Technique Tuesday October Blog Hop Punches

It's time to get out the punches and have some fun with the October Technique Tuesday Blog Hop. Punches are so versatile and they are a great way to step up your projects. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to get creative with your punches and see what you can creative with them. 

One of my favorite suites in the new September-December 2023 Mini Catalog is the Beary Christmas Suite Collection. I love that the Beary Cute Bundle has a punch and coordinating stamp set, plus the punch also coordinates with several of the designs in the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper. So of course, I had to use this suite to create my card design today. In addition to the Beary Cute Punch, I also used the Decorative Circle Punch for the background for the bear and the star punch from the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack to create the decorative ends for the sentiment label. This is such an easy card to create and I love how the designer series paper sets the scene for this holiday card. 

Products Used:

Beary Cute Bundle (item #162023)

Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper (item #162015)

Inked & Tiled Punch Pack (item #161167)

Decorative Circle Punch (item #159174)

Balmy Blue Cardstock (146982)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

Adhesive Backed Glitter Sequins (item #162029)

Balmy Blue 3/8" Sparkle Ribbon (item #162030)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Balmy Blue Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Decorative Circle punched out with the Decorative Circle Punch

Sentiment Label - 7/8" x 4" Ends punched with the star punch from the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack

Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper

Card Front = 5 1/4" x 4"

Bear with sweater punched out with the Beary Cute Punch

This pretty Christmas card is easy to assemble and needs just a few simple supplies. I chose the designer series paper for the background and attached a piece of Balmy Blue Sparkle Ribbon around the top of the card front, attaching it to the back. I then attached the card front to the Balmy Blue card base. I punched out the bear from one of the designs of the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper and attached it to the Balmy Blue decorative circle with Stampin' Dimensionals and then attached it to the bottom right corner of the card front. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image with White embossing powder onto the Balmy Blue cardstock strip and then used the star punch from the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack to create the decorative ends. I attached the sentiment label to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals, centering it over the top of the ribbon. To complete the card design, I added two of the small, clear Adhesive Backed Glitter Sequins to the sentiment label. I love how this card design turned out and how each one of the punches I used help to create the finished design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help spark your creativity and inspire you to explore the many wonderful ways you can create with punches. There are so many possibilities to help you combine different punches to create your projects.

Please take the time to visit the other Design Team members to see their wonderful projects by clicking on links in the Roll Call List below. We would appreciate it if you would let us how our projects inspired you. I hope that you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
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Stamping With Friends Simple Stamping Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends Simple Stamping Blog Hop. You will be visiting with our talented Design Team members as they share their projects and ideas using this fun technique, that is perfect whether you are a beginner or an experienced stamper. For our Simple Stamping Challenge, we will be using stamps, ink and paper plus we can use a punch to create our projects. 

For my Simple Stamping project, I decided to create a Fall themed card using the Soft Seedlings stamp set and Perched In A Tree stamp set. The punch I chose for my design is the Decorative Circle Punch and it worked perfectly for my sentiment label. The colors I chose for my design are Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Early Espresso. This simple card design would work well for a variety of occasions to help brighten someone's day.

Products Used:

Soft Seedlings stamp set (item #1599905)

Perched In A Tree stamp set (item #159791)

Decorative Circle Punch (item #159174)

Crumb Cake Cardstock (item #120953)

Very Vanilla Cardstock (item #101650)

Crushed Curry Classic Ink Pad (item #147087)

Crumb Cake Classic Ink Pad (item #147116)

Pumpkin Pie Classic Ink Pad (item #147086)

Cajun Craze Classic Ink Pad (item #147085)

Early Espresso Classic Ink Pad (item #147114)

Measurements:

Crumb Cake Cardstock 

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Decorative Circle punched out with the Decorative Circle Punch

Very Vanilla Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Label punched out with the Decorative Circle Punch

Simple Stamping is a fun way to create cards and a great way to explore different color combinations with your stamps. I love the images in the Soft Seedlings stamp set and wanted to create the look of Fall leaves for my card design. I chose Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze to create the leaves for the background design and I added some subtle background detail using Crumb Cake Classic ink with the dots image from the Perched In A Tree stamp set. To create the sentiment label, I stamped the sentiment image with Early Espresso Classic ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock and punched it out with the Decorative Circle Punch. I layered it by punching out a Crumb Cake Decorative Circle and cutting it in half, before attaching it to the back of the Very Vanilla sentiment label. Using Paper Snips, I trimmed away any excess cardstock. I used Stampin' Dimensionals to attach it to the card front to complete the card design. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore using Paper, Stamps and Ink to create your own Simple Stamping projects. 

Now it's time to visit my fellow Design Team members to see their wonderful Simple Stamping projects. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to find your way. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you like about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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