Nov 28, 2011 | Cards, Punch Art, uStamp |
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday this past week (if you are in the US that is). We spent the week in Virginia with Greg’s family and had a great time. We did some shopping, played some games, did some cooking, a little bit of crafting (making turkey boxes and advent calendars), and enjoyed each others company. Our trip home on Saturday was a tad bit more interesting than our usual – as we drove through Tennessee we happened to see the highway sign that said the interstate was closed – this was probably a couple of hours before we got to that point – so the iphone came in handy – I searched for traffic and then live cams and the maps to figure out what was going on and what we needed to do – as it turned out the interstate was completely shut down for 5 hours – no cars through at all. We stopped at an exit for lunch before we got to that point and decided that we could go around it or home another way from that point. Tyler drove from this point on – I was the navigator using the iphone and found a path around the accident and back to the interstate in Knoxville – problem #2 – the bridge across the river was closed and we had to follow a detour for that too. But we got back on our path and made it all the way home with Tyler driving (a young 18 year old driver is still a little stressful but he did a good job and got lots of good practice). Tyler and Kyle are both back at college and Sunday I did lots of laundry. But hey – that’s not why you are here enough chatter and on to my project today.
I wanted to share this super cute punch art project with you today. I created this box set of cards for the Knockout Punches online class for Ustamp with Dawn & Friends.
It is a box with 6 cards – each one featuring a different punch art garden animal. A great project for scrap and lots of fun to make. I’ll be offering this as a class next year as we get ready for spring – so keep an eye on my hands-on class schedule. And if you don’t live near me the full tutorial is available as part of the Knock Out Punches version of UStamp with Dawn & Friends – you can sign up for that and get over 45 great punch projects all with a tutorial and pictures. Lots of fun stuff – here is the link to the Ustamp site. You can also click on the button on my side bar.
And guess what – they are predicting that north Georgia will get some snow on Tuesday! We’ll have to see if that happens and if it gets to us. Have a wonderful day!
Nov 22, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, family, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi all – I hope you are having a productive week leading up to Thanksgiving – is everything ready? Do you have the turkey, the ham? We have both. I have more little turkey milk cartons to make – one for each of the kids although the kids are really kids any more they are becoming adults. Yesterday was Kyle’s 20th birthday! I can’t believe I have a 20 year old! Where did the time go? Since I needed a card for Kyle for his birthday I used this weeks color challenge for his card. Here is the inspiration picture –
I thought these colors were good for a masculine card even though the inspiration photo isn’t. I am working on another project that uses the Peek-a-Boo die for the Big Shot so I had that on my craft table and decided to play with it for this card too. After playing around with it quite a bit I finally came up with this –
This is the front – I made owls using the owl punch and set them on each of the peek-a-boo windows – each one says “got birthday?” – and when you open the windows you get –
one cupcake and then two cupcakes with candles –
And then on the inside of the card – it’s better than the outside –
This time the peek-a-boo window reveals the best part of the birthday –
The gift card (or cash) – I created a pocket under the window – used the word window punch to make the opening for the gift card – or fold up some case and slide it in there. So that is the card that Kyle got for his birthday.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Garden Green, So Saffron, Soft Suede
- Ink: Soft Suede, So Saffron
- Stamp sets: Got Treats, (and an old birthday set – I had limited supplies with me, sorry)
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Peek-a-Boo Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Owl Builder punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch, Word Window punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponge.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Nov 7, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Punch Art, Thanksgiving, uStamp, Valentine's Day |
I designed this fun project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 online class.
This is a Holiday Treat Making Kit. I used the Gift Givers stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog for this project. It is one of my favorites! The picture shows the box and then a sample of each of the six Holiday treats that you would make. My idea for this project was to have a ready to go kit full of everything you would need to put together treats for each holiday – except the candy. So once you have your kit created you just sit back and wait for the holidays to arrive – go buy your candy – fill the bag – assemble and give out the treats.
My box is designed to hold enough for 10 of each of the 6 holidays – so there are sections for the large fold over tags, the skinny cello bags, and then the tags, ribbon and brads for each of the holidays. I think it is fun and now I can be ready to mail off treats to my kids, and my nieces and nephews.
There is a complete tutorial for this project in the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 class. Click on image below if you would like to join the class. You will go to the main site for the UStamp classes. This one is all about punches and there are over 45 projects with full tutorials – new projects are being posted every day.
I hope to see you there. This is the first of my two projects and let metell you the other one is super duper cute!!!
Have a great day!
