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.

**Retired and no longer for sale at ®Stampin' Up!©

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Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Very Vanilla 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166784]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]
Berry Burst 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144243]	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985]	Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [122924]	Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [147108]	2024–2026 In Color™ Shimmer Gems [163781]
So Swirly Embossing Folder [163791]	Pastel Ombre Glimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [164851]

Botanical Textures Suite of Memory for New at SU

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Welcome to our April NEW AT SU! Blog Hop! We love to share creative ideas from ®Stampin' Up!© with you. Today we have projects featuring Memory Keeping ideas with current products. I'm featuring the Botanical Textures Suite. I love the texture that the suite brings, which creates interest in the layout of your scrapbook page in so many ways. Below you can see the full layout:

My base is a 12" x 12" sheet of Pool Party Two Tone cardstock. It's a new product that Stampin' Up! has brought out specifically for scrapbooking, although it has many other applications. The strip of DSP that I applied to the base is from the suite and it's called Woven  Textures. All the designs are based on various patterns of basket weaving. I cut a large circle out of another pattern of the same DSP, and used that for the focal point. 

One thing I really liked about this set for scrapbooking, was the rectangular frames with the decorated die-cut edges. They come in many sizes and are perfect for mounting photos on. The small ones I had to modify to make more of a wallet-sized photo frame.

I've used some of the stamp set images to stamp and fussy cut some foliage images to add a little extra panache to the scene.

The sentiment is a little small for a large scrapbook layout, but I added it to a label die cut with the Textured Notes dies and popped it up with Mini-Dimensionals to make it a bit more noticeable.

I stamped the basket weave in Crumb Cake and punched it out with my old 2" punch. I also cut a 2" swatch of Crumb Cake cardstock and embossed it with the Mini-Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder, adding a lot more texture to the project. I used the same embossing folder to make a banner for the top left out of Crumb Cake cardstock.

I hope you enjoyed this memory keeping project made with the Botanical Textures suite. Please take a moment to comment at the bottom of this post and let me know how you liked my project or ask me a question about the technique used. Don’t forget to scroll back up and keep hoppin’ with us! – Thank you!

Keep Creating!

Heather Cooper

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Here's the list of bloggers in our New At SU April Blog Hop to help you keep on track: 

Product List

Textured Notes Cling Stamp Set (English) [165548]	Textured Notes Bundle (English) [165556]	Pool Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Two Tone Cardstock [166691]	Woven Textures 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [165560]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]	Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116]	Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad [147118]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107]
Neutral Matte Dots [165561]	Mini Corrugated 3 D Embossing Folder [165559]	Textured Notes Dies [165555]	2" (5.1 Cm) Circle Punch [133782]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Stampin' Seal [152813]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]

Thankful Garden for As You See It Challenge #345

Ooooh! Delicious! Our As You See It Colour Challenge this week has the prettiest colours. Thanks, Jan, for coming up with them! After I stopped admiring them, I looked through my newish stamp sets to see what would work, and came up with the Thankful Garden bundle, which includes a hydrangea stencil, and decided to use that. It was great for every colour except for Peach Pie and I was able to use that colour on my background paper and on my sentiment. Here's a look at the Challenge Banner:

And here's how it all turned out:

• I used Fresh Freesia cardstock as my card base, cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored at 4 1/4".
• I cut a piece of Peach Pie cardstock for the next layer and ran it through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine with the  Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder.
• I added a Basic White Layer 3 3/4" x 5" with the sentiment, from the Thankful Garden stamp set, stamped on in Peach Pie ink.
• On a scrap piece of Basic White, I used the large hydrangea bloom stencils to create the floral focal point, using Fresh Freesia, Gorgeous Grape and Garden Green ink. I like to use our old Stamp positioning tool, the Stamparatus, to help keep everything in place, because the magnets are so strong.
• I die cut the hydrangea bloom with the corresponding die from the Thankful Garden die and added it to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals.
• I used Fresh Freesia Seam Binding ribbon for the bow on the bottom of the hydrangea bloom and Purple Fine Shimmer Gems to add the sparkle to the bloom itself.

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If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Thankful Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [165526]	Thankful Garden Decorative Masks [165538]	Thankful Garden Bundle (English) [165534]	Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155613]	Peach Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [163799]
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Fresh Freesia 3/8" (1 Cm) Seam Binding Ribbon [164971]	Purple Fine Shimmer Gems [162611]	Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad [155611]	Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099]
Peach Pie Classic Stampin Pad [163810]	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089]	Small Blending Brushes [160518]	Mini Corrugated 3 D Embossing Folder [165559]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]
Thankful Garden Dies [165533]	Stampin' Seal [152813]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]