Can you spot the Punch?

Did you spot the punches that I've used to create this cute card?

 

Did you guess?

The flames of the fire are made from the bird punch & a little less obvious the logs in the fire are made from the word window punch.

I love these two cards & they are very simple to make, The fireplace is embossed using the square lattice embossing folder. The wreaths are stamped before embossing, using the wreath from the Welcome Christmas stamp set, I did make the original sample in the wrong order & stamped the wreath after I had embossed the fireplace & it doesn't work, well they do say you learn something new everyday.

Until next time Happy crafting

Bird House table favours

I originally saw these birdhouses earlier in the year when the bird punch was first released by Stampin' Up on Jo's Blog Jo is a very talented fellow demonstrator. I never got round to making the original project but when I popped back to Jo's blog a couple of weeks ago I fell in love with her Christmas version of the little birdhouses & even better Jo has altered the template so you now get two little birdhouses from a single A4 sheet of card. I decided that I would have a try of this project & make them as the favour boxes for my Christmas dinner table.

I've made six of these now ready to be filled, that's why the roof is only stuck down on one side.

The colours for my Birdhouse


Cardstock
Crumb Cake
Chocolate chip
Soft Suede
Real Red
Garden Green
Ink
Whisper White
Early Espresso
Stamps
Vintage Vogue
Serene Snowflakes


I will now have to try & make something equally as beautiful for the table for Boxing day., So watch this space.
Thanks Jo for the inspiration

Convention Swapping

Well the theme of convention & part of the Stampin' Up ethos is about sharing. What better way to share what we love is to make swap cards to swap with other demonstrators throughout Europe.
I have to say that 24 hours before I left for convention I had just 2 swaps completed , yes that was what I said just 2 in my defence I did have everything cut & ready to assemble, that bit had taken me two weeks to get to that stage. I was getting frustrated because as you can imagine I am not just a creative coach for Stampin' Up & I was rapidly running out of time.
With a little help from DH & Abi I managed to finish 65 cards to swap.
Here is my Swap card

The card is 4" square the base is chocolate chip cardstock. The next layer is very vanilla & that was stamped with the En francais stamp in Crumb cake ink, the layer was then torn for the aged look. The border is Old olive cardstock punched with the scallop trim border. The whole of the base layers was spritzed with Champagne frost that is mixed in a spray bottle with isopropyl Alcohol & then lightly shaken before spraying.
The bird & scallop oval are punched from Bashful blue cardstock. The birds wings are Bashful blue card stock stamper with the Bella toille stamp before being punched & the branch was punched with Wild Wasabi.

I will upload some pictures of the swaps I received over the weekend for you to see what a beautiful tallented bunch the european demo's are.

Hubby's Birthday card

A couple of weeks ago it was Paul's Birthday whilst we were away on a break in Lincolnshire & being a typical me not only had I left the packing etc to the last minute the night before we went away I remembered that I hadn't made Paul's Birthday card, so a quick flick through some of my blog's  I landed on Monica's blog ......Whoo the perfect card.

Recipe

Cardstock
Cherry Cobbler
Peach Parfait
Very Vanilla
Bashful Blue
Early espresso
Pear Pizzazz
Wild Wasabi
Stamps
Just Perfect Alphabet
Punches
Bird on a Branch Punch
Small Heart Punch
All of the above products are from Stampin' Up & can be purchased through me as an independent creative coach.


I hope you'll bear with me whilst I write my catch up posts that not only will be out of date order but a little bit late as well. Hence my new nickname LML which Hubby has named me, It stands for Last Minute Lisa...... My early new years resolution is to be more organised & write yet more lists & to complete tasks ahead of time & not at the very last minute.

Spring flowers punch art

I guess that these aren't just for spreing but the colours are spring like. I have decided this week to try my hand at a variety of punch art flowers & see how many I can make, I dont know many flower names so I will not even try to name them.


All of the products used on this project are from Stampin' Up & are available to purchase through me.

Mini catalogue sneak peep

I thought I would tease you with a sneak peep from the forthcoming mini catalogue, which will be available to order from tomorrow 1st April, this is no April fool, just a very unfortunate choice of release date.

I am absolutely loving the new release bird punch, not only is the design a new style for Stampin' Up The punches are a completely new design, which is the design Stampin' Up will now be releasing.



Cardstock
Very vanilla
Close to Cocoa
Kraft card
Ink
Close to Cocoa
Papers
Bella Bleu
Punches
1 3/4" Circle
Scallop border punch
Stamps
Pocket Silhouette


All of the above products are available through me from Stampin' Up