Sylvester the Cat Card

When I saw this card by Ellen Kemper at Blinkin', Thinkin' & Inkin' I fell in love with the cat face.  Immediately, it made me think of the cartoon character, Sylvester the cat.  If you enjoy making characters using punched shapes, you should definitely check out her blog!
 

For an A2 sized card I cut one each of:

5 1/2 x 4 1/4 pink cardstock
5 1/4 x 4 black cardstock
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 white cardstock
2 1/4 x 4 pink cardstock
2 1/2 square of pink cardstock
2 3/8 square of black cardstock

The white eyes and pink nose were cut using the George cartridge and Design Studio.  I placed a 2 3/8" square on the mat in DS and sized the heart and oval to the size I wanted.

Using my Crop-o-dile, I punched the holes in the white heart to form the eye opening and then snipped off the tip of the heart.  The cat's whiskers were done with a white Signo gel pen.  The pink and black tiger striped ribbon is from Ribbons and Bows, Oh, My!

Seashell Made With Punches

Wish I could take credit for coming up with this idea, but I saw it on Splitcoast Stampers today.

I used the 1 3/4" scalloped circle punch and a 3/4" square punch for the pieces then added the shading with a Vesamark pen.  You can see the Sharpie marks where to cut the scalloped circle.

What a quick way to have a shell shape if you don't want to take time to fire up your Cricut!

Crossed Wrenches Card

I saw this card on Pinterest and tracked it back to the original blog post.  It's on a Stampin' Up demonstrator's blog-- For the Love of Paper.  Chris Twing is the blogger and she posted that her mother, Belinda, came up with this layout using SU punches.

My version of it was made with an 1 1/4" circle punch, word window punch and two different Cricut cartridges.  The socket end was cut using George and Cricut Sampler.  I found that the center of the sunflower on that cartridge worked quite well for the socket cut out. 

The metallic "diamond plate" was run through my Cuttlebug and the background paper is by Tim Holtz.

The sentiment will be placed about where the watermark is in the photo.  I'm thinking this will be a great masculine birthday card!

Original seen on Chris Twing's blog

Angry Birds Card

Inspired by a card seen on Splitcoast Stampers,  I embossed the background, used Doodlecharms to cut the blue sunburst and Stampin' Up punches to make the bird's head.

Punch Ladybug

Holley Smith punch art shapes on her blog was the inspiration for this card.  The ladybug is made using three different Stampin' Up punches:  1 1/4" circle, word window, and large oval.

The antenna came from a heart shape on Accent Essentials cartridge.  I punched the wings from vellum and embossed them with the Brocade Cuttlebug folder.

The entwined hearts came from the Thank You notes I mentioned in a previous post.  I colored them with Promarkers and trimmed them by hand.

I inked the edges of the pink shapes and added some white dots on the cheeks.  The facial features were added with a gel pen.

Punch Art Card

Would you believe that this punch:

Was used to make this card?












I saw this card with the instructions at Ann's Creative Moments.   Stampin' Up demonstrators can surely come up with some neat ways to use their punches!  She has some simple to follow instructions and hints on making this; once you read through them and look at the photos, you'll see that it's not difficult at all to assemble.