...

Anyway, for this week's workshop wow challenge, we have a color combo to salute Chocolate Caramel Day: Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink.  I decided to do these gorgeous punch art roses that I saw on Jackie Topa's blog.  They are so easy, and they just use the new bird punch.  My roses are Pretty in Pink and Very Vanilla with Pretty in Pink sponged around the edges.  The card base is standard sized Creamy Caramel.  The Chocolate Chip layer is 4 X 5 1/4 and the DSP layer is 3 3/4 x 5; both are punched with the scallop trim corner punch.  The very vanilla taffeta ribbon covers up where all of the stems meet.  It's just a knot adhered with a mini glue dot.

Supplies (all SU): Stamps: None; Paper: Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Sending Love DSP; Ink: Pretty in Pink; Accessories: scallop trim corner punch, two-step bird punch, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, sponge

Happy stamping!