Paper Punch Addiction

This week's Peachy Keen challenge is to create a card using faux stitching. I instantly thought about the super cute In Stitches face stamp set. The sweet little greeting from Vivienne and Friends goes perfectly with the stitches. And of course, this little flower wouldn't be complete without an Action Wobble on his head. Check out the instructions to make this card below the photo. Check out the other fantastic projects from the design team HERE.

Instructions:

Punch 5 flowers with Blossom punch. Stack flowers and pierce hole in center. Put a mini brad in the center and then turn the flowers to stagger the petals. Fluff the petals forward to create some depth.

Stamp the face on a So Saffron 1-1/4" Circle punch. Color the nose with riding hood red. Add regal rose to cheeks and whites to eyes with unibal white gel pen. Sponge edges of circle with more mustard ink. Attach face with dimensionals. Cut a strip of green print paper 1/4" x 4". Punch 2 wings from Bird Builder. Sponge edges with old live ink.

Cut the following layers for card:

8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Ruby Red or Riding Hood Red for base, folded in half

4" x 5-1/4" floral print (Colorbok Flea Market papers)

4-3/8" x 2-1/2" very vanilla

4-1/4" x 2-3/8" doily print (Colorbok Flea Market papers)

4" x 1-1/2" green print (Colorbok Flea Market papers)

1" x 4" Soft Sky, punch one edge with Scallop Border punch

Layer doily print on very vanilla and draw stitches around outer edge with unibal white gel pen. Layer green print over soft sky scallop border. Tie a fork bow in 5/8" vanilla satin ribbon and glue tails to back. Draw stitches along top and bottom with gel pen. Attach floral print onto card base and attach green print piece onto card. Attach doily print piece with dimensionals. Stamp greeting in lower corner. Glue flower stem on diagonally. Attach leaves with dimensionals. Attach flower head with action wobble spring.

Punch Inspiration 3/21/12

Anatomy of a Birthday

Good Enough to Eat

Mixed Bunch Flowers

Totally Unique Blossom Window

A Smile For You

Best Wishes Masculine Card

Happy Birthday Clean & Simple

3-D Projects:
Petite Purse Backpack

Video of the day:
Paper Flowers Gerbera Daisies

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

My Creative Time 3-D Wednesday

It's time for another 3D challenge at My Creative Time. The design team has some great projects to share HERE. For my project, I was inspired to modify the free standing pop up card technique to make a picture frame. The step by step tutorial for the free standing pop up card is located HERE. To make the frame, you need to cut the slot wider and make a gate fold picture frame to attach to the pop up. For the instructions, please see the downloadable tutorial below the pictures. I used the Happy Hunting stamp set from My Creative Time for the fun greeting. Check out this super cute set HERE.

Click on link to go to download page for the pdf document.

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D8472508_837_657778925

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/20/12

Time for Waterworks

Hippo Punch Art

Happy Easter Tulips

Spring or Fall

Car With Scallop Envelope die

3-D Projects:
Scallop Edge Handbag

Repurposed Jar

Create a Cupcake

Monday, March 19, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/19/12

Well, it has once again been confirmed by PC Magazine. The Google Chrome browser is the best when compared to other browsers! Not only is it safer but it's far superior in speed and features like the auto translate when you go to a foreign language site. If you haven't tried Chrome, you should. It's free to download and you won't want to use your old browser after trying it out!

On to the inspiration!

Little Flowers

Curly Cute

Live in the Sunshine

Spring Ahead

Sweet Shop Birthday

Happy Easter Chick

3-D Projects:
Happy Easter

Video of the day:
Chickens in a Pot

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/18/12

Sorry this is so late. I was so tired I had to sleep in today. The next couple months will be a very busy one! We had our offer on a home accepted with the closing later in April. I'm crossing my fingers that the inspection and appraisal go well. I've been looking for some time for a home that meets all of my needs and I finally found one. I'm so excited because I'm finally getting my own craft room. The room is a clean slate, so if you have any ideas and would like to share pictures of your own craft haven, I would love to see it.

Mixed Bunch Sketch

Pirate Punch Art Shadow card

Sleeve Gift Card Holder

Fishing Bag Petite Purse

Kids Punch Art

Button Smooches

Forever and Always

An Enchanted Thank You

3-D Project:
Sunflower Birdhouses

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/17/12

Happy St. Patty's Day everyone! Who's going to drink green beer?

Happiest Birthday Wishes

Punch Your Bow

Christmas Photo Scrapped

Faux Pearls

Flower Fancy Crayons

Video of the day:
Paper Coil Roses

Friday, March 16, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/16/12

Today is Challenge day over at the Peachy Keen blog. Check out the great projects that some of the DT has to share HERE.

How would you like a chance to win a free one year subscription to the Paper Crafter's Library? It's easy to enter the contest and you can get multiple entries! Check out the details HERE.

Best Wishes in Saffron

Weather or Not

Easter Punch Art Shadowbox

Enchanted Flowers Side Spring

Springtime Vintage

3-D Projects:
Bunny Mason Jar

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/15/12

Last night I posted a picture of my project in the latest issue of Papers & Pixels magazine. Check it out HERE. There is an abundance of digital scrapbook ideas this month and a great article for photoshop. The issue is only $1.50. You can subscribe HERE.

