Punch Art Elsa for As You See It Challenge #346

 This week, As You See It Challenges has a Fill In The Blank challenge created by yours truly, and the sentence you have to finish by filling in the blank is: The one discontinued/retired crafting tool I will never get rid of is____. 

I have to fill in that blank with a plural, though. It's punches. Why? Because I fancy myself a punch art aficionado. At least I've done a lot of it! "Why would you do that to yourself?" you might ask, and with good reason. Well, because my grandkids love the cards I make them using punch art, and once I started, they wouldn't let me stop! Therefore, I hang onto every punch that is really useful for making things other than for what it was intended! Like the owl builder punch: it's great for making big cartoon eyes, used along with the 1/2" Circle punch. The Fox Builder punch makes wonderful tresses of hair and braids, and the Lemon Builder punch is a great base shape for faces, with a little trimming. The Vases punch makes great necks, and there are so many more! Anyway to illustrate, I CASED a card I made about 5 years ago for my youngest granddaughter. You can see it here.

And here is the redo:

• I will never get rid of the **Fox Builder Punch because that fox tail has helped me create hair so many times and it was instrumental in me being able to make that great braid, by weaving those fox tails together, and trimming one pair down to a narrower size so that the braid tapers. Because Elsa's hair is so platinum blonde I used a combination of Whisper White and Very Vanilla cardstock to create it. The very tip of the braid is one of the 3 leaves on the **Bough Punch.
• Elsa's head shape was closest to and big enough for the **Lemon Builder Punch with the wider bump at the top and the narrower one at the chin. I also trimmed off the "jowls" a bit. Lol!
• The nose is what's punched out when you punch the hole for the Detailed Trio Punch. The mouth is created using two punches with the **Lemon Builder Punch at the "chin end".
• The eyes needed shaping and are time consuming but they are started in Whisper White with the 1/2" punch and shaped exactly alike, one used to trace the other. Her neck is one of the vases from the **Vases Builder Punch and her shoulders and upper chest is the **Story Label Punch, in Powder Pink.
• Her dress is made from Pastel Ombre Glimmer Paper. The shoulders and front are an arc double punched with the Story Label punch. Her arms attach underneath and are also punched from Pastel Ombre Glimmer Paper with the **Word Window Punch - which is another I will never give up, just for this purpose.

If you want to see other punch art I've done you can click HERE.

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