Couldn't resist showing you this...

It's my all time favourite baby card.

(Sorry about the black lines on the tops)

Oh, cute.

Honestly, it looks cuter in real life and it's life-size too in real life!

Does it look a little familiar to you?

That's because you've seen this one below...

I posted it back a couple of months ago.

Cute too.

It's fun to play a bit of a spot the difference to see what you can find. Just goes to show that you can mix and match the punches according to what you have to make it work.

Please though, would you please get yourself a postage stamp...

A mini balloon...

A baby bottle...

And a pacifier?

Please?

Hey, no commission earned here or anything, just spreading the love...and the cute!

And to finish, just in case you'd like to know:

~ The gorgeous little cupcake punch is a two-parter from EK Success. You can see it here. I used a 1/8" Circle for the cherry on top.

~ All the other punches used are from Sullivans.

~ The postage stamp stamp (the actual stamp that I stamped, not punched!) is from a Melissa Frances set called Post it Stamps. That includes the Special Delivery stamp as well. It's a great set that I got from Photo Continental.

Okay, finished!

Baby gifts and other bits

Hello there!

Friday, Friday, Friday, hello, Friday!

I have the last of the baby bits and pieces to show you today.

Here they are all set up on the table at home...

They're on display at Photo Continental now, but I set them up at home first before I go over to the shop.
Helps me to see what I've made and if it's going to work. Saves a lot of time in the end.
Here's the centrepiece.

I stressed over this one. Couldn't get those roses right - they're roses, yes. Didn't know what to put them in - used a dessert bowl in the end (Who has that much dessert? They're huge bowls!). Unfortunately, the roses look a little worse for wear - they must've got squashed somehow. A little fluffing wouldn't have gone astray, hey?

You make the roses by folding the washer in half and then rolling with the folded side as the stem and the edges as the petals. You just roll it up and slant it a tiny bit so it doesn't look like a jam roll. Secure it with a rubber band, tie with string or ribbon and remove the rubber band. Easier, trust me!


Made this box on the Scor-Pal. So easy.

The ribbon is attached to the lid so the recipient doesn't have to undo it to get into the box. Easier for the recipient and your box stays nice.

Hats are hard to wrap.

Put 'em in a box.

Socks are hard to wrap.

Attach something with a safety pin and call it good.

Cute little gift for the hospital visit maybe?

Could give some colourful socks to the mama too, she'd probably like that.

Ah, the double bunger.

A hat and socks.

Benefits of giving a little gift like this:

• No wrapping necessary.
• No box necessary.
• No tissue paper necessary.
• It's cute. And when you're doing baby stuff, you've gotta do cute, right?
• You can make it in 5 mins.
• Okay, 10. I'll give you some extra time. A margin if you will. You can use the margin to find your pesky paper piercer, the safety pin and or the right piece of ribbon.

Didn't like that green hat at first, but it's growing on me now.

I was going to say that every good gift needs a good card to go with it here, but our "less is more" hat-and-socks-combo-joined-together-with-a-safety-pin gift belies that statement.

Instead I will say, here's a nice card you can make.

The paper's October Afternoon, of course. I've really got to pull out some different stuff for you!

A simple card. Just paper and foam tape. And some cute ducks. Perfect for baby cards.

I finished the duck beaks and feet with a clear Glaze pen. You can see the shine from the pen in the last photo. Basically it's Dimensional Magic in a pen. It's clear and makes the bit you colour look slick and wet.

Click here for a video on the Glaze pens. They come in other colours too.

Well, have a wonderful weekend!

:o)

Oh, PS. You may have noticed a few rogue non-baby cards on the table above? The tea time ones in the bottom right corner. They're a stamp set from the Basic Grey Nook and Pantry collection. I showed you the cards a little while ago? Did I? I'll check that!

Hey, baby!

Hi blogging friends,

How was your weekend?

Did you make it to the PC sale day yesterday? Hope you got some good bargains!

Today I have the last of the punch arty baby cards...

This one's from Punch Art Fun for everyone 2, page 31. I used a different bear, but the concept's the same.

I used an oval template to get the clothesline straight. Well, curved, but straight (and neat) if you get my drift.

And I hand cut the clothes props - I used a knife, but you could use scissors too. Drawing it on the card first will help.

What a simple one.

It's very similar to a couple on page 32 of Book 2.

I just exchanged a rabbit for a sheep. You could change the colours depending on whether the card is for a boy or a girl, or leave it as is if you don't know.

Ah, so CUTE!

And as cute as it is, it's cuter in real life. Unfortunately there wasn't enough light when I was taking these photos. Disappointing, but I couldn't re-do them.

See the dummy and the bottle? They're Sullivan punches - new ones, ones I've not had in my stash before. They're perfect little accents on baby cards.

