Punch art and colouring in baby card

16 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Cards, Curly label, Perfect Polka Dots, Using up scraps, Word Window

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baby bundle, baby cards, nursery necessities, punch art baby card, Stampin Up

Happy New Year!

I’m back at my craft desk today after a nice break over Christmas and New Years. I am visiting a close friend who has had a new baby next week so wanted to make a special card.

I have seen punch out baby drawer cards all over the Internet and have been itching to make one. So here’s my version:

I used a top gold card blank (cut an A4 sheet in half vertically at 10.5cm) and then cut the shape from the bottom with 2 cuts of the curly label punch. The drawers are 8cm x 2cm and embossed with my spotty folder for added texture. The top of the drawers is 11cm x roughly 1.5cm (I just used up a scrap).

I used Sahara Sand card stock and sponged the edges with Blushing Bride.

The images are from the Baby Bundle set and the sentiment is from Nursery Necessities (both retired Stampin’ Up! but there are lots of cute baby sets in the current catalogue that would work just as well).

I cut out all the shapes. One tip for cutting really tiny shapes like the curve of the coat hanger – if you have a marker the same colour as your card stock just colour around so it’s not obvious if you leave a bit for added strength:

It’s a good idea to position the clothes etc before you stick down the drawers – I stuck a few behind the drawers:

(I used dimensionals to stick on the drawers and mini glue dots for the fiddly little cut outs).

I hope you enjoyed that card – and hopefully my friend will too!!!

Thanks for reading.

Caro

Punch art and colouring baby card

16 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Cards, Curly label, Perfect Polka Dots, Using up scraps, Word Window

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Happy New Year!

I’m back at my craft desk today after a nice break over Christmas and New Years. I am visiting a close friend who has had a new baby next week so wanted to make a special card.

I have seen punch out baby drawer cards all over the Internet and have been itching to make one. So here’s my version:

I used Sahara Sand card stock and sponged the edges with Blushing Bride.

It’s a good idea to position the clothes etc before you stick down the drawers – I stuck a few behind the drawers:

(I used dimensionals to stick on the drawers and mini glue dots for the fiddly little cut outs).

I hope you enjoyed that card – and hopefully my friend will too!!!

Thanks for reading.

Caro

Fishin’ Around snow globe cards

08 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Carolyn in 3D / pop up, Baby cards, Cards, Circle treat cups, General occasion, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas

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As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, when I’m not feeling well I like to sit on my couch and colour in. Which then leads to a bulk card making session at some future time. Today turned out to be one of those times!

I had to pop into my office and stumbled across a pile of images from the Stampin’ Up! fishing around stamp (now retired) which I’d coloured in and cut out a few months ago, but never got around to making into cards.

I decided they’d look really cute as snow globe cards, so pulled out a few circle treat cups and some glitter and voila!!

A tip for doing this without getting glitter ALL over your desk (just SOME of your desk!) is to fill the cups and stick the image on as a lid, then add extra glue before sticking the cup onto the card.

I stuck the “snow globes” onto 13 x 13 cm square cards. Cutting these (26 x 13cm) from an A4 piece of card stock leaves a nice strip to make an extra 7 x 7 cm notecards at the same time. Here are some of those:

Images used up, next batch of kids’ cards done, sorted!

Thanks for reading 🙂

Caro

Fishin’ Around cards

18 Tuesday Feb 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Birthday, Cards, Circle treat cups, Kids cards

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Hello – thanks for reading my blog!

When I first got this year’s Stampin’ Up! catalogue, one of the first stamps that jumped out at me was the Fishin’ Around one. At only $15.95 – bargain! It is perfect for a kid’s card (which I make a LOT of!) or even for an engagement, Valentines Day or wedding card. It is also great for colouring in – one of my favourite things to do when I’m relaxing.

I needed a special card for a very special 1 year old’s birthday recently, so finally inked up this stamp.

