Showing posts with label Punch Art. Show all posts
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Flower Wreath


Hi everyone!  This is the flower wreath that I've been working on the past few days.  My upline posted a home decor challenge and I wanted to make a new wreath for my front door so her challenge was the perfect motivation I needed.  My wreath is 16" round so it's a nice size wreath.

I guess you could say this was a labor of love.....LOL  I made the flowers as I was watching TV and it actually went pretty quickly.  The more you make them the faster it goes.  There are 80 flowers on my wreath and I only used three punches to make them so you don't need a lot of supplies to make these flowers.  I used the Fancy Flower Punch, Blossom Punch, and 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punches.  I have a short video posted below showing how I made the flowers.  The photos below show you how I made my wreath.

This photo above is how I made my wreath base.  You could buy one in the store, but I consider myself thrifty and I decided to make one out of card board.  All you need is a large card board box and look around to find two things that are circle shape and trace them onto the card board.  I used a large circle toy tub my kids have their toys in and for the inside I used a large tupperware container.  Once your circles are traced simply cut them out.  Here I cut out 2 circle card board pieces and I glued them together to make the card board sturdier.  At this point you will want to add some twine or something that you can tie around your wreath base that you will use to hang your wreath with.

I forgot to mention the size of my cardboard base and I wanted to come back and upate my post.  My wreath base measuers 16" across from the outside edges.  The inside circle measures 11" across and my wreath is 2 1/2" wide. 

This photo (above) I took 2 sheets of card stock and and cut them it into 3 strips (longways) and I crumpled it up and glued it onto my wreath base.  I didn't want my flowers to lay flat on my wreath base so I decided to create a raised area using card stock.  Then I could glue my flowers on the card stock and they wouldn't lay flat. It worked like a charm!
 
And above is a photo of the crumpled up card stock glued all around my wreath base.  You don't have to do this and you could skip this step if you wanted.  You could probably buy a rounded shape wreath, but I was working with what I had in the house and honestly, it turned out great. 

Here is a picture of my flowers.  I ended up having to make a few more though.  I have 80 total flowers on my wreath.  Be sure to check out my video below to see how I made them. 

Here's a picture of my wreath when I was almost finished gluing the flowers on.  I used my hot glue gun to glue on all of the flowers.  I found it easiest to first figure out about where I wanted to flowers placed and then I filled in with the smaller flowers.

Here is the video I made showing how I made the flowers.  Hope you like it!


And below are a few close up photos of my wreath. 








Stamps:  None
Card Stock:  White, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, So Saffron
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Ceratinly Celery, Bashful Blue, Rose Red, So Saffron, Perfect Plum, Pumpkin Pie
Supplies:  Wreath Base, Fancy Flower Punch, Blossom Punch, 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch, Brads, Paper Piercing Tool, Tombow Multi Glue, Hot Glue Gun, Sponges
Technique:  Sponging,  Punch Art

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Dies & Punches Snowman


Good Morning!  This is the card I made for this week's 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog challenge.  This week's challenge is to use die cuts and punched pieces on our projects.  I always wanted to make a snowman using the top note die and I figured this challenge was perfect for giving it a try.

I'll list what punches I used below.

Top Note Die- snowman body
3/4" Circle Punch- snowman eyes
Owl Punch- circles for the mouth
1 1/4" Square Punch- insert orange card stock in slightly for triangle for nose
Blossom Bouquet Flower Punch- the three red flowers on the hat
Little Leaves Sizzlit Die- leaves on the hat
Word Window Punch- for the sentiment

The snowman hat is dry embossed using my square lattice embossing folder.  The rim of the hat is not embossed.  I cut the black card stock first and then ran it through my big shot machine.  You'll want to always remember to cut/punch first and then emboss (it's usually much easier this way).

I'm not sure if you noticed, but I pulled out my SU chalks and I used the light pretty in pink chalk just to give the cheeks of the snowman some color.  The rest of my card was a matter of punching out the pieces and assembling them together.

Below are two more photos so that you can see my card close up.




Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a great weekend!

Stamps:  Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock:  White, Black, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Tangerine Tango, DSP- Subtles Paper Stack
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Brands, SU Mat Pack & Paper Piercing Tool- for hole in flowers for brad, Big Shot, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Top Note Die, Little Leaves Sizzlit Die, 3/4" Circle Punch, Owl Punch- for the circles of the mouth, 1 1/4" Square Punch- for the nose, SU chalks- for the pink cheeks, Glue Dots, Word Window Punch, Blossom Bouquet Flower Punch, White Gel Pen, Tombow Multi Glue
Technique:  Dry Embossing, Punch Art

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown Theme Challenge

It's good morning time, as my 3 year old would say...LOL  And it's time for another 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge and this week's challenge is a theme challenge and the theme is 'Gifts of the Season'. 

