Cupcake Box & Floral Punch Craft

This is a little cupcake that I made for a Challenge over at the Stampin Out Alzheimers Site, the template is a free give away by DigiChick.

Of course I added my signature to the design and made a Floral Punch Craft Rose to sit on the top of the cake

Engagement Card

An Engagement card, I thought I'd keep on the cake theme and this Cake stamp by Papertrey Ink seemed perfect for the job.

It is stamped with Ocean Tides Pallete Ink then the blossoms with Versamark then heat set with white embossing powder, The Label 1 Nestabilities where used to cut out the shapes and Kreaxion punch used for the corners, all tied together with a satin ribbon and a few blossoms and pearls added to finish.

Flourish Overlay

I've fussed around so much with this card to try to get a good picture that I've just give up and added this one to show you all.

The flourish was stamped on acetate before adding to the base card, it was stamped with white stazon ink.

The hearts were cut with the Nestabilities dies the I heat embossed a heart stamp onto the Aqua coloured heart with white embossing powder and added the hearts to the card using foam pads.

To finish the card I added punched flowers and leaves, a few pearls and a sheer ribbon.

Mothering Sunday - Floral Punch Craft

Started with the Sakura Flower Punch and punched lots (technical for forgot to count) then sponged colour to the edges of each flower then cut the petals away from each flower and glued them individually to a circle cut from card, started and the large layer and worked the flower to the centre where I fringed the same light pink paper sponged with a darker shade of pink on one edge then rolled it and glued it in place.

This is the card myself and Susan my friend made the other night.

A close up of the blossom.

This is the shape punch used

Floral Craft - Sakura Flower

The flower was made from the Sakura punch and the idea came from the very talented Jane Gill.

I made the flower with the Mega Sakura Punch cutting each petal so that it was individual then scoring along the petal.

I stamped a white piece of card with a Rubber Stamp Tapestry Clear Stamp and Brilliance Crimson Ink.

The centre of the flower is just a circle covered with fun flock.

A close up of the flower, you can see the scored lines on each petal.

Craft Hobby & Stitch Trade Show

The Trade show was a huge success for La Pashe and I felt quite humbled at the buzz we created.

A meet up with Jane Gill, at the Woodware stand which was quite accidental, I was just passing by and a couple of flowers at the table caught my eye and made me back step to the table One I had seen recently on my friend Pam's blog and this was the other I looked down at the lady sitting at the table and exchanged smiles then noticed her badge Jane Gill this was the lady that had taught my friend to make the flower, of course I was very cheeky and asked for one of these beauties to show to you all.

Ollie Doodles one of the La Pashe stockists from Spain called in to say hi and brought me a fabulous card to wish me luck made by Lynn I took it back to the Hotel and it stayed on my dressing table.

Mind you the lady from Ollie's was not all good as she kept popping back to show me her fruits from the workshops she had attended, green was my eyes lol!

I finally got to meet Tina fellow sheenie and got a hug.

It was great to put faces to names so thank you all for popping by to say hello.

Floral Craft Bumble Bee Blossom

This floral craft blossom kept me sane tonight, It is made from a bumble bee punch although you do need to cut bits away from the bee so you are just left with the bum.

Details of how the make the flower can be found in Floral Punch Craft VI Orchids and more by Leone Em.

A closer look at the Bumble Bee flower each petal is the bee's bum.

White Blossoms

Floral craft blossoms a white base card and Papertrey ink sympathy flourish stamped embossed in white detail powder.

I started with a white 14 x 14 base card, I cut a 13 x 13cm white iridescent card and with versamark stamped the flourish then added the white detail powder and heat embossed, I glued this onto the base card and added small pearls to the corners.

Using a splat and a funky flower punch I made the blossoms and added bigger Mother of Pearl gems to the centers then punched out the leaf and fern shapes and scored the veins with a DEET tool.

If you click on the image you will see the embossed flourish a little better as this was very difficult to photograph.

A closer view of the Floral Craft

Summer by the Sea - Girl with flowers

This is the 3rd card from the Stamping Up rubber stamp set Summer by the Sea.

I decided to work on navy coloured card stock and use bleach instead of ink.

I took a piece of kitchen towel folded it in four and lay it in a tray and soaked it in household bleach (I would only use this method on orange rubber stamps and wash them immediately after stamping)

Take the stamp and dab it onto the kitchen towel then stamp onto the card stock, it is fun watching the image appear after stamping in this case it turned the navy card a lemon shade.

I then took a paint brush and shaded parts of the image by painting with the bleach.

