Punch Art Angel ~ How to Video

December 28, 2013December 28, 2013Leave a comment

Welcome to the 4th in my series on Punch Art embellishments……… this time I have made a video!!!

I shall be using this on a layout for my Scrap Camp next month, but it will work perfectly for a card front for next Christmas or with a change of colors to, say, pink, it will also make a ‘princess’ for a birthday card front.

Supplies used:

2 1/2 circle punch ( 120906) for Cherry Cobbler (119685)
Petite Pennents Builder Punch (122361) Whisper White (100730)and Silver Glimmer Paper (124005)
Small Oval (120908) Silver Glimmer Paper (124005)
3/4 ” circle punch (119873) Pink Piroutte (111351)
Little Leaves Sizzlit (114511) Chocolate Chip (102128)
Beautiful Wings Embossit (118138) Velum Cardstock (101856)

Thanks to Kathy Kuffel and Julie Arvin for their inspiration.

Happy Punching!

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Hostess Gifts using Stampin’ Up’s Wood-Mount Cases

December 24, 2013Leave a comment

This time of year means hostess gifts!! I like to make my own – it adds a personal touch and comes from my heart and I feel, has more meaning to me (and hopefully) the reciepient!

Each contains a covered 2×2 stack of post-it notes, small hand-sanitizer, small gel pen, binder clips and 3 Hung Up Cute Clips.

Inspired by designs from Deb Snyder, I have made a number of these using the half-size wood-mount cases from Stampin’ Up, you get 6 of these for $4.95 (great deal!). Decorated with DSP, ribbon and a little stamping using the Chalk Talk Stamp Set and Framelits.

Merry Christmas & Happy Stamping……

Punch Art 3 ~ Graduation Owl

December 22, 2013Leave a comment

The third in my series of punch art embellishments is the graduation owl.

We start with the Owl Punch and some Crumb Cake card stock to make the body then Whisper White and Basic Black to make his eyes. The large flower in the Boho Blossom punch was used to cut Crumb Cake ‘wings’ which was then cut in half. Soft Suede ink was sponged onto the body and wings.

The medium flower from the Boho Blossom blossom punch was used to cut the ‘beak’ in Tangarine Tango card stock then trimmed to a single petal which was attached behind the eyes with a glue dot.

The cap was made by using the oval punch to cut Basic Black then cut in half. Then shaped with 1/2 inch circle punch from the Itty Bitty punch pack. The top of the cap started as a 1″ square then trimmed to make the diamond shape before attaching to the base with a stampin dimensional. The tassle was made with Cherry Cobbler bakers twine, then a white gel pen to make the little ‘twinkle’ in his eye.

He was then was used as an embellishment on the scrapbook page.

Happy Punching……………….

Decorated Gift Bag and Tissue

December 19, 2013December 22, 2013Leave a comment

This time of year we are wrapping gifts in preparation for the Big Day. I gave up wrapping in paper several years ago…. the shapes were too weird to wrap neatly or the parcels looked too lumpy and unappetising!. I started to use gift bags and tissue paper, a much quicker and easier (and neater!) solution.

Gift bags and tissue can be expensive so I buy plain bags from the craft stores and plain tissue from the dollar store ( 40 sheets for $1) Then I get out my inks and stamp sets and decorate to my hearts’ content.

I have a number of hostess gifts this year so this is the bag/tissue combination I have been working on today…..

The stamp set is Joyful Christmas and I used Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Crushed Curry inks. Now I have some lovely, elegant gifts to take with me.

I hope this gives you an idea for your future gift wrapping……..

Happy Stamping ~ Cindy 🙂

PS I just realised this is my 50th post…….. lets celebrate with your ‘liking’ it and while you are doing that……. just go ahead and ‘follow’ my blog…. then you know when I get to my 100th post!!! 🙂

Gift Card Set ~ using Stampin Up’s Afternoon Picnic DSP

December 17, 2013December 17, 20134 Comments

Inspired by the set I made by dear friend last week (which she loved!) I decided to make a second one as a hostess gift for the upcoming holidays.

This one uses the same two stamp sets as the one I made last week, Best of Shelli’ and ‘Petite Pairs’ but I used the ‘Afternoon Picnic’ DSP with Wisteria Wonder and Pear Pizzazz Cardstock and inks. Pretty pleased with the result!

Petite Pairs is a very versatile stamp set – with sentiments covering most occasions, one for the outside of your card and a complementary sentiment for the inside….. it is one of my ‘go-to’ sets when designing my cards.

Like the recipe for this card set? Simply ‘follow’ my blog, ‘like’ and ‘comment’ on this post and I will be happy to send it to you 🙂

In the meantime, Happy Stamping !

