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Chicken punch art

At long last I have the chicken punch art I have been promising.  I made this recipe card for my recipe club. The chicken was made using the Pennant builder punch and few others.

This chicken was made using the pennants punch for the body.  I punched the triangle and then rouned the 3 corners with a 3/4" circle punch.  The bird punch is the wing, the daisy Sizzix die is the tail feathers and the rest uses the Boho blossom punch. I used the largest blossom and trimmed it for the headpiece, the beak and the waddle.

It's pretty easy.  I hope you enjoy it!

It's pizza and pumpkins for us tomorrow night. We are going to pick out our pumpkins and carve them for Halloween.  Friday night is always pizza night at our house and it fits in with the busy night we have ahead of us!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Cupcake gift card holder

I gave this sweet little gift card holder to my sister for her birthday.  This is such an easy gift card holder.  I have a video tutorial on how to make them here.  I used the new build a cupcake punch  and cupcake stamp set to decorate the outside. The designer paper is leftover from my Christmas pack from the Occasions mini catalog.  I thought it worked well for birthday too.  I made a quick belly band to hold this one closed.

 

You know what was in the gift card holder?  A Stampin' Up! gift card of course!  She's looking forward to spending it!

I was in my craft room creating the recipe cards for my upcoming Recipe club this weekend.  I will have those to share with you in a few days.  I'll get to try out my new camera on my craft projects. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Coffee Cups

I am not a coffee or tea drinker but's it's amazing how much I love the set, Morning Cup!  I made this card for my stamp club and for my shoebox swap with my downline on Monday.  I wanted to create the look of a coffee sleeve so I used some corrugated cardboard.  I have included a video to show you how I made this card.

 

Recipe: Stamps: Morning Cup

Ink:  jet black stazon, early espresso, blushing bride

Paper: early espresso, blushing bride, watercolor paper

Other: corrugated cardboard, early espresso wide striped ribbon, pink taffeta ribbon, linen thread, neutrals buttons, curly label punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, stampin' dimensionals, aquapainter

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

Shrimp punch art

Earlier in June a few demonstrators in my dowline did a recipe class with me.  We got together on a Friday night and created 10 recipe cards for the class.  My friend Paula, really wanted to do a punch art shrimp.  Usually I case and tweak my punch art but I couldn't find anything out there for a shrimp.  Whoever said necessity is the mother of invention was surely right in this case!  I looked up a stamp of a shrimp and came up with this shrimp punch art.  Paula tweaked it slightly and this her recipe card.

Here's a close up of the shrimp:

Do you want to know how to make the shrimp?  Well I have a few photos for you to explain how I did it.  I tweaked the shrimp slightly once again to allow for use of current punches and colors.

Here are the punches and sizzlit you will need to make the shrimp:

Punch out a large oval punch in Regal Rose allowing for space around the punched out oval on your cardstock.

Go back in with your 1 3/4" circle punch and punch out your shrimp body moving it around so that the head is slightly larger than the tail.

Nest you will round off the two pointed edges with your scissors.

To make the spine of the shrimp punch out two 1/2" circles and one of the circles from the Itty bitty punch pack.  Overlap these on your shrimp body.

Run the Scribbles Sizzlit die through your Big Shot.  You will need to do a little surgery on the Scribbles. Just trim that body piece off.

Next punch one branch of the snowflake.

 
Attach the scribbles with a glue dot to the head, add some googly eyes and attach the snowflake branch for the tail and you are done!

I hope you enjoyed this punch art tutorial!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen
   
 

Origami Box tutorial at last!

Well after some trial and error I finally have the Origami box video tutorial for you!  I tried and tried to get captions on the video so I could put measurements on for you but i couldn't get it to work.  Then I couldn't get the whole thing in one video so I have it as two parts.