This is a 13 x 13 cm Bermuda Bay square card with a 12.5 x 12.5 cm Whisper White layer. I sponged around the white edge in Calypso Coral to match the fish. I stuck a circle treat cup over the coloured in image to make it look like a fish bowl. The stamped tag is from the Banner Greetings hostess set. I wrote the birthday boy’s name with my Dazzling Details glitter glue. I also put a couple of dots of this in the treasure chest to make it sparkle.

I’ve had lots of fun making these cards in various colour schemes. Here is a picture of some of my coloured in images (all using Stampin’ Write markers)

You can probably see I’ve tried to add some ‘treasure’ to the treasure chests. Here are a few close up pictures to give you a better idea:

I don’t have pictures of this I’m sorry, but I’ve also made a few where I’ve used rhinestones or glitter in the bubbles against a lightly shaded blue background.

Thanks for reading!

Caro x

Cut out card technique

05 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, Baby cards, Birthday, Cards, Decorative Label, General occasion, Punches, Tutorial

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Yesterday I showed you a card I made with a cut out image in it. I think of this as a peek-a-boo card!

Today I wanted to show you how to make it.

Step 1: fold a card blank. I used my 1 3/4 inch circle punch, but you could use any shape you like. Centre the punch at the top of the front of the card and punch out an image.

Step 2: stick the image on the inside of the card so you can see it through the open circle on the front. Tip! Do not try and glue this from the inside. Close the card and stick the image to the inside of the card through the hole on the front. This will make sure you get a perfect alignment.

Step 3: decorate the front of the card however you like. This will probably mean covering over the circle you’ve cut out, but this doesn’t matter. We’ll fix that later. I’ve kept this card front really simple:

The hole is hiding there under the purple card stock.

Step 4: Once you’ve decorated the card, open it, and cut a circle on the inside from the same hole as the first one you cut.

(Note: this picture is upside down from how you’d see it if you were punching yourself!)

This is how it will look like when finished:

And you’re done! A very simple card but pretty effective I think?

My mother is sitting here while I’m typing this and she says to say it’s so simple even your mother could make it! Here’s a picture of a card we made together this afternoon using the same technique:

This technique also works with other punches. Tomorrow I will show you a couple of cards I’ve made using the same technique but a different punch.

I hope you enjoy making some of these.

Caro x

Using my colouring in …. Part 4 (The final part!)

04 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, Baby cards, Cards, Punches

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Over the past week I’ve been showing you some of the range of cards I’ve made using a pile of coloured in images I have had lying around. You’ll probably be pleased to here that this is the last post I plan on doing on this topic!

One of the images I coloured in multiples of was this cute image from a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set called Give a Gift.

Here are some of the cards I made with these cute little circles:

(this green one is my favourite one!)

They are all a bit different. I’ve used up quite a lot of spare DSP or sheets of card stock I’d embossed but not yet figured out what to do with.

I hope you can see that this is a ‘cut out’ card – and the image is actually stuck on the inside of the card with a punched shape cut out of the front of the card. This photo gives you a better idea:

This is such a simple and effective technique you can use it for pretty much any stamp or imagine that has a matching punch. If you’d like to know how I made this card, come back tomorrow and I’ll show you!

Thanks for reading

Caro x

Using my colouring in … Part 3

03 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 1/4 inch circle, 1 3/8 circle, Baby cards, Cards, Embossing folders, Perfect Polka Dots, Scallop edge

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Hello

The past few days I’ve been showing you some pictures of some of the cards I made with my stash of coloured-in images.

Today I want to show you one of my favourite set of cards I’ve made in a long time. Such a cute baby card (if I do say so myself!)

I’d coloured in a whole heap of small imaged from a retired Stampin’ Up! set called Baby Bundle. You could make a similar card from the current A Fitting Occasion set, or any other set with cute small images (PS the images in the Baby Tees jumbo wheel are also gorgeous and great for colouring in).

I cut out the coloured image with my 1 1/4 inch circle punch. The matted circle was cut from the 1 3/8 inch circle punch. I like this as it gives just a hint of background colour, but you could use your 1 3/4 inch circle if you like more background.

