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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Christmas Card Club - Stampin' Up! UK Punch Art

Christmas Card Club Penguin

Another fortnight and time for another Christmas Card Club Challenge, set this time by Carol.
The challenge being to incorporate a penguin on your card. I found this cute little fellow and adapted him slightly to what I had to hand, by googling Stampin' Up! Punch Art Penguin. This is a great way to find images for punch art and often there are some explanations of punches used.

I've used the Hardwood stamp on my signpost and Happy Hour for my holly. The decorative dots embossing fold gives a fab snow effect; you might remember it was a gift during our annual Sale-a-bration promotion, but if you missed it you'll be glad to know it's going back online in our new annual catalogue which goes live on 1 July. If you haven't got your copy yet please contact me to make arrangements to get one.

Colours used above include soft sky, silver, garden green, real red, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, whisper white and basic black. The punches are numerous but to name a few circles, mosaic, scallop circles, owl punch and elegant butterfly. Can you see where they all appear?

Please now visit all the blogs of the other lovely ladies in our Club as they have lots of gorgeous inspiration for you.

Have a great week and back soon with my Father's Day Card. Can't show today as my Dad will get it on his return from a weekend with friends.

Hugs Zx

Challenges
Crafty Hazelnut's Extra Christmas Challenge - Anything goes

Sunday, 27 April 2014

Christmas Card Club - A Perfect Blend

Stampin Up Happy Hour Perfect Blend and That's the Ticket

It's time for another Christmas Card Club Challenge and we've been set the task of using black and white with one other colour. I chose silver and have also gone off the traditional route using my Perfect Blend stamp set for a different theme. My hint of Christmas is a bit of holly from the Happy Hour Stamp Set. You can turn the coffee cup or I'd like to think mulled wine cup! into any shade using paper piecing to alter the insulating band. Just stamp your image twice on the desired paper or card stock and carefully cut out the right pieces to piece your picture together. Sometimes you may find it better to cut inside the stamped outline and sometimes as with this one it's nice to include all the detail of the stamp. You'll probably need to click on my pic to enlarge it to see that detail mind.

A simple sentiment stamped in black Staz-on ink onto silver foil card stock along with some bunting made using the banner punch you may have seen during our Sale-a-bration promotion. Worry not if you missed it as it's coming back in our new annual catalogue in July. If you cut your paper to the same width as the punch you can slip it into just part of the punch so that you can punch the banner but then choose how long you want each banner to be and hence you'll see my two lengths.

Remember there are lots of ladies in our club and you can visit them for more Christmas inspiration. Why not start with visiting Karen our challenger!