Delightful Decorations

One more card for the week. This card is one that Nicki Turner taught us at our last team get together. Its a great technique where you punch out and glue the baubles to the card before embossing it with the Petals a Plenty embossing folder. I love the effect. Thanks Nicki for showing us this great card.

Have a great weekend.

Punches Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the inaugural South Pacific punch art blog hop!!!
We are a bunch of Stampin Up demonstrators from New Zealand and Australia who love our Stampin' Up! punches. We have gotten together to showcase a selection of the punches you can purchase from Stampin' Up! We know we will inspire you and encourage you to use those punches in new and beautiful ways. Please leave a comment and let us know what you think to go in the draw to win some yummy scrummy punch art blog candy (offer not available to su demos). 
please  email Clare  with full name/user name when you have commented on each blog so she can pick a winner.It will be left open for a week (Friday 5th 10am) for you to make comments before she will randomly pick a winner.  

Welcome to my stop on the Stampin' Up! Punches blog hop. You may be just starting here or you may have arrived from Angie's blog.
A week or so ago I showed you a card that my good friend Lee-Anne designed. I needed to make a card for a swap and one for today using the scallop trim punch. I used her colours and basic sketch and made a new card using the ovals die. I really like the end result. The colours are Vanilla, Crumb cake, Baja breeze and Early Espresso. I used Sanded for the background. The leaves are Pear Pizzazz.

 Next I needed to make a gift for my Secret Sister on ESAD and as it is reveal time its OK for me to show you it on here. I had made a candle holder using the flower folds die and the big shot. I used some aluminium flashing to cut out each of the flowers. I made the candle myself as my friend Lee-Anne has been teaching me how to make my own soy wax candles. 

Then of course you need a box for the candle so I measured up the candle and made a box to fit. I used the scallop trim border punch for around the lid edge and then used the scallop trim corner punch and the border one to make the black square on the top of the box. I sprayed the square with my homemade shimmer mist made with frost white shimmer paint and rubbing alcohol. I made the little razzleberry roses and added a few rhinestones. Of course there are more punches used on my box with the word window, modern label and 2 step bird punch. I hope my Secret Sister likes it.

Now you can hop on over to Steph's blog for some more punched inspiration. Incase you get lost on the way here is a list of all the blogs to visit.

1. Karen Southwell - www.kareniescrafts.blogspot.com
2. Carol-Ann Torrie - http://queen-of-scraps.blogspot.com
3. Sally Williams - www.sallycancraft.com
4. Julia Leece – www.juliascards.blogspot.com
5. Amy – http://ladybugsanddaisychains.blogspot.com/
6. Melissa Davies – http://beedevinedesigns.blogspot.com/
7. Michelle Dyson - http://www.stampinkpaper.blogspot.com
8. Clare Mcilhatton - www.crafty-cow.com
9. Lisa Bullock - http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com
10. Pauline Bennetts – www.paulinebennetts.com/stampede
11.Tia Routledge – http://craftingwithtia.weebly.com/my-blog.html
12. Emma Kirton – www.emmakirton.blogspot.com
13. Angie Jones - http://angiescraftfusion.blogspot.com/
14. Andrea Buckland – http://creatingcardswithandrea.blogspot.com
15. Steph Gray - http://stampinsteph.wordpress.com/

Bird Punch cards

The week is going by fast and here we are and its Thursday already. Last Thursday I taught the ladies at LBC some cards using the 2 step bird punch. They also were cased so here they are. 2 of these cards I found on SCS and surfing the net. I know the first one is a Lynn Pratt card but not sure about the silhouette one as there are a few like this around. The rose bud card is one I made up as I went along. If you have this punch you will find that it is so versatile and you can make so many different cards with it. 

 thanks again for checking out my blog.

 

Curly Cute

hello, I hope your week is going well. This week I am on the CASE so here are some cards I have found that I love. Sandi MacIver is a favourite of mine. Her wonderful cards got me inspired to ink up my new set Curly Cute. I used the music notes wheel and the roses are from Fifth Avenue Floral. The 4th card I added some rose buds I made using the bird punch. I had fun making these and now have some cards ready to send out.

thanks for stopping by.

Contempo Christmas

hello again, today I have another Cased card. this is one of the Christmas cards I made. I have used the new set Contempo Christmas. I Cased Jayne Mercer's card that she used Delightful decorations for. I haven't added the bow to mine and realise that it needs it so will be adding that later. thanks for the inspiration Jayne. The main card is Concord Crush and the embossing folder is Elegant Bouquet.

   

well only a short post today. back again soon for some more cards

Dresser Card

I have been Case-ing a few cards lately and the first card I have to show you is this fabulous card designed by Jackie Topa. She makes some really fantastic cards so go visit her blog for some inspiration. 

This card I made for my friends baby shower. I made a few different ones in 3 colours. Here is the Blue one. I used the baby tees wheel and a sizzlet die for the bear. The colours are white and Bashful Blue.

Thanks for visiting. I will add some more cards in the next few days.

Hexy Envy Paper Craft Planet

Hi, This week I joined in the 3d challenge over at Paper Craft Planet. It was using a template by Adela. I printed the template on White card and then using the Decor roller and black ink rolled each petal. I made the red flower for the top using the fancy flower punch. The leaves are a sizzlet die.