Patty Penguin

I have been so busy with Mom and back and forth to the clinic and hospital with her. She is out again and doing ok. Dehydrated and her kidney levels was way down. Then with Thanksgiving I got a little behind again.
We got snow on Thursday morning and this time it stayed. Been real cold here so have been trying to stay in as much as possible with this fibro.
I love working with punches. This little penguin turned out so cute. I put him on a mini notebook. I also used the Snowflake embossing folder with Bashful Blue and put that as my background cover and inside cover. I just used black card stock for the binding.
For punches I used the following:
Word Punch (Real Red)
1/2" circle punch (Real Red)
1 1/4" circle punch (head done in basic black)
13/8" circle punch ( hat done in whisper white)
Wide Oval Punch (basic black for body)
Large Oval Punch (whisper white for belly)
Small Oval Punch (basic black for his arms)
1/4" circle punch (eyes) Now I have two 1/4" punches one is larger than the other so did the smaller one in basic black for his eyeballs.
Beak and feet are done with the punch that has 3 flowers on it.
I also used the 2 way glue pen to glue him together.
You can find a tutorial video here. Heather tells you all the punches you need before she gets started on showing you how to make the penguin. So cute!
Hope you enjoy.
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Gobble Gobble

I found this cute card on two blogs one is Karen Gibson's and one is on Dawn's Blog. They are so cute. Well it hit me I needed to make some Thanksgiving cards for my parents and my 3 aunt and 1 uncle that is still with us. So far I have two made and three to go. They are so fun and easy to make. I used smaller eyes on mine. I think they will get a kick out of them.

So if you go to Dawn's blog she has a video tutorial on a snowman and you make the turkey card the say way except of course you add the waddle and the beak.

Hope you enjoy today's project.

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Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hopping down the bunny trail. He hopped right into my Easter Basket. As you all I know I made Peter Cottontail with his little butt sticking out of the basket so had to do one with his face too. I have had so much fun working with punches and my embossing folders. Now in case you missed my other card with his butt sticking out here it is along with the directions for it.

Here Peter making his rounds from basket to basket. Watch out he might hit your basket next. He loves to throw out your Easter eggs!

Directions are pretty much the same as the last one. Except you make his face and paws hanging over the basket instead of him sneaking into the basket. Naughty little bunny really is having fun throwing out all those eggs. Think he might of ate the jelly beans too!

Supplies needed:

Giga Scalloped Circle Punch

1/2", 1/4" circle punches

small oval punch

1/4" square punch (for his teeth)

grass punch or you can cut your own.

Embossing folder

4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch card front

His paws are done by cutting 2 - 1/2" circle punches and forming his little toes.

Cut two more of them and trim down for his cheeks, this was hard to do but just wing it and it they aren't round when you done no big deal, as long as they come close.

Punch 2 black eyes out of the 1/4" punch and do one in pretty in pink for his nose

Ears you need to punch two with the oval punch in white and two in pink. Trim the pink ones down for fit inside his ears.

Punch the Giga scalloped circle punch for the basket trim out the inside (see sample). Place bunny inside as show.

Punch out some eggs using the small oval punch. Trim to for eggs.

Punch out the grass and layer along the bottom of the card.

Run a piece of yoyo yellow through my sizzix with the cuttlebug folder for the background and layered it all on my card.

That's it real easy and fun to make.

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Peter Cottontail Nosey Bunny

Peter is a nosey little bunny and about to fall in the Easter basket. See he has already booted out some of the eggs. Naughty little bunny. Here's hoping we all have a better bunny stopping bye our house delivering the goodies.

Also don't forget about CBC6 Chrissy's Belli challenge for the week. You have a day or two left to enter her contest. Check out Chrissy's blog here.

Supplies needed for this project:

Summer Sun, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Tempting Turquoise, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive and Pink Passion. All of these are run though embossing folders for texture except for the Old Olive one.

Punches needed is small oval punch, 1 1/4 circle punch, giga punch for basket and a grass punch

Small Piece of ribbon

1/4" pompom

1/4 sheet of Summer Sun embossed with embossing folder, glue to main card.

Punch out basket in Close to Cocoa. Now from here I just winged cutting out the handle so have no pattern for this. Just got lucky I guess.

With the WW punch out 2 small ovals and one 1 1/4 circle. Cut down your feet (ovals) some as otherwise his feet is a little to big. Chalk them in with pink for the bottom of his feet.

With PIP, TT and PP cut out from small oval punch. Now these you will have to shape into eggs. I just trimmed mine until I thought they looked like eggs. I have a small egg punch somewhere but he up and left me.

Then Punch out the grass with Old Olive. I did 3 of these and it takes about 2 1/2 of them to fit across the bottom of the card.

Follow the sample shown for the basket, bunny and eggs.

Then I stamped a saying on WW and mounted this to Old Olive and onto the upper part of the card. Depending on your saying your measurements will vary so I am not adding measurements for this.

Hope you enjoyed today's project. He is a blast to watch come alive as your making him. I will be making more of them, most likely in different colors for friends and family. Use your imagination and let it flow.

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Hippo Better get Better

I made this get well card for a teenager that has just finished up 2 years of cancer treatments. She now has a flu virus and ear infection from her immune system being low. I am hoping this cheers her up. Her Mom and I are on a group together for stamping. I sure hope her daughter likes this. It is also another card for Chrissy's Belli Challenge, if you haven't checked it out already check out Chrissy's blog and take the challenge. Link your card to her blog and have a chance to win a prize.

Supplies Needed:

Silver Card stock- I didn't have any gray but this turned out so shinny and cute with the silver I am glad I used it.