I matched up the bleach stamped image colour with card stock and layered shaped with Nestabilities dies.

I finished with punched flowers from the same card stock

A closer look at the bleach stamped image

Summer by the Sea - Couple

Summer by the Sea stamp set by Stamping Up was used to stamp the couple sketch and the sentiment both stamped with brocade blue ink.

I also used a spriral punch to create the the notebook edge.

This is the first in a set of 3 cards that I have planned

I stamped the white base card with a dandilion stamp in the blue ink then cut a smaller blue square and used the swiss dots embossing folder and ran it through the Cuttlebug using a white ink pad I swiped it over the embossed dots then distressed the edges of the blue square.

Using the blue ink I watercoloured the image and layered it all together before adding the flower decorated with crushed glass glitter.

I used 3 Sakura Flower Punches by Carla and added crushed glass glitter to the edges before layering them on top of each other.

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Floral Craft Large Rose Gift

I made this Floral Punch Craft Rose from a tree punch it was a bit of a challenge as the tree punch is very very large and as it is so big the rose would be too big to go on a card but is perfect to incorporate as a gift.

It took 13 tree shapes to make the rose.

I punched out the shapes from pink light pink coloured paper then sponged cranberry ink onto each shape then using the shape forming tool I pressed downward whilst dragging the tool over each shape.

Then I used the pointed tweezers to curl the edges of the shapes to form the petals.

A close up shot of the rose.

click on the image to see it full size.

This shot of the floral punch craft rose is took from the side as I wanted to try to show you that each petal was sponged with the matching ink

The gift is inside the glass, a shower gel and body lotion.

This is the Super Giant Tree by Leone Em that I used for the petals of the rose

Floral Craft Sunflower

Hand made Floral Punch Craft card, the flower was made with a mega daisy punch by Punch Bunch a 5 corner Flower by Punch Bunch and a small Sakura Punch made by Carla.

I started by using the rubber stamp set Spiral Bouquet by Papertrey Ink and stamping the base card using Palette Inks I used the Nestabilities to cut out the scalloped and plain circles then layered them together.

I made up the sunflower and added the leaves after painting them, the craft punch leaves are Dusty Miller, Ivy and Leone Em's Ash leaves

Floral Craft - Cymbidium Orchid

A hand made orchid made from Craft Punch shapes although this one was made specifically for the Cymbidium Orchid.

I used the label nestabilities die cut shapes to mount the orchid onto and stamped some quotes from PTI Stamps.

I scored the base card and rounded the corners with a corner rounder punch then tied a top notch ribbon around the center of the card.

A close up view of the floral punch craft Orchid. you can see how I painted the petals on this view.

Twinklets Glass Glitter Accent Card

Using punched shaped from my floral craft punches I added the glossy accents as a glue and dipped the shapes into the glass glitter, once dried I stuck the shapes together using a wet paper glue and threaded a button with raffia before fixing in the center of the flower with a glue dot.

And so to the full card,

I used a Kraft coloured card stock from PTI for the 14 x 14cm base card and stamped the DCM rubber stamp border with Vintage Photo distress ink. I added a piece of chocolate coloured card which I distressed around the edges then tied a cream ribbon around the card.

I stamped the main image by Clarity stamps with the same Vintage Photo ink onto cream card stock and again distressed the edges and added this with double sided foam pads.

Lastly I added the glass glitter embellishment.

Twinklets Crushed Glass Glitter

I made up a snowflake from a cuttlebug die and some craft punch shapes then added ranger glossy accents to the shapes and dropped them into the glitter and left them to dry while I made up one of Claire's 3 Kings shapes (Found here) it is sort of a flat bottomed cracker and when made up you can add goodies inside it.

I intend making a few for the Christmas table and adding gifts inside.

A close up view of crushed glass glitter on the snowflake layers.

I think this will be my favorite product for a long time to come.

I also tried the glitter out on some flower shapes

An even closer view

Rubber Stamp Poppy Card

A hand made hat pin inspired me for this card although it doesn't take much for me to make a card with a poppy on it.

I stamped the poppy onto smooth white card and coloured it with Tombo pens, I added some white poppy paper to the 15cm x 15cm base card and tied a red ribbon around it.

Layered the hand stamped poppy onto red and green card stock and mounted it onto the card with craft foam pads.

I used craft punches to punch out the leaves and scored them to add the veins then added them to the corners of the card with a few gold gems and the hat pin slotted through the ribbon to finish.

A close up shot of the Hat Pin beads