Gift Bag Punch Board Easter Chick Holder for 3D Thursday

Look at Charlie Chick all grown up... or maybe rather...  he has just put on a lot of weight!

I had a request for a larger Charlie Easter Chick treats holder... to hold a bag of Mini Eggs or a few Creme Eggs or something like that...

So here he is... Gift Bag Punch Board to the rescue...

So the recipe is simple... just a 6" by 11" piece of card - I used Crushed Curry... and follow the instructions for a Medium Sided Gift Bag...

The punch art is as per the original Charlie Chick... click here for those details... though this time the Tangerine Tango beak is the smallest Stitched Shapes square and the tummy is the medium Stitched Shapes Circle... with 1" circle punched eyes...

And circular aperture die cut with Stitched Shapes oval... with a piece of Window Sheet popped behind...

Held together with velcro dots between the head feathers... simples!! The head feathers being stuck to the front and back insides to keep things neat... 

So here are the 2 Charlie Chicks together... call them Little & Large!... and just click here for the Tutorial for the smaller Cream Egg or Caramel Egg version ...

Year of Cheer Snowflake Flowers & Stampin Blends Part 2

Following on from yesterday's post with the details... another quick tip for the Stampin Blends (coming soon!) for you...

Want a coloured Foil mat in a colour of your choice? Well now you can... just colour the edge of your Silver Foil mat using your Stampin Blend marker... in my case, dark Bermuda Bay to co-ordinate with my flowers (on yesterday's card!)

Though I will be honest and say that it works well for a thin mat such as used here... but I wouldn't use this technique for a larger area and it goes quite streaky when you have to go over the same area multiple times...

You will also notice that I have a few mats from my one Silver Foil mat. This is one thing I am always frugal with... just line up at 1 cm (or 3/8") on your Stampin Trimmer and cut from 1 cm at the top to 1cm from the bottom, Turn 90 degrees and repeat... and so on until you have cut out a rectangle from the centre. The larger is on today's card whereas the middle one was used on yesterdays...

And another silver embossed Big on Birthdays greeting to set everything off...

Year of Cheer Birthday Flowers with Stampin Blends...

Today's make is a combination of a colour challenge and a few ideas picked up along the way that I wanted to try out...

First up... a Team Color Challenge ... featuring the 2017-19 In Color, Berry Burst...

Oh ... and a mess up on my behalf that I have just realised...as I thought the green to be used was Garden Green!! Oops... please pretend I have used Old Olive... would have been nicer too!

Second up... Year of Cheer snowflake flowers in more typically floral colours... click here for more details on the flowers... Berry Burst sponged all over one of the Pansy Punch flowers...

Third up... the delivery of my new (coming soon!) Stampin Blends alcohol markers... so outlining and colouring with my Bermuda Bay dark & light markers rather than carrying on sponging... I wasn't sure that it would work over the foil detail... but it does! The foil still shines through... And no inky fingers...

And a Clear Faceted Gem quickly coloured using the brush tip end of the dark Rich Razzleberry Stampin Blend for one of the flower centres... just because I could! Though personally I prefer a clear one!

Fourth up... two step Painted Harvest stamped & Leaf Punch punched leaves given dimension with a quick score along the centre using my trusty Bone Folder and thick Stampin Pierce mat... really makes those leaves pop into life...

And Fifth up... oh that can wait till tomorrow!! Though the eagle eyed amongst you have probably already spotted it!

Set off around a silver embossed Big on Birthdays greeting to match the foiling on the snowflake flowers...

A Year of Cheer snowflake is not just for Christmas!

Just had one of those moments!! And loving what it created!!

So I was asked to demo my Year of Cheer Large Square Double Display card in my next class... and I decided it was time I put a Birthday one together... so I didn't want snowflakes...

But the card looked a bit plain on the front... and then it dawned on me...what was to stop me punching out round a snowflake in the Year of Cheer papers with the Pansy Punch... absolutely nothing!! Works SO well...Though you get less pansies than snowflakes for your money...

