Tag Archives: Punch Art

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.

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.

Bird Punch Art

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I was playing around with our Stampin’ Up! punches and had a go at making some NZ native birds.

For the Pukeko, I used the Sailboat punch for beak and legs. The songbird punch was used for the body, tail and wing. The deer punch was used for the feet and eye and the double oval punch was used for the head.

To make this Tui card, I used some of the same punches as listed above as well as the tulip punch.

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.

Everyday Heros – A card for my dentist

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Stampin’ Up! currently has a campaign on, encouraging people to send a card of appreciation to people who has gone that little extra mile or who have shown kindness to others.

I decided that I wanted to thank my dentist who spend extra time making sure I was happy with all the dental work. She even was prepared to come in on her day off to see me at no extra charge. #EverydayHeros

I was originally going to make a card using the retired Handsomely Suited dies with dental tools poking out of the pocket but yesterday when I was using the hand penned petal dies, one of the inside flower pieces ended up in my lap and it looked just like a tooth. So I made a much simpler card using that. Scroll down to see photo of die, were I got the tooth shape from.

The dies I used were from Paradise Palm bundle, Love you more than bundle and Hand penned petals bundle.

Did you know it is super easy to create thank you using the Love you more than dies? Just die cut “love you more than” and “cookies”. Use the k from cookies and add it to the word than. So easy!

My sentiment for inside the card was from the “Nothing’s better than” stamp set.

Sweet Songbirds

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I made this slimline card as an entry into a card challenge. Colour INKspiration # 124. The colours to use were Daffodil Delight, Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide and Night of Navy. I also used black to stamp the birds eyes and a bit of crumb cake for the branches. To enter this challenge go to Colour INKspiration challenges on Facebook or Instagram #colourinkspirationchallenges

I used my blending brushes to do a lightly sponged background. The clouds were free hand cut from a piece of scrap paper to make a stencil to sponge over. I used a few of the stamps from the Sweet Songbirds stamp set but the main part of the bird is created with the corresponding punch.

The reason I love the punch so much is that I can easily change the orientation of the bird by flipping the card over once I have punched it out.

Hello Ladybug, it’s a good day!

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I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about the ladybug punch and wondering if I could create a punch art ladybug to match the one with the smiley face in the stamp set. I was excited to give it a go the next morning. And it worked! (Some of my night time ideas are not realistic!) 😬

I punched the ladybug body from black card and cut it in half. I punched a second body out of Sweet Sorbet card. I cut it in half also and cut off it’s head, I punched out more antenna to add a second one for the head and the rest to make feet.

The sunflower is made with the ladybug wings. Punch out six wings. Sponge with So Saffron ink. Make a square with four wings overlapping the edges. Cut the remaining two wings in half and adhere the single half wing in the centre of each double wing. Adhere a die cut scallop circle on top to finish.

The DSP is the new in colour Tahitian Tide. I love this shade of blue. I think it makes a nice happy card when it is matched with the So Saffron card. I hope you like it.

Flower Fairy Punch Art

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These simple Flower Fairies were made using the ladybug punch and Tailored Tag punch.

I used a marker pen to draw in their nose and mouths. I trimmed the points off a mini dimensional and placed it on the end of a pen. Then I used that to “stamp” some rosy cheeks on the fairy girl’s faces. I stamped off on scrap paper first so that the final result was quite subtle.

Below is a guide to how I put the punched pieces together to create the fairies on my card.

I didn’t give my fairies ears but it is easy to do, if you look at the example below.