You know, you may not make baby cards often, but when you do, a dummy and a bottle are perfect punches to have.

And look! They can be used on the faux stamp too.

I love this. Love, love, love it.

The postmark is from the Melissa Frances Post-it (scroll down) set I mentioned last week.

Hello? Special delivery stamp? Perfecto for baby cards!

More bottles, dummies, postmarks and faux stamps.

I'm smiling, hope you are too!

Silly Sunday

Hey there!

It's Friday, don't you just love Fridays? I do, because Andrew makes dinner!

What I'm more concerned with today though, is Sunday.

This Sunday (the 7th), Photo Continental is having a sale day. It only happens once a year, so it's a great chance for a bargain.

And the reason for having cupcakes in the post?

The whole sale day at PC is cupcake themed! I love cupcakes, so what a fun day it'll be.

Now, a couple of tips for you.

1. The doors open at 10 am and the registers start getting hammered at about 11 am. If you know what you want, you could duck in and out and get it quickly, I reckon. As long as you don't get distracted! Just suggesting here, but I'm basing that suggestion on what happened last year.

2. If you come later in the day, you'll miss the crowds, but you might also miss out on what you wanted to get.

3. Got a granny trolley? Gosh, I'd bring it. I'm not a granny and I've got one. Andrew and I walk the dog to the shops and I bring the milk and whatnot home in it. Remember vintage is in! Plus, my granny used to use one all the time and I love that memory. Granny trolleys are cool, alright?

4. Be prepared for crowds. It's a very busy day, but last year there was a chocolate station and a water station to keep you fed and watered while waiting in line. This year there might be a cupcake station, you never know!

Okay, have a wonderful weekend, whatever you're doing!

Bye now,

Debra

PS. Above I used the cupcake stamp set from Basic Grey's Nook and Pantry collection, a scallop punch from Marvy, the sprial edge border punch from EK Success, some ledger paper from Making Memories and some holographic embossing powder to make the glittery dots. The dots are a Stampin Up! roller stamp, but you could use any dotted background.

Baby, baby!

Hello!

We interrupt our regular programming to bring you more baby cards today!

Wait, our regular programming is baby cards...for the moment anyway :o)

I've done something a little different this time used this die from Sizzix. It's called Card, Petal die.

It's actually a card - you write inside and fold it to make a flower. I used it as an envelope as you can see and put my little card inside.

Yep, had to work the old acetate to get it to fold like that - the bone scorer came in real handy there. Of course, the thread holds it together.

You could use this idea for any occasion or season. Christmas gift tags, Easter cards - whatever strikes your fancy. I just love the fact that it's see-through and you can see the cute baby.

This is what the Card, Petal die looks like when it's used with actual cardstock. You can see how this could be the card and envelope in one.

Would look nice in patterned paper...

When you run it through your machine, the score lines are scored for you too, which is good.

Here's where I used the die as the envelope.

Worked fab and you could put anything in there!

Sullivans also have a similar type punch, but it's actually an envelope, not a card.

Have a look at the Sizzix one - the layers meet. Now check the Sullivans one - the layers overlap. Yep, an envelope. Cute, huh?

The envelope is one of their big pink punches - you can see it here - it's the 5th from the bottom and kind of looks like a flower.

The good thing about it is that you can use it for a heart too like on the card below.

Hope you liked the cute babies!

Talk soon!

:o)

More cutie baby cards

Hello!

How are you on this wet and cool Monday? Well, cool now, not cool before. It was overcast, but not cool, that's for sure.

Some more baby cards coming your way today (and other days this week). I've done the table display at Photo Continental and it was baby themed, can you tell?

You'll recognise these cards.

The boy one was the one Mum and I made 30 of for my sister-in-law. Had to make a girl one for the table too.

We used this Baby embossing folder set from Sizzix. Very cute.

And the babies were from Punch Art Fun for everyone Book 2 page 31.

You'll find all the babies I've used here in my first and second books particularly - they're made from the bear punch and just circles mostly. Very easy)

All the babies above were a teddy to start with. Some stayed that way, some had their ears cut off to make the baby shape.

You may like to draw a pencil line where you're going to cut, because it can be hard to get a rounded head! Sometimes the babies can have cone heads...not a good look!

And some cute baby stamps.

The gorgeous banner one is actually from a small set from Basic Grey - it doesn't really have a name either. It was only a few dollars - I found it over at Photo Continental and knew it was a keeper.

The banner came with a dummy, the welcome little one greetings and a bib. I've found it here - run your mouse over the big set on the left and the little ones will increase in size on the right. The baby set is in the middle there. Love the banner!

And ooh, don't you love it when you just happen upon something very cool?