Origami Box Video tutorial part 1:

 

 

I have the measurements here for you if you didn't catch them on the video:

1 piece of cardstock 11 7/8 x 8 3/4

Coordinating cardstock: Two pieces(2 7/8 x 2 7/8), Six pieces(1 1/4 x 2 3/4)

Designer Paper: Two pieces(2 3/4 x 2 3/4), Six pieces(1 1/8 x 2 5/8)

With the 8 3/4 part of the cardstock at the top of your paper cutter score at 2 7/8 and 5 7/8

Turn your cardstock a quarter turn so that the 11 7/8 side of your cardstock is at the top of your paper cutter.  Score at 1 1/2 and 4 1/2 from each end.  Score at 2 1/2" from the top of your cardstock to the first score line and from the bottom up to the first score line. Do this on both ends. 

Cut along the score lines that are at the 2 1/2 down to the first score line on both ends and the top and bottom.  Also cut along the cardstock between the 1 1/2 and 4 1/2 score line.  This is what your cardstock should look like now.

 

Fold along all the score lines.  Put tacky strip along two flaps on one side of the middle square.  Fold the flaps in to meet.  This is what your box should look like now.

Put adhesive on the back of the small flaps and bring them in to meet the edge of the cardstock on all four sides.  This is what your box should look like now.

   All you need to do is decorate your box with the designer paper and cardstock and place brads at the top with cord wrapped around to keep it closed.

I hope that makes sense! I got the original directions from Martha Stewart, a Stampin' Up! demonstrator from Florida.  The directions were posted on the demonstrator website but I couldn't find them again.  Let me know if you have any questions.   

 

Milk carton tote tutorial

This little mini milk carton Sizzix die from Stampin' Up! has been wildly popular!  I made a tote carrier that will hold four of the mini milk cartons.  Here it is:

I have a video tutorial on how to make the tote here:

The measurements for the cardstock to make the tote are:

Boxes: 2 pieces 6 1/2 x 4 3/4(score 1 1/2 inches around all 4 sides of both pieces)

Handle: 1 piece 4 3/4 x 3 1/4

You can also view my video on how to make the mini milk carton here:

 

All products are from Stampin' Up! and can be ordered on my online ordering  website here. 

Happy stamping!

  

Giraffe swap card and stamp-a-ma-jig background

I finished up my Wow swaps for a swap group I joined on SCS.  My final WOW card is this giraffe card.

Recipe:
Stamps:  Animal Stories, Circle Circus, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Basic Black
Paper:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Custy Durango, Tall Tales designer paper
Other:  Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon, small oval punch, large oval punch, modern label punch, googlie eye, crystal effects, eyelet border punch, stampin' dimensionals, dusty durango stampin' write marker, stamp-a-ma-jig

When using the Circle Circus stamp set as a background I discovered that one of the open ring stamps in the set fit around this other stamp in the set.  I stamped my circles in crushed curry and dusty durango and stamped over them in black with the open ring stamp using my stamp-a-ma-jig.  It really jazzes it up!

Here are the steps to this background.  It's a little putzy but worth it!

i hope you found this helpful.  Now that my swaps are done I get to go play with some of my new stamping toys!   Yippee!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Recipe Challenge#35

For this week's recipe challenge I combined the challenge with a technique called Cracked Glass.  You can view a tutorial for it here.  The recipe challenge this week was to used patterned paper, 1 or more hearts, and ribbon.  Check out what the other gals on the recipe challenge team came up with on Tamara's blog here.

I thought this Sale-a-bration stamp set, Botanical Blooms, lent itself nicely to this technique. 
Recipe:  Stamps:  Botanical Blooms, Short and Sweet
Ink:  Jet Black Stazon, Regal Rose, So Saffron, Certain Celery, Versamark
Paper:  Regal Rose, Basic Black, Delicate Dots designer paper(Sale-a-bration), Whisper White, Certainly celery
Other:  Top note Sizzix die, oval scallop sizzix die, ribbon bundle(sale-a-bration), glassy glaze embossoing powder, heart to heart punch

We did this technique at stamp club last night.  It can be kind of putzy but I think it's worth the effect!