Gift Card Set ~ using Stampin’ Up’s Venetian Romance DSP

December 11, 2013December 11, 20132 Comments

A dear friend is celebrating a milestone birthday later this month, but she doesn’t want any fuss, no buying of presents, parties or cake etc. Well I certainly cannot let such an occasion pass me completely by, so ……………

I love to make cards and 3D items, so the project I chose as my gift to her brings both of these aspects of paper crafting together! She is an avid letter writer so I decided to make her a set of 10 cards in a neat little folder. I have met her restriction of not ‘buying’ anything – ‘cos I made it all of materials I had in my ‘stash’.

My three main colors are Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe and Soft Suede. All the sentiments were stamped in Island Indigo with some sponging in Soft Suede. These are the colors in the Venetion Romance DSP I chose to use.

The sentiments were from ‘Petite Pairs’ stamp set and the Artisan Label Punch used to layer them.

Each card was stamped with the ‘swirly’ image from the ‘Best of Shelli’ 25th anniversary set.

The front cover of the folder used ‘Chalk Talk’ stamp and matching framelits.

If you ‘follow’ ~ ‘like’ and ‘comment’ on this post I will happily send you the recipe for this set of cards with the matching holder. Not a bad deal…….. !!!!

Ice Storm in North Texas = Stamping Christmas Cards!!!

December 8, 2013Leave a comment

On Wednesday, December 4th we were basking in 80 degree temperatures, this morning (Friday 6th) we wake up to an ice storm which left about 3 inches of ice and sleet on all the roadways.

This is the state of our mail box…… it is frozen solid, sure hope the mail man has nothing important to deliver today!

As we cannot we cannot go anywhere, and to be perfectly truthful, don’t need to go anywhere, today I decided to get stuck into making my Christmas cards. So I have about 60 in 4 different designs, some to go to friends and family, some for my wonderful and very supportive customers and then the cute little snowmen are for the grand-babies. Here are the fruits of my labours………

Now to sit down to write and address them ready to post when the ice melts and it is safe to go out again.

Punch Art 2 ~ Bear

November 24, 2013November 24, 2013Leave a comment

Here is the second in my series of punch art embellishments, this is based on ‘Bertie Bear’ by Pat Carr (an Australian SU designer)

As you can see the Owl punch has come into play again for the body and the little fur tuft on the top of his head. The arms and feet use the ‘wing’ from the Bird Builder Punch.

All the pieces are cut from Crumb Cake and were sponged in ‘Soft Suede’ ink. The nose and tuft were cut from Soft Suede card stock. I used the Chocolate Chip stampin marker to put on his features and cute little toes.

This turned out to be a very versatile embellishment as I used the him for a recent scrap book layout:

….. as well as a card for my recently arrived great-niece, Isla

Stampin’ Up’s ~ Gorgeous Grunge & Oh Hello

November 14, 2013Leave a comment

Gorgeous Grunge…… curious choice of words… I have to admit that I did not really see the stamp set when the new catalog was released in June, I am more into flowers and doilies than splodges and skid marks!!! However we were given this set as part of our Convention 2013 goodies and I bought it home and put it in my stamp cupboard.

In late July I was designing some scrap book layouts for my August Scrap camp ~ the theme was ‘fun in the sun’ – I was looking for something that would give me a ‘sand-type’ texture to add dimension to my crumb cake cardstock ‘beach’ I browsed thru my stamp sets and there was ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ sitting there waiting patiently for me…… the little scattered dot pattern stamp gave me a perfect effect.

In August I was working on my September Scrap Camp designs, this time a travel theme, again looking for texture to add interest to the background of my pages…. there was Gorgeous Grunge again….. using the kinda ‘tyre skid’ effect at the bottom of my pages. I was really beginning to warm to this stamp set!

I also used the small ‘splodge’ on the Thanksgiving Banner featured in an earlier post.

November, December and January bring a lot of birthdays for the fellas in my family…… so out came the Gorgeous Grunge once again!

………. and again for a couple of ‘thank you’ cards same layout at the guy cards but using more ‘girly’ colors and the pretty flower from the ‘Oh Hello’ stamp set (which I got as part of my materials at Leadership training way back in January

So I guess the moral is to never judge a stamp set by it cover ~ this little DVD case was full of little gems! 🙂

Another day of Stampin’

November 7, 2013Leave a comment

Today is my birthday, I will not share which one it is but suffice to say I have had a few of them and this one is not a milestone year!

I spent most of the day preparing for a craft sale this coming Saturday ~ the Bobcats Bazaar at Celina High School in Texas. I really enjoyed making a bunch of these cute snack packs for puppies and NOEL, home decor banner.