I daubed Smoky Slate ink around the white pansy... and coloured the second using a sponge and Cajun Craze ink (and a "dauber splodge" in the centre)... finishing off with a quick shape-ing care of my Bone Folder & Thick Mat. Do remember to rub off the excess ink from the foil parts of  a coloured flower with a tissue if you try one at home though!!

A couple of Clear Faceted Gems later... and couple of Leaf Punch punched Champagne Foil Leaves... veined into shape as described in this post... and the decoration was complete...

Happy Birthday die cut from the Champagne Foil mat before assembly... and the silver embossed TO YOU on the front is from Big on Birthdays...punched with the Classic Label Punch and trimmed to size...

Click here for the Christmas version of this card... or here for an Anniversary one (and the links to the Tutorials)

And I know I will be punching snowflake pansies again sometime soon!!

Flower Shop Small Square Double Z Joy Fold Card with Tutorial

Here is my favourite of the Double Z Fold cards... so you may see a few of these over time... and seeing as it is Fancy Fold Friday... another tutorial for you!

I used the Fresh Florals papers in Tranquil Tide, Flower Shop stamps with co-ordinating Pansy Punch, Stitched Framelits dies and One Big Meaning greeting stamps... just click on the highlighted links if you want to look at those products on-line...

And as I made quite a few of these ... as I had a batch of Thank You cards to make... you can see the effects of different combinations of card panels and papers!!

Larger white panel with smaller Pool Party...

Larger & smaller Pool Party ...

Larger Pool Party & smaller Tranquil Tide... 

And now for the Tutorial... with some added step by step photos of the gluing steps for those of you that want them... 

Note: black type for centimetres using A4 cardstock & blue type for inches using US 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock...

Craft Spa Recipe (A4)

A4 Pool Party/Thick Whisper White 21 x 10.5cm

A4 Pool Party/Tranquil Tide 17.5 x 7cm

A4 Whisper White Front Stitched Framelit Square/6.5cm Square; Small Centre 4.7 x 6.5cm

Paper Left Front 4.7 x 10cm

Paper Right Back 10 cm Square

Paper Small Back 4.7 x 6.5cm

Craft Spa Recipe (US)

US Letter Card Pool Party/Thick Whisper White 8 1/2" x 4 1/4"

US Pool Party/Tranquil Tide 7" x 2 3/4"

US Whisper White Card Front Stitched Framelit/2 1/2" Square; Small Centre 1 7/8" x 2 1/2"

Paper Left Front 1 7/8" x 4"

Paper Right Back 4" Square

Paper Small Back  1 7/8" x 2 1/2"

Craft Spa Directions (A4)
1. Score large Pool Party/Thick Whisper White LANDSCAPE panel at 5.25 & 10.5cm (US 2 1/8" & 4 1/4")
2. Z Bone Fold. Valley for halfway/centre... Peak for quarter-way

3. Score small Pool Party/Tranquil Tide LANDSCAPE panel at 5.25 & 10.5 cm (US 2 1/8" & 4 1/4")
4. Z Bone Fold. Peak halfway-ish (front) fold... Valley for Quarter-ish (back) fold

5. Adhere papers

Now to sticking the two Z Fold parts. Think about what needs to go where!!! Otherwise you will just stick your whole card together and it won't open after all!! Suggest a dry run with no glue the first time... then it should all become obvious... though I have added some photos of how I do it!

6. Adhere back section of smaller Z Fold onto back face of main card. Close the small Z Fold with the square/front face at the top and the Z folds behind... Apply glue to back/narrower face.. 

7. Eyeball the small Z Fold square/front face centrally onto the back panel... and stick...

8. Open out the smaller Z Fold off to the right & close the front folds of the main card

9. Adhere front part of smaller Z Fold onto main card front (think about where NOT to put your glue... I use my fingers to guide me where I have put the pen in the photo...

