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EASTER BUNNY CARD!

Jenny Hayward

I thought I would stop by quickly to show you a card we did at my Kids Punch Art Class last week.  The kids had a lot of fun making these.  I had 2 groups during the day, which was pretty full on!! 

This punch bunny was shown to me by my stamping buddy – Leonie N.  I made one for the Easter Hat shown a couple of posts back.  It is so cute and so easy to make.

PUNCHES YOU NEED:

Body and Head:  1 3/4″ circle          Cheeks: Circles on 2 step owl punch           

Ears/Legs: Whisper White Large ovals and Regal Rose small oval.

Eyes:  punched in Basic Black with the Crop-A-Dile.

The edges are sponged in Regal Rose and then draw in his whiskers and markings on his paws with a Basic Black Marker.

I should have taken photos of the kids creations.  They were very creative.  Most of them also put a little flower on his/her head punched out with the Boho Blossoms Punch.  They looked very cute.  They even stamped inside the card AND the back.  They did a fantastic job.  They also made the chick card I showed here and a puppy dog bookmark.  They were very busy punchers!!

We are heading to Cairns on Sunday for the week.  I have only just caught up on all the jobs I needed to do before I go.  Now I should start thinking of packing – tomorrow though!!

Hope to get back here before I go.  Until then, I hope you get time to stamp because I won’t!

Jenny x

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A CUTE EASTER CARD FOR YOU!!

Jenny Hayward

I can finally get around to showing you this cute card.  A few weeks ago at our stamping get together Andrea showed us how to make this!  I love it.  This is so clever!

This card is created using a number of different punches.  Can you guess which ones???

You can tell the egg flowers are the oval punch.  The leaves are created using the oval punch too.  But check out the base of the flowers.  This is created using the owl punch.  How clever!!  Valita is the one who originally created this card.  You can check out the full instructions on her blog here.  There is no need for me to repeat them here 😉

I love being able to use the punches in different ways than punching around a text or something similar.  So much fun!!

Hope to be back again soon.

Happy Stamping,

Jenny xx

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EASTER TREATS!!!

Jenny Hayward

Two weeks ago I held my Easter Gift Packaging Classes.  These were the projects they all got to make.

There were 2 Easter cards, a Chocolate Treat Slider and a Treat Cup Box.  I used the Kaleidoscope DSP in the Summer Mini (which by the way, there is only just over 1 week left so you better stock up on this paper and any of the other goodies in the Mini Catalogue!).  I picked out the colours in the papers so it is not the usual pastel colours you might normally use for Easter.  I think they are bright and funky!  I didn’t have any Easter stamps so I had to think outside the square – or oval as the case may be!  LOL

For the first card and the Treat Pull, I used the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Vintage Labels’. 

For the card I stamped and heat embossed the oval frame in Gold Embossing Powder onto Tempting Turquoise and then punched it out with the Wide Oval Punch.  I tied a bow with Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain ribbon.  This was mounted on Whisper White and the edges sponged with Certainly Celery Ink.  It was then matted on Certainly Celery card.  Before adhering it to the base Turquoise card I stamped the bottom edge with the small flowers from ‘Short and Sweet’.  I scalloped the edge of the Pink Passion card strip with the eyelet border punch.  I stamped and embossed in Gold EP the words “Best Wishes” from the ‘Vintage Labels’ set.  Added a strip of Certainly Celery card behind it and adhered it to the base card. 

You might have seen these chocolate treat sliders/pulls around on other blogs.  I found when I made one up it was so tiny you could only fit a chocolate in about the size of the credit card.  Now that is not good enough!!!! So, as usual I adjusted all the measurements to fit a larger size chocolate bar.  If you want the metric measurements for this then email me.

I stamped the cardstock  for the treat pull before assembling.  It is so much easier let me tell you!!!!!  I wrapped around a strip of the Kaleidoscope DSP that I had punched the edges with the eyelet border punch.  I stamped the circle label from ‘Vintage Labels’ in Turquoise on Turquoise card and punched it out using the scallop circle punch.  I stamped it again in Glorious Green onto Gable Green and punched it out with the 1″ circle punch.  These were layered with mounting tape. I punched out a slot with the horizontal slot punch and threaded the Tempting Turquoise grosgrain ribbon through.  This is such a great gift for someone – and so simple!!!

Here is the second card and the treat box.

The second card I punched out 3 ovals with the large oval punch from various pieces of the Kaleidoscope DSP.  I sponged the edges with matching inks and adhered them to the Whisper White card.  The edges were sponged in Regal Rose ink.  This was mounted on Regal Rose cardstock.  I created the fringe to resemble grass from Certainly Celery cardstock and then stamped the “For You” on the strip.  I added a strip of the Kaleidoscope DSP  onto the base Tempting Turquoise card and paper pierced along the top.  It is hard to see that, I know!!! This card is  just like an Easter Egg Hunt card!