I was debating on weather I wanted to use an image with gifts or make some punch art and since I love making punch art; I went ahead and decided to get out my punches!  The punches I used to make the gifts were:

Punches:
Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch- for the gift bow- cut the punch out in half
1 1/8" Square Punch- for the solid card stock (bottom) layer of the presents
1" Square Punch- for the DSP layer of the presents
Jewelry Tag Punch- for the sentiment
*To make the strips of paper for the ribbon on the presents I just cut those by hand*

Once my punch art was together I started assembling my card.  The presents were placed onto my embossed vanilla panel using dimensionals and the entire present panel (the chocolate chip layer) also has dimensionals under it.

My wild wasabi (and very vanilla) layer were embossed using my big shot and perfect polka dots embossing folder.   Along the bottom of my real red layer I used my scallop trim border punch and along the bottom of my very vanilla card layer I decided to add two rows of paper piercing.  I love adding paper piercing to my cards because it gives a little something extra without going overboard.

I hope you will play along with us this week!  The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog is one of my very favorite challenges and this week the other design team members had some really creative card ideas!

Have a great rest of the day!  My son has a soccer game and soccer pictures plus we are planning to clean up the yard and close up our pool so it looks like another busy weekend for us.

Stamps:  Tiny Tags
Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, DSP (Retired)- Holly Berry Bouquet
Ink:  Chocolate Chip
Supplies:  Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Mat Pack, Paper Piercing Tool, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Brad, Jewelry Tag Punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, 1" Square Punch, 1 1/8" Square Punch, Tombow Multi Glue, Dimensionals
Technique:  Punch Art, Dry Embossing, Paper Piercing

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Crafty Gal's Punch Art Challenge

Hi everyone!  Every month the blog group I belong to has a challenge and this month's challenge was to create a project using punch art.  Well, I have to say that I was so excited for this challenge and I even had some punch already made!  I have to apologize to my fellow Crafty Gal blog friends.  Although I was ready for this challenge I totally forgot to post my card.  I'm so sorry about that.   If you have time be sure to visit the other member's cards in my group.  I have a link to their blog post below-

The punches I used to make the penguin were:
1 3/8" Square - cut square to make triangle hat
Trio Flower Punch- hat top and hat trim
Owl Punch- penguin body, white front of body, feet, and eyes
5 Petal Flower Punch- penguin arms

The punches I used to make the present were:
1" Square Punch- for the present/box
Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch- for the bow on the present. The red ribbon strips on the present were cut by hand.

To make the rest of my card I used the large tree image from the SU 'Snow Swirled' stamp set.  I stamped the tree image all over onto the background of my card using lucky limade ink.  I also stamped the lucky limeade card stock that I punched out for the present.  I love that my background matches the present, it looks pretty neat!

The rest of my card was just a matter of assembling it and adding my ribbon.  I hope you liked my penguin punch art card!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great rest of the day!

*card #89 out of 100 cards in 100 days goal

Stamps:  Holiday Wishes, Snow Swirled
Card Stock:  Lucky Limeade, White, Real Red, Black, Tangerine Tango, DSP- Polka Dot Parade
Ink:  Black Stazon, Lucky Limeade
Supplies:  Ribbon, Punches:  Owl Punch, 5 Petal Flower Punch, 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Square Punch, Flower Trio Punch, 1" Square Punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Tombow Multi Glue
Technique: Punch Art

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Twisted Tuesday ~ Sketch


Good Morning! Today's Twisted Tuesday Challenge is a sketch!  I have the sketch posted below and this week's twist is that we were not allowed to use any ribbons or trim.  This is such a fun easy sketch so I hope you'll play along with us this week.  I decided to make a fall card and try my hand at making a pumpkin out of punch art.  I'll post a quick video on how I made my pumpkin.

I began by punching out three scallop ovals and sponged all along the edges.  Then using the 2 step bird punch I created the leaf curls and the leaves.  My pumpkin is placed onto my card using dimensionals.  I wanted to place my sentiment so that it looked like it was hanging from the top of my pumpkin.

My background designer paper strips measure 1 1/4" x 5" and along the bottom I punched them using my scallop border punch.  (I punched the border first and then cut apart the strips).


Here's my video showing how I made my pumpkin.  Hope you like it!  Thanks for looking!



*card #72 out of 100 cards in 100 days goal

Stamps:  Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, DSP- Spice Cake
Ink:  More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Supplies:  Scallop Border Punch, Oval Scallop Punch, 2 Step Bird Punch, Stylus Tool, Word Window Punch, Dimensionals, Large Circle Punch, Coluzzle for 2" Circle
Technique:  Sponging, Punch Art

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Crafty Gal's Monthly Blog Challenge



Hi everyone!  Once a month the blog group I belong to has a challenge and this month's challenge was a tricky one for me.  The challenge was  "Animal Birthdays" and we were to make cards using an animal  character and four shapes of any sort somewhere on the card plus colors red and blue.

My teenage daughter actually came up with this idea of making Cookie Monster and Elmo so they are my animal characters.  The shapes I used can be found within the punch art (circles, half circles, scallop circles, as well as my rectangle sentiment panel).

