Stella, Roo and Fena Too Designs: Crafty Gals September Challenge

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Crafty Gals September Challenge

Hello Friends!

Welcome back to another Crafty Gals Monthly Challenge.

Hostess: Jeanette

“Get Punchy”

I absolutely love creative punch art! (Have you seen my Pinterest Punch Art Board?) I know not everyone loves punch art, but I do. I also know that a lot of us don’t have many punches. Therefore I’m not going to make this challenge too difficult.

The Simple Plan: Make a card using a punch somewhere on it. Easy Peasy!

The Advanced Plan: Make a card where you use punches to make something they were not originally intended for. For example: Use oval punches to make a frog, use circle punches to make a snowman, use the stocking punch to make a stick horse, use a heart punch to make a Christmas tree, use a variety of punches to make a chef or witch or elephant, etc.

Well, I have to say, this was definitely a challenge for me. My punches are mostly border punches and I the punch art just does not fit with me for some reason. So I racked my brain and I am not sure if I got this challenge or not. I did use a border punch and the cricket.

I made a gift card holder, as it is something I knew I could give away. I don't typically give cards to children, so I did not feel right making an animal of any kind. I found a cute version of a gift card holder over at myhappyplace.typepad.com, so I decided to CASE it. I did add my own touches, mainly the flower.

So I used a 4" x 6 3/4" piece of cardstock. I scored it at 1 3/4" and 4 3/4" and folded it. Once folded, I used the border punch to make a nice edge on the top. I then cut coordinating paper to cover the front. For the flower, I used six flowers (three different sizes). They started out as white cardstock and I used distress inks to color them up in a shade of pink and purple. I then used some browns to stamp script on a few and I embossed a few for different textures. Then heat set them so the ink would not be removed. After all of the flowers were ready to go, I lined them up and put a brad thru them. Squirted them with water and wadded that flower into a ball. Then unball the flower and shape as desired. I attached the flower to a band that was also border punched. I love the way the flower turned out. So much texture and it is very unique. I will be making more of these in the future.