Girls Birthday Party Projects

This month I was asked to do another 13th birthday party for a group of 7 girls.  I had found out the birthday girl's favourite animal and designed a set of 4 notecards, giftbox and a bookmark around this theme, in this case dogs.  I also found out what the girls favourite colours were and these were used in their projects.  The girls had a great time, using the various punches to make the dogs:- 1 1/4" circle for the head, 1 3/8" circle for the body; 3/4" circle for the paws and Word Window for the ears.  The 'kennel' was embossed using the Stripes embossing folder and the roof edge punched using the Scallop border punch with a Small Heat at the apex.  The box for the gift cards was made from a square of Early Espresso card stock and scored using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool.  The girls used their favourite animals from the Storybook Friends stamp set to decorate the box.  The bookmark was made using the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, Small Heart punch and standard hole punch to create the paw prints.  They spent a very quiet 2 hours making their projects and seemed to be very pleased with their creations. (Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera to be able to take a photo of their finished projects so have only taken a photo of the sample set I had made the show the girls what they were going to make).

Aprils Punch Art Class

One of my favourite ways of making cards is using the technique Punch Art.  This is where multiple punches are used to create the card designs.  At this months class, both cards used a variety of common punches to create quite effective results.

 

The first, a piano card also used a Stampin' Around Wheel with the Music Notes Wheel to give a background image.  The only colours used were Whisper White, Smokey Slate and Basic Black with StazOn ink.  The main keyboard was cut using the Top Note Big Shot die and the keys were punched out with the Word Window punch.  The greeting was taken from the Perfectly Penned stamp set.

 By popular request we made a neutral birth contragulations card with a pram treat holder designed by the fabulous Brenda Quintana.  This American designer has created so many Hershey Chocolate treat holder designs that are just so easy to make but look wonderful.  The card is a step-design and used So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding and Very Vanilla card stock with Gingham Garden DSP as the background.  The panels were embossed using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder ( my favourite folder and I apologise that I may seem to over use this!). The pram was made using 3 circle punches:- 3/4", 1" and 2 1/2",  and the Scallop Trim Border punch with the handle made from a sliver of card cut using the Large Oval Punch.  Hearts made from scraps of Pistachio Pudding, So Saffron and Very Vanilla card stock were punched out using the small heart punch to add to the card. The greeting was taken from the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set and stamped using Daffodil Delight ink.
The pram treat holder was made with Daffodil Delight card stock.  A perfect card and gift to give to new parents!