Father's Day Vest

I went to Kristin Lovig's for card making and we had a swap. Wanda Smith made a cute card with a vest. I took the vest idea, designed my own pattern and came up with this card for the WT Challenge. If you want my vest pattern, please e-mail me.

jofacets@gmail.com

I will e-mail you the directions --

Hello Kitty Paper Piecing, Sketch Challenge

This is a paper piecing -- punch art of Hello Kitty. I remember my neices loving this. Now, my granddaughters love it. So hopefully, they will love this card. This was done for the Sketch Challenge (SC) for Splitcoaststampers.com

Help Fire -- Inspiration Challenge

Yet, another inspiration challenge. IC179. We are to use a pillow to inspire a card. Here is the pillow I chose. And the 12X12 page. This page will become a card. I will take a picture and the picture will go on the card and the 12X12 page will go in the grandchild's picture.

Frog Punch art

I am really in to designing characters by the use of the punches. Here is my rendition of the frog.
He was made with punches from Stampin Up.


Don't forget -- more cards -- just click on "older posts" at the bottom of this page.

Punch Tulip

Here are more flowers made with punches. This one is a tulip. Can you tell?

Baskets of Flowers

I have been teaching making cards by using punches. This week I decided that I would use the punches to make flowers.

The class can chose from these three cards and use a punch to make it. Instructions for the Pocket Flower Pot) will be posted on this site very soon.

Sesame Street Birthday Card

Sesame Street Birthday Card

A grandson in the neighborhood was turning 2 and loves Sesame Street -- so I stayed up most of the night designing the characters. Here is the finished card.

Keywords: “Paper Piecing" "Punch art" "Punch" "Grover" "Sesame Street" "Bert" "Big Bird" "All Holidays" "Birthday"

Stamps:

All Holidays, Contemporary Alphabet Numbers, Contemporary Alphabet

Paper: SU Brilliant Blue, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, More Mustard, Bashful Blue, Vanilla Basic Gray Stripe

Ink: Brilliant Blue

Assessories: SU Punches: Wide Oval, Large Oval, Small Oval, Scallop Circle, Word Window, 1/2" Circle, Horizonal Slot, Snow Blossom, 3/4" Circle, 1" Circle, Cuttlebug Embossing: Forest Branches

Technique: Paper Piecing

Difficulty: 1 but time consuming

Bert Seseme Street -SU Punches Needed

Here are the punches needed to make the Bert character. They include SU (Stampin Up's) Wide Oval, Large Oval, Word Window, 1/2" Circle, Horizonal Slot, Snow Blossom, 7/8 " square.

You can make paper eyes, or get these moveable eyes at your local craft store. I bought mine in the craft department at Walmart.

Cards Designs Color Me Silly, Basic Grey

I made my friend, Freda, this card. I liked it so well, I made a bunch more for thank you cards.
I love to take the paper and have it dictate my design. Not much stamping, but it is about the process after all.
(This paper is from "Basic Grey's Color Me Silly" line.)
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