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Fabulous Friday: Punches, punches, punches

 
   Happy Friday and thanks so much for checking in today!  This week we are featuring one of my favorite line of products that Stampin' Up! carries  for our Fabulous Friday cards over over on the Sisters in Stamping blog - PUNCHES!  These tools are so versatile and make card-making a breeze.  And when you use them in an unconventional way, like to make punch art, they're even more fabulous. 

  The card that I designed this week features two different punches - the Balloon Bouquet punch and the Decorative Ribbon border punch - along with the Bella & Friends stamp set, Garden Galore DSP stack and Subtle textured impressions folder for the Big Shot.  Does the card seem kinda familiar?  I had extra pieces on my craft table left over from my Card Club last month when they made this card, which was my Stampers Dozen blog hop card in August.  A totally different card made from the same basic pieces - gotta love that!

 

    What do you think of my 3D balloon?  This is really simple to create and the layers fold flat for mailing.  I started with a base of the smaller balloon cut from melon mambo card stock.  Next, I punched out 5 layers of the smaller balloon cut from a piece of Garden Galore DSP.  Each of these were folded in half (I did cut off the bottom notch of the balloon to make it easier to fold in half) and glued them back-to-back using Tombow multipurpose adhesive.  The last two were glued to the base balloon.  I easily added that to the stamped balloon image and voila - a 3D balloon.  You may remember this beautiful Christmas ornament that I shared a few years ago - it's a similar idea.

  I colored the images using stampin' write markers in crumb cake (Bella), flirty flamingo (Bella's collar), lemon-lime twist (parrot) and mango melody (parrot's beak).

  

 

  And not forgetting the inside of the card I added a sentiment and the little parrot in the bottom corner.  I glued another balloon cut-out next to the sentiment and drew the string for the balloon using a basic black stampin' write marker.  You'd never know that wasn't part of the image! 

 

    

  Here is one more view of my card - I do love how this card turned out!  For even more punch ideas please hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to see what my fellow designers created for your inspiration.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

 

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Fabulous Friday: Emoji belated birthday card

 
  Happy Saturday!  Once again I am a day late in getting this post published. 

 

  In honor of World Emoji Day on July 17th, Jennifer asked us to create a project featuring an Emoji for our Fabulous Friday projects for the Sisters in Stamping blog this week. I tend to use "Yikes!" smile face one a lot and thought it was perfect for a belated birthday card!

 

 

  The face of my Emoji is cut from the new pineapple punch card stock using the largest circle from the Layering Circles framelits and the Big Shot.  I sponged all around using pineapple punch ink to give it some dimension. The eyes were cut from soft suede card stock using a 1/2” circle punch.  It is a little tough to see in this photo, but I scored the “teeth” on a strip of whisper white card stock then rounded the sides of the mouth using my 1” circle punch. I used the side of the soft suede brush tip marker to edge the mouth and ran a line down between the top and bottom teeth. I also drew in a little lower lip just under the teeth lightly, too.  The balloons were cut out using the Balloon Bouquet punch and my new In Color 6" x 6" DSP stack.  These fun new In Colors were perfect for this card!  The sentiments are from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set and hand-drew the strings of the balloons down to the end of the "D" in Belated.

 

  Here is another view of my card - I think you can actually see the teeth in this photo!  For even more Emoji project inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog  to check out what the other designers created this week.  

 

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

 

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Fabulous Friday: Floral Boutique Mother's Day card

  Happy Friday!  It's hard to believe that Mother's Day is just a week away!  To provide you with some inspiration, Karla chose Mother's Day as our theme for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog this week.  I chose to feature the Floral Boutique DSP because my Mom loves it... sorry that you're seeing your card ahead of time, Mom!  

  I used my Big Shot and new Large Letters framelits to cut out the "M's" but wanted to use a paper flower for the "O."  Mine is made up of two layers of the pansy punch and two layers from the smallest flower of the Blossom Bunch punch.  I curled the edges of each flower petal with my bone folder and attached the layers together using stampin' dimensionals to really make the flower 3D.  I will be hand-delivering my card so not a big deal that it will barely fit in the envelope.  Speaking of the envelope, I took a strip from the DSP and embellished my envelope as well as the inside of my card to really showcase the different patterns in this gorgeous paper.

  Here's another view of my card. For even more Mother's Day card ideas and inspiration please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog  to check out what the other designers created this week.  

