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Ten Pin Bowling Card

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This was a card that I made on commission for someone who is obsessed with ten pin bowling. I used the Rays of Light big background stamp on Daffodil Delight card and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I used the Alphabest stamp set for the word “Strike”. The It’s your special day greeting is from the Sweet Songbirds stamp set.

I then made the bowling pins. I used my grid paper to draw a pin the size I wanted. I made sure it was symmetrical by folding the grid paper in half and cutting out one half of my sketch. When the paper was unfolded. It was a perfect pin. I glued this to a piece of thick white card and made a heavy template that I could then trace around on basic white card. I drew in extra lines and highlight curves with my stampin write marker.and fussy cut them all out. I had a couple of dots on my template at the neck of the pin so I knew where to place the neck stripe. I used a real red marker to colour in the stripe.

The bowling ball is a from a retired 1 1/4″ circle punch with 3 small holes punched out of it. I mounted it on another punched circle of basic gray card so that the gray showed through the holes.

Punch Art Pizza Chef

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I have been playing with punches lately and made this little guy. It all came about with a chef’s hat to start with.

I had punched a partial cloud with a flat bottom and this happened to be sitting on a scrap of white card, which together the two pieces looked like a chef’s hat. So I decided to go for it and make a chef. There is a stamp set in our Stampin’ Up! catalogue with a pizza chef which inspired me to do a punch art pizza chef.

I used the cloud punch for his hat. A retired circle punch for his face but you could use any number of circle dies that are currently in the catalogue.

His eyes, nose, hair, mustache and collar are all from the Petal Park Builder Punch. The only extra punch I used was the Songbird punch to create the white glint in his pupil. I punched out a beak, cut it in half and used one half for each eye.

I also used the Songbird punch for the pizza topping. The pepperoni was from a retired 3/4″ circle punch and stamped with dots from the Petal Park stamp set. The capsicum was from the body of the bird punch. The onion was from the wing of the bird punch and the olives were from the tailored tags dies.

Here is what I used to make the hat.

I slotted the skinny end of white card into the punch and threaded it out through the top until the wider piece could go no further, then I punched the top shape. The long skinny piece, I trimmed shorter and scored narrow 0.5 cm lines in.

For the inside of my card, I stamped the pizza chef from the Supremely Awesome stamp set.

Anzac Day

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On the 25th of April we remember and honour all those who have fought for our country. I felt it only fitting to make some cards that I will drop off to the RSA with some chocolate. It says, “It’s your time to be remembered. “

Inside simply says “Thank you”. The words are from the Inspiring thoughts stamp set and Poppy stamps are from the Painted Poppies stamp set.

I made a birthday card of the same design. The black decorative border is a die cut from the Palm dies.

And some little gift cards.

Adventurous Journey stamp set

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This was a fun card to make by layering up the pieces to make the kayaker stand put even more.

I stamped the kayak on Calypso Coral card first and cut out. Then I stamped the kayaker on thick white card and coloured him with Blends and mounted him on top of the kayak. Finally I stamped the hat in Old Olive card and mounted it on top with a dimensional.

For a bit of shine, I added Wink of Stella to the whirlpools and fine tip glue to my three punched dots. I used a regular office hole punch to create my dots from Old Olive card.

This was a fairly simple card layout, made by using a strip of Balmy Blue card across the page. The impact it has is all due to the big bold images of the Adventurous Journey stamp set.

Waves of Inspiration Card

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This is a card that I taught in class last week, using one of my new favourite bundles; Waves of Inspiration.

It features an old stamping technique called Kissing Technique. This is where you take a bold image stamp and detailed image stamp. Ink them both up in two different colours. Use a lighter ink colour on the bold image stamp. (I used Balmy Blue on the hello stamp) and use a darker ink colour on the detailed stamp. (I used Pacific Point on the nest stamp, taken from Sweet Songbirds stamp set). Then press or kiss the two stamps together. The darker ink colour will transfer onto your bold image stamp, which you can then press onto your card. I like how this turned out as it gives the impression of waves, in the word “hello”.

I stamped the pelican again inside the card but this time I masked off one of the posts, to give the impression of a rising tide.

Game on

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Making masculine cards is easy with the game on stamp set. Techniques I used were masking and marker to stamp inking.

To make the chess pieces, I stamped the whole image first in Gray granite ink, then placed a mask over the top of the image and stamped again in memento black.

To make the playing cards, I stamped the whole image first in Gray granite ink, then I cleaned the stamp and just coloured the Ace card with a black stampin’ marker pen. I took care to not colour the hearts. Once I had stamped my image, I drew in the little clubs under the A’s and I stamped the larger club image in the centre. The larger club image is part of the Game on stamp set.