Scrapping by Design

I bought a new punch yesterday. It is one I had been wanting for quite some time. It’s the EK Success Paper Shapers Large Punch, Butterfly Whale of A Punch

I made several cards, similar but different, using paper and card stock left over from Valentine’s Day craft projects.

The shapes are cut on the Sizzix Big Shot using various Nestabilities dies.

As for the butterfly, I cut three identical shapes, one on brown card stock, one on rose card stock and one on scrapbook paper. I used the brown butterflyfor the base, then cut pieces away from the other two, which I layered as shown.
I filled in the butterfly’s body with Stickles Glitter Glue in this particular card. In other cards, I used beads, glitter and Fun Flock for the body.

The sentiment, Hello, is an acrylic stamp.

I’m particularly fond of butterflies. I like this punch. No buyer’s remorse here.

This hand made card, called Spring Has Sprung, is another one from the collection of cards I bought at Scrap Arts moving sale.

The large while flour is a paper flour with a punched shape in the middle, plus a small brad of the same color.

The stem is cut from green card stock.  The row of small flower shapes are punch art.  The sentiment, Spring has Sprung is done by hand using a gel pen.

A row of colour coordinated eyelets competes the card.

It’s a simple design and very attractive.

This attractive Mother’s Day card comes from a Make ‘n take at Making Memories, a scrapbook store in Burnaby.

The images are stamped. I don’t know what stamps were used.

We colored the vase with a technique that is new to me. We used a glaze pen (blue) with a water pen. It worked beautifully. I had not realized you could handle glazed pens this way.

The other coloring is done with Copic markers, and the flowers are punch art.

I imagine the shapes are cut with the Big Shot using Nestabilities Spellbinders, but that is a guess.

I’m gong to send this Mothers Day card to my elderly cousin.

As I mentioned before, Scrap Arts, our North Vancouver scrapbook and craft store is moving to a new location. They had a number of pre-moving sales. I bought a hand made folder containing a number of cards for $1.00. This card is one of them.

The picture doesn’t do it justice because my scanner distorted the pictures and I tried to correct in Photoshop. The end result gives you an idea but the actual card is much prettier.

It’s an easy card to make, using only card stock and scrapbook paper. The embellishments are two layered flower punched shapes with an eyelet in the middle. The ribbon is a transparent cream color, very pretty.

Tomorrow is National Scrapbook Day. Scrap Arts has their official opening in the new location and lots of things going on to mark the double celebration.

This hand made Easter card features dry embossing with  Cuttlebug Embossing Folders done with the Sizzix Big Shot.

The tag is a punched shape.

The tulips are cut with the Cricut and come from the folder called A Walk in My Garden.

A bow of white ribbon and a small white eyelet fancy up the look a little.

Happy Spring is a stamped image.

This hand made Easter card is intended for a young child.

The words “BE Happy” are die cuts, as is the wheelbarrow and flowers. I did them using the Cricut Expression 24-Inch Personal Electronic Cutting Machine. The cartridge is Cricut 29-0223 Walk in My Garden Shape Cartridge.

The background is actually white, although it looks blue in the picture. It is dry embossed using the
Sizzix Big Shot and the small flower flower embossing folder from Cuttlebug.

I glued on a few punched flower shapes to add to the flowers in the wheel barrow, and I used a little Sparkly Fluff in the center of the alphabets.

This hand made St. Patrick’s Day card has ribbon and stickers — plus a punched border, card stock, a stamped sentiment and some scrapbook paper.

It;s going to a 13 year old boy, so I stayed away from anything too feminine.

The checkerboard area is ribbon.

The green in the middle is scrapbook paper.  St. Patrick’s Day is stamped with a small acrylic stamp, and layered on green card stock.

The punched border going vertically down the card is made with the Greek border punch.

The leprechaun and tiny green shamrock are stickers.

I hope it meets with the boy’s approval. Who knows what kids of that age like?

Yesterday, I made this St. Patrick’s Day card featuring a stamped image of a carousel horse.

The stamp is Carousel Horse by Make an Impression, a stamp company located in Bellevue, Washington. I ordered the stamp from their online store a couple of years ago. I originally used it one year for Christmas cards. At that time, I made the horse white and decorated with red and green and gold punched shapes, plus a feather from my friend’s budgie bird.

I’ve been committed to using products on hand rather than buying new — a situation that developed when I realized my craft supplies were taking over my apartment and rather than using them, I was adding more and more.  Until I see a sizable dent, I am buying only occasional supplies such as glues and papers needed to match a particular project.

Therefore, I decided to see what I could do with the Carousel Horse stamp. I need five St. Patrick’s Day cards. They go to the teenage grandchildren plus a couple of  younger children that I send to.

For this card, I stamped the image with a watermark ink, then heat embossedwith chocolate brown embossing powder. I colored the horse with Twinkling H2Os and added a few accents with a glaze pen.

I used punches to make flowers in rose, pink and yellow, and another leaf punch to make leaves.  I put a daub of green glitter glue in the center of each small flower, then  used two sizes of shamrock punches to make the shamrocks.  The bigger shamrock at the top is stamped in black ink using “Top of the Morning”, an acrylic stamp from Studio G.

The white image is matted with green, which is 3D’d on the card. The card itself is a brown Bassill card stock with a layer of green,  tweedy-colored scrapbook paper.

This will do for four of my cards. I will have to make a different design for one of my St. Patrick’s Day cards, since two cards go to the same home.

Tweed Curtain Productions has a marvelous blog post today. Charmaine Stack of British Columbia has assembled links to perhaps a couple of dozen tutorials showing different ways to make paper flowers.

She also has a picture of a card she made recently, in which she features some beautiful, hand made paper flowers.

Spring is in the air, and if you’re looking for some new ways to make paper flowers, you are likely to find it here.

Hand Made Paper Flowers

This greeting card features an Anna Griffin stamp by All Night Media. I think its a hydrangea blossom, but I could be wrong.

The image is stamped on glossy paper using a dye ink.  I’ve blocked it on blue card stock and added a small silver colored brad.

The sentiment along the outer edge is also a stamp, “Sing, Laugh, Hope” by PrintWorks. It’s stamped in the same blue ink as the flower.

The border is cut with a border punch. Underneath it, I have glued a wide strip of ribbon that matches the ink color quite well.

I’ve put a length of the ribbon horizontally across the card as well, and attached a small bow.

This card uses the same two stamps as I used in my previous post in which I demonstrated the resist technique.

I’m committed to using my stash this year, so I have chosen papers from what is available, rather than shopping for new.  The results are not always as satisfying as they might be if I shopped specifically for a project, but it feels good to be using up some of the excess supplies.