Stampin Friends July 2023 Blog Hop - Perfectly Punched

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

I hope your Summer is going wonderfully, that is if it is Summer where you are.  We, in New England have finally got the heat and Humidity.  Most people hate this weather, but not me!  It doesn’t last long here, so I will take all that days of it that is given to me.

Our July blog hop is all about “Perfectly Punched”.  What I am gathering from this topic is that it can be anything that uses a hand help punch.  It seems lately, there are not too many of them, with the cricket and metal dies.  I however, prefer punches over the others.  They are easy to use, and people share them very well in a class setting, lol.  I was also happy that this was a topic for the hops because I have a few of them that have never been used.  So today, I am using Happy Hedgehog stamp set and coordinating punch. Check it out below!

If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Maureen’s blog. Be sure to read through my blog, comment below and continue to Barb’s blog. If you get lost along the way, no worries, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at the end of each Blog. ENJOY!

 

 

MATERIALS NEEDED

Stamp Sets: Happy Hedgehog Bundle; Color & Contour; Petal Park Bundle

Paper:  Copper Clay CS (5 ½” x 8 ¼”), scored at 4 ¼”)

Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper (DSP) (4” x 5 ¼”)

Basic White (3 ¾” x 5”); ( 5 1/4” x 4”); (Scraps for stamping and punching)

Ink:  Basic Grey; Pecan Pie, Colypso Coral; Petal Pink; Momento Black

Tools/Accessories:   Picture This Dies (R); Adhesive Backed Solid Gems; Liquid Enamel Dots

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.    Today’s card I started with a base of copper clay cardstock, layered with a 3 ¾” x 5” piece of very vanilla cardstock.  I stamped the speckled image from Color & Contour in Old Olive ink and used the stamp off method to lighten the color a little.

2.    The next layer is a piece of 4” x 5 ¼” Fresh as a Daisy DSP.  I die cut the circles in the DSP using the Picture This die.  We can set this aside and work on the rest of the card.

3.    On basic white cardstock, stamp all the images needed.  I stamped two sets of flowers from Petal Park.  I used the colors calypso coral for the outlines and petal pick for the fill.  I stamped three mushrooms, two small hedgehogs and one big hedgehog from the stamp set Happy Hedgehogs.  I also stamped my sentiment in basic black.

4.    I used the stampin blends for most of my coloring.  (Sadly, I have not mastered the shading techniques with these markers.  I really need to practice that).

5.    All the pieces were fussy cut except for the large hedgehog.  The one thing I did want to note about punching out the hedgehog, is if you stamp the image twice you can make him 3-D with the punch!  I seen this technique from Tracy Elsom.  What you do is punch a full hedgehog and then just the top part.  Using the tool with the ball at the end you roll it around the smaller piece to create a pocket.  Fill this pocket with a small piece cotton balls.  Then attach it to the full punched hedgehog.  Isn’t it the cutest?

   

 

 

 

   

6.    When all of my pieces were completed, I then placed them onto the card base.  All the hedgehogs and the sentiment were adhered with dimensionals and the other pieces with double sided adhesive.

7.    Lastly, I embellished the flowers with adhesive backed solid gems and dotted the mushrooms with enamel dots.  (These are so easy and fun to use!  I am so happy Stampin’ Up! isn’t coming out with more colors)

So there you have it, my Perfectly Punched card!  I hope you enjoyed this month’s blog post and found a fun way to use your punches!!  Comments of any kind (well hopefully nice ones, lol) are greatly appreciated.  When you are done be sure to hop on over to the next blogger, Barb on the list!

See you next month!                

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