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

 

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Fabulous Friday: Fabulous flower birthday card featuring Cucumber Crush

  Sorry for the delay in publishing this post from Friday... it's been a busy week.  Anyway, Happy Sunday and enjoy!!

  Last week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog I asked everyone to design projects featuring my favorite color GREEN in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

  My card started out as a four-leaf clover punch art for St. Patrick's Day, but I wasn't happy with how it turned out so those leaves became the bottom layer of my paper flower.  I really like the way that turned out and love that just a few punches, whisper white card stock, some stampin' dimensionals and my bone folder made it come together pretty easily.

  Here's a side view of my flower - it shows how dimensional this flower turned out... certainly not a card to mail, but hand-delliver.  I used three punches to pull it together: Flower Medallion (bottom layer), Pansy (middle layer) and Petite Petals (top layer).  Each layer had 2 flowers and I curled all edges up using my bone folder. Easy-peasy!

  

  Here's another view of my card. For even more GREEN inspiration please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created this week.  

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Fabulous Friday: beating the winter blues with paper flowers

  Happy Friday!! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing flower projects to beat the winter blues.  I decided to make some fun paper flowers to decorate this basic black picture frame and added a great sentiment from the Rose Wonder stamp set on a textured piece of the white card board that comes with the designer paper stacks.  I ran it through the Big Shot with the Brick Wall textured impressions folder.  I love using In Colors and the combo here is flirty flamingo, peek-a-boo peach and mint macaron along with chocolate chip and whisper white.  I love altering picture frames and adding a piece of stamped art to decorate my space.  

  Here's a close-up view of my paper flowers.  I used several punches to create them: Pansy (largest layers), Petite Petals (smaller flower and inside of larger one) along with the Festive Flower builder punch for the leaves.  The easiest way to create these is to cut all of your layers at one time (choose an odd number, they always look better) and mist the card stock lightly with water using the stampin' spritzer.  When damp, the card stock is so much easier to crumple up - this gives it the awesome texture and breaks down the paper fibers so they're easier to work with and shape.  I held all the layers together with a mini silver brad (retired) and shaped and spun the layers to create these fun flowers.  They are held onto the picture frame using stampin' dimensionals.  I love the way this looks on the bookshelf in my office - it reminds me that spring is right around the corner!

  For even more flower inspiration please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created this week.  

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

 

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Fabulous Friday: Happy Birthday with a Cherry on top!

  Happy Friday!!  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are celebrating National Cherries Jubilee day (Sept. 24th) by featuring cherries in our Fabulous Friday projects.  I decided to create some cute punch art cherries using Cherry Cobbler card stock (of course!) and was inspired by some super cute cherries that I found on Pinterest (see that pin here) from the Damask Love blog.  I kept the card simple so the focus would be on my cherries - the Stylized Birthday single stamp is great!  I just love the script font.  And for some bling I added a few sequins that I cut from the silver sequin trim.  My card club members are going to be making this card along with three other designs this weekend... I hope they like it!

  Here is a close-up of the cherries - they were created using the 1" circle punch along with the Fox builder punch and some thick whisper white baker's twine that I colored using a stampin' sponge and garden green ink.  The ink used for the stamp is chocolate chip because what goes better with cherries than chocolate?!?!  I also added some highlights to my cherries using a chalk marker.

 

 

  Here's one more view of the card. For even more cherry inspiration please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created this week.  

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! * 

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Fabulous Friday: Celebrating Summer Fiesta-style!

  Happy Saturday (yes, I forgot to publish this post yesterday)!!  This week we are featuring the theme of SUMMER in our Fabulous Friday projects today over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  I chose to use the Festive Birthday product suite with my card today - I just LOVE this DSP, it's soooo fun!  And who doesn't love a Margarita and some yummy Mexican food?! 

  I created my punch art Margarita glass out of the Lots of Labels framelits and my Big Shot.  The base of the glass is half of a 3/4" circle punch.  I colored it using a mint macaron stampin' write marker and and sponged all edges with tempting turquoise ink.  The salt-rim is dazzling diamonds glitter sprinkled on Tombow multipurpose glue.

  Here's one more view of my card.  For even more ideas and inspiration for your summertime cardmaking, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created this week.  

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! * 

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QE Card: Brushstrokes punch art flower birthday card

 Before I share my Quick & Easy card this week, I would like to address an issue that is of concern. I LOVE getting your online orders, but in the past few months I have received a few that were "No Contact" ones which means I cannot reach out and thank you for your order or send you a catalog or card in the mail because I do not receive your contact information when your account is set up this way.   