The box I created myself.  I wanted to used the Treat Cups in someway for Easter.  It is a very simple box and I added the treat Cup to the top so you can see the yummy Easter eggs inside.  OK, so it is empty.  Believe me they were yummy!!!  Stamp the cardstock before assembling and you can decorate it as you like. 

I am planning to put together a tutorial for this box so stop by in the next day or so.  In the meantime, Happy Stamping!!

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TREAT CUP STARS!!

Jenny Hayward

We had a joint team Summer Mini Launch last week which was a lot of fun. Thanks to Ness who organised it all. Each demonstrator had their own table with their guests and did their own Make and Takes at  the table. Here is photo of my group hard at work.

This is one of the Make and Takes we did. Many of them wanted to see how the treat cups worked. I thought this was a fun card for young kiddies and it uses lots of different punches.

I used the spiral punch along a thin strip of black card and adhered this to the back of Only Orange card piece. Another thin piece of black was adhered to the bottom. I adhered the Orange card to the Green Galore card base with 2 way glue once it had dried so it was easy to remove. I punched a circle using the 1 3/4″ circle punch through the both layers. Just a Tip: Sometimes it is hard to punch through both, so punch it first on the Orange and then line up the card on the Green base and draw a light circle in pencil. You can then line up the circle punch over the pencil circle and punch that out. I stuck the treat cup onto the green base card and then adhered the Orange over this. I punched out some stars and adhered them to the front. The smaller ones I mounted with dimensionals. I used the greeting from Just Jawing (borrowed from my daughter!!)and stamped this in Basic Black onto Whisper White strip. I used the square punch to create flag notches on the ends. You don’t want your good work destroyed in seconds with the receiver in a hurry to get to the goodies, so I created a little flap to fit on the back.

The little flap measures 9cmx5.5cm and scored at 1.5cm. Place adhesive on the small scored section and adhere this below the punched out circle. Fill the cup with treats and fold up the flap. I adhered this with snail but sticky strip would hold better. At least they might destroy the flap but not the card, HEY!!!
These are such fun to make, so why not give one a go. Of course, as you make these remember to ALWAYS  taste test what goes into your Treat Cups!!! LOL
Enjoy your day 🙂

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PUNCH SWAPS!!

Jenny Hayward

This month’s team swap was to use punches!  Last month was a non-stamping swap and I had chosen to use punches then.  This is the little ballerina I made.  After a big project with that one I thought I would keep this one nice and simple.  So this was my card.

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I cased this from this year’s Stampin’ Up! Catalogue on p141.  I just changed it a little.  I liked the simplicity of the card and think it is a great one to do multiple copies for Christmas Cards.  As it was I made a lot of them for the swaps!  I like the effect of the punched out small star in the larger star.  To do this, first punch out the small star from your cardstock.  Make sure you leave room around it.  Then turn the large star upside down and place it in your cardstock.  That is the great thing with the Stampin’ Up! punches that you can see what you are doing from underneath the punch.  Line the large punch up around the smaller star so it is even – and then punch it out!  It is great.  You can do this with any different size punches such as the circles and ovals. I added a row of paper piercing and some staples.  I like using the staples they just add another dimension on the card.  This is what I have used.

Stamps: Short and Sweet.

Card: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Old Olive, Ski Slope DSP.

Ink: Real Red.

Other: Small and large star punches, dimensionals, paper piercer and mat, stapler.

Well, my card was pretty boring compared to some of the other team cards.  Here are some very clever creations.

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Here are some lovely ladybugs by Cass, Erin and Rachel (?).

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These are by Shannan, Andrea and Tracey.

Aren’t they just great!  Time for you to get your punches out and create!!!!

Have a good day 🙂

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A BALLERINA!

Jenny Hayward

Last week our ‘Inkyfingers’ Team swap was a non-stamping card.  I wasn’t too sure about this one.  How could you make a card without stamps!! Yet when I first started making cards I never used stamps I just stuck pictures onto cards.  I could do this!!!!

I turned to splitcoaststampers.  I thought I could do a punch card or paper folding!!  I came across this really cute card by huffergirl.  I loved it!  So I unashamedly cased it!
Here is my version:
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Notice the bling!!

Here are the 3 versions of them.
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Card: Cameo Coral with Blush Blossom mat, Lavender Lace with Pale Plum mat, and Regal Rose with Pretty in Pink mat.  Also, Choc Chip, Very Vanilla and Whisper White.

Other: Word window Punch, 3/4″ circle punch, Scallop Circle punch, corner rounder, 2 way glue, Dazzling Diamonds, Mounting Tape and Adhesive, Blender Pen, Stampin’ Pastels, black Stampin’ Write journaller, white gel pen.

To make the heart I didn’t have a heart punch so I cut a heart from a scallop circle.  I inked the edges of the scallop circle tutu and the heart, also the card mat.  I used the pastels to mark in the ballet shoes and her cheeks.   I used the black journaller pen to mark the eyes. I used the white gel pen to write the greeting. If you want to know more about how I put it together just email me.

Here are some of the team’s cards:
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So, it is possible to create a card without stamping!!! LOL

Have a good day!