Tic Tac Toe

Thank You

Heart Petals

Paper Cup Baskets

Summer Smooches Tryout

Banner Bash

Flowers for my Friend

3-D Projects:
Cute Critter

Papers & Pixels Triple Pop Out

Hello all, the newest edition of Papers & Pixels online magazine has just come out. This month, I wrote a tutorial for this cute Triple Layer Pop Out card featuring the super sweet Peachy Keen Cottage Cutz die called Bunnies. I paired this with the wonderful greetings from the My Creative Time Color Me Happy stamp set. To get this tutorial (and lots of other fun stuff), subscribe to the March issues of Papers & Pixels magazine for only $1.50.

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Punch Inspiration 3/11/12

Hey all, did you know I have a facebook page for Paper Punch Addiction? If you are on facebook, you can like me and follow my posts. Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/PaperPunchAddiction

Fat Chicken punch art

Vintage Owls punch art

Holy Cow punch art

Sweet Pink Baby Teddy

Noahs Ark punch art

Video of the day:
Easter Bunny Basket

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Inspired by Stamping Release Day Party

It's time to see the new Inspired by Stamping sets! For today's card, I used one of the pretty eggs and greeting from the Easter set. This set was screaming to be paired with the Everyday Enchantment designer series paper. Be sure to visit Joanna's blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a free set! Check out the brand new stamp sets HERE. You can also order the brand new paper flowers. There are so many wonderful new flowers to embellish your cards with! Joanna is offering free shipping on all orders today only. The coupon code is MarchFree.

Here is a look at the sets I used this week

Easter 4x6

Small Fancy Label 4

Paper Flowers

In case you missed them, here are the other cards I made this week with these sets

Details for the first card shown:

Supplies:

Easter stamp set

Everyday Enchantment designer series papers

Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla card stocks

Riding Hood Red ink

Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon

Dimensionals

Instructions:

Cut the following layers:

5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Riding Hood Red card stock folded in half for card base

5 strips of 1" x 4" Everyday Enchantment DSP

3-1/4" x 2-5/8" Riding Hood Red card stock

2-1/2" x 2-1/8" Very Vanilla card stock

15/16" x 2-1/2" Everyday Enchantment DSP

3/4" x 3-1/4" Riding Hood Red card stock

5/8" x 3" Very Vanilla card stock

Layer strips onto card base (to properly space, place the outside strips first, then next 2 towards outside and center strip last). Stamp egg with riding hood red ink on very vanilla. Layer onto riding hood card stock with smaller strip of DSP. Tie 4 loop fork bow and wrap tails of ribbon around to back. Attach to card with dimensionals. Stamp greeting with riding hood red ink on very vanilla strip. Clip ends to create pennant. Layer onto riding hood red and clip ends. Attach greeting with dimensionals.

There are lots of other great projects to check out! Be sure to leave a comment at Joanna's blog for a chance to win a stamp set!

Punch Inspiration 3/10/11 and Blog Candy Winners

Before I get to today's inspiration, I need to announce a few things. First, thank you to everyone that took the time to take my poll for punch art and to leave a comment. The clear winners of my poll was Holiday/Seasonal with Animals as a second. So, it looks like that's what I'll be working on for my next punch art classes.

The winner of my drawing for the punch art poll is Laura J (carpediem). Laura gets to choose any one of my punch art classes as her prize!

The winner of my drawing for the free membership to the upcoming edition of Inkspirations 4U! is scrapbooker27.

Ladies, please email me at paperpunchaddiction@gmail.com to claim your prizes!

For those of you that missed it, I wrote a review for a fantasic digital scrapbooking software called My Memories Suite. One lucky winner will receive the software free. All you need to do is leave a comment on my blog post HERE (telling me the name of a favorite kit from the site). This software is so great, you will definitely want to win this! I will draw the winner on Sunday night.

Did you see my latest free punch art tutorial? I created a cute little chick card for the Peachy Keen challenge yesterday. Check it out HERE.

Ok, on to today's inspiration!

Diorama Card tutorial

Easter Wishes

Tunnel Card tutorial

Panda Bear punch art

3-D Projects:

Hoppers Easter treat holder

Video of the day:

Simple Punch Art Tulips

Friday, March 9, 2012

Inspired by Stamping Sneak Peek Day 2

It's day 2 of the Inspired by Stamping sneak peek of the new stamps coming out on Saturday. The new Easter set is so gorgeous! My favorite image on the set is the pretty floral bunny. I knew instantly that this stamp would go perfectly with the Beau Chateau designer series papers. The lovely greeting is from the same stamp set.

Supplies:

Easter stamp set

Beau Chateau designer series paper

Mocha Morning specialty designer series papers

Basic Black, Marina Mist card stocks

Basic Black ink

Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval, Petite Oval and Scallop Oval dies

Slot punch (retired)

White 3/8" taffeta ribbon

Marina Mist 5/8" satin ribbon (retired)

Instructions:

Cut the following layers:

5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Marina Mist card stock folded in half for card base

5-1/8" x 3-7/8" Basic Black card stock

5" x 3-3/4" Beau Chateau DSP (blue floral print)

5-1/8" x 1-1/2" Mocha Morning DSP (black/gray flocked print)

Stamp bunny with black ink on Beau Chateau DSP. Cut out with Oval die. Cut black layer with Petite Oval die. Glue onto black layer. Punch a slot on each end. Die cut scallop oval in Marina Mist. Tie triple loop fork bow in white taffeta ribbon. Thread right tail through the slot on left behind piece and up through slot on right. Layer onto scallop oval piece with dimensionals.

Assemble all layers except the card base. Wrap marina satin ribbon around card and secure at back. Attach scallop piece onto card with strong adhesive. Wrap white ribbon tails to back of card and secure. Layer onto card base.

There are lots of other great projects to check out! Be sure to leave a comment at Joanna's blog for a chance to win a stamp set!