Fast Card Friday

Mother's Day Card

Mother's Day is this weekend. I hope you'll be spending it will people you love. Here's a little something that I whipped up. The longest part of making this card is making the flower. You could speed that up by using Paper Daisy Accents flowers from Stampin' Up!

Supplies:

Basic Black Card Stock

Whisper White Card Stock

Berry Blossoms Designer Series Paper

Basic Black ink

Beautiful Wings Embosslit

Top Note Die

White Ribbon

Curly Label Punch

Decorative Label Punch 

1 3/4 scallop Circle Punch

2 3/4 Scallop Circle Punch

Large Pearl Basic Jewels

sentiment stamps

adhesives

This is a basic easel card in a Top Note Die shape. When you run the base of the card through the Big Shot using the Top Note Die you will need to:

• Cut black paper 5 1/2 x 11
• Fold @ 5 1/2
• Place fold slightly below the top cutting edge of the die so that the fold will stay intact after cutting.
• Cut another piece of black with the top note die - this is the front
• Cut a piece of Berry Blossoms Designer Paper with the Top Note Die
• Trim the designer paper around the edge, cutting along the "stitched" edge of the paper
• From this point on build your card.

Take a moment to get out your supplies and make something special today. 

Tool Time Tuesday

I wanted to share some of my all time favorite tools for paper crafting. Whether it's card making, scrapbooking, or other paper crafts ... you can't own too many punches! My all time favorites are from Stampin' Up! In fact part of the reason I became a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is due to my love of the punches they sell. I've bought many punches over the years, from many different companies. Stampin' Up! punches are by far the best on the market - in my opinion.


My sister works in the accounting field and at times has a verrrrrrrrry stressful job. We were talking about great music to help reduce stress and I thought I'd burn her a couple of CDs for the office. Now being a paper crafter, I couldn't just give her CDs with boring covers now could I? So I pulled out some scrap paper and punched and stuck my way to happiness! See - punches used for something other than making a card!

The CD covers with punched labels.

Here they are all put together with the cases resting with my punches. 

The black punches are the old style and the brownish gray ones are the new very cool style that locks down flat for wonderful storage!

Here's another much more traditional use for punches, labeling for scrapbooking. 

(That's my son. Isn't he handsome?! And he's smart too!)

We'll explore the uses of punches a great deal in various blog posts because they are so versatile and one tool that every crafter needs to have.

Punches used here are:

Curly Label Punch

Decorative Label Punch

Large Oval Punch

Modern Label Punch

Scallop Oval Punch

Word Window Punch

Now go out there and punch some stuff. LOL