Stampin' Up! Basic Flower Punch Art

Punch Art is so much fun and with Stampin' Up! builder punches, you can create all sorts of flowers.  This is a chart we made in a recent techniques class...  The tree from the Tree Builder can be used as a branch and the flowers can be used flat or shaped to create blossoms... the more you work the centre of the blossom, the smaller and tighter it becomes so you can make a centre!

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Builder punches

The blossom builder is another versatile punch.  The petals if done in green can be leaves and the leaves if done in red/oranges can be make into a flower...  The 5 petal star can be a flower, stamen or the petiole for the base of a flower if looking sideways...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Pansy Punch and Daisy Punch

The pansy punch is a long favourite of mine for paper flower making, and it can be used flat layered, or scrunched, stamped or not.  The Daisy punch is just as versatile in that the colour of the flower and how it is shaped leads to the type of Aster that is created.  The four yellow flowers are created out of the Daisy Punch, not Pansy punch as written.

Need a punch? Stampin' Up! had a great selection of quality punches.  Contact me or visit my online shop to see what we have available for purchase.

Yours in Paper Craft,

Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

Welcome to A Crafty Cat,

Sitting Here by Stampin' Up! is a great stamp set to learn masking, water colouring and picture creation.  The seat can be a swing seat or chair and the surrounds can be anything you dream of...

I created these examples for class...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

Elegant Eggplant flowers, colouring and base card, looks stunning against Wild Wisteria...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

Another creation with the blossoms...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

Barb created this stunning Autumn card...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

I love the dimension Barb has created with the tree, bow and mushrooms, the masking of the dog and pillow... love the warm feel of this card!

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

A simple creation from me, Sheltering Tree and Sitting Here...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

The pillows are the feature, with one masked and the other shaped and placed on top...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sitting Here

The little pearls finish the pillows of nicely.

I love creating with this set, and hope you do too.  Thank you for your company and I hope to see you at the next post.

Yours in paper craft, 

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder Punch fun 2

Welcome to another post on A Crafty Cat.  Today we play with the Fox Builder punch and have a little fun creating various cute little animals.  My first creation was a case from pinterest - Nikki Spencer - just love this layout and the little raccoon which I stamped using the stripped tail, face, eyes and nose, legs and ears from the set Foxy Friends

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Raccoon

I raised the head with a dimensional to give the card a bit of dimension...  The petite flower is centred with the flower from the Tree builder punch.

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Raccoon

Next I had to create this gorgeous card - that could be used as a Christmas card with that tree in the background!  Again this card was cased from pinterest...the background embossed with Woodland Embossing folder   The beaver - inspired by Heather Payne and her creation featured in a post earlier this month - love this card...

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Beaver

The fox is sitting on a stump coloured with an aqua painter... 

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Fox

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Fox

The skunk gorgeous little fellow... hello is form the Hello You thinlits dies

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - skunk

I especially love the little mushrooms, they are so cute! again from the Stamp set Foxy Friends

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Skunk

Back to the Raccoon and a wood grain background from the Serene Scenery DSP pack... and the gorgeous butterflies from Fluttering Embossing Folder ...

Stampin' Up! Fox Builder punch - Skunk

Thank you for stopping by - this really is a must have stamp set and punch - so many little animals to create.  I'm sure you will be seeing more!

Yours in paper craft,

Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

"Sprinkles of Life" is a photopolymer stamp set released by Stampin' Up! When purchased from your demonstrator, Stampin' Up! donate $3.00 per sale to the Ronald McDonald House Charity.  I think the Sprinkles of Life stamp set is the BEST RMHC stamp set yet and when coordinated with the "Tree Builder" 138295 punch, the possibilities for creation are many.  This is just one layout my customers created in a workshop held on Saturday...


A Crafty Cat: Sprinkles of Life x Stampin' Up! - just gorgeous

The tree trunk from the Tree Builder punch can be used as a tree trunk as shown below or branch, as shown above!


The banners set behind the 2 1/2" circle were created with the 2" and 1 1/2" Banner Triple punch 138292 using DSP from the neutrals and brights paper stacks... 

A Crafty Cat: Sprinkles of Life x Stampin' Up!

 The greetings were taken from the stamp set "Cottage Greetings" WM138940/CM139962.


A Crafty Cat: Sprinkles of Life x Stampin' Up!

We used Stampin' Up! markers to colour the stamp set and create our own individual centre pieces... 

A Crafty Cat: Sprinkles of Life x Stampin' Up! created Leanne

 There is an apple, flower and bird as tree accessories on the tree builder punch...


A Crafty Cat: Sprinkles of Life x Stampin' Up! created Hope

I love the colourful flowers stamped on this one - made for her wonderful husband.

I enjoyed this workshop greatly and hope you enjoyed viewing the creations of each attendee.  It is thanks to Rachel that you are viewing these lovely creations - thanks Rach for taking the photos.
Yours in paper craft,

Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life - Catalogue case

"Sprinkles of Life" is my focus for this week.  I've been asked to demonstrate the versatility of this very versatile stamp set - is it a tree, branch, ice cream, basket of flowers, cup cake, pie, cloud and much, much more.  This is a few of my creations including the Tree builder punch - love Stampin Up! punches, the less cutting all the better ;-)

This post focuses on a case from a beautiful card presented in the catalogue with clouds, silver and watercolouring...

Acraftycat: Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

It is always fun to create a card with new attendees to class and show them each technique - this is what I created second time around with highlights of pink and flowers across the bottom as inspired by Kasey...

Acraftycat: Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

 I lifted the banner so it flowed in the wind...

Acraftycat: Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

Lots of Silver Sparkle Dazzling Details x Stampin' Up! with dabs of Dazzling Details on the rain drops...

Acraftycat: Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

This photo was taken in a different light on a different angle... the clouds were stamped in Tempting Turquoise...

Acraftycat: Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life

The strip down the right hand side is from the DSP brights - pacific point and neutrals - Smokey Slate.

Happy creating with your Sprinkles of Life - I love it and would love to create with you.