Papillion

My sister commisioned me to make a punch art card as a thank you for a lady who owns a very special Papillion dog.

I used Stampin' Up! MDS digital programme to help me design the card and printed off some elements and cuttings others.

This is what I came up with.

This what I love about MDS, you can move things around, make them bigger or smaller, changes the colours etc and then you can still build it up 3 dimentionally. I put a string of rhinestones on his collar.

More MDS

MDS is so much more than just a programme to make flat 2D cards and scrapbook pages. (As you will have seen in my last post). I am beginning to use it more and more and growing to love it, especially as a design tool. It saves time and resources to mock up your design on computer before making it into a finished product.

Having said that, I wanted a Teenage boy birthday card that showed a boy wearing gaming headphones. That's what I love about SU, you can have whatever you want with a little imagination and time. This particular boy was given some bright green gaming headphones for his birthday and I wanted the card to match them.

I trawled the net for ideas but obviously this was pretty specific but what I did come up with was the idea of using MDS to design a card with digital "punch art".

I printed this card flat but I equally could have used the idea to make a 3D punch art card or a Hybrid where you print the card and then build it up from there.

This is the card. I love how we can get almost any colour in this programme:)

 

Punch Art Gardener

This is a punch art card I made for my friend Vicki who is a keen gardener. I CASEd the card from Inkin Blinkin Thinkin

If you would like to learn more about punch art, please email me for details of my next punch art class.

baby card

My lovely nextdoor neighbours have just had their second child. A gorgeous little girl called Madeleine. This is the card I made for them:

I borrowed the punch art idea (with a few little changes) from  Juliana from Australia.

Hey. I'm back!

Actually, I haven't been anywhere but I am back to posting. he he.
Ok. I promise that I will blog more regularly. In fact I have several new card designs to share with you and will do so over the next few days:)
Here's the first-(from my recent Punch Art class)

This was (slightly) adapted from a card by Leanne Greff who in turn got it from Kim Score. I made it up as a bag instead of a card.



And this one was also adapted from a card by Kim Score.  I added a little oink tummy (because dogs have a little pink tummy don't they? he he)

The pic came out quite pale but it says "get well soon". Poor little doggy looks quite unwell eh? Awww!

I'm on a roll now

It was my flatmate, Vicki's birthday last week so I made this card inspired by my good friend and fellow demonstrator, Julia Leece and instead of a cat, I made a penguin bookmark as Vicki loves Penguins. The punch art was CASEd from Nanette VerHagen through this web site.

It was also my nephew in law, Karl's birthday a few days ago. It's always a challenge for me to make masculine cards but I found this punch art idea and used it to make this card. The punch art designer was Annette Mac (but sorry can't for the life of me find a blog for her now)

Can you see I have used the "Square lattice" impression folder form the Summer Mini with tin foil for the background? I also ran the clothes through to look like cloth but in hindsight maybe a bit much texture? I handwrote the sentiment using the "versa marker" (pg 143 of the main cat) and embossed with silver embossing powder.