Get a load of that postmark on the envelope...being the envelope-maker that I am at the moment, I wanted a postmark stamp to add to the fun of it all. And guess what? I found a cool set at Photo Continental with my name on it! Oh, nice!

Have a look here - it's a Melissa Frances set called Post-It. Just scroll down and you'll see it. Lots of fun designs to stamp on future envelopes, hey?

As soon as I saw the postmark I knew it'd be stamped in blue and pink to match the baby cards.

Oh, I love papercrafting!

Hope you enjoyed the cards. Sorry about some of the darkness in the shots...

Bye now!

Punch Art Fun 1 - Look in the Book - page 7/8 additions too

Well, howdy everyone!

We haven't looked in the book in a while, have we? You must've thought I'd forgotten...

(I had a little, but ebb and flow, ebb and flow)

So, where were we?

Ah, the big bee in a boat (Jan 20ish). An unseen sight, for sure. Unless you're looking in Punch Art Fun, of course.

You don't necessarily need to have your book open today because I'm posting some extra, never-before-seen (sounds like a television commercial) cards that you've, well...never seen before.

Remember these?

You've seen these four before...

You've seen that one above a few times! It's a goodie and I like the blog to be colourful - that's my justification for using it multiple times...

Yep, you've seen this.

Cute.

Check out the goggles.

And this.

You've seen this.

Bears swimming underwater like they can hold their breath for hours. They've been holding their breath for 9 years now, so they're doing well.

And this.

You've seen this.

What you haven't seen is some scuba diving gear on them.

I haven't seen that either. I don't think any of us will. Only in our mind's eye will we see that.

(Poor girlie in pink. I think she's sunk to the bottom. It's okay, darling, you're only made of paper, so you don't need air, okay?)

Right, below are the cards you haven't seen.

Let's scroll down, shall we?

What a way to spend an afternoon.

Lucky duck.

Watch out for drop bears! Oh, don't worry. They only come out at night...

Hello, flowers!

I think I pulled out every flower punch known to man at the time and went to town.

And don't ask me how I made the garden fork. I'm not being mean, I just can't remember!

Can't tell you how I made the hat either. Once again, no mean-ness, it's no memory.

So fun. Not the no memory, but the cards.

Looking at these makes me want to sit down and make something. Maybe not the actual card above (whoa, would take too much time to do that at the moment), but, you know, make something. Something fun.

Love all the food on this one.

Some of the food is shown from the side, some from the top. Hey, you do it how you can. I am, on this card, taking "artistic liberties", which means "you get my drift" and my drift is...there's food on that there blanket.

The other thing I love is the frog peeking out from the rock. Hey, froggie. Be careful, there's a big lizard coming up behind you.

(Have you seen Miss Potter? Gorgeous movie. She talks to her characters too)

And here we are in the forest, or at the park, or at the park on the edge of the forest.

After bringing every sports ball to the park, the Bears decided to play footy. And the tiny, weeny baby bear is looking on waiting for the day when he too can join in the family game.

So, what'd you think?

(and I'm talking about the cards, not my commentary, okay? I know my commentary is silly)

I made the four beach cards (years ago) and decided I wanted to make four land cards to go with them (land cards? Doesn't sound like a good name, now does it? Land cards. What else you I call them? Grass cards? Park cards? Sounds like a car park. Okay, land cards it is for want...much want...of a better word)

So, I made these four cards featuring green...(don't like the land cards name, so I'm refusing to use it).

Enough of names, let's talk punches!

I'd like to draw your attention to the level of the grass. Note how it starts at about a quarter of the height, then half, then three-quarters, then full?

Similar to the beach and the water, see? Halfish, quarter, three-quarters, full.

The height of the grass (or water) was the foundation on which I built the cards - and it helped decide the theme for each card.

Which do you like the best?

My favourites are the beach one with the girlie under the umbrella, the garden and the picnic ones. So cute!

And you know what? I don't know if I could even make these cards now...make them, yes (could I? Glory be, not sure if my fine motor skills are up to it).

What I'm trying to say is...I don't know if I could come up with these now...not sure. Things change, I've changed - it's okay.

I can love them though and I love them a lot.

I remember making them and the fun I had and how many times I smiled and how just so fun it was. I said fun twice, but it was.

That's why I called the book Punch Art Fun.

Fun it was, and fun it still is!

If they were so fun, why aren't they in the book you say? There just wasn't room. I decided to leave them out because I had the four beach cards. I don't regret the decision, but I'd put them in if I was making that decision now. They were so much work, they deserve to be in the book. Oh, well. Glad you're getting to see them now.

Have a great day!

Debra :o)

PS. I just found two spelling mistakes - I had site instead of sight. And googles instead of goggles. It's a computer world!