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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.

Cute Critters

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I was playing with the ladybug punch last week and I wanted to create some different styles of ladybugs so I made this card.

For the first bug, I punched two bodies, one in black and one in Real Red. I cut the head of the red one and drew a line on it, stamped some dots and attached it on top of the black one. For the third ladybug I punched two bodies as before but this time, I cut a straight line off the side of both bodies. I attached the antenna that I had cut off beside the other one. This ladybug reminded me of a snail, which got me playing to see what other bugs I could make.

The snail was made the same way as the third ladybug. I just added a small portion of a wing tip for the end of the snail. The shell was embossed using the embossing tip of my Take Your Tip tool and then rubbed over with a dauber using Pecan Pie ink to highlight the swirl.

The butterfly started of as a Crumb Cake body that I cut a portion off each side. I then punched out two lots of wings. The butterfly body was still too short so I added an extra double punched wing tip to add more length. Where the extra piece joins the body is where the wings meet to cover the join.

The back side of these critters looks rather messy but I am showing you to give you an idea of how I add the extra legs etc.

You can’t have a butterfly without a caterpillar right? So I decided to make that next. But the punch didn’t really lend itself to a caterpillar shape. I Googled caterpillar images and found the classic children’s story book character, hungry, hungry caterpillar and so made that instead.

Next I decided to put all my critters on a card. I used google glue on eyes for the spider. I made a rhino beetle and a shiny green beetle. The green beetle was made by punching one body from Old Olive and one head from Garden Green. I drew a line on the olive body then covered the body in a layer of Fine Tip Glue. The glue made the ink from the marker pen run but I actually liked the final effect so I wouldn’t change it. The eyes are drawn on with a Stampin’ Write marker.

I think the sentiment works perfectly for this card. I am going to give it to my grandson for his birthday.

Hello Ladybug Sketch Challenge

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Stampin’ Up! has a challenge for May #creatingconnectionssimple The challenge is to create a card using this sketch below. I love using sketches as I find them helpful when you get into a creative slump.

Here is my interpretation. Inside of two circles, I used two leaves with ladybugs on.

I didn’t have any suitable Designer series paper to use on the background so I made my own using Crumb Cake ink. I also stamped a border for inside my card. I used sticky notes to get a straight line across the bottom.

Here is the inside.

All the stamps used are from the Hello Ladybug stamp set. The ladybugs are punched out with the coordinating punch.

So cute and pretty easy too!

Happier than Happy

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This is an easy fun fold card to make. Just cut a sheet of Old Olive A4 card in half lengthwise and fold in half. Then cut at 4.5 cm from the fold. Trim the cut off piece to measure 5 cm wide and discard the rest. Cut two pieces of DSP (Designer series paper) one at 10 x 4 cm and the other at 10 x 4.5 cm. Also cut a piece of window sheet to 10 x 11 cm. Lay the cut off Olive piece at the bottom of the folded Olive card so the bottom edges line up. There will be a gap in the middle. Glue or tape the window sheet to the Olive card to bridge the gap. Then glue DSP on top

Decorate with the stamps and dies from the Happier than Happy bundle. Glue bear onto window sheet to the left hand side. Die cut a second bear shape from Soft Suede card and glue it on the underneath side of the window sheet to line up with the bear on the front. When you stamp the greeting inside, take care to position it so that it shows through the window at the side of the bear.

Card for my granddaughter

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I went back to one of my favourite way of making cards and did some more punch art. I used a lot of retired circle and oval punches for this card. I have listed them all below.

Flynn loves Paw Patrol so making one of the dogs by using punches worked well for her.

I used woven threads DSP for the background paper. Head was the 2nd to largest layering circle die in Crumb Cake card. Muzzle was 1 1/2″ circle punch in Sahara Sand card. I glued the muzzle on with a small amount overlapping the edge and trimmed off the overlap. I drew in the mouth. Neck was hand cut from a piece of card 1 3/4″ wide. I tapered it slightly at the sides. Collar was large oval punch (retired). I also used this for the ears as well as a smaller oval from the retired layering oval dies. Nose was small retired oval punch 3/4″ size.

Eyes in soft suede card 1 1/4″ punch and cut across the bottom of circle. White 3/4″ punch. Pink pirouette 1/2″ punch. Black Itty bitty circle shape punch. Goggles were made using Melon Mambo card and largest layering circle die for head piece. Small ovals the same as the nose for eye piece with a best label punch cut in half and laid on top.

Finally hair pieces were die cut from a forever flourishing leaf die.

Here is a photo of Flynn on her birthday.

Hippest Hippos at the beach

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I am having so much fun playing with the “Hippest Hippos” stamp set. I used the paper piecing technique to create this poka dot swim suit for this little hippo.

I used the Oceanfront stamp set to create sand and palm leaves. The sentiment is from the Paradise Palms stamp set. The little starfish dies are a free SAB (sale-a-bration) item with a qualifying purchase. It is part of the Hippo dies which contain 19 dies and not only cut out the hippo stamps but also have interesting shapes like sunglasses, water drops, snorkels, boat etc.

To make the swimsuit I stamped the hippo again on in colour paper and used a marker to draw in the sleeves and a extra panel down the tummy. I then fussy cut the swum suit out and glued it on top of the original stamped image on the card front.

Zany Zebras fancy fold card

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I saw this fun card fold on a YouTube tutorial by Rachel Tessman. She called it a tucked Z fold.

I have used Playing with Patterns DSP and the Zany Zebras stamp set for my card. The card base is an A5 Bermuda Bay folded in half .I used the largest layering circle die to cut the hole in the front. The folded piece inside is 20cm x 14.4 cm and is scored in landscape position at 10 cm and 15cm.