Punch Art birthday card

A few days ago Dawn Olchefske published a video tutorial on 'viewmaster cards' and it looked quite simple and fun so thought I'd try it out.  Of course I soon realised I didn't have any number stamps for my age wheel so had to die cut some and glue them through the whole - not so much fun!

The night before I had made a little creature - I think he's a teddy bear - so slowly it all came together, though the teddy evolved from an Old Olive one (which explains the Old Olive 1/2" circle under the brad!) so then I had to add a strip of the same colour at the bottom just to balance things out.... and yes, I'm rambling on again!

My biggest fan is my 4 year old and he DEFINITELY approves of this one, I can assure you it has been  thoroughly child-tested and nothing has fallen off so far - that's a relief!

What I used:

Card:  Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, White, Pool Party

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip Marker

Stamp Sets:  Bold Birthday (retired)

Tools and other fun stuff: 1" circle punch, Ornament punch, Word Window punch, 1/2" circle punch, 1/4" circle punch

Still on the subject of rockets...

Well, after all the amazing work the teachers at kindy put in to the Rocket Festival I thought I'd better make them a thank you card to accompany a little gift - and of course it had to feature rockets!

I did a quick search on Splitcoast Stampers and found the idea for the moon (with a whole lot of craters on it!) and sort of got an idea how to make a rocket and I was ready to make my card.

Punch art was the way to go today and with only three punches I made the rocket - if you have the "Pennants" punch you could use that one too for the tip, fins, etc.  (hmmm do rockets have 'fins'?  I know fish do, not so sure about rockets....)

I'll be making a few more of these to keep on hand for birthdays, that's for sure!

What I used:

Card:  Pacific Point, White, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Daffodil Delight.

Ink:  Riding Hood Red, Versamark Watermark ink.

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations, Starring You (retired)

Tools and other fun stuff:  Wide Oval punch, Large Oval punch, 1/2" circle punch. Stampin' Dimensionals, Small Star punch (retired), non SU embossing folder, embossing buddy, heat tool, gold embossing powder.

Driving by to say hi - trying my hand at interactive cards

Well, what a lot of fun this was to make!  Definitely not a 'make and take' option but made for the pure pleasure of it.

I had purchased a cardmaking magazine which advertised interactive cards and after much reading and re-reading the instructions here is the result.  I think I will put a small greeting somewhere down the bottom, but will leave as is for the moment.

What I used:

Card:  Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Soft Suede,Play Date DSP, Haiku DSP (retired)

Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Baja Breeze, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black marker.

Stamp Sets:  Loads of Love, Fox and Friends

Tools and other fun stuff:  Scallop Oval punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Scallop Border punch, 1/4" Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon (retired), stamping sponges and quite a lot of glue!

Fox and Friends Invitations

I made these cards last week but hadn't had a chance to show them to you until now.  Our little boy turns 4 in a couple of weeks and we will be having a very low key celebration - that's all I can cope with at the moment! - so only two invites will be going out to his little friends.  My dad has a hard enough time keeping calm will master 3 running around, here's hoping 3 more little ones on the party day  don't send him into early hibernation!

I did the sentiments slightly different, and added an irregular 'saw-tooth' border down one side: to make this border I punched out a scalloped border and then punched it again making sure the scallops were offset to create the jagged edge.

I also added a little texture with an embossing folder and a spot of paper piercing.

What I used:

Card:  Tempting turquoise, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White

Ink:  Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie

Stamp Sets:  Fox and Friends, Sincere Salutations

Tools and other fun stuff:  Wide Oval punch, Scalloped Oval punch, Large Oval punch, Scalloped Border punch, 1 3/4" Circle punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Paper Piercing tool and Mat Pack, Stampin' Dimensionals.

My first CAS Challenge card

There seems to be a lot of 'firsts' going on in this blog - and I guess part of the reason of starting a blog was so I could participate in challenges but the main reason was I seem to have a lot to type about Stampin' Up! and Facebook was somewhat constricting at times.

Without further ado here is my first CAS (Clean and Simple) card.  There are various degrees of CAS and I think my card may be pushing the boundaries today a little as it has a couple of layers, but there are no ribbons, embellishments, frills etc, so I feel it qualifies - at least I hope it does!

Ever since I started this blog I'd been wondering how to link pages to this site and it finally occurred to me to ask my teenage son!

 You can view the CAS challenge here.   (Thanks son for showing me how to add links to my blog!)

What I used:

Card:  Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Play Date DSP

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Stamp sets:  Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Fox and Friends

Tools and other fun stuff:  Stampa-ma-jig, 1 3/4" circle punch, corner rounder punch, 2" circle template and cutter (non SU)