White and Pretty in Pink and scraps of black card stock

Mauve Mist and Basic Black Ink Pads

Sizzix Bookplates die cut also done in the silver

Two pink eyelets

1" circle punch

1/2" circle punch

1/4" circle punch

word punch

large oval punch cut two

corner rounder with tab on sides removed

Stamp main card in Mauve mist with a small background stamp. Mine has mini butterflies on it.

Stamp Pretty in Pink card stock with stamp and ink. These are cut at 2 1/8 square for behind the hippo and one is cut at 4 1/4" x 1 3/8"

Cut 2 1/4 square of silver for behind the hippo.

Cut a 1" x 4 1/4" strip of silver and use your corner rounder to make the scallops on the side. Mount this on the main card and then the larger pink piece near that leaving a little of the scalloped edge showing.

On WW stamp your word Better get Better and cut out place your bookplate over this and put in eyelets. Add glue dots and stick to card in lower right hand corner.

Make your Hippo by following the sample. Pop dot him to the pink stamped card stock piece and then to the silver and mount to the main card just off of the Pink strip.

Hope you enjoyed today's project.

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Chrissy's Punch Belli Challenge

Chrissy is doing another Belli Challenge and this week it is Punches. There is so many punches and so many uses for them. She made the Punchy Leprechaun for her sample to share today. I so loved making him see post here for the Leprechaun. And check out yesterday's post for more bunny punchy projects. I am also having a challenge going on that post.

So for the challenge I made my own Egg shape and made another bunny for the egg. This bunny is holding a heart in his paws. I will share the pattern for the egg I drew also, so you can make your own card.

Supplies needed:

White, Pretty in Pink, Black Card stock

Designer Paper

Saying stamp

White Gel Pen

Black marker for making the little marking coming down for his mouth.

Black Ink Pad

Punches needed:

Large Oval and Small Oval (SU)

1" circle

1/4" circle

1 3/4" heart shaped

1/2 circle, cut in half for paws

Cut card stock at in half so you have a piece of 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half. Place egg pattern on fold slightly over the left hand side so the egg will open when cut. You can make this part about 1 1/2" long for the fold. Trace around and cut out. Add designer paper approx. the size of the 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 by gluing on, turn over and trim out. Set aside while you make the bunny.

Bunny

Punch out of white 2 large ovals, 1 - 1/2" circle and 1-1" circle for ears, head and paws

Punch out 2- small ovals and 1 - 1/4" circle in Pink for ears and nose

Punch out 2 - 1/4" circles in black for eyes

And finally punch out 1 - 1 3/4" heart in Pink

Follow sample when putting him together, put a few pop-dots on the back so he will stand out from the card.

Stamp Happy Easter in Black on White card stock and layer on Pretty in Pink. Add to card on the bottom center. Next add your pop-dotted bunny so he is centered over the top of the Happy Easter.

Thanks for stopping bye and I really hope you take on my challenge below and Chrissy's challenge today. Soon you will be already for your Easter. Remember Easter is early this year March 23rd. So get creating.

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Easter Egg Baskets Challenge

I have a real treat for you today. I found these while searching the net looking for a basket to make for a Easter project. I found this and fell in love! What a cute and easy idea. The pattern is on the site. I will share the site in a few seconds here. But, if your wanting to get things going for Easter this is the real treat to make.

If you are demo for stamping and doing stamp camps this project is so easy and quick to to. Or if you making something cute for your table or say a place setting for guest this is really cute. I am going to challenge all my readers to make a basket and share it. You can share by posting on your own blog and linking it here or by loading to SCS and giving a link here in the comments area of this message only. When posting to SCS put in EBC1 in the keywords.

I also have another treat in store for you. I made a bunny to go on my basket made out of SU Punches. And yes you can do this he is real easy to do and turns out so darn cute. So dig out those punches and card stock and lets play.

Ok starting with the Egg Basket you will need Heavy Designer Paper or Card stock.

Now you can't print this pattern from the website and get the correct size so download to your computer and when you print it out do it in landscape. Then you will get the correct size for making this Easter Egg Basket. With that said go to Art 4 Crafts and get the pattern downloaded and printed out. Trace and cut out your pattern. Putting the basket together is pretty self explanatory. Then I did a strip about 3/4 inch wide and about 10 inches long for the handle made out of the same print. Set aside and dig out supplies for the bunny.

Punched Bunny Supplies Needed:

1 3/4" Round Punch

1/2" circle punch

1/4" circle punch

Large and small Oval Punches

White Gel Pen to highlight eyes and nose

Card stock of color choices, I used Choc. Chip, Pretty in Pink, Black, White and craft.

Marker to make dots for Whiskers

Pop dot cut in half.

Punch out 1 3/4" out of Choc. Chip

Punch out 2 of the Large Oval in Choc. Chip for ears

Punch out 2 of the Small Oval in Pretty in Pink for ears

Punch out 2-- 1/2 circles in craft for cheeks

Punch out 2--1/4" black for eyes and one in Pretty in Pink for nose

With a tiny piece of white card stock cut two small pieces for teeth.

Follow my sample for placement. Then bend one ear down, use a small piece of pop dot for hold his ear down and give him some dimension. With marker add little dots to his cheeks for whiskers.

Add highlights with gel pen to eyes and nose. Let dry a bit so it don't smear. With pop dots add to basket. Now my ribbon refused to stay on when I put him on the basket so try some crystal effects and maybe it will stay. I need to do that to my basket yet. Or he really looks just fine without the ribbon.

Hope you enjoyed and I will be looking for all your baskets.

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