  I would really love to thank you for choosing me as your Stampin' Up! demonstrator, so if you have placed an online order with me this year, PLEASE log into your Stampin' Up! online account and make sure that you have not checked the box for "No Contact." If you need to update your account, please do so and then send me a quick email to let me know that you set up your account this way by mistake.  Thank you soooo much!  And now on to this week's card... 

  This week's card features a punch art flower and plaid background that I created using the Brushstrokes background stamp.  I love it when a stamp has versatility!!  This card is clean and simple with a color palette of crushed curry, dapper denim (new In Color!!) and whisper white and is so summery and fun. My card club members will get to make this card in July.

 

  Here's one more view of my card.  If you would like to receive the project sheet for this week's card please make sure you're subscribed to my newsletter so you receive it when it goes out to my subscribers on Wednesday.  You can easily add your email address in the subscriber box in the upper right section of my blog to have your name added to my distribution list. 

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Fabulous Friday: doggie punch art treat box

  Happy Friday!  I hope you've had a great week!!  The theme for our Fabulous Friday projects today over on the Sisters in Stamping blog is punch art and I decided to create a treat box with a punch art doggie on it sized just right for some meaty bones.  I used a variety of punches (see the list with links below) and my Big Shot and Baker's Box thinlits to create it.

  Here is a close-up of the punch art doggie. Can you guess how many different punches I used to create it?  You can check to see if you named them all in the list below.

  If you haven't realized it yet, I really love my Big Shot and Baker's Box Thinlits for creating fun little favor boxes for treats!  It only takes a single piece of card stock to make one and a 1-1/2" x 11" strip of DSP to wrap around it.  So simple and so cute!  For even more punch art ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created this week.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

Products used with today's project include:

Owl Builder punch #118074   $18.00

2” circle punch #133782   $18.00

Sweetheart punch #133786   $16.00

Itty Bitty Accents punch pack #133787   $17.00

Big Shot #113439   $110.00

Baker’s Box Thinlits #138279   $33.00

Magnetic Platform #130658   $40.00

It’s My Party DSP stack #140552   $26.00

Fine-tip glue pen #138309   $7.00

 

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Fabulous Friday Valentine's Day favor

  Happy Friday Saturday!  Yikes, the week really got away from me... between a Regional High School swim meet out of town on Thursday with my girls and a promotion at work (meaning back-to-back meetings all day Friday), I missed getting a post done yesterday.  Better late than never, though, am I right?!  Plus, you'll still have this idea to use in time for Valentine's Day tomorrow!!

  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog I asked everyone to create Valentine favors in honor of the big day this weekend.  I created my design based on an Easter one I made a couple of years ago (see this post for instructions and dimensions).  I love chocolate raspberry as a flavor combination so used that as inspiration for my color palette going with chocolate chip and rose red.  The stamp set featured is Groovy Love from the annual catalog - I really love this set - even more because the Sweetheart punch coordinates beautifully with the hearts in this set!  The favor is held closed with velcro and the chocolates stay put in a cello bag.

  Want to know how I created this heart embellishment?  I stamped then punched out 6 hearts and then folded them in half lengthwise.  I then glued them back-to-back to create this 3D heart.  Fun, right?!  The little sentiment was a strip that I cut feeding it through the bottom of the banner punch so that only the notch cut out from it.  I trimmed the other corners off at the "from" end using my paper snips.  

  Here's one more view of my project... this favor can be changed up for any occasion and I love that it is created with just a half sheet of card stock.  For even more Valentine favor ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a sweet and Happy Valentine's Day! *

Products used with today's project include:

 

Groovy Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set - 134246

Price: $18.00

Groovy Love Wood-Mount Stamp Set - 134243

Price: $25.00

Sweetheart Punch - 133786

Price: $16.00

Hearts Border Punch - 133784

Price: $16.00

Banner Punch - 133519

Price: $13.00

Silver 1/8" Ribbon - 132137

Price: $5.00

Neutrals 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 131191

Price: $7.00

Rose Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 102544

Price: $7.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad - 126954

Price: $6.50

Paper Snips - 103579

Price: $10.00

Stampin' Trimmer - 126889

Price: $30.00

Simply Scored - 122334

Price: $30.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue - 110755

Price: $4.00

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