Northwest Stamper

Tag: trio flower punch

  • Make your own card holder box

    So, I had planned to publish by this morning, the cards coming up for my Holiday Stamp-a-Stack.  However, when I started sketching out my 5 designs, the next thing I knew it was late and I had 16 designs on paper!  So, tonight I’ll be actually making up the samples but until then, here is another project I created when my mom was visiting.

      We customized the sizing from a different box template to fit the 4.25″x5.5″ cards we normally make.  The lid of this box is just a flap that folds over the top of the box to cover the opening.  We used the flower trio punch to make blue flowers for where the ribbons come through the eyelets.  I also thought it needed some more visual interest on the front so I took a strip of paper, ran it through the crimper and then glued it around the bottom of the box.  I think it turned out well!  Let me know if you want me to post the template.

    Recipe:
    Paper:     Old Olive CS, Green Tea Designer Paper
    Accessories: Flower trio punch, eyelets, ribbon, crop-a-dile, crimper

    Here are a couple views of the original sized box that my mom made but with a lid that actually covers the sides.  It still has some kinks but I think I’ll try it next time.

         

  • Getting Punchy

    Last night I started playing with my word window punch some more and one of the ideas I had was to create a flower using punches.  This quickly turned into a card challenge to myself to see if I could make an interesting card that was almost entirely based on punches instead of stamps. It was a fun experiment and helped me brainstorm a ton of new ways to use punches (though most of those uses didn’t look so good when all smooshed together on one card).  In the end, I used two stamps though if I had thought to use rub-ons for the sentiment and designer paper for the background, I think I could have gotten away with none. 🙂

     To make this card, I used 5 different punches.  The card is actually very quick to put together because most of it is just punching and glueing paper.  

    Recipe
    Stamps:     Pretty Petals background stamp, Sock Monkey
    Inks: Pink Pirouette, Pixie Pink, Garden Green
    Paper: Pink Pirouette cardstock, Garden Green cardstock, Whisper White cardstock
    Accessories: word window punch, small oval punch, five petal punch, trio flower punch, ticket punch, gold brad

    Read the steps to make this card!