I haven't started on the Valentine's for my kids classes yet.  Yikes!  What is everyone doing this year for Valentine exchanges?

Thanks for stopping by!

Big Shot VIP Event

Friday night was my Big Shot VIP event.  Any customer in mine or my downline's customer group could come to this event if they purchased the Big Shot starter kit or a cumulative $200 worth of big shot products from us.  Kristina and I planned this event.  The first picture is of us standing in front of the Love banner we made from our Sizzix pennant die.  We had so much fun picking out the fabrics.

Next are the cupcakes I made for the event.  I made cupcake picks with my sizzix hearts die and the new 3 heart punch that is part of the Love You Much bundle.

This table was set up for participants to take a snack break.  I didn't make the placemats.  I bought those from Kohls.  Aren't they so cute?!  What you can't see very well is that I made little decorative straws for their drinks with the sizzix birds and blooms and the sizzix buttons die.

This Valentine treat pouch was one of the projects they made.  This was a CASE from Barb of Barbstamps.  We used the smaller pennant from the pennant die and the stamps and designer paper from the Love You Much Bundle.

Next  up is a circle card using all Sizzix - no stamping!  This was a case from a card another demonstrator brought to my upline's house.  This uses the scallop die #1 and scallop die # 2, birds and blooms(flip the bird!) and the Join in the Cheer Decorative strip. 

The final project I didn't case!  Kristina and I came up with this one together.  We started with a jumbo clothespin.  You can get these at Oriental trading. We covered it with Sweet Always designer paper.  Love this paper!  We die cut with fun foam one of the hearts from the hearts die cut set.  Next we die cut two flowers from the designer paper with the Sparkle flower die cut and die cut a button in fun foam and designer paper with the buttons die.  This buttons die is so versatile!  Whenever I have leftover small scraps I like to die cut a bunch of buttons and small flowers up.  If you die cut fun foam and glue it underneath the button it gives it dimension and looks like a real button!  We finished it up with tieing pumpkin pie, pretty in  pink and white grosgrain ribbon around the clothespin.

This last project was a gift to the Big Shot VIP customers.  There were many versions of this calendar running around blogland.  I think the first person to introduce this was Nancy Morgan from PaperSmiles.  She has included a tutorial on it too so check it out here. 
Cambria tweaked Nancy's version and I tweaked Cambria's version.  This is the final result.

This was a fun event!  We'll be doing this once a quarter for all those who qualify for the rest of the year.  If you would like to be a part of this you can by purchasing the Big Shot Starter kit of by purchasing $200 cumulative in Big Shot sales with me or one of my downline.  Our next VIP event will be in April.

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

Cupcake Slider card

We made this cupcake slider card at my stamp club on Monday. I have wanted to try this technique for forever and finally I sat down and did it.  You can find the tutorial on SCS here. 
I always love those cards that have a fun little surprise!  There's a lot going on in this card!  I couldn't stop myself! hehehe.  I used the Party Hearty stamp set on the card.  I stamped the cupcake in Chocolate chip and again in Regal Rose.  I cut around the whole cupcake in the chocolate chip and just the frosting part in the Regal Rose.  I then popped the regal rose up on dimensionals.  Mount 'em up!(inside joke from stamp club).  I paper pierced the holes on the cirlce with my pick a petal classy brass template.  There are all kinds of fun shapes to paper pierce with on this template including the petals from the pick a petal stamp set.  I love how things coordinate with Stampin' Up!  Anyhoo, after paper piercing the holes, I punched it out with the 1 3/4" circle punch and then adhered it to a scallop circle form the pennants sizzix die(Stampin' up! exclusive).  The top note die is die cut in the kraft cardstock.  The saying is punched with the corner of the curly label punch.  I learned this from someone else.  Perhaps you need a visual.  I'll work on getting  a photo of that.  The hearts are punched from the new 3 heart punch that is part of the Love You Much Bundle now through January. I punched the hearts out with real red cardstock and then coated with crystal effects.  The colors I used are Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Temping Turquoise.

Thanks for stopping by today!