The white cardstock layer was run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.

I then used my Scallop Edge border to cut along the edge – I thought the card needed a bit of balance on the right and I love how the scallop edge turned out. This photo gives a better idea of what I did (sorry it’s a bit grey)

Here are some more:

I’m so in love with these cards I almost couldn’t bring myself to give them away! (I must confess I’ve kept quite a few. I need some people to have babies so I can use them!)

Thanks for reading

Caro

Using my colouring in … Part 1

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Cards, Using up scraps

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Hello!

Yesterday I showed you just some of the ridiculous number of pages of coloured-in stamped images I had lying around my office from a time when I was unwell earlier in the year. In the next few blog posts, I’ll show you what I did with them all!

I figured while I was using up my colouring-in, I should probably use up some of my giant stash of retired Stampin’ Up! designer series paper (DSP) as well as various packets of card stock, corrugated cardboard etc I’ve been hoarding since one of my many visits to a local $2 shop!

I probably had almost a whole watercolour sheet of Stampin’ Up’s Two by Two stamp.

My Mum’s op shop got a donation of a very large number of these cards!

I must have made about 30 of them!

I also coloured in sheets of the pram image from the (now, sadly, retired set Baby Bundle):

Here are some of the cards I made:

Again, hopefully they will all find happy homes via the local op shop (and contribute to a good cause as well!)

Thanks for reading

Caro x

Another baby card

08 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Framelits, Labels collection

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One of the saddest things for me about the end of the 2012-13 Stampin’ Up! catalogue was the retirement of the Two by Two stamp. I loved that stamp for making baby cards!

There is another gorgeous baby one to replace it though (Fishin’ Around on p58 of the new catalogue). Stay tuned – I may have to buy that one!

I wanted to show you a couple of the cards I made using Two by Two:

As well as being a super cute stamp, this is a good example of how a single image in a frame can work really well as a feature.

I used my Labels collection framelits to cut the background shapes. The pink card is a good example of how you can use these framelits to make borders for added depth.

Thanks for reading.

Caro

PS If want to get your hands on a Stampin’ Up! catalogue, please drop me a line at carosprettythings@gmail.com

My favourite baby card

05 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 inch scallop circle, 1 3/8 circle, Baby cards, Cards, Tutorial, Using up scraps

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baby cards, cards, Punches, scraps

One of my favourite things to make is a card for a new baby. Today I wanted to show you my favourite card to make of all time – a little “onesie” baby card.

It might look a little tricky, but it’s really quite straightforward once you get the hang of it. The main tools you’ll need here are a craft knife and ruler and/or straight hands with scissors!, a scallop punch and a circle punch that is just slightly smaller. I’ve used the Stampin’ Up! 1 3/4″ scallop circle punch and 1 3/8″ circle punch.

I’d love to say I came up with this idea all by myself – but I used a tutorial kindly shared by Stampin’ Up! demonstrator Becky Jensen. This is such a great tutorial – step by step instructions with pictures of each step.

The only changes I’ve made to Becky’s basic design (which is in inches) are:

I’ve used standard Australian sized card (10.5 x 14.8 cm)
I’ve cut the arms at 4.5cm
I cut small strips of scrap designer series paper to decorate the arms instead of using the scallop edge punch for the arms.
I have made these cards using the scallop edge punch to decorate the arms as well (it matches the scallops at the neck and legs) but I must have given them away so don’t have any pictures. I’ll have to make some more!

Once you’ve made a few of these, you will probably feel you can use your trimmer to cut the section out to make the arms and body (ie, cut in 4.5cm and then cut down to the leg). Once you master that, these cards are ridiculously quick to make.

These are so much fun to make I always seem to make them in batches. These cards are another good way to use up little scraps of paper you don’t want to throw out.

Here are a few more pictures:

Here are some packaged up for sale. They look so cute all lined up together!

I hope you enjoy making one of these cards next time you have a new arrival to celebrate!

Caro

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