These are the the punches I used to make Cookie Monster-
Scallop Circle- for the face
1" circle for the mouth (cut circle in half)
3/8" circle punch for the whites of the eyes (circle punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack)
1/4" circle puch for the black part of the eyes
1/2" circle punch for the cookie and small scallop circle from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack for the bite out of the cookie

These are the punches I used to make Elmo-
Scallop Circle- for the face
1" circle punch for the mouth (cut circle in half)
3/8" circle punch for the whites of the eyes (circle punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack)
1/4" circle punch for the black part of the eyes
1/2" circle punch for the nose

I used my scallop border punch for the bottom border of the pacific point card stock and I ended up using my white gel pen for the white dots on my real red card stock.  Well, that's about it for my card.  I hope you like it and if you would like to see the other cards from this challenge they can be found here:
*card #58 out of 100 cards in 100 days goal

Stamps:  Curly Cute
Card Stock:  White, Black, Real Red, Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake, DSP- Ice Cream Parlor
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Punches (See my list above), Scallop Border Punch, SU Chocolate Chip Marker, Tombow Multi Glue, White Gel Pen
Technique: Punch Art

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December 7, 2011

Good Morning! Today's card is for the monthly challenge for the blog group that I belong to. If you look on my side bar you will find the links to the other ladies' blogs who are in my group. If you have time, take a moment to visit their blogs and you can see their challenge cards too. I must apologize to my blog group friends because I am late in posting my card (I'm so sorry, I totally forgot about our challenge).

Our challenge was 'the power of 3's'.  We were to create a card using 3 layers, 3 images, and 3 embellishments and we were to leave the sentiment off of the front of our cards.  I knew right away that I was going to try and use my new stocking punch. 

Making these stockings using the stocking punch is a great way to use up some of your designer series paper scraps.  On my card I used some paper scraps from the Stampin' Up! holly berry bouquet designer series paper.  I used the new silver glimmer paper for the tops and the toe part of the stocking and the rest of my card was made using real red and very vanilla card stock.

The stockings were easy to put together and I placed them on my card using dimensionals.  My background is dry embossed using my big shot and my perfect polka dots embossing folder.  I used a glue dot to hold on my bells.

My 2 year old daughter just told me that she liked the socks on my card, how cute!  Well, that's about it for today.  If you are watching my Simply Score Tool give away then you know we only need 5 more followers.  This would make a perfect Christmas gift for you!  For more details please click on the simply score tool on my side bar.  Have a great day!

Stamps: none
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Real Red, Silver Glimmer Paper, Holly Berry Bouquet DSP
Ink: none
Supplies: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Stocking Builder Punch, Mini Jingle Bells
Technique: Dry Embossing

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December 5, 2011

Hi everyone!  Thank you so much for being patient with me this past week.  I spent the entire week last week getting ready for a cookie exchange party at my house yesterday.  My party went very well and I thing everyone had a great time plus we had an opportunity to try some great new cookies and exchange recipes.  Thank you to those of you who came to my first cookie exchange!  I'm looking forward to doing it again next year.

After we ate some food and had some cookies I planned for everyone to make a few holiday cards and the card I am posting today is one of the cards we made.  Since it was a larger group I had the snowman hats made ahead of time and I had everything else punched out for everyone.

The snow along the bottom of my card was made using the paper tearing technique and then I added some glitter along the torn portion of the card stock.

The snowman was made using several circle punches.  The eyes and mouth I just drew in using my SU black marker.  The nose is just a small triangle cut from some orange scrap paper.  The arms are 2 portions cut from the snowflake punch.

To create the hat I punched out a black 1" square and then I punched out some black card stock using my word window punch.  I then took the card stock from the word window I punched it again.  I slipped it back into the word window punch to punch it again making it shorter.  The leaf in the snowman hat was from the leafy branch of the bird builder punch and then the holly berry was simply a 1/4" circle punch using real red card stock.

I waited until my card was finished until I made my background.  After my snowman was glued on I stamped my sentiment using white craft in and then using my white gel pen I placed dots on my background for the snowflakes.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Don't forget to enter to win the Stampin' Up! Simply Score Tool that I am giving away.  Click on this link here here for more details about my giveaway.  Only 8 more followers and we will soon have a winner.  Have a great day.  Tomorrow I'll be posting anther card that we made yesterday at my cookie party.

Stamps: Bells & Boughs
Card Stock: White, Brilliant Blue, Chocolate Chip, Black, Only Orange, Old Olive, Real Red
Ink: Craft White Ink
Supplies: Ribbon, Glue Dots, 2 Way Glue Pen, DD Glitter, White Gel Pen, and Punches:  Word Window, 1 1/4" Square, Bird Builder, 1/4" Circle, 1 3/4", 1 1/4", & 1" Circle, and Snowflake
Technique:  Punch Art, Paper Tearing
 
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