Punch Art

Today's project is a fun one. 

The children just love the Curvy Keep Sake boxes with lots of different characters.

Here is a selection of some of them.

 

Lots of the Circle punches were used on these creations.
In addition, The Tree Builder Punch, Fringe Scissors, Flower Medallion (Peppa's Hat)

 

Obviously, the Minions and Olaf are very, very popular still.

 Blushing Bride,

  

 Peppa Pig is another very popular one with Bella my grand-daughter and lots of other chilldren.

The Blue one in the middle is my take on Superman!

Well I suppose that as Jayden, my grandson recognised it, then it's not too bad! 

Weekly Inspiration, Sprinkles of Life

Sprinkles of Life

For today's project I was inspired by a friend who is about to give birth to a little girl.

Adding a few layers of DSP from the It's My Party range and a message from                                                                                         Made With Love stamp set                                                           Matting and Layering again, as I love the effect it gives to a simple flat card. 

This time I stamped and punched the cloud then punched out the tree and cloud shape in DSP.

The 'baby blanket' is supported by Silver Metallic Thread.

Inspiration - Masking Technique

Botanicals For You is the stamp set used today. 

This set is one of the FREE products you can get through SALEABRATION. 

 

A large but very effective message, Just For You was heat embossed in clear powder. 

I used sponges to add several shades of pinks over white cardstock. 

Ending with stronger colours on the outer edges of the image and the background mat.

To finish off I used Melon Mambo ink and a mask from Happy Patterns set of 4 masks

 to give the diamond shapes on the background mat.

A piece of ribbon was also sponged the same way to give a shaded colour too.

Don't forget that during January and March 31st, Stampin' Up! have SALEABRATION time. 

For every £45 spend on product within the ideas books and catalogues, you can choose any 1 of the FREE products in the Saleabration leaflet. 

£90 will entitle you to 2 FREE products,

 £135 will give you 3 FREE products and so on.

Interested? Please contact either Cary or Gill and we will be happy to help.

See you tomorrow with some more inspiration.

Stampin' Stars Annual Catalogue Blog Hop

Well it finally arrived....... the much anticipated annual catalgue from Stampi' Up!

Boy it is a goody filled with the most lush and inspiring products and of course what Stampin' Up! is renowned the world over for fantastic stamps!!!!

Any way before I get completely carried away and my bank account suffers any more take a look at what we've been up to using our sneak peek products to create for today's Stampin' Stars blog hop.

If you've just arrived from the lovely Nicky's blog over at http://www.nickyjohncock.blogspot.co.uk/ then welcome and if you haven't be sure to pop over and see her inspiring project :)

Well here is my project.
The card is a fun 3d frame card made using whisper white card stock and a mat of melon mambo card stock to highlight the stamped and embossed image.

Made using the lovely Wildflower Meadow single stamp and co-ordinating texture embossing folder  

The card also uses the scallop trim border punch

and the gorgeous bitty butterfly and elegant butterfly punches.

 The colours used are melon mambo, daffodil delight and pear pizzaz. The colour combo was inspired by the paper in the background of the photo. This beautiful paper is from the gingham garden designer series paper.

well if you'd like to leave a comment it would be great but please do pop over to the next person in this great blog hop Natasha over at http://heartsyoucrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ and make sure you follow all the way through and see the wonderful inspiration that there is on offer.

Have fun
Cary xxx