Nov 1, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
So how was your Halloween? I think we had the fewest kids ever – one small group came by like 6:30 and then maybe 20 minutes later a couple of kids, then some small groups every 10 -15 minutes – i was giving out hand fulls trying to get rid of the candy. I’m not sure where everyone was – although I do think we have a lot of families around us that are like us – their kids are now in college and high school and they don’t have any more trick-or-treaters – so maybe that is it our neighborhood is older and we don’t have very many young families around us.
But enough of that – there is a new UDI Color Challenge in town – and I had some fun with this one!
Here is the inspiration picture:
And I really like how well these colors work together – I’m not sure that I would have used them together but I am very happy with how my card turned out. The idea from my card came from one that I saw on Pinterest – it was a non-SU card but mine of course is made with all Stampin’ Up! products.
It is basically a bunch of punched pieces aligned in a grid on the front of the card. I layered different pieces and added some embellishments like brads and buttons. What do you think? I love it! See below for all the supplies that I used – I think it is pretty self explanatory – each set of punched pieces is on the card with a Stampin’ Dimensional. The only hard to figure out thing might be the “thread” in the buttons on the top row – well it isn’t thread at all it is a thin piece of card stock. You can cut very thin slivers with the Tabletop Paper Cutter – that is what I use for just about all my cutting – I love it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
- Stamp sets: Tiny Tags, Sweetly Said
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Subtles Designer Series Patterns Stack, White Baker’s Twine, Jewelry Tag punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Heart to Heart punch, Itty Bitty shapes – flower, Neutral Designer Buttons, Brights Brads, Bitty Buttons, Brights Designer Buttons, Basic Pearls, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, 5/16″ Jumbo Neutrals brads, Scallop Edge Border punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack , Stampin’ Sponge, mini glue dots.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Sep 9, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
Today I have a scrapbook layout for you. Yeah – I’m all done with the mini cards and yes for those that wondered all 9 cards and envelopes did fit inside the box and there was room for a few more!
This layout was one of the ones we made at my WOW Scrapbook Class in August. I have a class once a month – typically the last Friday of the month. You can see my calendar on my website and RSVP directly from there.
Smile Your Heart out is the title with the Heart turned into a strawberry to match the paper. The designer paper is the Berry Blossoms in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog. It uses several of the new In-Colors – Wild Wisteria, Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral. The layout idea for this was from a scrapbook magazine. The pictures are of my niece after we went to a Mother’s Day tea this past spring. I spent all morning trying to get her to smile for me and finally when we were leaving she game me some big smiles. And then she walked away toward the car and it was so cute I took pictures of her from behind.
The strawberry is made with the Big Shot Embosslit Heart of Hearts. I turned it over so the dots are indented since a strawberry is like that. The leaves on the top are made from the 5-petal flower punch. The one underneath has one leaf trimmed to be a stem, and the one on top is trimmed to three leaves and layered on top. Then I added a bitty flower punched from Whisper White. I added a little dot from the Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write marker in the center.
The strawberries turned out cute – I could have added some sponging and maybe scores in the center of the leaves for more dimension.
I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today.
May 29, 2011 | Cards, family, Graduation, Punch Art |
We had high school graduation this weekend. Tyler graduated – here he is
That’s #2 for us and we have one more to go. I can’t believe I have two boys that have graduated high school and will both be gone in August living at college. My how time flies! Weren’t they just little babies not too long ago? Tyler will be going to Kennesaw State University in the fall and we go this week for orientation. I’m excited for him to start this new part of his life.
I made graduation cards this week and this is what I finally decided on –
I found this idea on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only web site) from another demonstrator named Katherine Pritchard. I used the owl punch to create my owl – her owl was made from a variety of other punches and was bigger. The hardest part of this card was creating the tassel to go on the cap at the top. Not sure what my problem was but it took me forever to get something that resembled a tassel. The cap is a 3/4″ square (I used the retired SU punch, but you could also cut by hand). The diploma is the 1-1/4″ square punched from the First Edition Designer Series paper and then rolled and tied with the Whisper White Baker’s Twine (that’s what the tassel is too). I made several of these in various colors – trying to match the school colors for each of the graduates. We had a lot in our family this year – there was Tyler, then my niece will also graduate high school in June, my nephew graduated college, a cousin that is graduating from vet school, and my little nephew graduated from kindergarten.
Have a nice Memorial Day and I’ll be back tomorrow with the UDI color challenge.
It is a box with 6 cards – each one featuring a different punch art garden animal. A great project for scrap and lots of fun to make. I’ll be offering this as a class next year as we get ready for spring – so keep an eye on my hands-on class schedule. And if you don’t live near me the full tutorial is available as part of the Knock Out Punches version of UStamp with Dawn & Friends – you can sign up for that and get over 45 great punch projects all with a tutorial and pictures. Lots of fun stuff – here is the link to the Ustamp site. You can also click on the button on my side bar.