10. Decorate as desired... and yes this is a full opening version (and there is no partial-opening version!)

Angry Bird....

And from the Easter Chick.... was born the Mini Egg Carton Angry Bird! Nice one Andrea....

Though I think some of you may have guessed at this one from the batch spray job photo I shared yesterday....

But a tip if you want to make one yourself... you need a lot of Real Red refill drops in the Spritzer... think we did about 22 drops before we were happy! It was all a bit pink up till then... 

Mini Egg Carton Easter Chick

Well I had to give one a go... so something very bright and for the "young at heart" for you today...

Take one Stampin' Up! Mini Egg Carton... Spritz with a mixture of 70% Rubbing Alcohol & 15 drops Crushed Curry ink from a refill bottle...

Punch a few circles and flower parts in Daffodil Delight & Tangerine Tango... I used the 1" and 1/2" Circle Punches (eyes), the smallest Stitched Shape Square die (beak) and the Pansy (wings & feet) and Flower Medallion (punch 2 for comb on head) punches

And voila... an Easter Chick for your eggs... any 4 eggs will do... Real eggs? Cadburys Creme Eggs?... Lindt Lindor? Galaxy Caramel? Cadburys Dairy Milk Caramel? Kinder? This list is obviously UK biased... but please feel free to add your mini eggs in the comments below!! As I am sure that there are lots more around the world...

Looking for more Easter Treats inspiration etc... then please feel free to pop across to this round up post I posted previously... many of the projects with tutorials...

Affectionately Yours Small Square Double Z Fold Panel Card

Another one of these cards using different colourways of the Affectionately Yours papers... 

But with an even simpler Mint Macaron Pansy Punch flower finish!  Just decorated with a copper embossed Love & Affection flower centre and a larger Layering Circles die cut scallop/circle panel.

Greeting care of the One Big Meaning stamp set

Apologies again for the short post ... but Jon's hospital visit took up rather a lot of today! He is back in a pot and on crutches... and will now be at home for at least the next month... so my August is about to be re-planned!

And don't forget to come back tomorrow for the Monthly Jems Blog Hop... you will be in for a treat (or two!!)

Affectionately Yours Small Square Double Z Panel Card

A smaller version of yesterday's card... along with stamped and punched flowers this time... care of Petite Petals stamp/punch and Flower Shop/Pansy Punch...

Small Square Double Z Panel Card this time...  for which the 2-cards-at-a-time tutorial is here... but if you are just making the one card... you just start off with a 13 x 21cm piece of card instead of the A4...

Layering Circle dies for the front panel this time

Easter Creme Egg Chick from the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch

It just had to be done…… it is Easter time … so it is time for Amanda to do  Punch Art!!!  It has become a standing joke around here that I only do Punch Art for Christmas and Easter!!

When I look back at past blog posts that have been REALLY popular… a few spring out…so I though I would merge a few to make Easter treat holders… so I guess you could call this first post “Angry Birds Chick” meets the “Tag Topper Punch Treat Holder”…..

And here he is with an additional tummy…! I really can’t decide if I prefer him with – or without!! Add a comment to let me know your preference!!

And for those of you coming to classes next week.. this little chicky may or may not be on the menu!!! Which of course is code for you will get a choice!! Come back tomorrow for the other (not Punch Art) version!!! And the Easter Colour challenge that gets set every year!!!!

Edited to Add….. Tutorial posted here……

Stampin’ Up! Supplies

Stamps –  Eggstra Spectacular

Punches – Scalloped Tag Topper; Pansy; 1” Square; 3/4” Circle; Itty Bitty 3/8” Circle; 2 1/2” Circle

Card – Crushed Curry; Pumpkin Pie; Whisper White; Basic Black

Ink – Crushed Curry ( & Dauber); Elegant Eggplant

Thanks for visiting me today...... Amanda